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The Lebanese Armed Forces website has pictures of several service and military-regional flags here; click on a badge to view the corresponding flag. Five of the latter are listed, corresponding to five of the country's six governorates (excluding, for some reason, Nabatiya).
Eugene Ipavec, 10 Jul 2007
image by Eugene Ipavec, 12 Jul 2007 / adapted from Lebanese Armed Forces website
image by Eugene Ipavec, 12 Jul 2007 / adapted from Lebanese Armed Forces website
Tricky stuff, with this grainy image! Again, a tatweel ("_") for a letter I could not make out, and no attempt of adding vowels, no attempt at interpretation of the teh marbuta etc.: "qbarẗ sðmŝ_ almtaʕ" = "قبارة سظمشـ المتاع
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Jul 2007
I don't know what this means, but the spelling is "qa-ya-alif-dal-ta marbutah" (qayadat) "mim-nun-tet-qa-ta" (mantakat) "alif-lam-ba-qa-alif-ayin" (al-baqa'a).
Dov Gutterman, 12 Jul 2007
The colonnade is a surviving part of the famous temple of Jupiter in Baalbek.
Eugene Ipavec, 15 Jul 2007
image by Eugene Ipavec, 12 Jul 2007 / adapted from Lebanese Armed Forces website
image by Eugene Ipavec, 12 Jul 2007 / adapted from Lebanese Armed Forces website
image by Eugene Ipavec, 12 Jul 2007 / adapted from Lebanese Armed Forces website