DAILY SCOPE: Daesh Getting Ready for Major Battle, Lebanese Army Maneuvers to Up Coordination, Readiness

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Lebanese newspapers on Friday discussed the different topics in Lebanon, with special focus on the security file in the country and the ambiance of the cabinet in light of the presence of the many pending files. Also, the Lebanese dailies discussed the latest developments in Syria, particularly in Aleppo.

AL-LIWA: Diplomatic Sources: "Daesh" Getting Ready for A Major Battle

Sources assured to al-Liwaa newspaper the Lebanese army has received precise information from a foreign embassy that the terrorist group "Daesh" has ordered its cells inside Ain al-Helweh Palestinian camp to start a battle to eliminate al-Nusra from and other extremist groups and then take control over the camp.

Hence, the sources reported that the two groups, al-Nusra and Daesh that are present in the Palestinian camp are not under the control of the Palestinian factions, and are planning to start a war of liquidation to eliminate one another.

Moreover, the sources stressed that the terrorist groups are trying to exhaust the Lebanese army, and then spread its confrontation to outside the camp and hence force Hizbullah and the Amal party to enter the clashes and simultaneously, these groups will send suicide-bombers to carry out operations against the Lebanese army and some Shite neighborhoods, with the aim of blocking the road that links Beirut to the South Lebanon and erupting a sectarian strife in the country.

On the same note, diplomatic sources stressed the importance of cooperation between the Palestinian and Lebanese sides to preserve security and end this plot that can turn the Palestinian camp of Ain al-Helweh into another Nahr al-Bared camp in Lebanon.

AL-JOMHOURIA: LA Military Maneuvers to Allow Further Coordination

Military sources told al-Jomhouria newspaper that the military maneuvers carried out by the Lebanese army during the few past hours in the Eastern mountain chains were unique because of the canon shelling against terrorist groups in the outskirts.

The aim of these attacks, according to the source, is testing the readiness of the Lebanese army and increasing the levels of coordination between the different groups in the army. This comes as part of the plan to support the Northern front. The sources assured that the maneuvers proved to be successful.
Militants from the extremist Islamic State group and the Qaida-linked al-Nusra Front are entrenched in mountainous regions along the porous Lebanese-Syrian border where the Lebanese army shells the groups regularly.

Lebanese Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji reassured many times that the army is fully ready to confront "any terrorist attack or activity" inside the country and on the border with Syria.

AS-SAFIR: Telecoms Report on Internet Scandal Causes Vertigo...

Lebanese Education Minister Elias Abu Saab told As-Safir newspaper that the report presented by the Telecoms minister Botrous Harb is more like a maze that causes vertigo rather than a report that has no clear answers to the legitimate questions on the case of the illegal internet scandal.

Abu Saab told As-Safir that the masterminds in the case should be exposed, pointing out that tremendous numbers of companies seem to be involved in the case of illegal international calls.

Military sources had warned that access to internet services is being provided through what is known as "microwave" networks that can disseminate internet access to the Lebanese people. By that, the sources explained that "every Lebanese connected on the network is open to tapping or espionage, and that is applicable to all smart objects and communication apparatuses."

Head of the Parliamentary Media Committee MP Hassan Fadalallah stated a few times that the illegal internet network file is growing like a snowball, but assured that the committee's efforts will continue until the perpetrators behind this scandal are revealed.

Source: al-Ahed news