Informer Who Reported Samaha Identified as Milad Kfouri
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
A man whose real name is Milad Kfouri and who has used several aliases was behind reporting former minister Michel Samaha to the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch, LBCI television reported on Sunday, as Finance Minister Mohammed Safadi’s office clarified the circumstances of hiring Kfouri in 2005.
“Milad Kfouri is the central figure in this case and he was the one who informed against Samaha using his relations with some security agents,” LBCI said.
The TV network added that Kfouri has worked in the security field since years and that he “is fond of collecting information.”
“He built ties with several politicians with the aim of protecting them,” LBCI added.
Samaha was arrested on Thursday and has reportedly confessed to plotting bombings in the North at the behest of Syria’s security chief Maj. Gen. Ali Mamlouk.
“One of the relations Kfouri had established was with Samaha, who contacted him a while ago with the aim of implementing his bombings plot,” said LBCI.
“Kfouri was astonished, so he visited the Intelligence Branch which asked him to maintain his meetings with Samaha and equipped him with video and audio recording devices,” LBCI added.
The channel said Zuheir Nahhas is among the numerous aliases Kfouri goes by.
Meanwhile, a statement issued by Safadi’s office on Sunday clarified that the minister had hired Kfouri “in 2005, in the wake of the assassination of martyr premier Rafik Hariri and his companions, and at a time when most politicians were facing security threats that prompted them to hire guards from security companies.”
“Kfouri introduced himself as the owner of a security services company and he was hired accordingly,” the office added.
“He visited the office in the third week of July (2012) to inform us that he had decided to suspend his activities in the field of providing security services for reasons he did not wish to disclose, and thus his job ended at that point,” the office clarified.
12 August 2012, 18:37
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this guy deserves a medal for all the lives he protected from being blown up.
12 August 2012, 19:31
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Isn't it weird that someone like safadi needs to hire private security guards? usually polititicians have guards appointed to them by the state? Or is it before he became politician?
12 August 2012, 19:52
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This is a huge blow for M8, Nassy, SSNP, and the orange boys. They are exposed and screwedote for these killers.
13 August 2012, 09:21
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so when his wife said that his arrest was political and that he was representing a certain group and that she expected her group to react(http://nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=426664) who was she referring to?
please stop getting blinded by brainwash now that one from your team has been caught hand in the bag.
im not the one to take sides. as i dont forgive any horrific act done by any political group let it be m14 or m8 in the past and present and i wish for complete political renewal in lebanon which is why i have voted blank in the past and will again until i can see someone id feel would represent me.
12 August 2012, 20:03
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Say all you want, facts are facts and those can hardly be taken out of context if one has a 90-minute video tape featuring a former statesman personally moving heavy explosives and literally confessing.
Samaha himself confessed to plotting to kill innocent lives and whatever "scenario" the M8 or M14 forces chose to justify this case, this time, the facts cannot be changed.
The only thing that remains to be seen is (sadly)how people will chose to perceive this matter.
12 August 2012, 20:11
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whatever are the proofs nobody could approach samaha if bashar was still governing in lebanon...it is the end of bashar in lebanon and now they "are" working to cut syria from the farsis.
N.B. the next semaha is called GEBRAN BASSIL..wait for michel aoun who is already preparing his escape to rio very soon.
12 August 2012, 21:15
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Siniora, acolytes & the future (movement that is stuck in the past) is saying: now show us that you are patriots (how quickly the focal point has shifted from Samaha, the scapegoat, to the real deal: Assad) and severe ties with Syria. Aha, if you dont do it, then you are not real, true Lebanese, you are not patriots, you dont deserve to be in power so resign.
It all looks too suspicious to me as yet.
12 August 2012, 21:52
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freemind, you are very illogical and closed minded...You and M8 still stuck in the past and miss the days of the Syrian occupation...your days are numbered...
12 August 2012, 22:50
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well i should say that the person implying that i should be 'illogical' and 'closed minded' is actually talking about himself.
nothing in what i wrote implies that i am M8 or M28, or any odd number as a matter of fact. this dichotomy in lebanese politics is unbearable and totally un-constructive.
why cant one be free from 8 or 14 and express his/her honest opinion without being tagged a number?
An inquisitive mind is far better than a gullible one.
If you want your country to go forward, i suggest you make a political tabula rasa and start afresh.
13 August 2012, 08:56
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To Flame Thrower
All the points you listed are very true but i disagree with your interpretation. If we have actually a weak country, with 50 milliards debts, no electricity, no decent infrastructure, no security, prohibited areas, law violations, etc... does it mean M14 or M8 are responsible? From 1992 till 2005 both were absent and none of all issues above were resolved. Why? because of Syrian occupation. They were ruling and none of any evolution regarding public sector was allowed! it happened that the prime minister is Sunni an called Hariri; but whoever he were do you think he could be a decision maker?? And do you think that Berri, Jumblat etc... were saints watching Hariri stealing? during this period ALL were involved in destroying economy. You are naive to think otherwise.
13 August 2012, 09:26
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@FlameThrower
and the proof is that i totally agree with what u r saying here :)
12 August 2012, 21:49
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Why not HA is involved in this? Why would Samaha allow himself to be involved in assassinations? If I was in his place, I would have kept the money, and exposed the syrian government. He must be the lowest and the dumbest person on earth, conducting bombing and assassination plots against his fellow colleagues and citizens. They should hang him as soon as possible, when convicted.
12 August 2012, 22:19
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jcamerican,
Because stealing a fish from a shark will bite you in the ass later. What would he have accomplished by getting the shark in trouble where he can leash off of that shark for the rest of his natural life?
13 August 2012, 08:29
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Syrian agents are numerous and each operates for a specific task and in specific region. All what we say is that we need justice to fully investigate this case and that of minister Hareb. We should not stick to the same demagogic themes based on rejecting justice for lack of confidence or for links with Israel.
13 August 2012, 12:41
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FT M14 never had the government to themselves to do anything, M8 always blocked them from doing anything ,remember when they camped downtown and only went home when they were given the third of ministers ...and the electricity ministry has always been with the M8 minister and nothing was ever done ..they closed parliament,invaded Beirut and shouf and yet u still call them civilized.they just want power at any cost ... very sad educated people can not see that ..or maybe can be easily bought for few dollars ....very sad for lebanon.
18 August 2012, 22:13
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