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At a time when the Lebanese await the issuance of clear, transparent and convincing results to investigate the case of the Beirut port explosion, its causes and those responsible for the disaster that resulted in dozens of deaths and widespread destruction in Beirut, A press report came out to the Lebanese public about an extension of the investigation with one of the blacksmiths arrested in a case, This is due to suspicions about his association with a militant organization.
The report published by the newspaper “Al-Akhbar”, close to Hezbollah, unleashed a wave of angry comments on social networking sites, especially since it transmits from the investigations of the security services its dependence on the phone of the alleged blacksmith, who ” it indicated that it had carried out a previous search of the port and the president. ” Port Investment Authority and disclosure of interest in militant groups, while denying the appearance of association of the suspect with any organization.
The first thing Lebanese recovered from their memories after this novel was the novel “Abu Adass”, which appeared in a fabricated video claiming to be the suicide bomber who murdered the late Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005, which was shown to be bogus at the time and turned out to be a security fabrication to mislead the investigation. Then the court returned International confirming the falsehood of the story in its final verdict, after it was not possible to find any evidence or corpse belonging to Abu Adass.
The Abu Adass scenario, in its new form, and at the end of the sentence, says: However, all of the above remains under suspicion. #Mourning Edo was strong with welding pic.twitter.com/RsrKTU8BM5
– Lina Doughan (@doughanlina) August 29, 2020
The Abu Adass story has become, for many Lebanese, an approach taken by the ruling authority, the security services and the Hezbollah militias to intimidate terrorism and cover up the real perpetrators, according to comments that were released in the social media.
What helped bring the story of Abu Adass closer to the novel “Haddad al-Mirfa” was the image that was released hours after the explosion, showing the three blacksmiths performing work at the entrance to pavilion 12 of the port of Beirut, without specify its origin or who took it, so it returned and found a wide circulation in conjunction with the novel. The wish, published in the Al-Akhbar daily, which is similar in form and objective to the Abu Adass video that invaded the media in 2005 and diverted the course of the investigation.
The academic and political activist, Makram Rabah, believes that this type of leaks using the method and channels used is a continuation of the approach taken by the security services with each security file that occurs in the sand, by means of which they try to establish a narrative that serves these devices or politically benefits their operators and then circulates it through the media as happened with The theatrical actor Ziad Itani. At the same time, these leaks expose the secrecy of the investigation and undermine trust in the judiciary and security services, regardless of the leaked story, and this is against the law and undermines the investigation.
The movie “Abu Adass” no longer catches us.
Blacksmiths and non-blacksmiths … they are hardliners and they are not!The Port Massacre # Ammonium nitrate #Beirut– Christine Habib (@Christine_Habib) August 29, 2020
Fida Itani, the journalist and expert on militant groups, recalls the history of the security services in 2015 when they spoke of the presence of terrorists involved in the ranks of the protesters who were preparing for the security sabotage actions in order to explode the situation in Lebanon, that story was in charge of diverting the attention of the Lebanese from the problem of the waste that was piling up in the streets at that time. And it came to the concern of the people to participate in the demonstrations and the popular uprising lost its momentum, and thus Murad achieved the system of government in Lebanon.
Itani, in his interview with the Al-Hurra website, considers that “the pact, since its arrival, has provided only a solution between two, either by claiming achievements and lying to the Lebanese, or by resorting to a security solution and oppression of all those who hold them responsible and oppose them, and this narrative comes today in a moment The declaration of the state of emergency in contravention of the constitution, and all this aims, first of all, to intimidate society against the terrorist scenario, in preparation to suppress all those who oppose his narratives and place him in the framework of the cover-up of the “terrorists”. As a result, suspicions are kept away from the true officials, and the terrorists’ narrative may succeed in securing a necessary and beneficial sectarian tension regarding this authority, in order to preserve its existence. ”
Rabah describes these leaks as repeated and “not creative”, although this does not mean that there is no terrorist or threatening threat, but the method and timing of the leak are exposed, especially since it is not the first time for the newspaper Al -Akhbar. The most dangerous thing in the midst of all this is that Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah had already spoken of an attempt to recreate ISIS, leading to doubt about this story and to seek reasons to publish it at a time when Hezbollah is looking for a exit to join the French initiative, and push doubts about it, and thus represent This narrative is a lifeboat for people willing to join and embrace it.
