Beirut is the Casablanca of yesteryear. A place for spies, criminals playboys, drug & gunrunners, etc. Flowing cash is the name of the game. A no man's land.

Now, do you think that 6 years of storage of anything of value that has been abandoned would not have been sold? specially where all is up for grab by anyone interested in making money?. Do you think that valuable real estate in the port was just not billed to anyone since the product apparently didn't belong to anyone?.