Pourquoi a-t-on saisi et stocké près de 3000 tonnes de nitrate d’ammonium dans le port de Beyrouth en 2013 ? Quelle était la destination de ce produit ?
C’est la petite musique qui va se faire beaucoup entendre dans les prochains jours : très certainement pour alimenter les gentils « rebelles » syriens.
Article de 2015 par exemple sur ce traffic : Fertilizer, Also Suited for Bombs, Flows to ISIS Territory From Turkey
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/world/europe/fertilizer-also-suited-for-bombs-flows-to-isis-territory-from-turkey.html
The laborers work all day, piling bags of fertilizer onto carts and wheeling them through the crossing that connects this southern border town to Syria.
The Syrian town next door is firmly controlled by the extremists of the Islamic State, as is clear from the black flag flying over downtown. And while the fertilizer, ammonium nitrate, is widely used for agriculture, it has also been used by terrorists around the world — including the Islamic State — to build powerful explosives.
Few here think the fertilizer is meant to help Syrian farmers.
“It is not for farming. It is for bombs,” said Mehmet Ayhan, an opposition politician from Akcakale who is running for Parliament.