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Hariri: le autorità libanesi sospettano di 12 australiani
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saigon Thursday, Feb. 24, 2005 at 5:38 PM |
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Qualcuno ne sa qualcosa ?
Lebanon’s Justice Minister Adnan Addoum said on Friday that authorities were hunting for twelve Australian men wanted over the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri.
Addum said that all the suspects hold the Australian passport and that six of them left Beirut for Australia hours after Monday’s deadly blast, adding that police found traces of explosives on aircraft seats.
Hariri was killed in a huge explosion in Beirut which also claimed the lives of additional 16 people.
The minister added that there are two more Australians who tried to leave Lebanon after the assassination but missed the flight for unknown reasons. Their location is not known.
Interpol agreed to interrogate the twelve suspects, Addoum said.
The minister didn’t provide further details and it was unclear what role the men played in the attack.
Reports earlier this week said that the Australian government was helping Lebanon investigate Hariri’s murder.
In other developments, Lebanon’s Tourism Minister Farid al-Khazan resigned, saying that his decision was in line with his convictions and his “obligation to the country”.
There have been mounting calls for the whole Lebanese cabinet to resign over Hariri’s assassination.
Also Friday, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appointed his brother-in-law, Major-General Asef Shawkat, as head of military intelligence to replace retiring Major-General Hassan Khalil.
Hariris family demands probe into his murder
Hariri’s family issued a statement on Thursday calling for launching an international investigation into his assassination.
"We call upon the international community to promptly take control of this issue and form an international investigation commission, since the assassination of Rafik Hariri is a terrorist act targeting Lebanon's stability and national unity, "Al Hariri’s family said in a statement released on Thursday.
"We will not spare any effort or means to find the perpetrators of this crime no matter what their affiliation is," the statement said.
Earlier, the Lebanese leadership rejected calls to let international experts launch the investigation, but the military judiciary now says that Swiss experts on explosives and DNA will participate in the investigation.
On Wednesday, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Burns called on Lebanon to ask for foreign help to facilitate the inquiry.
"We believe the investigation has to be serious and credible and those responsible have to be brought to justice swiftly and that international expertise can be brought to help ensure this kind of investigation," he said during his visit to Beirut to attend the funeral of Al Hariri.
Amid tight security Lebanon buried on Wednesday its former Prime Minister Rafiq Al Hariri, credited with restoring the country after the civil war.
The former Lebanese premier was buried at the towering Mohammed al-Amin mosque in central Beirut, the construction of which has been funded by him.
Al Hariri’s family and political supporters asked the Lebanese government officials not to attend the funeral.
And while the U.S. and Israel pointed finger of suspicion at Syria, Imad Moustapha, the Syrian ambassador to the United States, said the Syrian government wasn’t involved in Al Hariri’s assassination, and called the former Lebanese Premier a constructive moderate.
"Why would Syria even look with hostility to a person like Rafiq Al Hariri, who is actually helping to mediate between us and the Lebanese opposition?" said Moustapha.
www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=7076
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L'esplosione e i dubbi
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by
saigon Thursday, Feb. 24, 2005 at 5:52 PM |
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Where was the explosion planted?
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case the explosives were planted inside a car and detonated, the asphalt
wouldn't be thrown meters away. We will explain this picture by
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The center of the explosion under
the road
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The arrows show the direction of the explosion.
Since it
was planted underground, it created a V crater from the bottom to the
top.
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These cars are the nearest to the hole, but, unlike the cars
that are further away,
these cars remained in their places, even
though they are very close to the base of the
explosion.
If the explosion
happened above the ground (inside a car as they are saying)
then how
come if had the power to dig such a big hole but it couldn't push these
cars away?
| In the next two graphics, you can see the following
details:
Graphic number 1 – The explosion’s source is
underground, the pressure/force is vertical. The cars that are near
the source will not be damaged as much as the cars that are
further.
Graphic number 2 – The explosion is from
another car, thus the pressure/force is horizontal. It will take the
closest object to the explosion and throw it away (in this case, you
can see how the two cars remained in their places, while glass was
broken kilometers away! There is no chance any car can endure such a
huge explosion unless it avoided direct contact with the pressure as
in graphic number 1 |
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The pressure
coming from the underground explosion forces the manhole covers to fly.
if the explosion was above the ground, the cover wouldn't fly
off...
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The red arrows show pieces of
asphalt. They are more than 100 meters from the explosion.
The only
way they got there was by
flying.
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Heavy materials falling on the cars
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These cars
are parked outside the main explosion zone. There are no buildings
over them as you can see the big trees next to the cars. This is the
highway coming to the St. Georges Hotel from downtown. The damage
indicated by the red arrows is due to heavy materials falling on the
cars. It is almost 200 meters away from the place of the explosion.
The explosion threw heavy materials (like asphalt) 200 meters away
by going up to a high altitude then falling down in big pieces to
create these damages to the cars. Asphalt will not fly 200 meters
into the air if the explosion is above ground. Therefore, the only
way the pieces of asphalt flew 200 meters is by a pressure coming
from underground and in this case, from under the
road. |
The distance between the
explosion and the damaged cars
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NEW -
Exploded drainage
pipes - NEW
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Hotel
Monroe is one of the newest and finest hotels in Beirut, but four of its
pipes were exploded because of the explosion, the side of the building is
not faced to the explosion, so there was no direct contact with the
pressure of the explosion, those pipes were exploded because of a pressure
coming from the underground (Note that they exploded in the last
floor) |
A clear view of the four exploded pipes, you can also see the
broken glasses in the Phoenicia hotel on your right (just to be sure of
the date of the picture)
You can see hotel St. George
on your right (the place of the explosion) and you can see that the side
of the building (hotel Monroe) where the pipes were exploded is not faced
to the explosion
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Who can dig the
road and plant a bomb and close the place back in
Beirut? |
www.lfpm.org/asphalt.php
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