{"id":32897,"date":"2017-09-15T08:28:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T08:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/?p=32897"},"modified":"2017-09-15T08:28:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T08:28:50","slug":"embassy-staff-banned-from-casino-du-liban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/embassy-staff-banned-from-casino-du-liban\/","title":{"rendered":"Embassy Staff Banned From Casino Du Liban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-32898\" src=\"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Banned-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Banned-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Banned.jpg 583w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Casino Du Liban in Jounieh in Lebanon is now off limits to all US Embassy personnel after the US Government statement that the casino is banned to all Embassy staff because of \u201congoing threats.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u201cDue to ongoing threats to locations such as the Casino Du Liban in Jounieh, Lebanon, the U.S. Embassy in Beirut has barred any movement of U.S. government staff to that Casino,\u201d said the message which was published on the Embassy&#8217;s website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u201cAs always, the U.S. Embassy will continue to evaluate the movements of its personnel, and encourages all U.S. citizens to be aware of their immediate surroundings at all times and take appropriate measures to ensure their safety and security,\u201d it closed in saying. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">However Casino Du Liban chairman Roland Khoury said in an interview on the matter that the move by the US Government on Embassy staff was a \u201croutine measure that is not exclusively related to Casino Du Liban.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Khoury went on to say that the casino is guarded by \u201can army intelligence post, an Internal Security Forces post, an army checkpoint at its entrance, in addition to private security guards.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casino Du Liban in Jounieh in Lebanon is now off limits to all US Embassy personnel after the US Government statement that the casino is banned to all Embassy staff because of \u201congoing threats.\u201d \u201cDue to ongoing threats to locations such as the Casino Du Liban in Jounieh, Lebanon, the U.S. Embassy in Beirut has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-headlines","category-latest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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