Beirut. Nasrallah: “No our arsenal in the port”. Aoun: “Possible external action”. Cdm deliberates state emergency for foreign intervention
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The Party of God allegedly bought about 670 tons of ammonium nitrate for hundreds of thousands of euros, in four shipments from July 2013 to April 2014, documented in several receipts of which the The wiels mention dates and amounts. It is not proven that the shipments in question are related to the material that was in hangar 12 of the port, the now known 2750 tons of the chemical component which, according to the Lebanese investigations still in progress, are among the causes of the enormous explosion that has devastated the center of Beirut on August 4th, killing 180 and injuring thousands.
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The ammonium nitrate supplies destined for Hezbollah come from Iran, in operations coordinated by the Quds Force, the elite unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, led by the general Qasem Soleimani who was killed in January in Baghdad in a US raid. The Quds Force would deliver the material by sea, air and land. One of the airlines involved in the shipments is Iranian Mahar Air, which has been barred from landing on German soil since last year. In the reportage by The wiels Mohammed Qasir is also mentioned as being responsible for the procurement of ammonium nitrate.
Qasir, also known as Hajj Fadi, leads Hezbollah’s Unit 108 from Damascus, charged with smuggling arms from Iran to Lebanon via Syria. Although it is known, as also reported by local reporters, that Hezbollah is the entity that actually manages the port of Beirut, Hassan Nasrallah |, the leader of the Party of God, categorically denied any involvement or responsibility with respect to the 4 August explosion.
Several operations were revealed last year that linked Hezbollah to the use of ammonium nitrate. In June 2019, British secret services announced that, in 2015, they had seized tons of the chemical material from four properties in London managed by local cells of the Shiite militia. In the same year, the Cyprus police arrested Hussein Bassam Abdallah, dual Lebanese and Canadian citizen, found in possession of more than 8 tons of ammonium nitrate. Abdallah admitted affiliation with Hezbollah and negotiated a 6-year sentence.
Last April, German police thwarted a Hezbollah terrorist cell and the same modus operandi as London emerged in the investigation: large quantities of ammonium nitrate stored in fake instant ice packs. In conjunction with the operation that led to the arrest of several operatives for conspiracy to terrorism, Germany has included Hezbollah on the list of terrorist organizations.
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