by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Oct 2, 2009 | Security
Rapper Snoop Dogg tried to make it out of Lebanon with a bullet, not in him, but around his neck: A necklace SNOOP DOGG wore with pride was confiscated at Beirut International Airport in the Lebanon earlier this week (beg28Sep09) after customs officials discovered the...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Sep 15, 2009 | Security
When it comes to military spending, Lebanon has opened its pockets and stuck its hand deep into it: Facing increased security threats, Lebanon’s defense and security spending is forecast to increase by 22 percent by the end of 2009, European analysts predict. If...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Sep 11, 2009 | Security
Actually, we were: More than 30 security-related sources of radioactive elements were taken from Lebanon by a team from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the watchdog said. An IAEA mission announced it had removed 36 Cobalt-60 sources with a combined radioactive...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jun 27, 2009 | Regional News, Security
That’s actually the tagline for the 2002 movie, The Ring.The Lebanese Army is working on a similar one along the lines of: pick up the phone that rings and you could rot in a Lebanese prison: The Lebanese army is warning people not to respond to recorded phone...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | May 20, 2009 | Security
Never heard of this group, but I just had to blog about it: Videos of an obscure armed group are circulating on the net. The “Islamic Arab Resistance” present themselves as the Shia rival to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Watching their training footage however, it...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Apr 24, 2009 | Regional News, Security
One of my favorite websites to read, absolutely great story telling I must add: DEBKAfile quotes senior Israeli military circles as staggered by the discovery that US president Barack Obama had approved a large Turkish arms sale to the Lebanese army, including the...