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    beirut


    1. What signs did I miss on London’s streets? When was I marked out? Why was I here? And always that last question, one that persists even now that I am safe and at home here in Beirut


    2. How could I, a normal boy from the Beirut suburbs, a boy destined for the traditional path no matter how much I might stray in youth, how could I feel this warmth for a man who could as easily kill me stone dead as look at me? Breakfast almost became a dread moment, a mixture of the sublime and the abhorrent


    3. He then enlarged the cities of Beirut, Damascus, Tyre, Sidon and Rhodes


    4. Tali Sowaid was born in the tiny village of Btebyat in the mountains east of Beirut,


    5. Marines died when a suicide bomber drove an explosives laden truck into the Marine compound in Beirut


    6. At the port, Robert, an Englishman, and Mike, a blond Californian with a mouthful of perfect American teeth, were also buying tickets to Beirut


    7. After changing money at one of the innumerable Beirut Bureaux de Change advertising competitive exchange rates, the others went sight seeing, shopping and night-clubbing, I said I'd meet them in two days and hitched north to Byblos


    8. Grateful for the offer, I declined and returned to Beirut


    9. Marine barracks in Beirut, where three hundred Americans were killed


    10. He was also the key figure behind kidnapping a CIA agent in Beirut

    11. Two friends of mine hopped into a cab in West Beirut and headed to cover a big story in the Druse village of Hammama


    12. Turkey, a past ally of Israel, was now officially boycotting all imports from Israel and was threatening to send troops with air defense missiles to protect the Lebanese capital, Beirut, and its international airport, from Israeli airstrikes


    13. Could I pass and continue to Beirut, please?’’


    14. Believe it or not, but she managed to get recorded video interviews from the head of the Hezbollah movement and from the commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces in Beirut


    15. ‘’In Beirut, Lebanon, where she earlier obtained exclusive interviews with the head of Hezbollah and with the commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces


    16. My agents are presently on their way to Lebanon via Cyprus, but they may be too late before she departs Beirut to go to Tehran, her next expected destination


    17. Nancy had elected to take the two bags containing her precious video camera, her laptop computer and her satellite communication link unit as carry-on bags, unwilling to let these irreplaceable pieces of equipment be handled by the notoriously untrustworthy baggage handlers of Beirut Airport


    18. She still smiled reassuringly to the youngest of the two daughters, a beautiful girl of fifteen who had been studying at a private Beirut college and who was occupying the seat next to her


    19. Miss Laplante has arrived from Beirut half a hour ago and I had her and her baggage searched


    20. In Beirut, when you were not staring it down you actually chased it, but death has a schedule and it always went to where it was needed because it wasn’t your time

    21. Through his administration, we witnessed the destruction of all the energy policies of Carter, the covert operation in Afghanistan against the Soviets, the pouring of weapons into both Iraq and Iran during their war, the Iran / Contra scandal and the terrorist attack on the Marines in Beirut, for starters


    22. She was the youngest of five and the most beautiful daughter of Yusuf, the Lebanese trader who made a fortune acting as middleman and liaison in an indeterminable number of deals between Beirut, London, Paris, New York and Sydney


    23. He was a connecting hub providing a desperately needed service in war torn Beirut


    24. ’ She remembered her fear of war, in Beirut, and how it was a twenty four hour, seven days a week sensation, which she could never stop


    25. � Nancy�s blood froze at once: she had seen often enough snipers during her career as a war correspondent in places like Beirut, Bagdad and Mogadishu to be able to recognize the stance of a man holding a rifle


    26. In 1983, with the bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, and the killing of over


    27. We will be back in Beirut in a couple of hours


    28. We were leaving early in the morning for Beirut and I enlisted the aid of


    29. Beirut was divided into two camps by the infamous “Green line”


    30. was slowly rising above the city, climbing towards the warm sky of Beirut

    31. I could see Vlad wasn’t enjoying being a soundman in Beirut and I


    32. An edition reached Beirut and a student of our Scholar who was a doctor at the American University got a copy


    33. In the December of that year, my wife, daughter and I left Australia and travelled to Beirut, Lebanon


    34. Our cases are packed and Amin drives us into Beirut to the bus station where we negotiate a price with a driver to take us to Damascus, Syria


    35. Back into the Buick we head for Damascus with a promise that when we are ready to leave Damascus we will not go with any other driver back to Beirut


    36. Stopping at a busy intersection in West Beirut, we were surrounded by bombed out buildings, remnants of the civil war


    37. He was only one of a parade of young boys and girls who came out of the Palestinian camps to beg on the streets of Beirut


    38. giving more on that day was if we kept paying out to the beggars of Beirut, we would soon be joining them


    39. South Central Los Angeles, Beirut, Mogadishu come to mind


    40. David commented, ‘That … is rather close to Beirut

    41. He became its CEO and remained involved in labyrinthine maneuvers in Lebanese banking and politics until he fled Beirut in 1989 wanted by the authorities for a financial fraud which led to the country"s major banking crisis


    42. After asserting his love for democracy (!), Tamraz said he began what would become a long association with the CIA when they asked his help in freeing hostages taken around the time of the 1983 bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241


    43. They come to Egypt and Beirut for the nightclubs, women and mainly to consume alcohol, which their religion forbids and is unavailable in their country


    44. On March 16, 1984, the fifty-five-year-old Buckley rides the elevator from his tenth-floor Beirut apartment down to the parking garage of the Al-Manara building


    45. 'Here,' he said, 'is a group taken by a street photographer on the terrace of the St George Hotel at Beirut


    46. He came with us all the way to Beirut


    47. I mean, it was as if San Francisco were suddenly Beirut


    48. Lebanon in the 1960s was the Middle East’s playground: A sunny holiday destination where tourists could enjoy the sandy beaches or watch the world go by in one of the French-style cafes in its fashionable capital city, Beirut


    49. By the 1970s, however, Lebanon was torn apart in a vicious and complex civil war and Beirut had been reduced to rubble


    50. , Essays on Féminine Tilles of the Middle Kingdom and related Subjects, Beirut, 1986

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    Synonyms for "beirut"

    bayrut beirut capital of lebanon

    "beirut" definitions

    capital and largest city of Lebanon; located in western Lebanon on the Mediterranean