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Syrians Run Up $11M Phone Bill in Lebanon |
2005-10-21 |
Lebanon's state-run telephone system has billed the government for more than $11 million in unpaid telephone charges run up by Syrian troops before they left the country earlier this year after a nearly three-decade occupation. Information Minister Ghazi Aridi said the government would pay the bill, noting that Syrian troops had "paid in blood for our sake." An unknown number of Syrian soldiers were killed in trying to quell Lebanon's 1975-90 civil war. The unpaid charges were for calls dating back to 1976 and were placed within Lebanon or between Lebanon and Syria, said Marwan Hamadeh, minister of Post, Telephone and Telegram. The bill, he said, amounted to $11.3 million. |
Posted by:Fred |
#5 Well, that's a Syrian for you. |
Posted by: Clock Tholulet1803 2005-10-21 12:01 |
#4 1-900 calls? |
Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2005-10-21 08:48 |
#3 Hello, Mr. Assad? Hi. This is Lebanon Bell. Yes. We would really like to work with you on getting this situation rectified. We could setup a payment plan or... |
Posted by: tu3031 2005-10-21 07:32 |
#2 Holy smoke! They haven't written off bad debts made in 1976? I guess they would rather be owed for the charges than cheated out of them. |
Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-10-21 04:25 |
#1 Bwahahahahahahaha! |
Posted by: Edward Yee 2005-10-21 01:55 |