Saudi Arabia is putting great pressure on the Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, a powerful but controversial figure who holds dual nationality - Saudi and Lebanese. Riyadh expects Lebanon to play by its own rules, sidelining Hezbollah, ending Iranian influence in the country, and promoting Saudi business and political interests... or else. It is clear that foreign aid from the Gulf is increasingly conditional.
Tension with Israel is also mounting. A military conflict could erupt at any moment, with devastating consequences. Between 1978 and 2006, Israel attacked its northern neighbor on five occasions. The last time Israel invaded Lebanon, during the so-called Lebanon War in 2006, at least 1,300 Lebanese people were killed and 1 million displaced.
The Israeli air force is lately, unceremoniously, violating Lebanese air space, flying over its territory on the way to Syria, where it is bombing selected targets, grossly violating various international laws.
Comment: The autopsy report is using a 24 hour format (see image above), so when it indicates that Paddock died at 1200 on October 2nd, it literally means at noon, more than 12 hours after the shooting. Let's suppose this is a mistake - which is entirely possible as the report is quoting the "toe tag", presumably written by a different person - and what they meant was that he died at 12 am on October 2nd (or at 0000 hours). That still means he would have died at least 40 minutes after the official timeline indicates. Did someone also make the mistake of rounding-up the time of death by 40 minutes?
Perhaps the problem for the person writing the autopsy was that since they did not know the Time of Death because no one would tell them, because the narrative had not yet been established, the doctors decided to put the time they were doing the autopsy. Perhaps, in this scenario, they then later forgot to update the Time and Date of Death.
So while this may not be particularly significant evidence, it does suggest further support the impression that the narrative was being 'massaged' as things progressed.
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