The so-called Hizbullah's plan against Tarek Rabaa

Hundreds of Lebanese citizens have been arrested and strangely convicted for spying. The big question today is: Spying on what in Lebanon? What secrets, either technological or military Lebanon have? Lebanon is importing the technology from abroad and no weapons or equipment secrets are available since years to export. Recently, a new type of spying cases has emerged in Lebanon, the pretended cases of telecom spies. This article is revealing the truth behind fabricating a spying case for a telecom employee and the goal behind such exaggerated and falsified accusations; it's the case of Tarek Rabaa.

Hundred of articles have been published on the net regarding a conspiracy to target the so-called Hizbullah by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon by manipulating the Call Data Registry to indict the Resistance in Lebanon in assassinating the ex-prime minister Rafic Hariri. Sharmine Narwani is one of the reporters who has published an article based on a conspiracy theory by using as input a story fabricated by the military intelligence in Lebanon about Telecom spies and she had based her article on an assumption that the telecom sector in Lebanon was infiltrated by the Israelians while ignoring the real political situation and distribution of power in Lebanon. She used the name of telecom engineer Tarek Rabaa who was suspected in 2010 for collaborating with the Mossad. The following article will reveal a shocking truth about the malicious plan to target Tarek Rabaa by the intelligence of the army which is known in Lebanon by its collaboration with the so-called Hizbullah. Once the reader will understand the truth behind indicting Tarek Rabaa he will easily conclude who targeted Rafic al Hariri.



Who is Tarek Rabaa?

Tarek Rabaa, a 41 years old lebanese Telecom engineer was working as head of
transmission engineering unit at Alfa (http://www.alfa.com.lb), one of the cellular operator in Lebanon, was purposely accused in 2010 for collaborating with the Mossad, but in fact it has been revealed he is a victim of torture, fabricated indictment and a conspiracy by those who planned to undermine the STL's indictment (Special Tribunal for Lebanon http://www.stl-tsl.org) which accuses four persons affiliated to the so-called Hizbullah in Killing Rafic Hariri.
Tarek Rabaa holds two university degrees, a Bachelor in telecom engineering and a Master degree in business administration with distinction. He started his career in 1993 as electronic engineer at Cablevision, a private cable tv company and in 1995 he started his job at Cellis as a transmission engineer. Cellis was owned by France Telecom and Najib Mikati until 2004 during which the company brand name has changed to Alfa with a new management company called Fal-Dete. Fal-Dete had managed the cellular network until November 2008 and was replaced by Orascom, an egyptian company, until today. The CEO of Cellis was Salah Bouraad with many names for the technical director position such as Bernard Limeul, Lionel Coussi, Patrick Soulard and Patrick Eid. The CEO for Fal-Dete was Ineke Botter and since 2008 three CEO changed from Kamal Bou Farhat to Samer Salameh to end by Marwan Hayek. The CTO (Chief Technical Officer) for Fal-Dete was Felix Wass and for Orascom Lebanon Assad Abou Sleiman. Tarek Rabaa has acquired a strong experience in the field of microwave transmission engineering and his name becomes prominent in this domain as an expert with 17 years of experience. He got promoted to head of transmission engineering unit in 1999 but he couldn't reach higher positions in 2005 because of sectarianism in the company. Tarek is married with no children and he was travelling either to attend trainings and conferences or for having treatment and tourism.
Tarek was among the employees who deal with the suppliers for transmission equipment Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Huawei and Tellabs and he travelled to France, Finland, Sweden, Italy and many other countries as part of his work.
Tarek Rabaa is a Muslim Sunni, raised in Tarik al Jadidah district in Beirut. He is known by his sincerity, transparency, generosity and ethics. On May 7, 2008 the so-called Hizbullah invaded Beirut but he excluded Tarik al Jadidah for strategical and tactical considerations to target this district by arresting Tarek Rabaa in 2010.



