Kuwait Issues Travel Warning to Lebanon

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Kuwait advised its citizens on Monday to avoid travel to Lebanon and its nationals currently present in the country to leave due to the unstable security situation.

“The Kuwaiti authorities call on its citizens not to travel to Lebanon amid the tense security developments in the country,” the official KUNA news agency said.

An official at the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry called on the nationals currently in Lebanon to leave the country to ensure their security and safety.

“In case they have faced any obstacles, they should contact the Kuwaiti embassy in Beirut immediately,” the official said.

On Saturday, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain issued similar travel warnings.

Clashes erupted last week in the northern city of Tripoli between the two rival neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen after the General Security Department detained Islamist Shadi al-Mawlawi on charges of belonging to a terrorist group.

On Sunday the clashes spilled to Akkar after Sheikh Ahmed Abdul Wahed was shot dead along with his companion Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Merheb at an army checkpoint in the northern town of al-Kweikhat.

The tension soon spread to Beirut where several areas in Beirut were blocked by burning tires and clashes erupted near the Beirut Arab University in Tariq al-Jedideh between supporters of al-Mustaqbal Movement and the Arab Movement party.

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Thumb lebneneh 21 May 2012, 12:51

I'm not surprised...

Thumb kesrweneh 21 May 2012, 14:39

now we know who's behind all that

Default-user-icon May7 (Guest) 21 May 2012, 15:06

Exactly every time the summer tourist season comes m8 stir the pot.
Remember when the world leaders were meeting in France to raise money to donate to Lebanon
M8 do what they do best follow foreign orders

Default-user-icon Anonnn (Guest) 21 May 2012, 18:00

I saw those who know that they're citizens in Lebanon are in Danger, means they know something, or know before hand that something is about to happen.

Call it what you will... I see them conspiring against Syria, and Lebanon for stopping arms shipments to Syria.

There I said it, and I know many of you think it.

Default-user-icon Skyfall (Guest) 21 May 2012, 18:04

@kesrweneh, my god what a moron, you are incredible. eh bravo kuwait, saudi arabia, qatar, and all those countries have you investors in Lebanon, they are the one doing all this.... how dumb can one be? you clearly dont know anything about business which is not making shit where you eat ya idiot. And may i remind you that 50% of the lebanese that are working abroad are working in gulf countries, which gave your countrymen a chance to evolve . they are not obliged to give us anything and yet again they accept mostly scum like yourself who are on their payroll and insult them anyway. maybe you should go to Iran find a job there you'll get certainly something good like khomeinei's personal bootshiner. I dont support gulf countries on many issues, but they are the ones who invested mostly in your country and gave it revenues. if they withdraw their nationals and investments, you can kiss Lebanon goodbye.

Default-user-icon Skyfall (Guest) 21 May 2012, 18:12

@keserweneh, anticipating what you might say, so here it goes, if ur gonna say that those gulf countries are buying our lands and country and blablabla, look maybe you should take an economy course or read the papers more. In canada and the states, chinese have been allowed to buy almost whatever they want and it is full of chinese people and money right and left. that doesnt mean china owns the USA. This is called investements...but yet again maybe in your small brains you wont understand that, cause ur tooo busy as usual, thinking about the wahhabi salafi balloney thing, rather than thinking as well about the syrian-farsi-zionist scheme.

Default-user-icon Skyfall (Guest) 21 May 2012, 18:12

i pity you so much, for your lack of vision of the situation. It is clear that Lebanon is harboring extremists, but instead of letting the lebanese army do their jobs, we are willing to invite the syrians again by falling intto their traps and let our army be used by them to create strife. It is in the zionist interest as well to leave bachar and maybe let him come finish salafists in the north and israel will finish Hezbollah in the south,that is the deal.

Missing realist 21 May 2012, 19:06

the army would disintegrate if it took sides in an armed struggle. Bashar is a dead man walking, the fact that they are trying to screw with lebanon is a great indication of how desperate and politicaly bankrupt the regime in syria has become.

Default-user-icon Skyfall (Guest) 21 May 2012, 18:13

@keserweneh, anticipating what you might say, so here it goes, if ur gonna say that those gulf countries are buying our lands and country and blablabla, look maybe you should take an economy course or read the papers more. In canada and the states, chinese have been allowed to buy almost whatever they want and it is full of chinese people and money right and left. that doesnt mean china owns the USA. This is called investements...but yet again maybe in your small brains you wont understand that, cause ur tooo busy as usual, thinking about the wahhabi salafi balloney thing, rather than thinking as well about the syrian-farsi-zionist scheme. i pity you so much, for your lack of vision of the situation.

Missing realist 21 May 2012, 19:02

To Aoun supporters, this is the fruits of your leader cussing the sunis left right and center, what is Aoun gona do to lebanon? bring tourists from iran!?
Almost half of the lebanese work force are in saudi, kuwait, uae, etc.. we can not live without the arabs, get real and get it through your thick heads!! iran will only bring destruction and misery to lebanon.

Default-user-icon Skyfall (Guest) 21 May 2012, 23:36

@ realist, you are right about the army, but we are always scared about it dividing, it wont divide if it had a commander strong enough and a political leaddership strong enough to erase sectarism, by picking up ALL weapons from EVERYONE. and by the way you said it will divide if it takes sides, it already has taken sides ya realist, cant you see? the murder of the cheikh is certainly not done by sunnite soldiers. And the beating up of people by the army is only in certain areas compared to others where outlaws walk freely and do wtv they please. It will divide and we will come back unfortunately to the time of militias, which is better maybe , creating an equilibrium of power between all sides and maybe inciting into a new civil contract and everybody's disarment.

Default-user-icon Skyfall (Guest) 21 May 2012, 23:39

@ realist, about aoun supporters, i am not with the ouwet, but what antoine zahra said about them is true : we are watching hezbollah carefully, and about the FPM , they are nothing to be scared about" what should one be scared about from an FPMer ? his top speed 200km/h like his master to a foreign embassy when someone is about to enter his home? they are not even khabar kana, the FPM today is only alive and barking because they have Hezbollah with them, but soon they will realise their master dergeneral is crazy and hezbollah doesnt care about giving him posts or ministers becaus anyway they control the country without beeing majorly represented in parliament or in the council of ministers..