Sights and Sounds of Lebanon
Doesn’t really show much since the heavy fighting started later in the evening. The machine gun fire has gotten louder outside my hotel room. I have the balcony door open so I can hear the outside sounds. So far I heard 2 stray bullets land on the street outside. I have no clue why the idiots are shooting skywards… [YouTube]
Thanks Saeed
May 8, 2008
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21 Comments, add your own...
1. chikapappi | May 9th, 2008 at 12:00 am
It’s really sad what’s happening.. hope all is resolved soon and for you to come back safe to your family
2. Saeed | May 9th, 2008 at 12:48 am
You guys should visit Dearborn in Michigan(US), full of lebanese (Sunni shia musilm, christians and others) they all live in peace here and i’ve never heard about one clashes between them!!
what in the hell is wrong with those people in lebanon, do they want to break the record in everythings!!
3. 3azeez | May 9th, 2008 at 1:18 am
same reason why Palestinians dont aim at Israelis. they just want to freak their own people, they’re not man enough to fight.
4. Angelo | May 9th, 2008 at 1:28 am
So can we expect that the Lebanese would stop supporting Hezbollah any time soon?
5. coffers | May 9th, 2008 at 2:11 am
Be Safe bro
6. iDip | May 9th, 2008 at 2:22 am
7amdilla 3assalama :)
and may God save Lebanon
7. Rollen | May 9th, 2008 at 2:37 am
can anyone point me to a site that have frequent news updates on lebanon with video footage?
8. rafiki | May 9th, 2008 at 3:19 am
you r in my prayers! get safely back home!
9. Cymraeg | May 9th, 2008 at 6:28 am
I read that even 75% of Lebanese Christians support the ’supposedly real” reason for Hezbollah’s existence, so I doubt the Lebanese population’s going to stop supporting them any time soon.
They should stick an airport somewhere up in the north of the country.
10. Cymraeg | May 9th, 2008 at 6:31 am
…just in case someone wants the source for what I’ve written above…
“…a 2005 Center for Strategic Studies survey found that three-quarters of Lebanese Christians–the traditional base of the right–identified Hezbollah as a legitimate group in challenging Israeli aggression.”
http://socialistworker.org/2006-2/602/602_05_Hezbollah.shtml
11. Bo-Bader | May 9th, 2008 at 6:56 am
After 15 years of civil war nothing is learned!
My lebanese friends who were part of the civil war, muslims and christians, regretted every second they’ve spent fighting. Now, this 20s years old generation, who never seen the destruction of war, think they can achieve whatever they want by killing each others. The jews spent 1400 years planning to establish a state and we, arabs, cannot stay 12 months without fighting with each other. Instead of having one lebanon we have south and north. Instead of having one Palestine we have Gaza and West Bank fighting with each other. Europe, which 60 years ago was a battle zone, gave up their differences and now almost one country. Everyone is uniting but we are dividing and killing each other and blame the west for that. The lebanese who are dying today are not killed by the US or Israel, they are killed by another lebanese.
12. Q80-ChillGirl | May 9th, 2008 at 9:25 am
I hope you can make it, allah y7futhk and may this poor quiet country finds peace by the hands of its son’s who are ruining it right now! by external intervention or not and regardless of who to blame and why, they should love their country more than anything else.
13. Ms.Baker | May 9th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Hang in there Mark, please take care of yourself and be careful. Prayers for you to get out ASAP safe and sound. We are so very sad for Lebanon, so very disturbed by this nonstop madness :(
14. talisman | May 9th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I was there in Safir hotel next to future tv station, luckely I took the last kuwait airways flight out of that creepy country, something didnt feel right during my stay there, welcome to new Tehran.
15. Я | May 9th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Good luck man. Usually alot of these bullets are ricocheting off walls, so keep your head low when you go out.
16. Shoxin | May 9th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Lebanon is fine for now anyway, seems like the army has a good hold of the situation at this moment.
17. hanoda | May 9th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Mark you are inmy prayers .AllaaH Ye7fidhaak.come back safe to us .did you know that you are my home page.
18. moose | May 9th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
thats scary O_o
19. Rollen | May 9th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
@ Cymraeg
Well your source is out-dated, the survey was in 2005, before the war hizbullah militia had with isreal and destroyed lebanon’s economy, and and the downtown tents that took the tourist session to an halt. christian approval of huzbollah shrunk to all time low, just look at the demonstration 2 days ago, did you see marada or fpm’s flags? no.
i’m a sunni, i take this matter very seriously and personal, i got relative in the west side of beirut, i don’t want to sound sectarian, but the sunni community in lebanon is being targeted now from this terrorist group. They claimed that fm’s where training militia’s in jordan, well don’t you think the past three days proved them wrong? most of the armed sunni’s are folks with old ak47 trying to defend there homes.
hezbullah played on the lebanese tolerance, and grow in arms and ego, and now they want to rule Lebanon, now its the sunnis .. who’s next? This uprising came after the government got intolerant of hizb behaviour; spying on the airport and installing independent illegal telecommunication wires. Now they’re burning and shutting media outlets, invading villages, bullying, killing civilians, storming fm’s offices and putting ASSAD’S PICTURES!!!
I think (I’m being optimistic here) this is the beginning of the end of the bully, now they shown there real ugly face and there true agenda to world.
Now for non-lebo pro-hizb fans, do you want a militia like that to rule your country?
/rant off
20. myk | May 9th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Who are they shooting at in the video? Any casualties yet? It’s sad the a beautiful country like lebanon has to go through this. It’s like every time it stands up, all hell breaks loose on it!
21. hi, I am Nataliya from Belarus | May 9th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Sights & Sounds of Beirut : I can only think Love in the time of war.
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