...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
as they prepared to smuggle 85
The army said the smugglers were detained late Thursday as they were preparing to send 85 people on a boat after collecting a total of $400,000 from them. The boat was confiscated in a sea resort in the country's north, it added, and the detainees are being questioned.
The announcement came days after a boat carrying more than 60
For years,
...In 2006 unknown persons blew up Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the car he was traveling in, the road he was traveling on, and a few innocent bystanders of no account whatsoever. The person or persons unknow weren't Hezbollah, you can bet on that. Really. Even though there was an international tribunal that said it was them...had been a country that hosted refugees. But since the country's economic meltdown began in October 2019, hundreds of people have attempted a perilous sea journey to Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
to seek a better life. Several have drowned on the way, and hundreds have reached their destination.
Tripoli is Lebanon's second largest and most impoverished city. Lebanon, a nation of 6 million people, including 1 million Syrian refugees, is in the grip of a historic economic and financial crisis rooted in decades of corruption and mismanagement by the country's ruling class.
On Tuesday, Lebanon's government tasked the military judiciary with investigating last week's deadly sinking of the migrant boat.
Search and rescue efforts are still underway to locate those still unaccounted for since last weekend's incident.