Terry Anderson was held six years in a hole in Beirut. He tried to get Arab newspaper clippings from the U. S. government, and found they were classified. Knock it off.
Quotes about beirut (14 Quotes)
He talks to me about the worries of terrorism, the worries right now of the violence in Beirut and Damascus and other cities, and his hope, and certainly our hope, for peace and tolerance, for each of us to treat everyone else with respect.
Our fumbling government's response since Beirut - during both Republican and Democratic administrations - has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away.
I haven't seen anything on this scale in Beirut since the dark days of the civil war,
Unlike Pakistan, which is a Muslim but not Arab country, Iraq is an active member in the Arab League and committed to the decisions of the Arab summit in Beirut,
To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.
In Beirut when the civil war began, you had electricity 24 hours a day and running water all the time, and the air conditioning was working, and so were the elevators. In the case of Baghdad, it looks like Beirut after 10 years of civil war.
We condemn the incidents that happened in Damascus and Beirut on Sunday and led to fire and ransacking of several diplomatic and consular representations.
Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
We believe Chairman Arafat should be able to go to Beirut because we think that offers the prospect of more constructive results of the conference, ... especially with regard to Crown Prince Abdullah's proposals for normalization with Israel and getting the support of other Arab nations.
This of course is a big sum, and it is bigger than what Arab summits in Amman and Beirut had approved.
I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.
BEIRUT Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir said yesterday that Defense Minister Elias Murr's comments about threats against Lebanese officials are common, but they have not been spoken about. Had we known more about these threats, then maybe what happened to May Chidiac could have been avoided. Days will reveal what was hidden, ... we would not have witnessed this series.
We are committed to the decisions taken unanimously by the Arab summit in Beirut, ... Many Arab states are forming relations with Israel and if Israel will reach an agreement with the Palestinians, it will facilitate having relations with Israel.