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2022-04-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Report: Port probe shelved temporarily, perhaps permanently
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] "Look what I got out of my nose!"
We expected no less. And certainly not any more.
The mission of Beirut port blast investigator Judge Tarek Bitar has likely been shelved indefinitely and perhaps permanently, a senior legal source said.

The mission might be resumed during the next presidential tenure, the source added, in remarks to al-Liwaa newspaper published Tuesday.

"Finance Minister Youssef Khalil’s refusal to sign the decree forming the general commission of the Court of Cassation openly means that Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians...
and Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
are insisting on preventing Bitar from continuing his mission," the source added.

The August 4, 2020 monster explosion at Beirut’s port killed around 231 people, maimed around 7,000 and devastated entire neighborhoods of the capital.

Two incumbent MPs and ex-ministers belonging to Berri’s Amal Movement have refused to appear before Bitar for questioning.

The judge has also summoned former premier Hassan Diab, ex-ministers Youssef Fenianos and Nouhad al-Mashnouq and the heads of General Security and State Security.
Posted by Fred 2022-04-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top
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