Word: beirutization
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...states such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia (and eventually everywhere from Morocco to Indonesia), and to eliminate the Jewish state in their midst. Al-Qaeda propaganda regularly proclaims that the U.S. will flee from a head-on fight in Muslim lands, citing the examples of the withdrawals from Beirut in 1985 and Mogadishu in '94. Bin Laden is unlikely to have imagined that the 9/11 attacks would force the U.S. to immediately quit Saudi Arabia or to abandon Israel, but the jihadis operate in a time-frame far more long-term than that of their adversaries - the reason, for example...
Meanwhile in Lebanon ... Lizard Alert Beirut's residents are in terror of a giant lizard that has been roaming the streets, killing cats, dogs and even a horse. Witnesses say the reptile is a Komodo dragon, thought to be a freed pet. Authorities appealed to nature and science TV channels for help in snaring the beast, which has so far eluded the best efforts of the civil defense to catch...
According to a former secretary to Saddam, the strongman's second wife Samira is in Beirut with the children from her first marriage and her grandchildren. Saddam and Samira are rumored to have had a son named Ali, but the family butler says there is no such person. (Saddam does have a nephew named Ali.) The young man mistakenly known on the Baghdad street as Ali, according to the butler, is actually Samira's grandson Saif, 20. The butler and the former secretary claim that the marriage contract between Saddam and Samira specified that she not bear him any children...
...DIED. PATRIARCH RAPHAEL I BIDAWID, 81, spiritual leader of Iraq's Chaldean Catholics; in Beirut. Bidawid lobbied for years to end the United Nations' sanctions levied against Iraq after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait, and last year unsuccessfully urged a peaceful solution to Washington's standoff with Saddam Hussein...
Gemayel served as president of Lebanon from 1982 to 1988, six tumultuous years of political uncertainty which saw the seizure of West Beirut by Israeli forces and increasingly precarious national autonomy...