Military exercise comes amid soaring commodity prices, fears of social breakdown
Updated 01 June 2021
June 01, 2021 01:16
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s army carried out large-scale military exercises on Monday to test its readiness to deal with a nationwide crisis.
The “Lebanon Wide” exercise included units from the army, the Internal Security Forces, General Security, State Security, the General Directorate of Customs, the General Directorate of Civil Defense, the Lebanese Red Cross, UNRWA, UNHCR, along with French experts and officers.
The exercise assessed the capability of units to coordinate missions with security forces, and local and international NGOs during a national crisis.
It comes as Lebanon confronts an economic collapse, with the absence of a rescue government, and mounting anger among Lebanese forced to endure long queues outside gas stations, pharmacies and supermarkets.
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This is a rush transcript from Special Report with Bret Baier, May 21, 2021. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
I m Shannon Bream in tonight for Bret Baier. Breaking tonight, you ve just seen President Biden s news conference with his South Korean counterpart from the White House. FOX News White House correspondent Peter Doocy was among the journalist at the event. You heard his question there. We re going to hear from him in just a bit.
But first let s go to our panel, Harold Ford Jr., former Tennessee Congressman, CEO of Empowerment and Inclusion Capital, Morgan Ortagus, former State Department spokesperson, and Steve Hayes, editor of The Dispatch. Panel, welcome. A lot to meat to dive into. Morgan, I ll start with you because of your involvement with the last and State Department, the last administration. What did you make of the conversation about denuclearizing