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Beirut airport road was reopened

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The airport road was opened on Thursday, after armed relatives of the 11 pilgrims detained in Syria blocked it on Wednesday, National News Agency reported.

The report added that security forces were heavily deployed in the area.

Meanwhile, young men continue to block the Rashaya-Masnaa road with burning tires and rocks to protest over blocking of the airport road on Wednesday night.

Riots erupted after unverified television reports claimed the Lebanese Shiite pilgrims abducted in Syria last May were killed in Wednesday’s air strike on the northern town of Aazaz.

Pilgrims alive and well

Hayat Aawali, the organizer of the pilgrimage trip during which 11 Lebanese Shiite men were abducted in Syria, said that the men were alive and in good health.

“We contacted the kidnapper, ‘Abu Ibrahim’, and he reassured us that that all the 11 men are well,” Aawali told Now Lebanon on Thursday.

She quoted “Abu Ibrahim” as saying that the kidnapped men were not in Aleppo’s Aazaz when it was shelled by Syrian regime forces but were in the “Tal al-Ahmar camp between Syria and Turkey.”

Now Lebanon

Photo: Passengers leave the international airport on foot after the main road leading to the airport was blocked, in Beirut Aug 15, 2012. The relatives of the 11 Lebanese Shi’ite pilgrims that were abducted in Syria last month blocked the road leading to Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport, National News Agency (NNA) reported on Wednesday

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8 responses to “Beirut airport road was reopened”

  1. breakthemould Avatar
    breakthemould

    We as a nation or should I say some of us have suicidal tendencies. If any of these people of whichever religious persuasion had a shop where he has to pay rents, baladiat, and runs an overdraft with his bank as well as waiting for Gulf tourists to visit his shop and give him business then he or she would not riot or block roads or kidnap peaceful loving innocent civilians. Now, we have scared the Saudis, Kuwaitis, Emaratis and Europeans at the peak of the Eid and holiday season. Shame on you people who will not hesitate to ruin everyone’s life whether it is the grocery shop or the taxi driver. Fit to be shipped to Mexico to join the other criminal and violent lots where you will be feel at home and given welcome by your likes.

  2. breakthemould Avatar
    breakthemould

    We as a nation or should I say some of us have suicidal tendencies. If any of these people of whichever religious persuasion had a shop where he has to pay rents, baladiat, and runs an overdraft with his bank as well as waiting for Gulf tourists to visit his shop and give him business then he or she would not riot or block roads or kidnap peaceful loving innocent civilians. Now, we have scared the Saudis, Kuwaitis, Emaratis and Europeans at the peak of the Eid and holiday season. Shame on you people who will not hesitate to ruin everyone’s life whether it is the grocery shop or the taxi driver. Fit to be shipped to Mexico to join the other criminal and violent lots where you will be feel at home and given welcome by your likes.

  3. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Booking-agent notes for travellers. Lebanon Experience.
    Be sure to buy proper-size baggage for travel, along with strong-but-light fold-up wheeled carts and good walking shoes when visiting in Lebanon. The wonderful warm experiences you will have, and the unguided walking tours, begin along sunny southern shores as soon as you leave the plane, and the right equipement will simply make it so much more enjoyable.
    These items will help also if you had to bus over from Jordan when the plane couldn’t land. Can be useful for trade for various border passes … along with your washable underwear.

  4. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Booking-agent notes for travellers. Lebanon Experience.
    Be sure to buy proper-size baggage for travel, along with strong-but-light fold-up wheeled carts and good walking shoes when visiting in Lebanon. The wonderful warm experiences you will have, and the unguided walking tours, begin along sunny southern shores as soon as you leave the plane, and the right equipement will simply make it so much more enjoyable.
    These items will help also if you had to bus over from Jordan when the plane couldn’t land. Can be useful for trade for various border passes … along with your washable underwear.

  5. AusLeb Avatar
    AusLeb

    Security forces deployed in the area and did what??? Watch?? What kind of security forces do we have? If that was any country the police and army would have forcefully cleared the roads and re-opened the airport!!! I think that I might just get all upset over something and go and close the road to the presidential palace while the weather is still nice…

  6. AusLeb Avatar
    AusLeb

    Security forces deployed in the area and did what??? Watch?? What kind of security forces do we have? If that was any country the police and army would have forcefully cleared the roads and re-opened the airport!!! I think that I might just get all upset over something and go and close the road to the presidential palace while the weather is still nice…

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