The news of the seizure of 20 tons of ammonium nitrate in Lebanon yesterday indicates that there were traces of members of the March 14 movement, especially Samir al-Geja, in the storage of explosives and possibly the explosion of the port of Beirut.
According to the international group of Pak Sahafat news agency, quoting the Rai Al-Youm website, More than a year after the horrific explosion of the port of Beirut on August 14, 2020, the question still arises as to who brought the ammonium nitrate explosives to Lebanon.
At the political level, the campaign launched by the United States and its allies in Lebanon blamed Hezbollah for the port bombing and storage of ammonium nitrate, claiming that the party had stockpiled the explosives in favor of its Syrian ally in Lebanon. But this has not been proven in any domestic or foreign investigation into the Beirut bombing.
Now, a year after the catastrophic explosion in the port of Beirut, this issue and the real identity of its main culprits are being raised again, especially after 20 tons of flammable materials and ammonium nitrate explosions were discovered in Baalbek yesterday.
Yesterday, Lebanese customs in the al-Bekaa area seized a truck carrying 20 tonnes of ammonium nitrate passing through a side road. After special tests on these explosives, the results showed that the ratio of nitrogen concentration in these materials is 34%; In other words, this combination is similar to the combination of explosives that caused the explosion of the port of Beirut last year.
This happened a few weeks ago, when Ibrahim Saqr, a close associate of Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea, a member of the March 14th faction, was suffering from a severe fuel crisis and lined up at gas stations.
This raised questions about the reasons for the hoarding of this volume of fuel and whether the measure was aimed at escalating crises and dragging Lebanon into chaos to achieve political goals in the service of domestic and foreign interests, and whether the organizers of these measures are ready.
But the connection between the two issues, namely fuel hoarding and the seizure of 20 tons of ammonium nitrate, the owner of which has not yet been determined, is related to the fact that various domestic and foreign parties in Lebanon tried to defeat Hezbollah in the Beirut port bombing case. But the current facts seem to be directing the accusations in the opposite direction.