The Beirut Bank Heist Mystery__

. . Beirut. 1976. A city fractured by civil war. <break time="0.5s" />

A backdrop of chaos. <break time="0.5s" /> . The target was the British Bank of the Middle East. It was thought to

be impenetrable. <break time="1.0s" /> . But the robbers were not going through the front door. They planned a route

through an adjacent Catholic church. <break time="0.8s" /> . Using high explosives, they blasted a hole into the vault.

This gave them silent access. <break time="1.0s" /> . They spent two days emptying hundreds of deposit boxes.

The scale of the theft was massive. <break time="0.5s" /> . The haul was valued at up to fifty million dollars.

Gold. Jewels. Cash. <break time="0.8s" /> . The entire fortune vanished.

The bank was completely stripped. <break time="1.0s" /> . Neither the money nor the culprits were ever officially