French MP: Syria has 10 to 15 active terrorist cells in Lebanon
Wednesday, 2 January, 2008
Beirut - Syria has 10 to 15 terrorists cells throughout Lebanon which are protected by and given logistical support by Syria’s allies Hezbollah and Amal according to French parliamentary sources. A member of the French parliament has disclosed this information to Kuwait newspaper Al Seyassah.
The cells according to the MP are similar to the thirty three member terrorist cell that was discovered recently in Lebanon and was charged by Lebanese military magistrate . All the members of this cell were part of the Syrian intelligence and were protected by Amal and Hezbollah.
The French MP, who is a member of the national security and foreign relations committee of the parliament and who has access to sensitive intelligence reports said that the terrorist cells are similar to Fatah al Islam terrorist organization , that Syria tried but failed in marketing it as part the Al Qaeda network. The Lebanese army fought Fatah al Islam terrorist at the Nahr el Bared Palestinian refugee camp for 106 days last summer , the battle ended in the defeat and disbanding of the terrorist organization. Its leader Shaker al Absi escaped the battle and fled to Syria where he came from.
The French MP said the Syrian cells are scattered throughout the areas dominated by Amal and Hezbollah such as eastern Bekaa region along the borders with Syria, Southern Beirut suburbs , Palestinian refugee camps in south and north Lebanon that are dominated by radical groups associated with the Syrian regime . The French MP also said that the 4 Syrians arrested in the Bar Elias spy cell last summer and charged with espionage turned out to be employees of the Syrian intelligence and report to Rustom Ghazaleh , the dreaded head of Syria intelligence in Lebanon during the occupation. The four Syrians are: Mohammed Abd Al-Rahim Abd Al-Rahim, Ahmad Mohammad Asili, Barakat and Hassan Abdullah Salah Eddin Mohamed Saleh".
The French MP also revealed that according to European intelligence reports Amal, Hezbollah and Syrian Social Nationalist Party ( SSNP) intelligence agents help , arm and train the Syrian terrorists cells , they also pay them salaries using the Iranian funds that are channeled directly from Iran to Hezbollah. The French MP believes that "these terrorist cells that have been formed over the past two years, along with those cells that were left behind by Syria following its military withdrawal from Lebanon in 2005 , are behind the assassination of leaders of March 14 that were hostile to Damascus.”
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Opinion: I wouldn’t put it past him.
It would be great if someone could grab that jerk early on this year.
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