from giving the money they promised to bring in after the blast. just very briefly, you talk about go back, let's talk economically — for years and years, lebanon survived because of the money that was coming in for all sorts of reasons, partly expatriates, partly every summer they had a bonanza of tourism with people coming back and putting money into the economy, but mainly in the last few years through an incredible almost ponzi scheme to do with interest that you got on the dollar, so it brought dollars into the country but at a major cost — people were essentially holding dollar accounts that were paying levels of interest that were unbelievable. when credit got called in two years ago, when all of that closed down, that's when the protests began and it all came to a stop. bronwen, this is a country that, in a sense, the big powers created this strange political balance in the system. you had the regional powers meddling in it for years,