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<title>Beirut Crisis On Platial.com</title>
<description>Trying to orient those outside Lebanon to the neighborhoods where the fighting is taking place in Beirut.</description>
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<title>Hamra Street-Starbucks</title>
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        Hamra Street. This is the main drag of Beirut's main business district. It's a mixed neighborhood and lots of expats and journalists live here. Until a month ago, I lived a 30-second walk from here.<br/>Tags: Starbucks, Hamra<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3123487">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-05-10 08:46:53.382801+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Tayouneh Roundabout</title>
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        This is one of the intersections that was closed by the violence that started on Wednesday. It is the intersection of Shia (Chiah) and Christian (Badaro, Ain er Remmeneh) sections of the city. Now it's closed with earth and, when I saw it, Sukleen dumpsters.<br/>Tags: closed road<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3123411">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-05-10 04:00:14.172673+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Future TV</title>
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        Here's the Future TV offices in Raouche, where Hezbollah forced the station to go off the air on Friday morning, May 9.<br/>Tags: press, media, Hezbollah, Raouche, Future TV<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3123481">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-05-10 08:42:52.923516+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>On the Green Line</title>
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        At a friend's house on the Chiah (a Shia neighborhood that's about 75 percent Amal) side of the former Green Line, I took the pictures here on the first day of the strike. They show the smoke from burning tires looking in the direction of the airport road and the Green Line itself. Across the street is Ain er Remmeneh, a predominately Christian neighborhood.<br/>Tags: Chiah, Green Line, Ain er Remmeneh, Shia, Amal, Christian<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3123499">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-05-10 09:15:15.027049+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Future Television Spears-Hamra</title>
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        This is the Future Television Headquarters (?) in Hamra on rue Spears. For years there have been big Tyvex banners here of Hariri when he was PM. There's also one of several clocks counting up the numbers of days it's been since Rafik Hariri was assassinated. A new news studio (?) has been built across the street.<br/>Tags: Future TV, Hamra<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3123431">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-05-10 05:15:34.94862+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Hariri Palace</title>
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        This is Hariri's so-called palace in Hamra, where one or Hezbollah missiles struck on Thursday, May 8, 2008. It is adjacent to the Lebanese American University. The roads around here and above the university have been increasingly closed off by Future security and monitored with army and ISF checkpoints over the past 18 months or more.<br/>Tags: Hamra, Future, Hariri, LAU<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3123433">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-05-10 05:20:37.806652+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Checkpoint</title>
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        Here was (still is?) one of the main checkpoints in Hamra that was usually manned by dark-blue-uniformed ISF or army personnel.<br/>Tags: checkpoint, Hamra<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3123435">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-05-10 05:24:29.703092+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Mar Michael Church</title>
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        Strange, there's no icon for a house of worship. This is the church at the Chiah intersection where there was so much violence in late January 2008. I wrote about it here: http://unpegged.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/back-on-the-green-line/<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3123501">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-05-10 09:25:40.044149+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>corniche el mazraa</title>
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        mazraa street: fights between future militia and the opposition militia starting wednesday 7th of may<br/>Tags: future, fighting, opposition, mazraa<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3123790">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-05-10 23:29:22.09721+00:00</dc:date>
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