...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
-based grains trading company denied Friday that barley and flour aboard a ship docked in the Port of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
in Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...had been stolen from Ukraine, saying the source of the flour is Russia.
An official at Loyal Agro Co LTD said that the firm had sought to sell 5,000 tons of the flour on the ship to private buyers in Lebanon and not to the Lebanese government.
The Ukrainian Embassy in Lebanon on Thursday told Rooters that a U.S.-sanctioned Syrian ship had docked in Tripoli "carrying 5,000 tons of barley and 5,000 tons of flour that we suspect was taken from Ukrainian stores."
The company official said that the cargo, some 8,000 tons of flour and 1,700 tons of barley in total, had initially been destined for Syria but the company decided to offload 5,000 tons of flour in Lebanon amid bread shortages tied to a three-year economic crisis. The official added that the flour could be sold for between $620 to $650 per ton in Lebanon, whereas a ton would fetch $600 in Syria.
Russian Embassy denies any knowledge of grain ship docked in Lebanon https://t.co/UvvkCEN2RU
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