Othman warns over politics' impact on security
Internal Security Forces chief Maj. Gen Imad Othman has reassured that the security situation in Lebanon is “under control,” while warning over “the impact of politics on security and stability.”
“I sense that the (ISF) institution is in danger. There are parties targeting it because it is in control of security in the country. I don’t want to delve into details, but there is a direct and unjustified targeting of the ISF,” Othman added, in an interview with Asharq al-Awsat newspaper.
The major general also said that the strongest motive that pushes the ISF to continue its missions is its belief that “someone wants to replace it” and that “someone wants chaos instead of stability.”
“There are problems such as the security hotbeds which are spread in some areas and which take a military aspect; the Palestinian camps and the fighting that takes place in them every once and a while; and Syrian displacement and the fears that security concerns grow because of it,” Othman added.
“There are many crimes related to Syrian presence and this represents a pressure on security forces and on prisons’ infrastructure in Lebanon, seeing as the number of Syrian prisoners has become around one third of the number of prisoners in Lebanon,” the ISF chief warned.
Source: Naharnet
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