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similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter what, i'll just bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. i'll just the common de la hotel was safe and then you went out into a very grave civil war can never call the dealer to the if a commenter hadn't been, please read the invasion would not have been so well result it was a great use and an overall,

was this godfather of the journalist business. the next room i was in was underground in a tiny, filthy, dirty prison. so basically as a hostage ah ah, ah, ah, i welcome to $960.00 a route for several decade fits. cosmopolitan city

attracted international jet set. who could get from the ski slopes to the beach in no time. the hotel district was that the hard to be the luxury tourism economy. i mean it's hey de 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 co 80 royal family. nathaniel was the leading investor in the hotel industry in the region and responsible for attracting thousands of turret,

lebanon mohammed chabarise, worked with his island ticketing, and still runs a travel agency near the commodore with the same name. but that's fine, said joseph missouri refundable, commodore lamb. what though, surveying bella? can my baker let the mother of joseph and the lady thunder mel capital from atlantic radical organize for the child? a phonetic offer happen to me, but the luxury bay was lifestyle of skill. the gap between rich and poor that was white and all the time. the international press used by 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 nimble b. 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 a relatively modest hotel called the commodore hotel. the overall impression was of some, some, some as society which was held together by a rather loose series of ropes. i didn't take much for that to shatter the, the 13th of april, 1975 mo, to the official start of 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 than the 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 uselessness. owl 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 it before. when i went downtown here, i could not believe the, the extraordinary destruction. i mean it takes, you can destroy a city very quickly, so it's an awful long time to rebuild it. oh, i casually went to the commodore with a p stuff just to have lunch,

sometimes meet other journalists. but i didn't stay there. i didn't like it very much when i, i thought it was another cd 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 dissolves management. the beirut commodore became a global center for news and information. i use it and as i was a young man and he seemed to have an extraordinary uncanny ability to know what journalist wanted. and he realized quickly and brilliantly, that the journalist would need 1st of all, above all, good communications,

what the commodore had and what nowhere 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 call the lumber. use his bizarre, started by using lines and telex machines from his private business in bay routes, london, a man and cyprus. but as reported, the man's grew. he had to get hold of extra line at any cost of to follow kenneth by the way. will valid said joseph, i'm out of the lot a lot more that i read or a minute to be a about myself was the value for how for you in you of all, before i had a mother or i don't shut it because i get them 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 ducted up my mother. you know, everyone was on the floor and the 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 it away cuz it's funny squawking. parrot was going on talking the african parent's name was cocos, and his project tricks became legendary. this parents used to do various things that could do the opening notes of beethoven's 5th symphony and various other

things. but it's, it's p s. diversity 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 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 photojournalist ramsey, hyder was that the commodore during the israeli invasion going forward on

the road. the lead to man. busy but the miss, i'm to pass about on the sooner, but not to do, but getting the solution i didn't with well as a city iowa bus about 11 get there. but we should be, we'll have in the early days of the israeli invasion of lebanon uses as our stockpile large amounts of fuel food and cash. millions of dollars, he said enough for the hotel residence and stuff for the months to come out. also lent journalists money can visual, allowing me my name and casual my of the you know from the, in the muscle for chaffey,

you thought of the say do system as it has more thought a form we are feel on cash, money not annoyed, flows better than life for the commodore base journalists joining 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 barrel cj, as i said, was a big eye opener for many correspondent to ony eton 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, so if a comment hadn't been there, the israeli invasion would not have been so well reported. and you can thank the

commodore in a way to this and the people in it under use. 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 for lungess, but she had jeremiah who had supported the israeli incursion. became the president elect of lebanese, but jer mile never took off it. 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 camps 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. murderous. we're still, we're still in the camp. but 2nd one, i must have somebody come on don't do that. i can remember who i did. and the last one i kind of put us on the line and someone should either be mad and we will not cause to jump on

the feed. again. you said the machine, how about the the sabra, and should to the massacres. so over 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 goal of the story, i got it on the news of the 18th of september, massacres shocked the world and the international coverage angered the israelis and that those organizations the same day they arrested use of the zone and took him to 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 mis. i'll be released. yes, i was surprised. he was arrested because they realized this was a communication center and they didn't want to operate. i think the purpose of arresting uses was to close down the comment of h years into the fighting on the night of the chief of august 1983. the commodore took a direct hit, shattering its eastern side of the month to shut out. they don't know what's going on from the door that i want to feel with the 15 us about a minute. i have huffy and shut off or that way and then you would have to neil and inexperienced reporters were sometimes unable to handle a route. a new system dissolves office, sometimes doubled as a psychiatric unit. as the israeli withdraw continued into 1983, the 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 . to come at a 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 and the kid mapping. i think the fear of kids not being started around $84.00. i was maternity kidnapping on me in madam curious street very close to accommodate

i still remember that was the 1st time i started getting really frightened. and then of course not them afterwards. terry anderson was kidnapped, longest held hostage was 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 beirut. would be the last to be released in 1991 . several different groups carried out the hostage taking but the most prominent was islamic jihad. so i wouldn't advise any foreigners to stay here the moment

while the situation so dangerous. in november 1985, such the special envoy to the british archbishop of canterbury, terry wade arrived in lebanon to negotiate 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 route reached the commodore hotel. the cherry weight was trapped inside with dozens of local and foreign journalists, including ramsey hyde. can we wait on the happy hour? we caught my soft mila said, i who will ship the item. i come

back to you. but regarding the vc costs, if you need general names when you saw that just follow the runs the height of 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, a very it was his 1st assignment to a was 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 commercial 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 or 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, 19 18630 foreign nationals 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 of the commodore and headed for the airport. but within minutes on

demand 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 1986 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 rude cornish surrounded by gunman from the drew's 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 routes. 200 people died in the 5 days fighting and the commodore was almost completely destroyed by fire. and there was another kid in the victim. this time, cocoa, the pirate hotel manager, made sure borrow, check on the stuff and damage the next day. he contacted the owner, yusef nestle who was abroad to reassure him, the star for okay. but that the hotel was so damaged, it was now uninhabitable. i let out on any on the

appeal that i am literally the one day i haven't done a lot of mobile up with bob. how many are in the in 2002, a new investor bought the commodore it was completely refurbished and revived the 5 star luxury hotel in the heart of a root. ah, american journalist nicholas tetra, perhaps best summed it up 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

complicated than that. and i'd add one more thing. find a good safe hotel. ah . when the shots came from the holiday and we heard cracks, we heard some noise which was known as my finale in the most dangerous intersections and sought able he didn't come in through the front entrance. that was what happens to people who were shot. they came into the wrong entrance, the nightly pyrotechnics of the funny to turn to the camera man. so that's good, louder, sorry, a vo holiday. and we'll hold on our jazz era chin in to i'll just say english in h. d for the best experience. i'll just say english h d 's available across europe on satellites. usually the 13 sci astro,

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