Mikati Chairs Security Meeting: All Lebanon Afraid

Local Editor

Lebanese Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, headed Wednesday a security meeting at the Grand Serail, to discuss the current security situation.

The meeting was attended by Interior minister Marwan Charbel, Public Security Director General Abbas Ibrahim, State Security Director General George Qeraa, and Internal Security Forces Acting Director General Roger Salem.

According to Charbel, the meeting tasked Internal Security Forces (ISF), in coordination with the remaining security apparatuses, to secure protection for all Lebanese politicians and dignitaries whose lives under threat.

"Protection of dignitaries is a task that requires training on weekly basis," he said, and noted that "such a protection necessitates coordination among security apparatuses and most importantly the availability of certain apparatuses used for this task."
Moreover, the minister confirmed that "No one in the whole world can be a hundred percent protected."
He further urged the threatened politicians to limit their mobility and resort to secrecy when they do so.

"That way we can cooperate with them and hope to resolve this issue," the minister said, and pointed out that "it is necessary to purchase and prepare the needed equipment that can be used to protect the officials, but such equipment is currently unavailable."

In the same context, Charbel denied the rumors that 15 politicians are threatened with assassination. "There are some people who are afraid," he explained, and concluded by saying: " All Lebanese live under fear."

Source: al-Ahed News, Translated and Edited by moqawama.org