Lebanon

Lebanon

1940s 50s – Lucky Luciano heroin with Lebanese exporter of Morphine Sami El Khoury in Beirut. Raw opium from Turkey into Lebanon, exported to labs in Sicily and Marseilles France. From Europe heroin was shipped to New York or smuggled through Canada and Cuba. Lebanese heroin syndicate, Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano and Trafficante, heroin trafficking. (Mafia pdf).

1943 – National pact, as the French withdrew, after 23 years of colonial rule, they left behind a political system dominated by he Maronite Christians.

1 Jan 1944 – Lebanese independence. (The secret history of the American empire. John Perkins ©2007 US).

1948 – Tens of thousands of Palestinians fleeing Haifa and villages in Galilee in 1948 made their way across the border into southern Lebanon.

1952 – By 1952 Palestinians in southern Lebanon numbered at least 100,000 mainly Muslims, they were refused integration into the Lebanese political or economic system.

1958 – US intervention in Lebanon began in 1958 when President Eisenhower sent a military force to Forestall Nasser, backed by the Soviet Union, to overthrow the government of Lebanese president Camille Chamoun. 17,000 US troops and marines, and after a few months the troops we withdrawn.

1958 – The crisis in 1958 when American marines landed in Lebanon, brought a new load of weapons which many Lebanese later acquired. American M16s which they kept ready at home. (Arms bazaar ©1977 A Sampson).

1962 – Imad Fayez Mugniyah, Hezbollah Iranian military guards. Born in 1962 in Lebanon aka ibjj.

7 Dec 1962 – Imad Fayiz Mughnyeh head of intel and ops for Hezbollah, born in Tayr Dibba Lebanon, some say 12 July 1962.

Jan 1963 –KGB spy Kim Philby was told  he was to be interrogated in Beirut. (Too secret too long. P479 C Pincher ©1984 US)

23 Jan 1963 – Kim Philby in Lebanon, an M16 SIS officer who had left the British in 1951 government under suspicion of working for the KGB. He had been living in Lebanon as a foreign correspondent, he defected to Russia on 23 Jan 1963.

1967 – War brought a new influx of Palestinian refugees. A guerrilla campaign was launched against Israel from Lebanon and Jordan. (Compassionate peace. ©1982 AFSC).

1968-75 – Closer connections with Fatah PLO and other Palestinian groups was reinforced, including training of Latin American guerrillas in Lebanon. Cuba’s military support involved courts, intel and training.

1970 – Jordan expelled the PLO. They settled in southern Lebanon and began to operate out of those areas, using terror tactics to gather worldwide support for their cause. Several thousand PLO fighters settled in Lebanon and began forays against Israel. (Americas wars ©2003 P Huchthausen).

9 Jan 1970 – A TWA airliner was hijacked to Paris France, one hijacker was freed.

28-29 March 1970 – The PFLP fired 7 rockets at the US embassy, the JFK library and 2 businesses in Beirut.

1971 – Jordan’s King Hussein during 1970 and 1971 halted guerrilla actions from Jordan and he drove Palestinian guerrillas out of Jordan. Most went to Lebanon. The weak Lebanese government and army could not suppress the Palestinians who had strong Arab backing (Compassionate peace. ©1982 AFSC).

4 Oct 1971 – Attempted hijacking of a Jordanian plane was foiled. Two Palestinians were arrested.

1972 – Ties between the PLO and Iran included a secret 1972 agreement between Arafat and Khomeini that provided for training of Iranian fighters al Fatah terrorist camps in Lebanon.

29 Oct 1972 – A Lufthansa airliner on a flight from Beirut to Ankara was hijacked to Zagreb. It was released after 3 of the 15 Sept 1972 Munich Olympic terrorists were freed by Germany. The terrorists held a news conference. Israel vowed to get them.

Early 1973 – Smuggling suitcases from Beirut to Geneva through Middle East airlines. Hashish from Beirut, a boatload of hashish on a Lebanese beach, to send to Italy. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

10 April 1973 – Operation Spring Of Youth, the unit was lead by Ehud Barak, it landed with inflatable boats in Beirut killing Kamal Nasser, Mahmoud Yussuf Najjer and Kemal Adwan in their Beirut apartments.

27 April 1973 – 3 people were arrested in Beirut for carrying explosives bound for Nice France.

17 Dec 1973 – The Lebanese government refused to let the hijacked Lufthansa airliner from Italy land, so it landed in Athens Greece.

Mid 1970s – By the mid 1970s the Palestinian population in Lebanon was about 200,000 or 8% of Lebanon’s population. A state within a state. (Compassionate peace ©1982 AFSC).

1975 – By early 1975 civil war erupted between Christians and Muslims. (Americas wars ©2003 P Huchthausen).

Feb 1975 – Just before the war had broken out, Beirut was at the height of its prosperity, enriched  with oil money from Arab neighbours .The skyscraper hotels were busy with tourists and business. Beirut airport was congested with planes from round the world. (Arms bazaar ©1977 A Sampson).

29 June 1975 – The US attaché was kidnapped, then released, when an anonymous donor met demands for food for a Beirut neighbourhood.

Sept 1975 – Six months after the beginning of the war, in Sept 1975, a boat was seen at Aquamarina with a Turkish speaking crew. Unloading crates of Kalashnikov rifles. The rifles came from Bulgarian state trading agency Texim. The Bulgarians knew their Soviet arms were supporting the Palestinians. (Arms bazaar ©1977 A Sampson).

4 Oct 1975 – Beirut airport machine gun attack. Three people were killed and 14 wounded.

1976 – Syrian involvement in the Lebanese civil war was in battle with the PLO and Lebanese Muslim leftist alliance. (Compassionate peace. ©1982 AFSC).

18 April 1983 – A US site in Beirut was bombed, killing 63 people including 17 Americans. Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack. (Peter Lance Triplecross).

28 May 1985 – David Jacobsen. Dir Hosp kidnapped Hezbollah.

June 1985 – Hezbollah hijacked TWA flight 847. They murdered US navy diver Robert Stethem.

6 Nov 1986 – Janes Clarity. Hard up Lebanon put the squeeze on smugglers. New York Times.

2001 – 30,000 Syrian troops continued to occupy Lebanon and the newly formed revolutionary Hezbollah controlled southern Lebanon.

11 Sept 2001 – CNN facts hijackers 8 Sept 2014. United Airlines flight 93 from Newark New Jersey to San Fransisco. Crashed in a field in Shaksville Pennsylvania, pilot hijacker Ziad Jarrah pilot from Lebanon.

2010 – In UAE Dubai was an Afghani named Mohammed Durrani. He was the grandson of the brother of the former king of Afghanistan. Educated in Delhi India. He worked for the Hong Kong police for 11 years. He supplied Pakistani hashish to Europe. Sam Hiraoui was his Lebanese partner. Hashish into Europe in the personal effects of Pakistani diplomats, embassies and consular offices in Europe. Diplomatic immunity. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

2012 – The Lebanese connection. Corruption, civil war and the int drug trafficking. Jonathan Marshall. Stratfor and California press (Worldcat database).

8 Jan 2015 – UN, winter snow and Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Haaretz. Three Syrians died crossing into Lebanon as snow piled up, worst yet to come.

18 Jan 2015 – The Syrian refugees in Lebanon. BBC UK. A million refugees from Syria are living in Lebanon in camps and freezing to death in the Bekaa valley. Ya Libnan.

22 Jan 2015 – US issues travel ban on Israel Lebanon border. Jerusalem Post.