{"id":211570,"date":"2020-08-06T06:28:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T06:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=211570"},"modified":"2020-08-08T06:12:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T06:12:51","slug":"lebanon-sitrep-letter-from-a-lebanese-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=211570","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon SITREP: Letter from a Lebanese friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Saker \u2013 Aug 4, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Beirut blast. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

This was just sent to me by a good Lebanese friend:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Huge disaster, investigation underway, on face value was caused by utter negligence, corruption and incompetence of Lebanese state, but I am one of those that has been stressing that the enemies could have exploited this state negligence and corruption to trigger this disaster through sabotage. Few simple reasons for this, including:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. a) this disaster completely serves current US-Israeli efforts to pressure Lebanon economically to bow down to their demands<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. b) the site of the explosion, Port of Beirut, was the transit through which 50-80% of Lebanon\u2019s commodity and trade needs were met<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. c) the explosions struck wheat reserves stored there as well, exacerbating the dire economic situation and inflation further<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. d) Israeli officials few days ago were warning the Resistance that if they struck Israeli army targets (a response to recent Israeli crimes by Resistance was imminent), Lebanon\u2019s infrastructure will be targeted<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. e) one year ago exactly Israel\u2019s ambassador to UN said at the Security Council that the Port of Beirut had become \u2018Hezbollah\u2019s Port\u2019. Lebanese ambassador said this was a direct threat to Lebanon\u2019s civilians and security<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. f) last but not least, the 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate (that exploded) were reportedly stored there 6 years ago, and they have been described as a ticking time bomb considering the irresponsible way that they were stored. Is it really coincidental that this ticking time bomb goes off today, at the worst possible moment for Lebanon (Country is falling on all levels, coronavirus, US siege at its peak etc)?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So, while initial reports have said this disaster was caused by the utter negligence, corruption and lack of accountability of Lebanese state institutions, an official investigation is currently underway, and the Resistance will certainly be doing its own investigation, because there was no worse possible time for this disaster to occur to Lebanon than today. Sabotage by the enemy must remain a strong possibility (though actually proving that may be difficult).<\/span><\/p>\n

    Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The disaster in Beirut has been officially declared an accident. But as a Lebanese correspondent of the Saker explains, it also fits in with U.S.-Israeli plans <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211572,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211570\/revisions\/211572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}