Hizbullah has linked its private telephone networks to the Syrian Army”s communications system as well as to Syria”s mobile telephone network allowing Syrian intelligence to operate freely in Lebanon and avoid Lebanese controls, al-Mustaqbal”s Faris Khashan wrote Tuesday.
Internal Security Forces Commander Gen. Ashraf Rifi and Director of Military Intelligence Brig. George Khoury were assigned by the government more than a month ago to discuss the issue with Hizbullah, Khashan added.
However, Hizbullah”s security chief Wafiq Safa and the party”s international relations official Nawaf Moussawi informed Rifi and Khoury that "anyone who touches the network would be treated the same way we treat the Zionist enemy," he wrote.
Khashan labeled Hizbullah a "militia," noting that Hizbullah is not registered with the interior ministry as a political organization operating in Lebanon.
Khashan said police counter-terrorism expert, Maj. Wissam Eid, has been assassinated because he managed to detect the serial assassinations committed against March 14 figures to the Hizbullah telephone network.
He reported that Hizbullah sped up work on extending the network after Eid”s assassination, "which means that the killing was aimed at destroying evidence on previous assassinations, including one that appears linked to Hizbullah."
The crime also aimed at creating "safe communications criteria for further assassinations," he added.
Khashan urged the government to speed up efforts aimed at separating the Hizbullah network from the Syrian networks, lodge complaints with the U.N. Security Council and the International Telecommunication Union against Syria, Inform the International Investigation committee of the development, allow municipalities to interrupt the Hizbullah network in their respective jurisdictions and link the network to the public telephone network.
Hizbullah should be asked to choose either to give up its illegal network or be declared an "illegal organization," Khashan concluded.