The funding argument beggars belief. A manager tells me that the workforce was a mixture of Christian, Sunni, Shiite and Marinite. One of the factory owners is a Christian called Nabil de Freige, a deputy in the pro-USA Saad el Hariri in the Lebanese Parliament. The other owner is Mohammed Zaidan a Sunni from Sidon.

With regard to storage, the only part of the factory that is still standing is the stock area where the products now rot on the shelves. It is clear that the missiles were targeted into the factory’s core taking out the European-made production lines and processing facilities. The machinery was state of the art and the secret of the plant’s success. French engineers visited every month to monitor the equipment and it’s progress, another nail in the coffin of the weapons storage theory.

For the past few years, the success of the factory had ensured that it consistently won a tender to supply diary to the UN worth $15,000 dollars a week. This was set to increase massively with the announcement of 15,000 new UN troops into South Lebanon. Israeli rivals had regularly tried and failed to win the lucrative contract. Now the factory is gone the UN will have to go elsewhere for their milk. The only producers in the area capable of such an order happen to be in Israel. Proof if it’s needed that arms manufacturers are not the only people to profit from war.

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