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Radwan Mortada wrote in “Al-Akhbar”: Almost a month after the Beirut port explosion, the judicial investigator, Fadi Sawan, arrested the officers responsible for port security. He listened to Army Intelligence, General Security and State Security officers before deciding to detain them on suspicion of negligence that caused the resounding explosion on August 4. The day before yesterday, Judge Fadi Sawan, judicial investigator in the Beirut port bombing case, issued notable arrest warrants for each of the heads of the Army Intelligence Office in Beirut port, Brigadier General A. Q, the pioneer in state security c. N, Mayor at Public Security LLC. P, and the pioneer in public safety d. P.
Although the size of the responsibility of the four officers varies, the decision was to arrest all. For example, Brigadier General S. He possessed the broadest powers among the rest of the officers, considering that port security is in charge of Army Intelligence, which is imperative to protect himself from any terrorist or security threat that attempts against port security. What if a massive bomb consisted of hundreds of tons of high-explosive ammonium nitrate? State Security Officer c. N., who was conducting an investigation into the shipment of nitrate, consulted Brigadier General S. However, the latter replied that it was not his responsibility or his authority, indicating that he should review the Military Public Ministry that neither it did its job. Will this process of the judicial investigator require the summons of the former government commissioner before the military court, and the former and current director of intelligence of the army, to determine the size of the responsibility of each of them?
Regarding the two officers from the General Security Survey, Sh. P. And dr. P, your responsibility is almost nil, given that they sent 14 letters to your leadership in General Security from 2013 to 2020 warning of the danger of shipping nitrate. One of them informed the judicial investigator that his responsibility is limited to informing his leaders and that the powers granted to him by law do not allow him to interfere in any matter of the port’s affairs, since the responsibility of General Security is related to people entering and leaving Lebanon and not with the security of the port. Likewise, the Law on the Organization of Public Security defines the role of public security investigation in the political, social, economic and security aspects related to foreigners. It was found that General Security sent security mail to the Presidency of the Republic, the Presidency of the Government, the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of the Interior in 2014 regarding the shipment of nitrate..
As for the State Security Officer, Major JN His story is different from that of the rest of the agents, especially that his role was fundamental to “discover” the existence of the ammonium nitrate shipment at the end of last year, and He took the initiative to inform his leadership and the Judiciary to open an investigation of the case, but the judicial investigator decided to stop him. After the arrest of Major JN (his father is a martyr in the army), a campaign was launched denouncing the judge’s decision, considering that instead of arresting him, the first thing was to reward him for having discovered the ammonium nitrate scandal and for opening a investigation according to which he wrote a detailed report on the danger. However, sources who were aware of the investigations reported that the officer in charge of the investigation had not addressed this case. As the head of the State Security Office in the port organized a letter to his address about the placement of amber number 12 and ammonium nitrate inside, there was talk of the existence of a hole in its wall measuring 50 cm by 50 cm and fluttered in one of its doors that was separated from its mold, allowing a person to enter through the hole. Between the door and the wall. This correspondence was dated 12/7/2019.
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