More Syria-bound Tankers Torched in Northern Lebanon
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Several Syria-bound fuel tanker trucks were torched in northern Lebanon on Friday, a day after seven such incidents took place in the same area, the state-run National News Agency and Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) reported.
VDL said Friday's attacks took place on the main road of al-Beddawi and Tripoli. But NNA's reporter denied any such incident took place on Friday.
Only seven trucks were torched on Thursday night to prevent their passage to war-torn Syria, NNA said.
The fire on Thursday night gutted four trucks in Tripoli's Souk al-Ahad near the Rafik Hariri clinic. Towering walls of flames engulfed the vehicles
Three other trucks with tanks full of fuel oil were burned from the front on the international highway near al-Tabbaneh, the agency said.
NNA added a Lebanese man, Yehya al-Hajj, and his wife suffered minor injures while passing near the torched trucks.
Also Thursday, protesters in the eastern Bekaa town of Saadnayel blocked the road to two Syrian tanker trucks and broke their windows.
The army intervened and fired into the air to disperse the protesters who sought to empty the diesel on the street.
Last month, the residents of northern border towns blocked the roads that lead to Syria to prevent fuel tanker trucks from crossing into the country after claiming that diesel exported to Syria is being used by regime tanks in the country's civil war.
The protesters called on the Lebanese authorities to take a stronger position on the Syria crisis, and to stop allowing fuel supplies across the border.
But the energy ministry denied reports that government-owned refineries were sending diesel to Syria, which is suffering a major crisis of gasoline and diesel because of the war.
15 March 2013, 11:31
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basil and fpm are supporting this murderer regime. they should burn I hell for supplying the fuel needed by this regime to keep using its tanks and fighter jets against its people.
this is worse than supplying this regime with weapons.
basil and fpm = war criminals.
15 March 2013, 12:18
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note how he doesnt mind that m14 people are getting lebanon involved in the fight. burning tankers is for the least a very very aggressive move
15 March 2013, 12:51
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and supplying the regime with fuel for their tanks and jets is not an aggressive move?
15 March 2013, 13:05
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first we dont have jet-grade fuel ya zake, so i dont see how we could be providing it... i dont understand why you always need to dramatize everything by adding silly inventions, it's saddening...
and in any case, no selling fuel is not an aggressive move.
also any human with half a brain would easily undertand how blowing up tankers is on a totally different level of aggressiveness and wouldnt dare try to compare both.
i dont understand why you dont see it geha, maybe it's because i'm brainwashed? or what's your excuse going to be this time?
15 March 2013, 13:31
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FYI and this is really serious:
part of the fuel sent to Syria is normal fuel to be used for their tanks.
the other part is jet fuel being imported especially for the Syrian regime.
go check these FACTs from your friends (if you have any) in the security sources.
2nd: this is not selling fuel: this is more like supplying an essential weapon part for this regime to kill more....
15 March 2013, 13:33
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lol geha always has "facts" out of his pocket, but never a source to back it. he leaves that job to us, we're supposed to find the proof for his allegations.. how cute
15 March 2013, 14:27
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so what i understand from you is that you actually support a regime that is killing his own people.? and you defend him too?
15 March 2013, 15:42
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the regime isnt "killing" his own people as much as killing armed terrorists and mercenaries. we've seen the massacres that these fanatics are capable of, so i know assad isnt an angel and he was never in my heart, but let's not be blinded here: the nusra boys are bloodier than assad, and they are extremely intolerant fanatics who will impose their backward views at the tip of their blade, in syria but also in lebanon, and that worries me more than assad ever did.
let's face the facts here, it's evident that the people in lebanon who are supporting the rebels are betting on a new regime in syria to retake control over lebanon and give them the power. are we really willing to renounce our sovereignty only 8 years after we regained it?
15 March 2013, 15:54
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Mowaten those trucks were filled with fuel oil , do you know for what it is used this "fuel Oil" ? i bet no seeing your answer .
Second , FT : IF it was an M14 minister you would have jumped to the same "baseless" accusations as you portray them , but let me remind you of some things , all the reffineries in Lebanon are gvt owned , nothing goes in or out without the knowledge of the responsible minister, this makes us ask 2 questions, 1- this respective minister is responsible of that ? 2- If "No" why didnt he carry investigations about it knowing that he is with the baabda declaration and he agreed on ? both cases it gives him some sort of responsibility about what is happening !
15 March 2013, 16:08
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slash the oil can be used for anything, it's not our problem and it's not a reason for bringing the war to lebanon by blowing up truck
15 March 2013, 16:29
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Mowaten , thank you :) you said it so the oil can be used to produce Jet fuel too :) And you dont bring a war Mowaten to your country by blowing up a truck , you bring it when you meddle in the war happening in their country , whether it is from the part of the milk man or from the side of HA . We declarad "el na2i " the Baabda declaration , we should stick to it , and by selling them fuel we are not doing the same . Btw thanks Mowaten for the thumb down , i am not used to get it as an answer from you , meanwhile i dont think you can answer in a different maner !
15 March 2013, 17:14
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nope Mowaten , it wasnt ... they were just countering your silly posts , and you prove it , just thumb it down that's what you can do best , it is sad :(
16 March 2013, 00:10
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go to facebook and find me under wahabi forever..lets make friendship
15 March 2013, 11:34
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We have fuel crisis in Lebanon and Basil is sending fuel to his master Bachar...Basil and Aoun should be put on trial for treason...
15 March 2013, 12:59
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FT, Bassil and Hizb set up dummy private companies and you know it but refuse to acknowledge it...
15 March 2013, 12:10
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The Lebanese government needs to uphold the “Baabda Declaration” to avoid plunging Lebanon into the Syrian war abyss. Lebanon is inching into civil war due to the lack of actions by the government. We have Hizballah involved in direct fighting in Syria, fuel is being smuggled to the Assad's troops, and "Takfiris" gangs are mushrooming in support of their "borthers" in Syria.
15 March 2013, 19:40
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Bassil, as a Minister of the Lebanese government no less, is violating international sanctions against the shipment of fuel oil to the Assad Regime. Oil tankers cannot dock at any Syrian port, and so Bassil is trucking in diesel fuel using Lebanon as a conduit and it is clearly and openly a violation of US and EU sanctions which may cause Lebanon herself to come under the same sort of sanctions.
Bassil is no doubt taking a fee from someone for authorizing the fuel shipments. This is open participation in the Syrian Civil War by the FPM just as HA is openly participating by sending in fighters and weapons.
The tanker trucks ought to have been torched. Bravo to the brave Lebanese people!!
15 March 2013, 22:02
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FT - you are smarter than believing that the supply of fuel can happen without the conniving of this government or major portions of it.
16 March 2013, 00:09
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sooner or later we will have Syria and Lebanon...we will rule the world
16 March 2013, 10:00
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