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• 1. usuck | October 16th, 2008 at 11:48 am

  a fucking link would be nice u chump

• 2. Rodge | October 16th, 2008 at 11:57 am

  Wallah!!!!
  At least some good news for our dear Lebanon.
  Let’s hope in the book’s next edition (2010), Beirut will move to number 1 spot and stays there.

• 3. Michele | October 16th, 2008 at 12:27 pm

  Rodge did we at least check the nationalities n identities of the visitors? If u try to have a close up here what u’ll find:

  1) Amr Moussa (coming in n out)
  2) Arab leaders
  3) Unifil people
  4) Diplomats
  5) Lebanese expats
  6) Syrians coming in to deliver the weapons to Hezbollah
  7) Iranians coming in to Train and/or get trained by them
  Islamist terrorists running away from Iraq to hide in Lebanon
  9) and of course the gulf people (allah yekhallilna yehon) who come to do here whatever they can’t do there!
  10) Last but not least our dear politicians traveling visiting other countries for support n coming (unfortunately) back.

  If u ever thought that Lebanon was visited by nice normal tourists well i’m sorry to break out the truth to u like that!!!!!

• 4. ja3far | October 16th, 2008 at 12:33 pm

  wallah i really hope N.. because on the lonely planet website they have put a travel warning with High-level alert on security…
  i know i have opened a window where i will receive lot of criticism blaming us for that
  salam

• 5. paul | October 16th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

  hahaha, Michele,you’ve forgotten the dead lebanese.they return every time short bevor the elections.

• 6. Rodge | October 16th, 2008 at 1:46 pm

  Michele,

  Unfortunatly you spoke the truth, and I realized that in my last visit to Lebanon, I even wrote a post about it.

  But we can still hope for better situation out of the blue.

• 7. Fuziyad | October 16th, 2008 at 1:47 pm

  Very strange statistics from lonely planet, I think michele has gave some of the explanations…and ja3far don’t worry we won’t accuse you guys of lowering the number of vistors, be kaffé all the naive foreigners you manage to marry and bring back to da7yieh, that counts too!!!!

• 8. chahe | October 16th, 2008 at 1:54 pm

  can you please provide us with the link to this information?

• 9. ja3far | October 16th, 2008 at 2:31 pm

  Mniha hayde Fuziad bass khaye kameen mamnou3e ninawe3e al nassel taba3na kameen?:)

• 10. Ra'fat | October 16th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

  Michele right on the money. None of the “visitors” are anything to be proud of.

• 11. ja3far | October 16th, 2008 at 2:52 pm

  Michel.. Ra’fat.. lebanon depended all his time on the arab tourism… these nice blue eyesed tourists you hope they come, were never our targetted customers… ( economical point of view )..

  salam

• 12. Fuziyad | October 16th, 2008 at 2:58 pm

  la2 bel 3akess, sa7ten 3a elbkon, bit of “west” in yr houses won’t do harm…

• 13. Michele | October 16th, 2008 at 2:59 pm

  Well Ja3far dear, if u read my comments i did say abt the arabs “alla yekhallilna yehon”!

  However, we would also like to promote Lebanon’s historical n cultural side n we all know that it isn’t any of those Arabs’ interests.

  Lebanon is not only down town, restaurants/bars/nightclubs, shops; we have great areas n places to be explored n only educated n cultured tourists would be interested.

• 14. ja3far | October 16th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

  michele … for the very rare times we do agree ..:) .. i was talking about the policy of our government started by harriri allah yerhamo …
  salam

• 15. Michele | October 16th, 2008 at 3:19 pm

  Ok cheerio!!!!!!!!!!!

  I have a flight to catch!!!!!

• 16. Ra'fat | October 16th, 2008 at 7:20 pm

  http://www.lebanese-forces.com/ar/artde.asp?id=24&newsid=22409

• 17. N10452 | October 16th, 2008 at 8:07 pm

  Freaking google it and u ll find links twit ( refering to usuck) ..

  Here is ur link chahe

• 18. ja3far | October 16th, 2008 at 9:09 pm

  N… the report shows Beirut to be the 2d country on the list
  salam

• 19. N10452 | October 16th, 2008 at 9:29 pm

  Ya khayye Beirut came 3rd .. i read it .. haydol ghallato bil list … check mustaqbal today ..
  ma 2ele jlede jebelkoun el list ..

• 20. fad14 | October 16th, 2008 at 9:41 pm

  I think the statistics also included the “Tourists” who came from Dahyeh and Nabatiyeh and Hirmel !!!!!

• 21. ja3far | October 16th, 2008 at 9:58 pm

  lah ya Fad .. these people stayed.. while the tourists that came from tripoly and 3akar tkanassou…;)

• 22. ja3far | October 16th, 2008 at 10:00 pm

  N… i cant find the the link in lonly planet.. but the reports i found mention Beirut to be the 2d.. one of them the telegraph
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/3200695/Lonely-Planet-guide-rates-Glasgow-as-one-of-the-worlds-top-10-cities.html
  bass of course al mustaqbal is the most trusted news agency

  salam

• 23. Jawohl | October 17th, 2008 at 4:30 am

  I am sorry but the article says it’s the 2nd best city for visitors to be in, and NOT the 2nd most visited city…Thank you N.

• 24. danny | October 17th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

  It’s alphabetical..

• 25. Lola | October 19th, 2008 at 3:29 am

  Not that Im not happy with what the statistics showed but its in an alphabetical order and Lebanon comes after Chicago and its third..My point is its ALPHABETICAL.
  And if it wasnt alphabetical Lebanon wouldve been first!
  Go Lebanon

• 26. jad1984 | October 27th, 2008 at 8:32 pm

  guys theres something that should be said here beiruth is not second its an alfabetical order there is no ranking here

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