Monday, May 28, 2007

Samir Geagea', Kleiaat North Lebanon, and the NATO airstrip

The story of a planned NATO airstrip (or US, depending who you read and ask) in the northern part of Lebanon controlled by Samir Geagea's goons, has gained "momentum" in the last few days, what with the air lift of military supplies to the LAF and of course, the "sudden" appearance of Al Qaeda in this specific part of Lebanon.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Interesting

"" A big airbase should be connected by decent roads to a harbor. Most of the stuff that is needed to build and to run it should come from the States by ships and trucks - not by air.

In the 1990s the Rene Mouawad Air Base was partly in civilian use with the international aviation code OLKA as a local airport for Tripoli. That city is some 15 miles south of the air base.

Tripoli is also the nearest harbor to the air base and the only larger one in north Lebanon. It even has potential to be expanded.

Now check the Wikipedia map of the Nahr al-Bareb refugee camp and take a look at the Google satellite picture of that camp. The camp is situated at the Lebanese meditarian coast some 10 miles north of Tripoli. The coastal road connecting Tripoli and the Rene Mouawad Air Base runs right through the middle of the camp.

If you move the sat picture of the camp further up north along the mediterian coast you can see the landing strip of the Rene Mouawad Air Base.

Could a U.S. airbase be supplied when its logistical life line runs right through a Palestinian refugee camp of some 45,000 mostly young and very poor people? ""

Link: http://www.moonofalabama.org/2007/05/nahr_albared_an.html