This is Popular Front, a podcast focused on the niche details of Modern Warfare and underreported

conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking to researcher and writer Joey Aube.

He's going to be talking to us about the recent situation on October 14th where a full-on gun battle broke out for several

hours in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. Joey's going to explain how this happened, what led up to it,

and it'll also be explaining how the two main militias involved, Hezbollah and Amal

kind of have a grip on the country right now.

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slash Popular Front. So obviously there was this horrible situation last week in Lebanon Bay Route specifically with all you know

there was a gun battles several people were killed but that started off because there was this protest right about this judge involved with the poor explosion last year

Before we get into the kind of chaos and the gun battles and how that started maybe we can just start at that and start about like why was this protest actually, you know, why was it happening?

All right, well, the quick answer is because Hezbollah called for it.

And they called for it the day before.

Threats were being made and in the previous days and weeks before that happened.

But you know Hassan Nasrhala was pretty direct about this he wants the judge

Taur Abbittor and Hassan Nasr al-Nazala being obviously the leader of Hezbollah

he has been pretty direct about this he wants the judge Tori Bitar removed. Now this judge is actually the second judge tasked with

investigating the August 2020 port explosion you, the explosion in the port of Beirut.

The judge before him was forced to resign and we found out not soon, you know,

soon after that he was also being threatened and he received

number of death threats that sort of thing.

Toribitar as of now has not resigned he seems to actually be pretty brave

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