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Military Method (or How to Restore Order and Security)

By Mazen Kerbaj (Posted Oct 13, 2009)

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Journalist: “And you are sure that is going to work?”


Mazen Kerbaj, born in 1975 in Beirut, is a musician and cartoonist.  ©Mazen Kerbaj  Translation by Yoshie Furuhashi (@yoshiefuruhashi | yoshie.furuhashi [at] gmail.com).



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