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fits. cosmopolitan city attracted international jet set. who could get from the ski slopes to the beach in no time the hotel district was at the heart of luxury tourism economy and in its heyday hotel like just in george, the phoenician on the holiday inn will for less wealthy tourists, business men, generally diplomat. and be occasional spies travellers on a tight budget state. hotels like the commodore and in the mid 19 seventy's, it became host to the world's media. when the lebanese civil war erupted. ah, in 1970, a young arab millionaire yusef. and his owl took the commodore hotel on a 20 year lease from the kuwaiti royal family. nathaniel was the leading investor in the hotel industry in the region,

and responsible for attracting thousands of turret lebanon. moments she borrow, worked with ms. allen, ticketing, and still runs a travel agency near the commodore with the same name, but that by the phases of missouri from the commodore law. what are those of aim, bella? can it be? the mother of joseph mozilla. thunderbird mel capital from the atlantic decker was organized for china. phonetic off happen to me, but the luxury bay was lifestyle of skill. the gap between rich and poor that was whitening all the time. the international press used to be rude to the barometer of what was happening in the middle east. and one of the foreign correspondents who predicted the violence in lebanon was tv, jonathan denby. i 1st went to lebanon in

1972, as a young reporter. and i wanted to see whether something was happening there or not. i stayed in what was then relatively modest hotel called the commodore hotel. the overall impression was some, some as a society which was held together by a rather loose series of ropes. and it didn't take much for that to shatter the, the 13th of april, 1975 mo, to the official stone to the civil war. it was a proxy conflict thought during the cold war on one side, lebanese christian right wing parties, backed by the us, wanted to end the armed palestinian presence in lebanon. on the other one muslim left wing parties allied with the pillow and backed by the soviet union. they sold

the right wing christians, a simply an extension of israeli and american influence in the country. when the war broke out, an army of foreign journalists headed to be route, including the former bbc middle east correspondent, tim llewellyn. all of whom wanted a safe place to stay. in november, 1975, i was taking what turned out to be one of the last m. e. a flights into bay route from london, which was virtually empty except for a few journalists and use it now. who i didn't know, but of course wisdom, it was to turn out that he was the manager of the commodore hotel. so he drew me, he took out a piece of paper and a pen. and he drew from me various sections of beirut who controlled what,

where you could go safely. i said the use of what we needed was a bass. the next time i went to be rude. is if had created this fantastic hotel in the space of a few weeks. the commodore had become that journalist, eccentric 975, and 76, with the fiercest, 2 years of the civil war. with secretary and killings, massive destruction and the division of bay root into the christian east and muslim west the former times correspondent robert fisk decided to base himself permanently in beirut in 1976. so when i came to bed, i already knew the city, but i knew before when i went downtown here, i could not believe the, the extraordinary destruction. i mean it takes you can destroy us. if you very quickly takes an awful long time to rebuild it. oh i, casey, went to the commodore with a p stuff just to have lunch, sometimes of me as

a journalist, but i didn't stay there. i didn't like it very much when i, i thought it was another city hotel with extraordinary high prices. the commodore hotel was safe and so you could be there. and it was quite bizarre, really. you could be in the civil safe enclave. and then you went out into a very grave civil war. the under use system is als management to beirut. commodore became a global center for news and information. i use it. and as i was a young man then, and he seemed to have an extraordinary uncanny ability to know what journalist wanted. and he realized quickly and brilliantly, that the journalists would need, 1st of all, above all, good communications,

what the commodore had and what no or else had was communications. and you know, if a journalist has a story and he can't send it, he might as well go home. and you had 3 working to alex machines and they could get to court alumni uses bizarre, started by using lines and telex machines from his private business in bay routes, london, a man and cyprus. but as we parted, the man grew. he had to get hold of extra lines at any cost to follow kenneth, my doom invalid said joseph and i'm out of local law buddied or maneuver told baba about myself was not valid can for half a year in you a full the 1st half in march or on saturday, because i had to spread the militias took control of different neighborhoods. the

challenge for the commodore was to keep the hotel safe for its media guests. i was there on one occasion when we were down in the bar and suddenly there was a caustic noise of gunfire from inside the hotel everyone. dr. dot and you know, everyone was on the floor and the bread or like that stopped silence. the only sound was of the parrot, which had a peculiar position on the edge of the bar. and the parrot talked quite freely while everyone else's son, which made you half, you know, when you're, when you're frightened, you wanted to laugh anyway, the funny squawking parrot was going on talking the african parent's name was cocos, and his party traits became legendary. this parrot used to do various things. it could do the opening notes of beethoven's 5th symphony and various other things.

