Earlier today, a Lebanese woman briefly took over a bank in Beirut and came away with US$13,000 from her own savings account. Sali Hafez stormed the bank branch with a dozen activists, brandishing a handgun and gasoline, threatening to burn the place down if she was not given her money. Hafez needed to access her savings to pay for the medical treatment of her cancer-stricken sister. She was not arrested after the bank hold-up, but a few activists at the scene were taken into custody. Full story