The BBC reports that a giant lizard (no relation to yours truly, bwahahaha!) is terrorizing Beirut. (Hat tip: Captain Clutch.)

He’s big, he’s a carnivore, he’s terrorising the neighbourhood’s residents, he’s been swimming in people’s pools and he’s already claimed victims - several cats, a dog and apparently even a horse.

In Lebanon, a giant lizard has been roaming the streets of a Beirut suburb for several weeks, eluding all the attempts by the authorities to catch it.

He’s Lebanon’s own Komodo Dragon, or so say the witnesses who have seen him.

Of course, if the lizard walked a few hundred miles south, strapped on a Semtex vest, and blew up a bus, the BBC would call it an activist…