Posted on 12/10/2021 11:47:16 PM PST by JerusalemOne
NEWSRAEL: Former Finance Minister, Khalil is considered the right-hand man of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri who heads the Shiite Amal Movement. Berri has already trashed this decision. Judge Tarek Bitar was forced to stop the investigation for two months as he himself was sued, but lately, the suits were proven to be a smoke screen and dismissed.
The order to arrest the minister was given in the first meeting of the investigation. It proves that Judge Bitar is willing to go "all the way" and is not afraid of his distractors. If we look at the history of modern Lebanon, this could very well cost him his life.
BEIRUT, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The judge investigating the deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion asked security forces on Friday to implement an arrest warrant he issued two months ago for a powerful former minister charged over the blast.
Judge Tarek Bitar asked security forces, via the public prosecutors office, to implement the warrant against former finance minister Ali Hasan Khalil, who is considered the right hand man of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri who heads the Shiite Amal Movement, else security forces themselves be prosecuted for defying judicial orders, a senior judicial source told Reuters.
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Thanks for the heads-up.
Your blog is important to those of us at FR.
“the right-hand man of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri”
Damn, still around. I remember Johnny Carson doing jokes about his name and how it describes a bad shave.
Yep - he has been around for a long time. Guess he is good at not stepping on any one’s toes...
“Yep - he has been around for a long time. Guess he is good at not stepping on any one’s toes.”
Agree, that’s one skilled politician.
Is this connected to the ammonium nitrate fertilizer stockpiled in the port for years? Were any arrests made at all. Their entire culture is incompetent with modern society.
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As I say that I think of the entire Russia, Russia, Russia scam that went on for 3 years here with an subversive coup and intentional misconduct of our law makers the entire summer of love while blue cities were rioted, looted and burned that turned into the debacle on Jan6.
I’ll crawl back in my hole now.
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