Foot In Mouth Disease

And the most unconvincing defense for the FPM’s training pictures is this: “The pictures are very old, and they are taken from the cellphones of the arrested people”.

Just in case you thought that by “very old”, Mr. Aoun meant “civil war old”, you’d be excused to be perplexed by the cellphone dimension of the story. But don’t worry, the FPM has just what you need: Another excuse: The people in the picture -those girls and boys playing cowboys and Indians- are Mr. Aoun’s personal guard. Yeah, that should convince the skeptics.

Update: The story is changing again. Now their spokesperson is saying (H/T Ramzi) that the people in the picture “were just out having fun with real weapons but were not undergoing any military training as such,”, The Aounists are so freaked out they’re tripping all over each other with conflicting accounts. 

So to recap: Those are very old photos taken on a cellphone for Aoun’s personal guards who are just having fun with real guns.