For your information Down and out in Beirut by Kirsten Vance & Samia Jouzi January 16, 2000 by Kirsten Vance & Samia Jouzi January 16, 2000 As darkness descends on Beirut’sinternational airport, couriers arebusy clearing incoming shipments.Enter one colonel from the army’s customsbrigade. He barks orders that shipmentsover 20 kilos should be stopped, quoting anobscure 1959 …