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#Lebanon’s #Gas monopoly
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Five companies dominate the gas market in Lebanon (Photo: Marwan Tahtah) Five companies dominate the gas market in Lebanon (Photo: Marwan Tahtah)

Security concerns now largely determine the behavior of Lebanese citizens and the authorities. However, thanks to the latter’s sectarian and factional composition perhaps, Lebanon has a corrupt #Economy with monopolies in many sectors, weakening the immunity of institutions to risk, be it economic or security in nature.

Mouhamad Wehbe

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#Articles #Beirut #Bir_Hassan #Dahiyeh #economy #Nouhad_Machnouk #Walid_Jumblatt

#Lebanon: Terrorist group planned to kill speaker of parliament
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Speaker of Parliament #Nabih_Berri. (Photo: Bilal Jawiche) Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri. (Photo: Bilal Jawiche)

The threat of terrorist networks in #Lebanon is being uncovered almost daily. Mahmoud #Abu_Alfeh’s arrest by the Information Branch on the morning of the #Bir_Hassan twin blasts has uncovered more plots to carry out car bombings and suicide attacks in Lebanon, much like Naim Abbas’s confession to the army intelligence earlier this month. read more

#Abdullah_Azzam_Brigades #Articles

#Bir_Hassan blasts’ death toll rises to ten as army identifies one suicide bomber
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Relatives of 22-year old Harb Harb who was killed during one of the suicide car bombs targeting an Iranian cultural center in #Beirut the previous day mourn during his funeral procession in the town of Bablieh, south the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, on February 20, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Mahmoud Zayyat)

The toll from Wednesday’s double suicide car bombing in Beirut’s southern suburbs has risen to 10, a health ministry source said. “The death toll in the blasts has risen to 10 after the remains of an additional four people found at the site of the explosion were identified through DNA testing,” the source told AFP Thursday. The death toll cited by the Health Ministry did not include the two suicide bombers. On Wednesday, the health ministry had put the death (...)

#Lebanon #Top_News

Death haunts #Beirut's southern suburbs
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A twin suicide attack claimed the lives of six people on Wednesday, in the busy neighbourhood of #Bir_Hassan, in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Al-Qaeda affiliated group Abdallah Azzam Brigades claimed responsibility for the attacks. This is the sixth suicide attack to have taken place in #Lebanon since the start of 2014. Al-Akhbar’s Marwan Tahtah, Marwan Bou Haydar, and Haytham Moussawi were at the scene of today’s attacks.

(Photo: Haitham Moussawi) (Photo: Haitham Moussawi) (Photo: Marwan Bou Haydar) (Photo: Marwan Bou Haydar) (Photo: Marwan Bou Haydar) (...)

#Kuwaiti_embassy #Suicide_bomber