but it's, it's p s 2, as the sauce was to imitate an incoming show. on the 6th of june, 1982, israel invaded lebanon. israel claimed it wants to take out the piano to rocket launcher position, but there was more than that to the israeli action. the railey siege of bay root was one of the bloodiest episodes of the whole, sorry conflict. the destruction was enormous, and 20000 lebanese and palestinians were killed and nearly 50000 doing did. amid the may him, the commodore hotel became the de facto ministry of information. lebanese photo journalist ramsey, hyder,

was that the commodore during the israeli invasion going forward on with order that the lead to man. but. busy busy surely, but this i'm think about, i'm sort of but not to do, but getting the solution. i didn't with the city. i love us about sailor illema get there, but we should live in the early days of the as really invasion of lebanon uselessness out stop power, large amounts of fuel, food, and cash. millions of dollars. he said enough for the hotel residence and stuff for the month to come. i know so also lent journalists money can feel as usual, allowing me my casual my nor did you feel the muscle from shuffling you thought it said, you know,

it hamel, hill. my thought is one, we are feel in cash money. no, no, i have poor flows better than life for the commodore base journalists during the invasion was tough. west bay route was under siege with constant israeli air raids and reportedly indiscriminate. shelly. but they told the real story, i think the barret cj, as i said, was a big eye opener for many correspondent to ony eating the israeli story. but until then, and they were able, at 1st time when they went out to see the suffering of lebanese and palestinians. and they really went off to a story very, very hard, very hard and harshly. and well, i think at that stage though, if a comment hadn't been the israeli invasion would not have been so well reported. and you can thank the commodore and ways of this and the people in it under use.

and i think the, the israelis had at that stage in the early eighty's, the worst press they've ever had before. or since the 70 day israeli siege of a root was lifted on the 21st of august, 1982. and the pillow pulled out of lebanon. there were immediate presidential elections, and the leader of the right wing christian philanthropists, but shared your maya, who had supported the israeli incursion, became the president elect of lebanon. but jim mile never took office. he was assassinated 23 days later for the following 3 days, the 16th 17th and 18th of september, 1982 christian militia supported by israel, took part in

a massacre that the palestinian refugee comes of sabra and shatila. when news of the massacre reached the commodore hotel on the 18th, dozens of local and foreign journalists headed straight to the southern bay route sub robert fisk was one of the 1st to enter the palestinian camp. i've never before had to walk and carpets of dead bodies in my life, and the smell was appalling. and we went on the saturday morning when the tides financial was still there. the murderous will still will still in the count with 2nd amount of next month and some of them don't. busy do stuff, i can remember who i'd have to add another one. i kind of hit us on the line and someone should be mad and we will marcus the gym on the feed.

again, you said the machine, how about the the sabra and shooting messages, sorrow, the 2000 palestinian and lebanese civilians killed. i started writing and writing writing unfortunately the times didn't come out on sunday, so i had to wait for the next day's paper. but i got the story, i got it. on the news of the 18th of september, massacres shocked the world and the international coverage angered v as railey, and those organizations the same day they arrested use of nas out and took into their base at the st. george hotel, the journalist became extremely angry. the french, typically a french organized a petition sign petition and took it down to the israeli commander,

demanding that use of miss out be released. yes, i was a surprise. he was arrested because they realized this was a communication center and they didn't want to operate. i think the purpose of arresting joseph was to close down the common h years into the fighting. on the night of the chief of august 1983. the commodore took a direct hit, shattering its eastern side where the shut either they don't know what's going on on the, on the door that i want to deal with. but if, if the phoenix about the scene of the song, i have the huffy and shut off, or when i'm your robot of to neil and inexperienced reporters were sometimes unable to handle a route and uselessness. our office sometimes doubled as a psychiatric unit. as b, israeli withdraw continued into 1983 lebanese militia immediately filled. that

vacuum invite for control region by region. the. the commodore had continued as an international news hub, fairly below worked as a cameraman for c, b, c, and took these photos of life inside the hotel at that time. but in 1980, for a new development in the conflict, upset that life even more kidnapping. the comedy hotel i think was beginning to lose its attraction as a journalist again to prize around the time of the mid 19 eighties around the time in the kid mapping. i think the fear of kids not been started around 84 i there was an attempt to get nothing on me in madame curious st. very close to

