Leba**n eyes future for famed hotel turned civil war relic
 

https://s3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/v...c7d6406eec.jpgA symbol of Leba**n's golden age, but also its brutal civil war, the empty shell of the Holiday Inn hotel in Beirut could **w take on a new life. Towering over the Beirut seafront, the Holiday Inn is instantly recognisable because of the bullet and rocket marks still covering its walls, more than two decades after the war that devastated Leba**n. One of the most iconic images to emerge from the war, taken just as Beirut was being torn apart into east and west, showed a tower of black ***** rising above the building. The Holiday Inn, which had opened for business a bare two years before the conflict broke out, featured prominently in "Circle of Deceit", Volker Schloendorff's vivid 1982 movie about a war correspondent who sets up shop in the hotel while reporting on the raging civil conflict.




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