Miqati Bars Pilgrims from Traveling by Land to Holy Sites Outside of Lebanon
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Prime Minister Najib Miqati issued a decree on Monday temporarily forbidding pilgrims from traveling by land to holy sites outside of Lebanon.
The decision was made at the behest of the Higher Islamic Shiite Council and the head of the Hajj and Omra affairs authority.
Travel agencies and the Hajj and Omra affairs authority will now have to take the suitable measures to accommodate the decree, added Miqati’s office in a statement on Monday.
The decision was taken in light of the kidnapping of 11 Lebanese pilgrims on Tuesday as they were returning to Lebanon from a pilgrimage to Iran.
The pilgrims were abducted from their bus in the Syrian town of Aleppo.
In light of the development, Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah had advised in a speech on Friday pilgrims against heading to their pilgrimage destination by land.
28 May 2012, 14:53
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Slash, now it's obvious you just want to anger Lebanese.
Frankly, Lebanese are tired of both sides. Stop pushing the rhetoric of one side, nobody cares about M14 nor M8. Try to get over them yourself, and move on.
n.b. it's a shame you use el Sheikh photo to speak on his behalf, as an adamant admirer, you don't do him justice with your lousy inflammatory speech.
28 May 2012, 18:27
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Now Hezbiran has to find another excuse when his members get captured in syria. Good move Miqati!
28 May 2012, 20:00
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Slash i love Bachir and I love the LF and M14. but you are one bored son of a gun! keep hammering them M8s though...
28 May 2012, 20:40
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Ooops, I was planning to go to Jerusalem next week :-/ I guess I'll have to spend my hardly earned dollars in Lebanon. Good for dying economy.
28 May 2012, 22:32
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why? every thing is under control in syria according to M8 ... that s probably why people still cross syria by bus, because they listen to M8 lies...
29 May 2012, 00:02
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there is enough holy sites in lebanon: arz el rab ..arz el barouk..kana...mar charbel..ennaya...imam ouzai...sit sarah....sayyed abdallah...sit zeinab,every night u want to go to the restaurant..eat locally in hard times
