How an investigation led to a gun battle in Lebanon
Most politicians do not want the probe of Beirut’s port explosion to find answers
IT WAS SUPPOSED to be a speech to celebrate a Muslim holiday, yet Hassan Nasrallah devoted a striking amount of it to a Christian politician, Samir Geagea. There was not much cause for celebration anyway. The leader of Hizbullah, a Shia political party-cum-militia, was speaking on October 18th, four days after an hours-long gun battle in Beirut that killed seven people. It was the worst street violence in Lebanon’s capital since 2008. Mr Nasrallah blames Mr Geagea.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Probing too deep”
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