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Was he the planner of the Assassination of President elect Bashir Gemayel: Did Nabil Alam passed away?

Nabil Alam passed away probably this May 13, 2014.

He was one of the leaders of the Lebanese National Resistance. He was suffering from brain cancer in the last 3 years. He is survived by two daughters.

Apparently, he lived in Brazil, fleeing a death sentence by Lebanon court, and underwent several cosmetic surgeries. I believe that he was in his late sixties.

Lebanon daily Al Akhbar reported the news in an article this May 14, 2014. It reads (taking liberty in translation from Arabic):

“What is the veracity of the passing away of Nabil 3Alam, the planner of the assassination of Beshir Gemayel, and one of the leaders (Security chief) during the civil war of the Lebanese-based Syria National Social Party? Alam was nicknamed “The Fox”

Alam is considered the one who recruited his comrade Habib Shartouni to execute the blowing of the building where Bashir was meeting in September 14, 1982 with Achrafieh’s Phalanges members, the day prior to his inauguration as President of Lebanon.

Alam had returned briefly to Lebanon to attend the funeral of one of his cousins. It is rumored that the announcement of his death was a smokescreen to facilitate the return of Alam to Lebanon…”

I knew Nabil and visited him and his wife Sana2 a couple of times between 1981-82. Once in his apartment in Kontary (West Beirut) and in his office (ground-floor of a building facing the south-east entrance of the American University of Beirut (AUB).

In that period, between 1981-82 and before the Israeli invasion of 1982, I used to hang out and sleep over in West Beirut twice a month: Just to get away from the deadly boring mountain town.

Someone might have showed me where Nabil lived in his youth in Jbeil, on a side street of Blat going up to LAU.

I was in Lebanon when Bashir was assassinated and I heard many rumors. One of the rumors was that Nabil Alam was behind the planning of the assassination.

Another rumor was that Abu Ayad (second in command of Arafat) had decided this assassination and provided the logistics and support.

A third rumor was that the combined secret services of Syria and Israel cooperated on a joint common interest of eliminating Bashir. This alternative might sound ridiculous, but secret services of all kinds frequently cooperate on small matters, not even related to long-term strategy.

And the plan was so straightforward and carried out in relative ease that this third alternative cannot be ruled out.

The apartment of Habib’s parents was above the meeting location in the building and Habib was to just arrange the bombs.

The Lebanese Forces assassinated the father and brother of Habib Shartouni and savagely tortured his sister.

Habib was incarcerated in the prison of Roumieh, without trial, till 1989. A group of his Party comrades liberated him from prison during President Amine Gemayel (elder brother of Bashir). Habib vanished since then.

It is highly probable that Shartouni had inside support from a few security leaders in the Lebanese Forces of Beshir.

Habib Shartouni publshed two books in Arabic. One is a collection of poems “Dictionary of the Memory, 2010” and a booklet “Law of Truth, 2006″ where he assembled the various Lebanese laws that treat the political assassination cases, and claims that the Syrian security services had nothing to do with his activity.

This claim is believable since the Syrians who occupied Lebanon didn’t try to pardon Habib. Most importantly, at that period, the Party was split between the faction that supported the Syrian dictator Hafez Assad‘s strategy in Lebanon unconditionally and the faction that backed the independence in decision of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), and Nabil Alam paid allegiance to the second faction.

In note 1, I posted last month an article on what could have happened if the assassination of Beshir Gemayel had failed.

Note 1: In hindsight https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/in-hindsight-what-could-have-happened-if-beshir-gemayel-was-not-assassinated-in-1982/

Note 2: Relationship of Beshir with Ariel Sharon https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/these-sweet-lebanese-christians-kiss-the-hands-of-ladies-and-commit-the-worst-of-atrocities-ariel-sharon/

Note 3: Nidal Slim posted the condolence of the Lebanese National Resistance, the Martyr Muhammad slim division, which conducted attacks on the occupying Israeli troops after its invasion in 1982.

Note 4: The Arabic text of the daily Al Akhbar

ما صحة وفاة المخطّط والعقل المدبّر لاغتيال الرئيس بشير الجميل؟؟   أفادت معلومات صحافية انّ القيادي في الحزب السوري القومي الاجتماعي نبيل العلم، والذي يعتبر المخطط لعملية إغتيال رئيس الجمهورية اللبنانية السابق بشير الجميل قد توفي قبل أيام في مكان إقامته في البرازيل. ويعتبر العلم الذي خرج من لبنان قبيل إنتهاء الحرب الاهلية، المسؤول عن عملية الاعداد والتخطيط لاغتيال “الجميل” حيث جنّد “حبيب الشرتوني” لتنفيذ المهمة التي أداها الاخير بنجاح ناسفاً المبنى الذي كان يتواجد فيه “الجميل” ليلقي خطاب في مناصري حزب الكتائب عام 1982. ويعتبر “نبيل العلم” مطلوباً للعدالة، حيث صدرت بحقه أحكام وصلت إلى الاعدام في قضية إغتيال “الجميل”، ما اجبره على مغادرة لبنان وعدم العودة إليه. ووفق المعلومات، كان “العلم” بشغل مركز “مسؤول أمن” الحزب القومي خلال الحرب الاهلية

. ويعتبر “شخصية غامضة وسرية وذكية ومخابراتية نتيجة الدور الهام والامني الذي كان يلعبه في فترة الحرب حيث لقب بـ الثعلب”. والجدير بالذكر ان نبيل العلم قد أجرى في البرازيل عدة عمليات جراحية تجميلية لاخفاء معالم وجههه الحقيقية، وقد حضر الى لبنان منذ فترة ولمدة قصيرة للتعزية باحد أقاربه الذي توفي في بلدة متنية وتأتي وفاة “العلم” وسط تكتم بسبب موقف القضاء اللبناني منه. وتتساءل اوساط سياسية إذا كان نبأ وفاة العلم خبر صحيح أم أن الحزب القومي يروّج له من أجل عودة العلم بطريقة سرية الى لبنان. محلي يلفت موقع “اخر الاخبار” انه غير مسؤول عن النص ومضمونه، وهو لا يعبّر إلا عن وجهة نظر كاتبه أو مصدره
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