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Fighting Terrorism in Lebanon: Is it incompetence or one huge conspiracy ??

Posted by N10452

I spotted this banner on the road today, and another one showing how the army & the ISF are working together to defeat terrorism, but i started asking myself how efficient is the job being done ..

Lebanon unfortunatelly is an open space for many intelligences, and it is very hard to have a non-infiltrated intelligence, but i find it hard to believe we cannot come up with a group of professionals loyal to their institution and doing their job properly. If it is that hard, we can always get paid foreign professionals to do the job.

Since i believe in pragmatic & practical solutions, and just to show that am not talking for the sake of it, i will expose two examples of assassinations that occured and the incompetence our security forces have shown :

1- Antoine Ghanem & Gebran Tueni’s assassinations :

Both Anti-Syrian MPs were killed by a car bomb, and both were outside Lebanon and got back and Airport intelligence ( pro-syrian loyal to Lahoud), informed the ‘assassins’ about their arrival. How hard is it to put people in charge of monitoring those checking in & out passengers, those providing the lists of passengers arriving and leaving ?? it cant be that hard.

Ghanem came with a fake passport, someone visually saw him and reported it, it cant just be lists ..

Monitor everyone providing lists, restrict the lists to specific people, monitor the mails sent, monitor the janitors, monitor anyone suspicious or taking documents with him home … it cant be that hard.

2- Assassination of Pierre Gemayel :

Pierre was the only MP assassinated without a car bombing, he was shot in the middle of the day by armed men who managed to escape quickly and hide. He was being very closely monitored and was killed very easily ( unfortunatelly).

Now everyone knew Pierre was targetted, he was an Anti-Syrian MP, and potential next president and a young man with a bright future in politics. How hard is it to put a group of 5 to 10 people monitoring his every move ?? people who could have anticipated the assassination and acted in time ??

Those will monitor those monitoring him, it sounds easy and it is, and again if you cant trust local people, get foreign professionals, there are tons of security companies who would gladly assist us.

We have the “che3bit el ma3loumet” which are supposebly trusted people loyal to M14, but i dont see efficiency at all, i see a lack of personel and lack of competence and professionalism .. i understand the security institutions are still infiltrated with Pro-Syrians, but we can do better than that … we have a list of targets, the easiest thing is to monitor them the same way criminals do, that way we will end up monitoring the criminals

Filed under: Editorials, Lebanon, Political
Posted by N10452 on 10.27.07 @ 4:00 pm |

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10 Comments. Add your own...

1. Rodge | October 27th, 2007 at 4:14 pm

We become like in Iraq. loool
I don’t think these banners and the TV ads will achieve the target.
These are only one side, and i don’t think a terrorist or someone who believes in what he’s doing will change his mind and throw his weapon.
Fighting terrorism has many ways to be done, the most prominent is to look at its origins and try to change the policy that led to terrorism, and on the short term, fighting terrorism should be done by eliminating all its sources and resources and being very tough with that.
Terrorism should be dealt firmly.
2. Bachir 7ay Fina | October 27th, 2007 at 5:04 pm

Yes N chi tabi3e eno el ISF ma yel2ato 7adan li announ 7doud el ISF hiyye el manatik el masi7iye bass.
abel ma yet3antaro 3al terrorist el ISF, yesrtajo yed3aso bi Britel ma7al ma kelna mna3rif enno 99% men el siyarat el masrouka hawnik.
iza 3a 7aramiyit el siyarat ma fiyoun badak ykoun fiyoun lal 2erhebiye
3. N10452 | October 27th, 2007 at 5:31 pm

Bashir 7ay fina,
Most assassinations are happening in Christian regions
most bombs are placed in Christian regions …
4. paul | October 27th, 2007 at 7:38 pm

الارهاب…مكانه ليس بيننا
taba3an mish beinkoun…beinna ni7na!!!wmich tali3 bi2idkoun chi ya ISF.
5. mikel | October 27th, 2007 at 8:56 pm

I think most of the ISF and all security agencies aren’t doing a proper job.

Pierre Gemayel, an MP and minister, was supposed to have a military escort, but he told them to go take a break or something, and he returned home alone…

As for antoine ghanem,
I think someone was taping his phone:

I was watching the news, and Ghanem’s friend, the lawyer, said that he called Ghanem when he was coming from the airport.
Ghanem told him that he will visit him in a couple of minutes, in the time that he was there, someone rigged his car…
6. len | October 28th, 2007 at 4:40 am

It seems like GET OVER IT or DJUAN was right . This is realy mysterious guys !! Get over it predicted this situation …

Where did he vanish??? Anyone ? Ma ykouno 3njad tayarou mitel ma ken y2oulll???
7. LF Forever | October 28th, 2007 at 12:49 pm

The Lebanese army, they should fight against terror by fighting HA. Than Lebanon if free from terrorists…but if in the army website they consider hezbollah a resistence group! so you cna imagine the army we have. with respect for the martyrs of Nahr El Bared.
8. fad14 | October 28th, 2007 at 2:53 pm

Everyone knows Hizbulla areas are the most restricted to the local security forces and their communication lines are not monitored and they have the biggest intelligence force on the ground after (supposedly) the national intelligence agencies.

Most of the cars used in the explosion have been stolen and have been hidden for many years and we all know that dahyeh and hirmel are the areas where those cars are taken and where no police or army ever goes.

Recent discovery of a system to monitor calls from and to embassies was not highlighted enough in the news as Hizbulla claimed it was for spying on fascilities near their bases.

We all know Hizbulla has a big hand in almost all assasinations or at least know about them in advance and are covering for the killers so I don’t understand why we never admit that.

Their whole organization started as a terrorist group and their current activity still includes assasinations, hostage taking and working as a terrorist group.

Call them resistance or whatever you want, they are the most powerfull terrorist group in the world as they are able to hide politcally under the umbrella of a country and its government in the name of resistance against an enemy that doesn’t even occupy our land or even threatens our land, In fact we are the biggest threat to Israel because of what garbage we harbor in our land.
9. Tarek | October 28th, 2007 at 5:35 pm

ISF is all infiltrated by HZ and pro-syrians. Actually the whole country is. Just like walid bek said, we have two states in Lebanon, the legitimate state which is handicapped and infiltrated by HZ, and HZ state which is much powerful than the real state. There is no way a state can emerge in Lebanon neither there is a way to disarm HZ! I mean what we can do, shoot them to death!? Unless something change globally, we will still be under the mercy of HZ and his guys.

2nd, fad14, HZ is not the biggest threat to israel. They are good guys to israel believe it or not, they have a mutual agreement. Israel needs HZ just as USA need qa3ida, and HZ needs israel to cover its presence also.
10. reader | October 31st, 2007 at 2:00 pm

N10452,
Votre analyse est logique.

Cependant a ‘laeroprt on trouve les services secrets du monde entier entre autre US, UK, Francais, etc…
Eux aussi connaissent Antoine Ghanem, aux aussi peuvent donner son signalement, eux aussi ont interet a tue des gens du 14 mars pour accuser le syrie et pour enmener le liban vers le chaos, jute pour le bien d’Israel ?

Concernant l’assassinat de Pierre, je pense que le mossad a aussi de agents au Liban qui auraient pu suivre Pierre.

Antoine, Jobran, et Pierre ont tous ete assassine dans la partie ouest de Beyrouth ou historiquement le mossad a beaucoup d’agents.

Donc reconnaissons qu’il y a un incertitude et donce laisson la commisiion et le tribunal faire son travail