Lebanese newspaper: If the government don’t tell the truth about the American base in Lebanon, we will publish the secret documents

There is noth­ing exclu­sive about Debka’s report “Exclu­sive: The US plans new mil­i­tary pres­ence in Lebanon includ­ing big air instal­la­tion close by Syr­ian bor­der” we already know that long time ago (see: The plan is a US-NATO mil­i­tary bases in Tripoli-Lebanon.)

The new thing didn’t came from Debka but from Lebanese news­pa­per Al-Safir, which Debka stole their report from.

Why senior Amer­i­can offi­cials and mil­i­tary com­man­ders con­tin­u­ously visit Lebanon since the Israeli war since last July until today?, These vis­its reached it’s peak this week with the visit of the head the Amer­i­can Depart­ment of Defense for Pub­lic Pol­icy Eric Edel­man, head­ing a del­e­ga­tion from the Pentagon? !

In this report, which was based on reli­able sources, points to reports of an Amer­i­can offi­cial, Al-Safir detailed the full sce­nario of what the Amer­i­can admin­is­tra­tion pre­sented to the Lebanese gov­ern­ment, in these meet­ings although it is a top secret:

The visit by under­sec­re­tary of the Amer­i­can Depart­ment of Defense Pol­icy Edel­man headed a del­e­ga­tion from the Pen­ta­gon, a direct request from Pres­i­dent George Bush.

The del­e­ga­tion met with Prime Min­is­ter Fouad Sin­iora and the Defense Min­is­ter Elias Murr and Army Com­man­der Gen. Michel Suleiman, the talks focused on four main top­ics: the mil­i­tary sit­u­a­tion in Lebanon, the intel­li­gence sit­u­a­tion, and the real­ity of the Lebanese army and the pol­icy of the Lebanese state.

The Amer­i­can del­e­ga­tion joined by the Amer­i­can ambas­sador in Lebanon Jef­frey Felt­man, intro­duced the draft Lebanese-American mil­i­tary con­tract deal­ing with mil­i­tary, secu­rity and strat­egy themes, and also relates the future of the Lebanese army and its national loy­al­ity, as well as the United States demands from Lebanon in the next phase.

It is worth men­tion­ing that such agree­ment could be signed with the gov­ern­ment and inform the cab­i­net on some items with­out the need to approve it in the House of Representatives.

Dur­ing the talks Edel­man paved the way for sign­ing the agree­ment, refer­ring to the desire of the United States to increase its mil­i­tary and secu­rity aid of Lebanon, which rose up from 50$ to 270$ mil­lion in 2007 and that there is a ten­dency to be a 1/2 bil­lion dol­lars in future. But Wash­ing­ton exam­ines very closely the real­ity of the Lebanese army and its rela­tions (with oth­ers), in par­tic­u­lar the rela­tions pre­vailed dur­ing the past decades.

It was under­stood in this con­text that the United States is focused oat the national level on the guid brochure of the Lebanese Army, which con­tains con­stants policy.

Espe­cially in the 5th sec­tion which empha­sizes (broth­erly rela­tion­ship) and between Lebanon and Syria, and Sec­tion VIII, which empha­sizes the (sup­port­ing the resistance).

The Amer­i­can del­e­ga­tion focused on the Sec­tion V above, is no longer have any jus­ti­fi­ca­tion, and the sec­tion VIII is no longer needed and that the sub­ject of the resis­tance must find appro­pri­ate solu­tion in the next phase.

In the talks Edel­man stated , pointed out that the changes requires us to keep Amer­i­can strat­egy in the region, and that the United States itself is going to inter­nal changes, ( but pol­i­tics and secu­rity are two dif­fer­ent things).

The del­e­ga­tion stressed that the pres­ence of the Rus­sians In north­ern Syria now threat­ens the Amer­i­can pres­ence in the region … The del­e­ga­tion made some remarks about the cold Russian-American war, and the Russ­ian move­ments in the region and the neces­si­tate to change the Amer­i­can strat­egy, since Lebanon is the coun­try clos­est to the Russ­ian base Latakia on the Syr­ian coast, Hence, Lebanon’s small size is an impor­tant strate­gic loca­tion for the Washington.

In this issue the United States believes that any assis­tance to the Lebanese Army and the secu­rity forces must be accom­pa­nied with checks on the future of this army and the equip­ment to be sub­mit­ted to the army, it is feared that the fall of these weapons and ammu­ni­tion in the hands of groups stronger than the army.

In this con­text, the mil­i­tary draft con­ven­tion between Lebanon and the Pen­ta­gon observed by mil­i­tary groups and Amer­i­can intel­li­gence as well as Lebanese joint com­mit­tees to coor­di­nate and follow-up. The Con­ven­tion also pro­vides for the estab­lish­ment of land, air and sea train­ing centers.

It was learned that the debate with Army Com­man­der Gen. Michel Suleiman was accu­rate, the dis­cus­sion was on the role of the army com­man­der and the mil­i­tary junta and the var­i­ous mil­i­tary commands.

It was under­stood from the con­text that in some issues the United States does not see that some top­ics cann’t be addressed with rush, includ­ing the sub­ject of Hezbol­lah weapon , which believes that the army needs train­ing and reha­bil­i­tat­ing for some time.

While we are wait­ing to hear from the Lebanese gov­ern­ment the truth about what hap­pened in the meet­ings, we will not pub­lish fur­ther details.

This is our call to the gov­ern­ment, and they can con­sider this as a warn­ing, or we will pub­lish the secret documents.