A Palestinian woman who fled her north Lebanon refugee camp two days before said on Friday there was so little food there that she was prepared to eat cats to survive. Joumana Wehbe fled along with secular Palestinian fighters and their families to free the way for a final army assault on the al-Qaeda-inspired militants holed up inside.
”This is Omar Maarouf calling from Kenitra Central Prison,” said the dejected voice on the other end of the line. The bizarre phone call was the second in two days from a prisoner inside the high-walled Kenitra, one of Morocco’s most notorious lockups.