Rifi: Assassination Attempt Was Targeting Hassan
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Internal Security Forces chief Ashraf Rifi confirmed on Saturday reports of a foiled assassination attempt against security officials, reported Voice of Lebanon radio.
He revealed that head of the ISF’s Information Branch Col. Wissam al-Hassan was the target of the foiled attempt.
He did not provide further details on the manner in which the assassination was going to be executed, saying that the appropriate measures have been taken to tackle the situation.
A plan to assassinate Rifi and Hassan was discovered, reported the daily An Nahar on Saturday.
Security information obtained by the daily revealed that the Bureau received information of a possible assassination attempt from two sources, which confirmed the credibility of the reports and prompted the security forces to deal firmly with the matter.
The assassination was most likely going to be executed through a car bomb near the ISF headquarters in Ashrafiyeh, said the daily.
It added that there was a higher possibility that Hassan, not Rifi, was going to be targeted.
Al-Liwaa reported on Saturday that “very credible” foreign and internal sources revealed the assassination plot against Rifi or Hassan.
It also said that “due to logistic and political reasons,” the Intelligence Bureau chief was the likely target.
Furthermore, it revealed that the assassination attempt was in its preparation phase.
President Michel Suleiman, Prime Minister Najib Miqati, and Interior Minister Marwan Charbel were all informed of the attempt, said the newspaper.
In addition, it did not rule out the possibility that political figures may have been targets in the assassination.
This is not the first time the media has reported an alleged plot to murder a security official in Lebanon.
Not long ago, Al-Manar television spoke of a plot to assassinate General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim.
Captain Wissam Eid, a top communications analyst with the ISF Intelligence Bureau, was assassinated in a January 25, 2008 car bombing outside Beirut.
On December 12, 2007, Brigadier General Francois al-Hajj, chief of the army operations directorate, was killed in a car bomb attack in Baabda, along with three other people.
28 January 2012, 09:36
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someone is about to locally kick start that sunni-shiite war that already started in Syria. All for the pleasure of israel.
28 January 2012, 09:47
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The "plan" was to assassinate either one... Not both.
Could not agree more with arzz.
28 January 2012, 11:17
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It's the ASSad regime and their thugs deflecting the problems towards Lebanon.
28 January 2012, 11:31
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We thought the STL farce was aimed at stopping assassinations!!! But then who can stop the real assassins, the US and Israel, who know they are untouchable?
28 January 2012, 11:44
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Arzz it' s only too easy to pull out of the drawers some so called plans to create a rift between sunnis and Chiites to explain the logic of serial political assassinations, as though the murderers were just passive watchers, or even manipulated victims of a bigger scheme they were reluctantly caught in. No. In fact the political muders are part of a careful plan to seize and hold power, and impose an Iranian-syrian agenda on the country. In the same way it is not Israel which killed Moussa Sadr, some day we'll know beyond any doubts who killed Hariri, and all the other politicians and security officers, etc....However, some will remain unconvinced no matter what...
28 January 2012, 11:44
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But when the time comes, what they think will be totally . I cannot but link the requests from Miqati to Bellemare, to postpone the indictments in the Murr, Hamadeh, and Hawi cases to the rumours of plans to assassinate Rifi. Could he have been instrumental in unravelling the mystery around those cases, the same way martyr Wissam Eid was on the eve of his assassination?
28 January 2012, 11:51
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who would benefit from that is the question... what wout it lead to is the other...
28 January 2012, 14:09
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the filthy zionist information war department is hallucinating about sunni-shia war.
28 January 2012, 14:15
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the filthy zionist information australian war department is dreaming about sunni-shia war. It will not happen because the leaders of our glorious resistance are awake to these filthy plots. Losers.....!
28 January 2012, 14:28
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Can you say Hizbo/Iran/Syria. They certainly have the motivation and ability. No. 1 suspect
28 January 2012, 14:36
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the filthy zionist information war department is hallucinating that our glorious resistance would like to kill Rifi and other insignificant guy.
one can spare worms because they are of no threat.
28 January 2012, 15:44
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The GLOrious Resistance did kill before.In order to make the killings benign and almost Halal, it spreads via its agents that the potential victims are mere WORMS who can be killed or spared at its glorious discretion
Like the Israelis, we should thank them for their KK...(Kosher Killing)s
28 January 2012, 16:37
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Hezb Fears of the ISF's information department because its better equiped with more personnel, and they know everything hezb is doing..
28 January 2012, 17:37
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who would do that? those who hold him responsible of being in their way... namely the hezb, the glorious resistance to democracy and free lebanon!