And after the 5 days ended, after the investigation, the strong testimony of absolute truth arrived.
A relative of Abu Adass, Al-Baghdadi and Al-Zarqawi was among the workers who welded the door of pavilion 12 and deliberately caused the explosion in retaliation for the murder of their relatives. #that is #Ya #Lebanon #Beirut Bombardment of the port of Beirut– Fady Saad (@SaadFady) August 29, 2020
For his part, Brigadier General and retired military expert, Elias Hanna, believes that the terror hypothesis cannot convince him or the rest of the Lebanese, noting that “the terrorist will not wait for his arrest if he is really the perpetrator, or is a suicide bomber or escapes after carrying out the operation. ” And this is what did not happen ”, he added that the workers who carried out the welding operations before the explosion were hired by the port administrators, and it was not they who offered their services or entered the port in a suspicious way, but rather recruited with the full will of those in charge of work and maintenance in the port.
Hanna frames this story within the framework of “justifying” the magnitude of the corruption, negligence and negligence that led to this disaster at the port, noting that “investigations have not yet reached the true owner of these materials and the reason why the one that remains so long in poor storage conditions and this is the basis of any investigation, in When it comes to militants here or terrorism there is only one peg to cover up the real officials and people who are not suitable for the jobs they occupy ”.
Seeing the military expert converge and the vision of Itani, who believes that “this story comes in a context that began with Gebran Bassil, raising the question of” how they exploited the materials “rather than asking the question useful for the investigation and to determine the actual responsibilities, which is “Where did these materials come from, who did they get to, and why did they all stay?” During this period, did the amount skyrocket or remain incomplete? “These questions will be presented by those responsible for every detail. As for the rest of the questions and hypotheses, today they come before the investigation. “
Itani dismissed the terrorism hypothesis through his knowledge and monitoring of the activities of terrorist organizations, highlighting that “Beirut was not among the targets of extremist organizations in the last stage, and today it is known where these groups concentrate their activities and for what purposes, not including the port of Beirut and the city. ”
He affirms that “this is not the method of the militant organizations, that is, they rely on a great accumulation of coincidences that led the port administrators to choose a number of workers themselves, including the alleged terrorist, and then accidentally enter the Pavilion 12 without the other containing explosive materials, to be detonated by welding “. The door is a matter that needs scrutiny of its potential first. This is a ridiculous story. Militant organizations do not operate by these simple methods, and the act of terror does not depend on coincidences. Furthermore, there is no evidence whatsoever for all this dodgy speech backed by evidence.
According to Hanna, “a welding process can lead to a fire that is like the flame that detonated ammonium nitrate.” But the most important factor was the method of storage of these materials exposed to the air, which caused their interaction with the air and the disintegration of their atoms, which facilitated their explosion, and this could reach its explosion in the presence of Process of welding or without it. Regarding the second question, before approaching the welding process, it is about the rest of the materials that were near the ammonium nitrate, which could act as a detonator that would promote the distribution of the detonation spark throughout the amber.
Itani stops at the first announcement of the quality of the materials that was retracted by Major General Abbas Ibrahim in the first hours after the explosion, as quoted by a press release that reveals that it is ammonium nitrate, and then Ibrahim issued a denial for the press release only without explaining the reasons, although the information he provided is supposed to be. Correct about the quality of the materials, “Since then, security agencies have kept the most accurate details of the investigation and have become the first and last source of information about the port explosion. They even covered the results of the investigations , which is what the Lebanese army did when it announced the discovery of hydric acid (25 containers), which is what turned out to be the scientific name for water, and the use of this term and the announcement of its discovery is nothing more than a cover of the actual materials found.
Brigadier General Elias Hanna concludes, considering that even if the extremist hypothesis and the terrorist act are correct, the failure is still part of the Lebanese state and its security apparatus, which on the one hand provided all the requirements for the explosion in the first place. , and on the other, it has failed in the security work required by a preventive war on terror, that is. He revealed the process before it happened, although the hypothesis is completely out.
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