Ibrahim Appeals for Support to Security Agencies
General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim has called for providing the country’s security agencies with their needs for being the reason behind the relative stability that Lebanon is enjoying.
“It is enough to carry out a quick comparison between the security situation here and in the region to find out the importance of the work carried out by the agencies,” Ibrahim told As Safir daily published on Monday.
“We are pursuing several terrorist networks based on information we have received,” he said.
“We hope we would make more achievements in confronting terrorism,” he said a few days after a dangerous terrorist cell was uncovered in the North by the General Security.
Extremist groups were using a religious school as a front for jihadist dealings.
The school was being run by a terrorist called Omar al-Satem, who is currently in Syria's al-Raqa, a stronghold of the extremist Islamic State group.
“Our strategy lies in activating preventive security,” said Ibrahim.
Security agencies should "take action rather than resorting to counter-reaction," he said, adding that there is ongoing cooperation among them to thwart terrorist attacks.
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