UAE Calls On Citizens not to Travel to Lebanon
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The United Arab Emirates called its citizens on Saturday to refrain from traveling to Lebanon except in case of utmost necessity.
“We have taken this decision because of the political situation in Lebanon and in surrounding countries,” the Undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry Sheikh Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Butti al-Hamed told Emirates News Agency - WAM , explaining that the ministry is keen on protecting people's safety outside the country.
“We urge our citizens to abide by this decision and to take precautions once outside the UAE,” he added.
The UAE had urged its people on August 15 to avoid traveling to Lebanon after its embassy in the country received threats about targeting its national.
This came after al-Meqdad clan had kidnapped over 20 Syrian nationals, who allegedly belong to the Free Syrian Army, in tit-for-tat kidnappings after the FSA detained Hassan Salim al-Meqdad.
Al-Meqdad family also held UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey responsible for the kidnapping of Hassan.
The family’s military wing warned that they can reach Aley, Tripoli and Iqlim al-Kharroub, saying that they have a bank of targets in Lebanon and capable of reaching regional targets.
22 December 2012, 22:22
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these are HA's allies--I guess they have to get the uneducated types who still live in the stone age to be their allies because the ones with a little bit of education will shun them.
22 December 2012, 22:52
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I dont understand. You already said you didnt want people to come to lebanon in august. What is new today?
We know that you are upset that the political foe(mikati) of the grandson of King abdallah (saad) is in power and are using your leverage and teh gcc leverage to make things difficult for him.
23 December 2012, 01:50
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so what? don t M8ers refuse saudi, emiratis and co because they are all wahabbis, to come to lebanon? so if the touristic season is nil they won t have to complain! if hotels close, people unemployed as it has just begun because of lack of tourists then again M8 wants that! no wahhabis, no?
so funny......
23 December 2012, 09:52
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Sorry to say latizna ma yejou, yrou7ou yet3atou el cocaine in Marbella, London, Las Vegas, Philipine, and Malaysia playing around with Moroccan bitches like usually, smoking Dokha with hash “ this is there men” only GOD nows what there women do ??? If they are judging us from our politics decisions in the region, let us judge them from their decisions and Behaves .
23 December 2012, 11:30
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100%. we have to build an economy that is not dependant on every whim of those bedouins. They want to control our political decisions these m...kers (not that I like M8). We have a large diaspora, we have interesting touristic sites for cultured people such as westerners, we are commercial oriented, have excellent food, beautiful sceneries, great nitelife, and are becoming an oil nation. Let them go to hell, Lebanon will prevail with them or without them.
23 December 2012, 19:46
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maybe you should study economics before making such an assumption like that... a stable Lebanon will help any economy around it grow and threaten it! the market will grow and people from the uae will be able to "invest" money in Lebanon and make profit!! they lost so much in investments in 2006, 2008, and this summer. do u really think anyone other than the gulf states are investing heavily in Lebanon??
23 December 2012, 23:14
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The travel warnings from the US have been in place for a very long time, ever since HA bomb on the marines in the 80s. I was talking about Europe, whose visitors did not drop significantly (you can take a google course for dummies if u dont know how to do research), and mostly about diaspora lebanese. If you live in lebanon, and are old enough to drive, you should know that you can barely move by car these days. And that is just with the diaspora. If arabs come, it would be even worse. If arabs dont want to come F..k them. We will get by.
24 December 2012, 00:01
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Everyone should thank UAE, QATAR AND S.ARABIA for devising,financing and destroying the economies of Lebanon, Syria,Egypt and Lybia.
Arab friends like them who needs enemies
