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  • Crawling Porsches and the prayerful join Lebanon's opulent exodus

    07/15/2006 4:09:19 PM PDT · by wouldntbprudent · 19 replies · 876+ views
    Telegraph ^ | July 15, 2006 | Tim Butcher
    It was perhaps the most elegant exodus in history. Thousands of wealthy, well-dressed Arabs snarled the mountain roads leading to Syria with their Range Rovers and Porsches as they fled Lebanon yesterday. There were women with expensive coiffures, husbands wearing designer sunglasses and teenagers playing the latest hand-held video games as Lebanon morphed from Arab world summer playground to ghostland.