Hizbullah MP Urges Authorities to 'Give Answers' on Bekaa Nitrates
MP Hassan Fadlallah of Hizbullah’s Loyalty to Resistance bloc on Sunday called on Lebanese authorities to “giver answers” about the source and owners of the ammonium nitrate quantity that was seized in the Bekaa.
“The continued concealment of the source of the Bekaa nitrates and the way they entered Lebanon and were being illegally stored raises major question marks over the motives and sides that are trying to cover up this essential case,” Fadlallah said in a statement.
He added that certain parties are trying to keep the case under wraps because “unveiling its threads would lead to knowing a lot of things about the manner in which the nitrates were brought into Lebanon and the sides who did that, including the nitrates of the (Beirut) port (explosion).”
Fadlallah said the security and judicial authorities are asked to “offer convincing answers to the public opinion about the essential and legitimate questions in this case.”
“These questions include: who are the sides that brought these nitrates, where from, how did they bring them in, who facilitated the issue for them, for what purpose, have all the suspects been questioned, and if all of this is related to the port nitrates,” the MP added.
He went on to say that “what increases these suspicions and raises concern” is “the similarity between the attempts to conceal the facts in this case and the attempts that the investigations into the port blast disaster have witnessed.”
“The adopted policy is still to hide the essential points, such as the real sides who brought in the nitrates, to the benefit of whom inside or outside Lebanon, the reasons behind keeping them for a long period, the judiciary’s role in impounding them, and the nondisclosure of technical investigations and instead focusing on the administrative flaws,” Fadlallah added.
He also said that “revealing everything related to the Bekaa nitrates is a national necessity in order to protect the Lebanese from the threats of bringing in and storing this material, and so that they don’t witness a repetition of their experience with the port disaster probe, which on the one hand kept them away from the truth, and on the other hand did not represent a deterrence in the face of those bringing in and storing dangerous nitrates in a manner that threatens citizens’ safety.”
Source: Naharnet
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