February 1, 2016 Letter from the Manifest Department
To: Head of the Service
In reference to the referral to General Directorate of Customs no. 2015/22138, dated January 1, 2016, and the letter of the Lebanese Army Command related to extracting a sample of the ammonium nitrate in Hangar 12 and carrying out laboratory testing to confirm its nitrogen grade, we would like to inform you that, on January 20, 2016, the chemical expert Mireille Antoine Moukarzel extracted a sample from the merchandise. According to the attached testing results issued by the Industrial Research Institute, the nitrogen grade is 34.7%.
Please take note of the above. We hereby reiterate our previous proposal, subject of our two referrals no. 8602/m/2014, dated October 24, 2014 and May 9, 2015, copy of each attached hereto with the complete file, to hand over the material immediately to the competent security authorities, the Lebanese Army Command, or re-export them due to the risk they pose and the disaster that might arise if they catch fire or explode.
Beirut, February 1, 2016
First Controller of the Manifest Department
Nehme Brax