Before:

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After:

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here are links to bigger images.

beirut taken july 22, 2006 (http://digitalglobe.com/images/qb/beirut_harat_july22_2006_dgwm.jpg)

beirut airport july 15, 2006 (http://digitalglobe.com/images/qb/beirut_airport_bombed_july15_2006_dgwm.jpg)

all this will be rebuilt soon nchalla,thanx guys for the pics.

all this will be rebuilt soon nchalla,thanx guys for the pics.


I dont really think this is destruction will all be rebuilt it will take time for the roads and airport,etc. Though for most of the buildings it will be hard the more this war lasts the less people will build after the war, There is a Lebanese Businessman who leave close to where I live he wanted to sell his Huge Villa in beirut for 1.2 million thats before the war now he wants to sell it for 200 000$! Poor guy... :S... And i also know many lebanese most of them shi'ites and Christians some of them lost the houses they just built it hasnt been a year or 2! and some lost their buildings that they spent from 10 to 20 years working to build... all of those guys are trying to take everything they have outside of lebanon they even brought their cousins to come and live with them!

You know this is turning out to be worst than the civil war the more it lasts the worst it will be and the problem in reconstruction will be the people's will those who have lost their real-estate will need time to be reconvinced.

Btw im not generalizing, thats what I see here in Toronto and Montreal. It might be different for those who haven't lost anything or those who are in Australia or even in Other districts here in Toronto and Montreal.

Israel 1st in middle east to do state terror

British anger at terror celebration

The commemoration of Israeli bombings that killing 92 people has caused offence

AS ISRAEL wages war against Hezbollah “terrorists” in Lebanon, Britain has protested about the celebration by right-wing Israelis of a Jewish “act of terrorism” against British rule 60 years ago this week.



The rightwingers, including Binyamin Netanyahu, the former Prime Minister, are commemorating the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, the headquarters of British rule, that killed 92 people and helped to drive the British from Palestine.

They have erected a plaque outside the restored building, and are holding a two-day seminar with speeches and a tour of the hotel by one of the Jewish resistance fighters involved in the attack.

Simon McDonald, the British Ambassador in Tel Aviv, and John Jenkins, the Consul-General in Jerusalem, have written to the municipality, stating: “We do not think that it is right for an act of terrorism, which led to the loss of many lives, to be commemorated.”

In particular they demanded the removal of the plaque that pays tribute to the Irgun, the Jewish resistance branch headed by Menachem Begin, the future Prime Minister, which carried out the attack on July 22, 1946.

The plaque presents as fact the Irgun’s claim that people died because the British ignored warning calls. “For reasons known only to the British, the hotel was not evacuated,” it states.

Mr McDonald and Dr Jenkins denied that the British had been warned, adding that even if they had “this does not absolve those who planted the bomb from responsibility for the deaths”. On Monday city officials agreed to remove the language deemed offensive from the blue sign hanging on the hotel’s gates, though that had not been done shortly before it was unveiled last night.

The controversy over the plaque and the two-day celebration of the bombing, sponsored by Irgun veterans and the right-wing Menachem Begin Heritage Centre, goes to the heart of the debate over the use of political violence in the Middle East. Yesterday Mr Netanyahu argued in a speech celebrating the attack that the Irgun were governed by morals, unlike fighters from groups such as Hamas.

“It’s very important to make the distinction between terror groups and freedom fighters, and between terror action and legitimate military action,” he said. “Imagine that Hamas or Hezbollah would call the military headquarters in Tel Aviv and say, ‘We have placed a bomb and we are asking you to evacuate the area’.”

But the view of the attack was very different in 1946 when The Times branded the Irgun “terrorists in disguise”. Decades later, Irgun veterans are unrepentant. Sarah Agassi, 80, remembers spying in the King David Hotel.

She and a fellow agent posed as a couple. They danced tangos and waltzes, sipped whisky and wine while they cased out the hotel.

On the day her brother and his fellow fighters posed as Arabs delivering milk and brought seven milk churns, each containing 50kg of explosives, into the building. Ms Agassi waited across the street until her brother rushed out. She said that she then made the warning call to the British command in the hotel.

Sitting in the luxurious hotel lobby, she expressed no regret. “We fought for our independence. We thought it was the right way . . . If I had to fight for Israel, I swear even now I would do anything

omg there is like nothen there !!!!!

thank you Mr. Bush - if the "greater middle east" looks like that i can't follow u anymore.

Who is next ? Syria ? or maybe Saudi Arabia ? or ??????????????????

Check out this link:

http://www.knology.net/~rareandfirsts/bombedBeirut.swf

Save Beirut!

what a SELLOUT government and what a puppet government this Lebanese government is that it just stands by like a helpless dog while its land is getting ravaged.

i symphatize

I'm not really surprised by all that destruction. When i was in Lebanon, every night i would hear them bomb the dahieh many many times.

^^ ??? before this war or during the war?

hmmm, .. i think the area looks better after the destruction :) .. the bombings has created space, .. i think they should try not to rebuild as many buildnigs as before, ... it 's nice with spaces... some green spaces will be fine... dahieh wasn't that beautiful neither before the war, so now it's time to build with sensibility and proffesionality :P .. it should become much better than before. .. thank u israel for helping with demolishing!

^^ ??? before this war or during the war?

no, during this war. I was in lebanon for the first two weeks of the war.

Doesn't Lebanon have an army? How come it is not defending itself?...Quite pathetic if you ask me, and the poor civilians have to pay for their inadequate leaders truely shameful.

Doesn't Lebanon have an army? How come it is not defending itself?...Quite pathetic if you ask me, and the poor civilians have to pay for their inadequate leaders truely shameful.
thats what happens when u have a puppet sell-out government. the only army that cares about Lebanon and the Lebanese is Hezbollah which ironically is not Lebanese.

today the area turned to be even more vacant..

Sad to see what's happened to Lebanon.

Not long ago, here in Australia, there was some misplaced animosity against Moslem Australians, mainly Lebanese, for all sorts of reasons. Many reasons that were quite racist in fact, but now many Australians are sympathising with the Lebanese because of this terrible war. Our hearts go out to all the innocent people, on both sides, who've suffered so much.

Here's to a speedy recovery.

Beirut june 2006

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Beirut august 2006
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wow there are still some bridges in beirut... i thaugh they bombed every single bridge in lebanon...

thats what happens when u have a puppet sell-out government. the only army that cares about Lebanon and the Lebanese is Hezbollah which ironically is not Lebanese.

arabs are used to crying like babys, they always complain about being attacked, why not stand up and fight, or atleast die trying, better to live one day like a lion than 100 years like a sheep

Beirut june 2006

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Beirut august 2006

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Bint Jbeil june 2006

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Bint Jbeil august 2006

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