28 January 2012, 17:44
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@Habal: Why are the four suspects of killing Harriri are hiding or nowhere to be found by the ISF? if they are innocent like the angel Jamil Sayed then have your terrorist militia(People, Army, Resistance) turn those suspects in to the Army if the so called resistance in fact supports the People and Army.
28 January 2012, 17:47
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the filthy zionist information war department is hallucinating about our glorious resistance making kosher killings.
this is not just hallucination, it's a morbid one.
also, they hallucinate that they know everything that our glorious resistance is doing.
yeah. like you did in 2006.
suckers.
28 January 2012, 18:18
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The filthy Jabalamel and Cookie_Monster: Spreading the hate of their masters Hizbullah, Iran and Syria. Scum of the earth, the both of them. The lowest of the low.
28 January 2012, 18:38
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the filthy zionist information war department is furious because i'm back so at first they didn't know what to say.
after first shock they again copied all my insults and directed them to me and other guy thinking they will achieve anything.
28 January 2012, 19:14
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Ya jabal habal...the hatred of your camp for the sunni is becoming preposterous! We know the amount of hatred you have for us (it's one of your religion pillar) but seems your "Taqqiya" is no longer working.... you keep taking advantage of our silence, but it won't be for too long..don't be fooled as it's the calm before the storm.. whether you like it or not, sunni are the majority in the region and you just woke up the giant!
The " salafi-wahabi-terrorist-sunni" gulf countries you are talking about are idiot and you know why? because they keep rebuilding your villages while your hassouna keep destroying them in fruitless war, and they are letting you work and make fortunes in their countries..while they should kick you and your like out and treat you like Iran treat their sunni minorities ( basically less than animals!)
28 January 2012, 19:58
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The suni-she3i war is more than a 1000 years old, quit throwing your garbage on israel-america, israel did not come out of vacuum, the arabs/muslim people is a very fertile land for divide and conquer. And yes of course hizbustan is behind the assasinations, and for the idiots like habal amel: who fought months of fierce battles against Amal movement in the 80's?? ; hisbustan, who killed many she3a figures who were against iran: hizbustan. In other words, assisnations to create dictatorship is not new to hizbustan, it is business as usual. Just because you fought israel once upon a time (and do not care anymore, fayez karam gets only two years in jail!!) does not mean you are good or have good intentions for the country. The lebanese people refuse to convert to she3a, plain and simple and one sect can not eat the rest. You have to think ten times from now on given the suni tide coming from Syria.
28 January 2012, 20:23
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i don t think you can make up a story when you find two cars filled with explosives ready to blow up the neighborhodd mr cookie...
it seems you wish for it to happen like all the killings that happened before and killed innocent lebanese...
28 January 2012, 20:40
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@ JabalHabal and Cookiemoron, Of course it might be Israel and USA that want to start a shiite-sunnite war in the region , but they are using their agents inside Hezbollah to do that. Your Hezb is Israel's best ally in the region so as Assad. theirs interests are common. Now why would Israel or America want a sunnite-chiite war in lebanon? the lesser evil for them is the Hezb which's divine weapons destroyed 2 and a half roofs in Israel... on the other side, Hezb wants to take out Rifi because he is the only strong sunni man left in the country's security services. A hezbollah dominated country is a lot better for Israel then a extremist sunni Lebanon supported by palestinians factions. open up your brains to the big picture bunch of Zionist-Syrian-iranians slaves with an I.Q level of a worm
29 January 2012, 01:10
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True,the insults Jab'amel profers are unique,patentable and unguessable .
Always imitated but never equalled:they are neo-1967ish Bassiji refrains that only smart Baathists (but here my adjectives contradict themselves!) can claim credit for.
His wailing-wall milling of single neurone rhetoric is so black and off-white oldy ,that even the chosen people(Ashraf al Nass) normally care to distance themselves from.
29 January 2012, 02:55
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Cockeater, when a Shiia spiritual leader calls the massacre of sunni citizen on May 7th a'Divine day' you are kick starting a sunni-Shiia war with NO AIPAC involvement. Unless this shiia spiritual leader is an Israeli agent
29 January 2012, 06:44
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may god be with you wissam, whoever planted that bomb (hezb. ehhm) may god punish them in the day of judgement ya rab, and nobody come and tell me its Israel...we believed that crap years ago but it is apparent that everyone who has been murdered in the past was against the hezb. (Rafiq Hariri, wissam eid, jubran tweini etc...)
