Throwback Thursday!

You want a room on the incoming missile side, or the car bomb side?

(Me, right, and a Reuters colleague, left, interview a militiaman.)

It’s been more than 40 years since I was in Beirut, Lebanon, but in every way that city set a new standard for strangeness. Since then, no other place has come close to it.

I hope you enjoy today’s rerun, Do You Hear a Whistling Sound?

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