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2007-08-06 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

'Hizbullah planning to kidnap travelers'

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Posted by Fred 2007-08-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 Here's an idea. How about the Israelis hunt down Nasrallah like a rabid dog?

Posted by tu3031 2007-08-06 00:35|| 2007-08-06 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 I know they do, but why on earth would any Israeli vacation in any of these nations?
Why would anybody?

Take Yemen, I stopped their for a couple of days as a kid in 1965 with my parents (boat stopped). Even then it was a scary, dangerous awful hell hole...

Egypt - better then Yemen but still not a safe vacation spot.

Syria Iraq and Sudan - You have got to be kidding...

Lebanon, Now ? Nutz!

It would be like taking a vacation in the FARC areas of Columbia - STUPID!

Posted by 3dc 2007-08-06 02:29|| 2007-08-06 02:29|| Front Page Top

#3 The ~~target~~ countries described as having the highest level of ~~exploitation value~~ risk, defined as "concrete and severe," were: Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Sudan.

You just can't keep a good tourist down.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-08-06 05:58|| 2007-08-06 05:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Jim and Edith pic is nice.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-08-06 09:24|| 2007-08-06 09:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Paging Alan Johnston to the white courtesy telephone.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-06 11:28|| 2007-08-06 11:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Unguided tours of the razed neighborhoods; see the D-9 Flatopillar tracks still fresh in the cement dust.
And for those on the deluxe tour, come visit in our 'you help build it' sewage treatment plant. right now it is nothing more than a fetid pool of sh!t, but with your dedicated help it will someday be an aged fetid pool of st!t. and you get a tshirt too!

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-08-06 14:38|| 2007-08-06 14:38|| Front Page Top

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