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Was Army Taken by Surprise?
Heated debate in Beirut
The expanded ministerial meeting attended by top security officials Sunday was not a quiet one. Lebanese Army General Michel Suleiman was not comfortable about the incidents taking place in northern Lebanon, particularly about the number of martyrs from the Lebanese army which has reached 27. Suleiman angrily approached the head of the Information Branch (of the Internal Security Forces ISF) Brigadier General Wissam al-Hassan and held him responsible for the loss of lives, since the army was taken by surprise at the entrance of the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp and other locations. The army was not notified about the ISF security operation against the building in which Fatah al-Islam members were barricading after they robbed a bank.
According to sources, General Suleiman did not hear sufficient answers from B.G. Hassan who justified what had happened saying ISF were not, aware of the number of gunmen in the building nor had they expected such retaliation.
The expanded ministerial meeting attended by top security officials Sunday was not a quiet one. Lebanese Army General Michel Suleiman was not comfortable about the incidents taking place in northern Lebanon, particularly about the number of martyrs from the Lebanese army which has reached 27. Suleiman angrily approached the head of the Information Branch (of the Internal Security Forces ISF) Brigadier General Wissam al-Hassan and held him responsible for the loss of lives, since the army was taken by surprise at the entrance of the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp and other locations. The army was not notified about the ISF security operation against the building in which Fatah al-Islam members were barricading after they robbed a bank.
According to sources, General Suleiman did not hear sufficient answers from B.G. Hassan who justified what had happened saying ISF were not, aware of the number of gunmen in the building nor had they expected such retaliation.
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Away from the ruling bloc's accusations to Syria of backing the militant group and Damascus' rejection to such accusations, the United States believes that Fatah al-Islam is linked to Al-Qaeda network, based on US State Department reports. Perhaps what makes this hypothesis likely is the nationalities of those killed and arrested by security forces. According to sources, the Lebanese army arrested ten Fatah al-Islam members from different Arab nationalities; Algerian, Tunisian, Saudi and Lebanese. The sources pointed that no Palestinians were among those arrested. Sources also confirmed that ISF had arrested four men, non of them is Palestinian.