My friend, Eric, left a week ago to go to a friend's wedding somewhere outside Beirut; he is scheduled to fly back to California sometime in the next few days. I remember he was going to be flying through Cyprus on the way back, but I'm not sure if he was planning on flying out of Beirut directly, or if he was planning leaving through Israel. Hopefully he wasn't planning on flying out of Hariri International in Beirut... anyhow, here's to his safety.

UPDATE: Eric sends via email, "we flew OUT of beirut 3 days ago and consider ourselves very lucky!!!" Lucky bastard.