DAILY SCOPE: Ogero Employees Summoned for Investigations, H5N1 in Lebanon

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Lebanese newspapers on Friday tackled the different domestic files including the electoral law, the legislative session, the illegal internet scandal as well as other topics of importance.

AS-SAFIR: Comprehensive Basket to Resolve Lebanon's Crises

Ministers of the five permanent members at the UN Security Council have been trying to put a new roadmap to Lebanon in cooperation with the Special UN coordinator Sigrid Kaag and in cooperation with Riyadh and Tehran to bring a settlement to Lebanon.

According to well-informed sources, they have been trying to provide a basket that includes: electing a consensual president, establishing a national unity cabinet, finding a new electoral law, in addition to a reform basket that includes: a new internal system for the ministerial council, decentralization of the administrative apparatus, rethinking the authority given to the president and establishing a national committee to eliminate the political sectarianism and that would take place gradually through an organized schedule.

The sources further said that these ideas were proposed by the envoys of the five permanent UNSC members to Lebanese political authorities to see how such a comprehensive basket can be put into effect and be amended if required.

On a related note, sources said that the suggestion made by former Head of Parliament Hussein al-Husseini to elect a president for one or two years in the framework of a transitory period is being discussed and studied by high-ranking political leaderships.

AL-AKHBAR: Internet Scandal Rolling, Ogero Employees Involved?

New facts about the internet scandal have been rolling as employees from the Ogero Company were summoned for investigations. According to the paper, the judiciary has been summoning Ogero employees either as suspects or witnesses in the case of the illegal internet scandal that rocked the country around one month ago.

Sources told the paper that the intelligence tracked a technical detail that links one of the Ogero employees called Tawfiq Hisso with internet providers in the country, who have been illegally benefitting from ‘google cash' to multiply their use of internet.

Fingers have been pointed at the telecoms company for either being behind the scandal or to have been illegally benefitting from internet illegally. On Thursday, Ogero Director General Abdel Moneim Youssef while leaving the Telecommunications and Media Committee session said in his response to a question "I am not a suspect".

Earlier on Tuesday, head of Parliament's Media and Telecommunications Committee, MP Hassan Fadlallah said that the illegal Internet network dossier will not be closed before sanctioning those who have been involved.

AL-BINAA: French Ambassador's Meeting with Hizbullah Proves its Role in Resolving Crises, Riyadh Angry

Well-informed sources told al-Binaa newspaper that Riyadh has put so much pressure on the French president Francois Hollande, urging him not to meet members from Hizbullah in Lebanon. According to the sources, "the meeting of the French ambassador to Lebanon Manuel Bon with head of the Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Mohammad Raad bothered the Saudi ambassador to Lebanon Ali al-Asiri, who expressed dismay towards the move saying that the French step proves Hizbullah's role in resolving crises in Lebanon."

According to the sources, this comes at a time when Saudi Arabia tries hard to strangle Hizbullah and isolate it through exerting financial restrictions and labelling it as terrorist. The sources assured that Hollande's attitude proves that French diplomacy is committed to Saudi policies in term of the Syrian file.

AL-LIWAA: Bird Flu H5 in Lebanon!

In light of the multiple crises and scandals Lebanon witnesses, and as more scandals of corruption unravel, a new case has become the source of attention to the health sector even before "carcinogens in flour" has stopped to become the talk of the town.

According to al-Liwaa newspaper, Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayeb declared that cases of "Bird Flu H5' have been registered in one of the farms of Nabi Sheet area in Baalbeck east of Lebanon. Yet, the minister assured there is no reason to panic, especially that a specialized team from the ministry has started tracking the source of the virus. Meanwhile, the ministry has launched awareness campaigns to help the citizens understand the symptoms and cooperate with the ministry and concerned apparatuses in these terms.

On Thursday, Thousands of birds in farms where the disease was found, at other poultry farms and in the yards of local residents and adjacent towns were slaughtered as a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of the disease, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The source said that members of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Health Ministry's Epidemiological Surveillance Department, the Nabi Sheet municipality, veterinarians, Baalbek police, and the army supervised the slaughter of around 20,000 birds. The symptoms of infection include fever, headaches, stomach pains, muscle and joint pains and diarrhea.

Source: al-Ahed News