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With their bank accounts frozen and their savings inaccessible, Lebanese depositors are turning to drastic means to withdraw their money. The population hails them as heroes while officials have shied away from prosecuting them.
Sali Hafez, Abed Soubra, Bassam Sheikh Hassan, Jawad Slim and Mohammad al Moussawi are no bank robbers, they are ordinary, respectable, hard-working peo
BEIRUT: The news that Lebanon’s attorney general on Tuesday released a man who stormed a bank in Beirut last week and took hostages would have scandalized the public in most countries. But Bassam Hussein was no ordinary hostage-taker and Lebanon is no ordinary country. Hussein had reportedly held bank employees and customers at gunpoint on August 11 to demand his own money