Posted on 08/05/2020 8:33:52 PM PDT by texas booster
The Orient Queen cruise ship capsized overnight in Beirut, taking on water at her berth following a deadly blast in Lebanon on Tuesday evening.
The explosion also claimed the head office of the ship's operator, Abou Merhi Cruises, as well as the entire Abou Merhi Group.
Two crew are reported dead while seven are listed in critical condition.
However, this report includes the details that the offices of the cruise ship operator were also destroyed.
Have been unable to find confirmation of that.
Ping
What an eerie picture.
Prayers up.
Please note that this maritime group is under sanctions by the Dept of Treasury for being linked closely to Hezbollah.
MERHI, Merhi Ali Abou (a.k.a. ABOU MERHI, Merhi; a.k.a. MERHI, Merhi Abou); DOB 05 Jul 1964; POB Hilalie, Lebanon; citizen Lebanon; Passport RL0575682 (Lebanon) (individual) [SDNTK] (Linked To: ABOU MERHI GROUP; Linked To: ABOU-MERHI LINES SAL; Linked To: ABOU-MERHI CRUISES SAL; Linked To: QUEEN STATIONS; Linked To: ORIENT QUEEN HOMES; Linked To: ABOU MERHI COTONOU; Linked To: ABOU MERHI NIGERIA; Linked To: ABOU MERHI HAMBURG; Linked To: LEBANON CENTER; Linked To: ABOU MERHI CHARITY INSTITUTION).
MERHI, Merhi Abou (a.k.a. ABOU MERHI, Merhi; a.k.a. MERHI, Merhi Ali Abou); DOB 05 Jul 1964; POB Hilalie, Lebanon; citizen Lebanon; Passport RL0575682 (Lebanon) (individual) [SDNTK] (Linked To: ABOU MERHI GROUP; Linked To: ABOU-MERHI LINES SAL; Linked To: ABOU-MERHI CRUISES SAL; Linked To: QUEEN STATIONS; Linked To: ORIENT QUEEN HOMES; Linked To: ABOU MERHI COTONOU; Linked To: ABOU MERHI NIGERIA; Linked To: ABOU MERHI HAMBURG; Linked To: LEBANON CENTER; Linked To: ABOU MERHI CHARITY INSTITUTION).
ABOU MERHI, Merhi (a.k.a. MERHI, Merhi Abou; a.k.a. MERHI, Merhi Ali Abou); DOB 05 Jul 1964; POB Hilalie, Lebanon; citizen Lebanon; Passport RL0575682 (Lebanon) (individual) [SDNTK] (Linked To: ABOU MERHI GROUP; Linked To: ABOU-MERHI LINES SAL; Linked To: ABOU-MERHI CRUISES SAL; Linked To: QUEEN STATIONS; Linked To: ORIENT QUEEN HOMES; Linked To: ABOU MERHI COTONOU; Linked To: ABOU MERHI NIGERIA; Linked To: ABOU MERHI HAMBURG; Linked To: LEBANON CENTER; Linked To: ABOU MERHI CHARITY INSTITUTION).
That was about a 1 kt blast, and they were less than 500 m away from it.
Weird times in Casablanca...
Prayers for all in the wake
That particular part of the Middle East is having a HORRIBLE
week!! And it’s only Wednesday. What else could go wrong?
I don’t think they’re under attack, but are just having bad luck.
A huge explosion in Beirut has left at least 70 dead, injured 2,700 others and has also significantly damaged the Orient Queen, which was docked in the port of Beirut.
The ship was seen in images on Tuesday evening listing significantly at her berth.
Local officials blamed the blast highly explosive materials stored in a warehouse in the port.
Typically sailing for locally-owned Abou Merhi Cruises, the 370-guest, 1989-built ship operated seasonally homeporting in Beirut.
Port calls typically included Marmaris, Kusadasi, Mykonos, Athens, Nafplio, Paros, and Rhodes, before sailing back to Beirut.
The cruise ship was about 7500 tons and 400' long.
There’s a large picture on another thread showing the area of the explosion. There is a little building in the ‘shadow’ of the grain elevator that seems to have survived, but as to anyone who might have been inside...?
> this report includes the details that the offices of the cruise ship operator were also destroyed.
I find it remarkable that there *is* a cruise line operating out Beirut. U-Hauls, yes. One-way flights to almost anywhere else, sure...
Don’t slap me, but are these also Covid-related deaths?
Askin’ for Dr. Fauci .... /s
Egad!
you don’t want to be working when the new bomb makers are on the clock.
I’m going to engage in rank speculation, which is something that we are still allowed to do in this country.
1) It would appear that information which I’ve seen has indicated in the past that Iran had been planting sleeper cells in this country, and had been deeply involved in Venezuela, establishing training bases, and training indigenous groups within Venezuela.
2) We also know that prior to, and around the same time as COVID was starting in this country, news reports surfaced that the US Navy had been deployed off of the Mexican coast and the report was vague, but was in reference to the Mexican cartels.
3) Soleimani got whached in Iraq, and the Iranian response was somewhat muted, compated to what had been expected from whacking him.
4) I read with interest that the Iranian revoltionary guards had, largely, pulled out of Lebanon and Syria during the past month, and went back to Iran.
Could all these “mysterious” explosions occurring around the middle east (Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and the UAE Iranian market all have been related? I think there’s some smoke to all of this activity, following on the heels of our own intifada with Iran and by proxy, Hezbullah. I also think that these Iranian sleeper cells were activated during the George Floyd protests, and embedded themselves within the protestors. It certainly seemed like a coordinated series of events, especially as there have been numerous reports of various protestors at these violent protests chanting the Allahu Ackbar chants. Iran aided and abetted the riots, and has been waging an asymetrical warfare campaign against us.
Going even deeper into the tin foil hat abyss, we also know that Obama, through Kerry and as recently as last week, Feinstein have met with the Iranian ambassador, entirely out of protocol for a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is clear, beyond any doubt, that the Dems have been aiding and abetting these violent protests, which seek the overthrow of the sitting federal government.
Yeah, I doubt we’ll ever know too much about the details of why these mysterious explosions are occurring, particularly if the scenarios I have painted, end up being somewhat true. Sure seems, though, that the paramilitary group of some state security service has been sending some kind of strong message to Hezbullah and Iran.
Amazing how rapidly several hundred freight containers were moved out of the blast area. Impressive but to where?
Operating out of a Hezbollah controlled port, I am convinced that they also helped Iranian smugglers and other assorted bad guys with travel and logistics.
However, they are not above taking State Dept money as well. Thanks to Herakles, I found a Getty image with the following caption:
American evacuees disembark the Orient Queen cruise ship, Thursday, July 19, 2006, in Cyprus after an eight-hour journey from Lebanon. About 1,000 Americans were aboard the ship, the first large group of U.S. citizens to be evacuated from the war in Lebanon.
Packing 1,000 folks on-board a ship that holds about 300 passengers is what one does in a war zone. But all of them were eager to get out of Beirut that day.
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