Another Lebanonese achievement: Ilyas Murr

Let me tell you a story.  Ilyas Murr was elevated to the position of minister because 1) he was married to then president Emile Lahhud in 1998, and he wanted to reward his son-in-law; 2) Ilyas Murr's father was very close to Syrian intelligence in Lebanon and showered its men with bribes.  So Ilyas Murr was a key lackey of Syrian intelligence. After the assassination of Hariri, he tried to switch like many others to March 14.  And when he survived an assassination attempt in 2007, he first claimed that the culprits were Sunni fundamentalist extremists in `Ayn Hilwi, but later claimed that it was Syrian intelligence.  But Murr's political career came to an end after Wikileaks: the release of the documents was so damaging to him personally and to his political ambition (he had the biggest mouth and emerged during the July War as a mere servant to Israel).  His career came to an end.  Jeffrey Feltman felt horrible and had tried ever sense to find him a ceremonial international job fitting for his incompetence and stupidity.  So yesterday, it was announced that he was appointed head of a silly little organization called "Interpol Fund for A Safer World".  The PR apparatus of Mr. Murr issued a press release that Murr became the head of Interpol.  I mean, it is so easy to verify that but the Lebanese media (either out of bribery or for political considerations or for sheer laziness) presented the news that he actually became head of Interpol itself.  Murr himself issued a press release to that effect.  When Lebanese can't get honors and titles, they simply invent them.