Al-Manar special report – Ali Hashem- Translated/
"Surprising was the announcement of former Acting Interior Minister and current Youth and Sports Minister Ahmed Fatfat, that Internal Security Forces (ISF) are being equipped to limit the influence of Hezbollah. Fatfat was signaling that the ISF was being transformed from a national security body for all the Lebanese to a private security service, with a primary goal to fight Hezbollah in Lebanon. In an interview with the Canadian Globe and Mail newspaper, Fatfat said that there are ongoing efforts to support ISF with more than 8,000 additional troops to block what he called "an expected coup attempt by Hezbollah and its allies".
According to the newspaper, the West backs the so called majority in forming an armed militia to face Hezbollah, through aids presented by many countries. Indications that these militias are already functioning in Beirut are the incidents that took place Sunday in the capital's Qasqas region as well as other areas, in which Future Movement armed militias opened fire at people heading to down town Beirut to take part in the peaceful sit-in organized by the National Opposition, and killed and injured a number of people. Moreover, a minister in Saniora's unconstitutional government, Michel Faraon, warned in an interview with the Sharq Al-Awsat daily that loyalists to the ruling bloc will attempt to cut off roads leading to south Lebanon and the Bekaa region, in retaliation of the sit-in outside the Grand Serail, where Saniora and his political bloc are entrenched. "
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