once watched a man being kidnapped in Beirut. It took only a few seconds.
I was on my way to Beirut Interna- tional Airport when my taxi became stalled in traffic. Suddenly I saw off to my right four men with pistols tucked into their belts who were dragging another man out his front door. A woman, proba- bly his wife, was standing just inside the shadow of the door, clutching her bathrobe and weeping. The man was strug- gling and kicking with all his might, a look of sheer terror in his eyes. S...