Security Agencies Handed Complete Telecom Data as Hopes Grow March 14 Camp Will Resume Dialogue
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Security agencies have received the complete telecom data of the Touch mobile phone service provider, revealed security sources to the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat Sunday.
They are set to receive the complete data from Lebanon’s second provider, Alfa, in the upcoming hours, they added.
A ministerial, judicial, and security meeting, headed by President Michel Suleiman, is scheduled to be held on Monday in order to discuss the handover of telecom data to the concerned authorities, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Sunday.
Sources monitoring Suleiman’s efforts told the daily that the president will deduce whether the meeting fulfilled the March 14 camp’s conditions on resuming the national dialogue.
If it does, then he will intensify his efforts to persuade it to return to the all-party talks.
On the camp’s demands that Hizbullah commit to the dialogue agenda, informed sources revealed that indirect talks were held among the party’s leadership over MP Mohammed Raad’s recent statements that there is no need to discuss the defense strategy.
The sources said that his remarks express his opinion and do not necessarily mean that Hizbullah is not keen on discussing a defense strategy, seeing as Suleiman had proposed the topic on dialogue agenda.
They hoped that the talks will be resumed, noting that Suleiman has devised a draft on the defense strategy that explains when and how the arms can be used.
It also tackles the possession of weapons in cities, as well as that of Palestinian refugees.
The president will highlight the authority of the state in the defense strategy, which will likely fall in line with the March 14 camp’s expectations, added the sources.
Suleiman will emphasize his insistence to resume the national dialogue during the Army Day speech on August 1, they revealed.
The March 14 camp suspended its participation in the national dialogue following the failure to address the case of the telecom data and possession of arms in Lebanon, especially that of Hizbullah and Palestinian refugees.
MP Butros Harb on Thursday revealed Suleiman had informed him that the relevant authorities “have decided to hand over the complete telecom data” to the security agencies probing the recent failed attempt on his life.
“A formula has been reached for that,” Harb said, adding that such a move would represent “a serious step towards unveiling the circumstances of the attempt on my life.”
Harb was the target of a murder attempt on July 5 when residents of a building in which his office is located in the Beirut district of Badaro discovered individuals trying to booby-trap the elevator.
The March 14 alliance has tied its participation in the national dialogue to the government’s approval to hand over the telecom data, including International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI), to security agencies investigating the attempted assassinations of Harb and Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea.
29 July 2012, 09:03
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yalla its a step forward but can also mean that the otherside is gonna 10 steps back like usual....come on end it already cuz ive been outside lebanon too damn long
29 July 2012, 09:52
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i totally agree with everything u said voyager we had a Resistance many years ago till the day they drew weapons on the lebanese pple after noting many times the weapon r pointed on our enemies little did we know that the lebanese people were part of that enemies quote....the battles in tripoli are obviously a religious battle between jabal and tibeneh caused by the same group that said were here to liberate all of lebanon from the zionist state...come on really who r they kidden....i feel bad for the martyrs that fought for that cause and feel even wors for the martyrs still to come....there should be a free lebanon resistance from the southern occupied land from iran
29 July 2012, 10:06
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I want to comment on your statement of "stealing government resources": Today, I read in AnNahar that customs revenues at airport and port of Beirut have decreased by 4 billion dollars due to unearned revenues on goods and services that are imported into Lebanon but are not subjected to customs duty, and are under the protection of the hizb and its allies! These services include all kinda goods such as building materials, phones, clothing, furniture, marble, etc. They are later sold in Dahiyie at huge profits by shia importers! It makes me sick.....!
29 July 2012, 10:18
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It is true that when I imported things from the port the transitaire gave me a choice : I can pay custome duties or for a fee, pay 80% of the duty value as kickbacks to Amal, HA and the gang.
I guess their logic is that we accumulate debts for our children to liberate syrian chebaa.
However I would put the value of the tax lost at around 1B per year. (around 3B x 30%). Not 4B.
29 July 2012, 12:01
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It has been handed over after key information which might lead to suspects has been erased.
29 July 2012, 12:12
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They have invented yet the best way to bring their political opponents to the meeting table: try to kill hem one by one, and get them to discuss what you have removed from the agenda meeting in the first place: the arms you are threatening them with , and using to eliminate them one by one (or many at a time in the case of Hariri!), because you ow your very political existence to those paymasters who have put you on the political chessboard, and that the arms you possess, you have no control over, except execute murder missions on their behalf to serve them politicallly !
29 July 2012, 17:04
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rami they will end up catching them one day...the world works in mysterious ways brother and lebanon will be paris of the middle east once again long live LIBNAN and us LEBANESE PEOPLE WHO LOVE OUR COUNTRY AND ARE PROUD TO SAY WE ARE LEBANESE
29 July 2012, 17:04
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rami they will end up catching them one day...the world works in mysterious ways brother and lebanon will be paris of the middle east once again long live LIBNAN and us LEBANESE PEOPLE WHO LOVE OUR COUNTRY AND ARE PROUD TO SAY WE ARE LEBANESE
