{"id":6231,"date":"2020-08-29T19:01:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T23:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=6231"},"modified":"2020-08-29T19:01:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T23:01:22","slug":"a-hidden-tycoon-african-explosives-and-a-loan-from-a-notorious-bank-questionable-connections-surround-beirut-explosion-shipment-occrp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=6231","title":{"rendered":"A Hidden Tycoon, African Explosives, and a Loan from a Notorious Bank: Questionable Connections Surround Beirut Explosion Shipment &#8211; OCCRP"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Since the devastating explosion of a store of ammonium nitrate in Beirut\u2019s port on August 4, Lebanese citizens have taken to the streets in shock, outrage, and grief.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.occrp.org\/en\/investigations\/a-hidden-tycoon-african-explosives-and-a-loan-from-a-notorious-bank-questionable-connections-surround-beirut-explosion-shipment\">A Hidden Tycoon, African Explosives, and a Loan from a Notorious Bank: Questionable Connections Surround Beirut Explosion Shipment &#8211; OCCRP<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a July 20, 2020, report to the president and prime minister \u2014 just two weeks prior to the explosion \u2014 Lebanese security services warned that there were serious security flaws at the facility that left the ammonium nitrate open to theft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They. Were. Warned.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how much of this rat-fuckery could be avoided if ships had to be registered properly.\u00a0 But I imagine the use of multiple shell companies would still be a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the devastating explosion of a store of ammonium nitrate in Beirut\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-6231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}