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Did Nabil Alam passed away? Was he the planner of the Assassination of President elect Bashir Gemayel?
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 16, 2014
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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What’s going on in Lebanon? In the prison of Roumieh? And this stupid Mikati unable to form a government?
Posted by: adonis49 on: April 9, 2011
What’s going on in Lebanon? In the prison of Roumieh?
There is this prison in Lebanon, close to the town called Roumieh. The prisoners set fire in the 4 buildings and closed accesses to the prison. This prison is holding 4,000 incarcerated people, in all categories from minor citizens (under 17 of age), minor thefts and car accidents…, political prisoners, foreign maids not able to pay their flight back home, …
One prisoner (26 year-old) did not live because he was repeatedly refused treatment for his diabetes: He was in prison for two months and was to stay 6 months for traffic incident as his family was unable to collect $10,000.
Every week, Lebanon witness a dozen of road kills (people) and the cases are settled out of court. This prison in Roumieh was designed to host one thousand inmates in the 70’s and no other prisons were planned to be constructed.
Every couple of months, the prisoners in Roumieh revolt in order to have better living conditions, and the State crack down and promises improvement… This time around, the families of the prisoners demonstrated on mass for 3 days in front of the prison and the Justice Palace. The families closed main roads throughout Lebanon demanding information on the situation and conditions of their family members.
There are plenty of evidence that the prison officers have established a lucrative racket, selling cellular phones, cocaine, heroin, and all kinds of drugs…These facts were widely known and the supposed government promised to investigate and nothing was revealed or done or reformed.
Lebanon has never had a government worth calling a government: Most of the time, the government is in “running affairs” condition because a designated Prime Minister takes his time forming another stupid government, say four months on average, and ending up with virtual governments that are too weak to govern, plan, and execute any kinds of reforms.
The real power in Lebanon is in the hand of the clerics of 18 recognized religious sects.
The current rioting that generated 3 deaths so far, and unknown number of injuries, is the consequence of two decades of negligence and malpractice in the field of correctional services.
Prisoners are held in cells with up to 15 fellow inmates with no medical treatment. The justice system has been crippled for over 4 decades, since the civil war that started in 1975, and no new judges have been appointed for many years.
Many prisoners in the overcrowded jail have been waiting up to 5 years for their case to be heard over common law matters such as theft, faked signature…Many have died in prison before and during the riots.
The trouble stems from 3 main problems:
First, lack of funding from the Finance Ministry, which was under the control of the late Rafic Hariri PM, and who ruled from 1992 to 2005. The Finance Ministry is still in the hand of Saad Hariri, son of Rafic: an oligarchic Future Movement political party succession story. In this period, Lebanon witnessed institutionalized corruption, and saw its public debt balloon to $60 billion. An estimated $11 billion is currently unaccounted for under his government. Such funding could have been diverted to pay for the construction of jails in both North and South Lebanon as proposed by the Change and Reform Bloc in Lebanon’s parliament.
The second problem is the immersion of politics in all facets of the judiciary system: For example he political appointment of Said Mirza (an ally of Hariri) as Lebanon’s Chief Prosecutor. Mirza is deeply involved in the highly politicized Special Tribunal for Lebanon, investigating the assassination of Rafic Hariri.
This involvement has diverted attention away from reforming Lebanon’s legal system, which is struggling to deal with the backlog of court cases and the subversion of justice in the court and prison systems.
The third hurdle is the conduct of Lebanon Internal Security Forces (ISF) and its General Director, Brigadier Ashraf Rifi, another close ally of Lebanon’s “care taker” Prime Minister Saadedine Hariri. The ISF was responsible for arbitrary arrests and human rights abuse during the Syrian occupation of Lebanon under Rafic Hariri, and continues to operate in the same manner today.
The treatment in Roumieh prison of Al Qaeda political prisoners, inspired terrorist groups such as Fateh Islam (that waged a brutal war with the Lebanese Army in 2007), is deemed luxurious compared to other inmates as these groups are believed to have links to the Future Movement political figures and Saudi Arabia absolute Wahhabi monarchy.
The “care taker” Interior Minister Ziad Baroud, a young and dedicated lawyer, as well as a consensus appointment among Lebanon’s different factions and counted as the President of the Republic protegee, has been unable to implement any reforms or reign in the actions of his subordinate, Brigadier Ashraf Rifi.
For 75 days, Lebanon has no government, the parliament does not meet, and the wrath of the Arab masses are engulfing the regions with positive uncertainties, except in Lebanon, the bastion of conservatism in governance.