accommodate i still remember that was the 1st time i started getting really frightened. and then of course, not long afterwards, terry anderson was kidnapped, longest held hostage with 7 years. and then we all realize we were in trouble. me. terry edison was the senior associated press correspondent on the 16th of january, 1985. he was kidnapped on his way to the commodore hotel 3 years into his detention. his kidnappers released this photo of him wearing a commodore hotel t shirt designed by yusef and his owl for his journalist guests. anderson was the 1st journalist to be kidnapped in bay route. that would be the last to be released in 1991. several different groups carried out the hosted shaking. but the most prominent was islamic jihad. so i wouldn't advise any foreigners to

stay here the moment while the situation is so dangerous. in november 1985, such as the special envoy to the british archbishop of canterbury. terry wait arrived in lebanon, and it goes ca hostage releases. he stayed at the riviera hotel, but often went to the commodore to meet journalists on the 21st of november, fighting known as the battle of the flag between different left wing allied lebanese militia, controlling west bay root reach. the commodore hotel, cherry weight was trapped inside with dozens of local and foreign journalists, including ramsey hyde, can, will you wait on them for half an hour caught off the me love them. i can share that. who are the last us? yes. the either me or

the back. are you sorry? but regarding the b. c. cause you need general name is when you saw that follow the ramsey, hide the photograph, these images of journalists pulling the man's body out of sniper range. then moving it into the back of a car. that image encapsulates the horror of events outside the commodore hotel. that night, terry wait, stayed at the commodore and these rare pictures show him making phone calls in the hotel lobby. negotiations for the release of hostages had so far failed,

and the kidnapping continued on the 16th of march 1986 like the british journalist john mccarthy arrived in beirut as w t. n bureau chief. it was his 1st assignment to award. he checked in to the commodore opposite w t ends officers excited to be staying at the now legendary hotel. i think i had a rather romantic view of what the commodore would be like. i had heard of from other colleagues, had been there and stayed. there was very aware that it was a famous hotel world. the great journalist stayed. so when i got there, i was surprised because it was nearly empty. the, the street fighting and fear of kidnap drove many foreigners out of west bay route to the christian east side, or out of lebanon to neighboring cypress. so i was told,

you must be careful. you know, you'll be a target possibly for one of these kidnapped groups. so stay close to the office in the hammer district and stay close to the hotel, the commodore by april, 9 18634 in national had been kidnapped in lebanon. it didn't occur to joe mccarthy that he might be next. it seemed like an error for this hotel, for lebanon, for the foreign journalists working that it was coming to an end. it was closing in around, around me. but also it felt as if the hotel was sort of closing down to mccarthy was then ordered by his w t. n. bosses in london to leave a route immediately. on the 17th of april, 1986, he checked out to the commodore and headed for the airport. but within minutes

armed men intercepted his car, grabbed him and took him away. joe mccarthy would be the last foreign journalists to stay at the commodore. so it's extraordinary. i started off that morning in april and 86 leaving this rather grand if dilapidated street at the commodore hotel. and then the next room i was in was underground in a tiny, filthy, dirty prison cell, basically as a hostage. and i was to remain a hostage for the next 5 and a quarter years. 9 months after mccarthy's abduction, on the 17th of january, 1987 hostage negotiator terri weight was also kidnapped. he was last seen on the bay root cornish, surrounded by gum and from the druid progressive socialist party, who are acting as his body guards in my last year captivity, i was held with the 2 americans, terry anson, and tom sutherland,

and also with the englishman, terri weight, who gone out to lebanon to try and negotiate our release a few years earlier, but himself been kidnapped. so it's very strange that there we were in a cell with the guy who tried to rescue us and he ended up being a hostage to within hours of terry waits. abduction. a fierce battle ensued in west bay route. 200 people died in the 5 days fighting and the commodore was almost completely destroyed by fire. and there was another kid now, the victim this time cocoa, the pirate hotel manager argument, she borrow, check on the stuff and damage the next day. he contacted the owner use of nazareth, who was abroad to reassure him, the star for okay. but that the hotel was so damaged, it was now uninhabitable. i lit up on any on

the bill that i am literally the last one day of and wrote it while it was either beveled in mobile up with me. bob, how funny in 2002, a new investor bought the commodore it was completely refurbished and revived the 5 star luxury hotel in the heart of bay routes. ah, american journalists, nicholas tetra, perhaps best sunday tub. when he wrote during the israeli siege of bay root in a city of survivors, the commodore hotel has proven itself to be a survivor. with a touch of class, there is no contract which is simple goodies versus badges. it's always more

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