Security Official: No Telecom Data Released after Cabinet's Latest Decision
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
A security official lamented on Sunday that security forces haven't yet received the so-called telecom data despite the cabinet's decision to allow Premier Najib Miqati to approve or reject requests for the data.
In remarks to An Nahar newspaper, the source said the procrastination in handing the data to the Internal Security Forces was hindering the work of the police and the army in several cases, including the recent abduction of a schoolboy.
Mohammed Nidal Awada, the 12-year-old son of a wealthy businessman, was the latest victim of the kidnapping-for-ransom phenomenon that has lately plagued Lebanon.
Awada was seized by armed men from outside his apartment building in Ramlet al-Baida area of Beirut last Wednesday while waiting for his school bus. The kidnappers later asked for ransom.
The official told An Nahar that security agencies were being handed small amounts of data only linked to the tracking of a few cellphones and most of the time they are coming late and complicating their efforts in finding suspects.
On Wednesday, the cabinet backed Miqati’s demand that he be allowed to approve or reject requests for data by the ISF, thus ending a long-running dispute with Telecommunications Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui, who had refused to approve a proposal to extend a request that was granted last year to allow security forces access to technical data for the entire country.
24 February 2013, 10:46
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Either they are incompetent or covering up for someone--in either case, doesn't look good.
24 February 2013, 15:08
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Another proof of FPM behaving under the order of Hizbullah. FPM target is to weaken the Lebanese government, create a Christian getto under the protection of Hizbullah and the rule of FPM. Hence the attack on the government, the sunnis, and everything that represents the state. In this manner, HA can rule Lebanon and attach it to the Syrian/Iranian axis, the Christians are sidelined and/or satisfied in their imarat, and the sunnis are sidelined. How long can this last especially with what is happening in Syria. When will the Christian learn to live in good intelligence with the sunnis who are extending a hand to them under the banner of a strong lebanese state. Shame on the Christians leaders who are misleading the Christians in this trap
24 February 2013, 22:53
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Come on FT you are more intelligent than this. Lets say Rifi was covering for something and he disobeyed the orders. Then it's condemnable. But don't justify the condemnable behavior of FPM by somebody's else wrong behavior.