Tarek Rabaa's arrest circumstances:

The last trip for Tarek Rabaa before his detention was in April 2010 to Germany aimed at to visit his brother-in-law. The trip was for one week but it was extended to 15 days because of airports' closure due to Iceland's volcano. After his safe return to Lebanon, he was working on the ministry of telecom's plan to expand the transmission network to cope with the fast increase of subscribers in Lebanon with Marwan Hayek assigned as CEO for Alfa. In June 2010, Charbel Kazzi was arrested and charged for collaborating with the Mossad. Charbel Kazzi, a technician, was the head of Radio and Transmission sub-unit in a maintenance department and his office was in Libatel building co-located with dozens of Alfa's employees. Charbel Kazzi was part of the maintenance department, while Tarek Rabaa was part of the engineering department. However, the activity of each department is independent but inter-departmental coordination is needed to improve the network performance. The engineering department has many units which has a planning role whereas the maintenance department's role is to maintain the quality targets set by the ministry of telecom as key performance indicators. The engineering department deals with planning and follows with the suppliers the executions of the ministry's plans then transfer the network to the maintenance department.
After the arrest of Charbel Kazzi, the 8 of March politicians had demanded to hang the spies, thus giving a political cover to the army's intelligence to arrest more and more. The intelligence was visiting Alfa offices daily and Tarek Rabaa was attending to his work normally until July 12, 2010.
Tarek reports directly to his line manager Farid Baz who was the head of Engineering department and indirectly to the CTO and the CEO and he has, as part of his job description, contacts with local and multinational suppliers as well as with the ministry of telecom and the telecom regulatory authority.
Moreover, the minister of telecom at that time was Charbel Nahhas who is a follower to Michel Aoun who has signed a treaty with the so-called Hizbullah. Also, Marwan Hayek is belonging to Aoun's movement and the president of the telecom regulatory body is also pro March 8 coalition.



What happened on July 12, 2010? The real story:


Two weeks after arresting Charbel Kazzi, Tarek Rabaa was summoned to the
ministry of defense (on July 12, 2010) where the military intelligence had investigated a french number Tarek had denied to be for any intelligence organization, yet he was subject to torture because he refused their plot regarding the infiltration to the cellular network and suddenly they announced on TV and newspapers the arrest of Tarek Rabaa as a suspected telecom spy.



Unlawful file:


The military intelligence had detained Tarek unlawfully for 32 days without any arrest warrant. After 16 days of kidnapping, on July 27, 2010, the military prosecutor Sakr Sakr, known by the government's delegate to the military tribunal, requested to arrest Tarek and to keep him in the ministry of defense
underground detention center. On July 28, 2010 Sakr Sakr wrongly charged Tarek for collaborating with the Mossad and he demanded to arrest and to investigate with him while he was already arbitrary detained and tortured in the ministry of defense. Tarek Rabaa's file was fabricated before the order of Sakr Sakr and without any monitoring or auditing and he was afterwards swinging from a judge to another in a malicious way while his family was completely unaware of what was going on and unable to meet with him for 42 days.
All procedures applied until today are unlawful and weird. For example, two arrest warrants were issued but they were registered in the registry record as follows: on page 1, the case was founded by the military
investigate judge Samih el Hajj on August 4, 2010 who issued an arrest warrant
on August 5, 2010 before interrogating Tarek & without a lawyer. (All
unlawful process was hidden to his lawyer). On August 12,2010 the first military investigate judge Riad Abu Ghayda issued the formal arrest warrant after 32 days of arbitrary detention, but the registry record was falsified by stating on page 3 that the case was founded on July 28, 2010 by Riad Abu Ghayda! How Abu Ghayda who received the file after Samih el Hajj will have a registry date previous to Samih el Hajj? The case is full of infringements & violations of the lebanese law to the extent the tribunal headed by general Nizar Khalil has replied on all the infringements by considering as normal the unlawful process in swinging the file from a judge to another, the manipulation in the dates
and the pages numbers, the arbitrary detention, and 108 days of physical and psychological torture.
As for his lawyer Nada Rabaa, they didn't inform her about the arrest warrant, they prevented her to meet with Tarek and her role was just to attend the
interrogation sessions and nothing else. Then, Tarek was not only deprived of
his defense but also his lawyer was not allowed to perform her tasks.
Tarek had complained the torture & told the military investigate judge about the maltreatment in the ministry of defense but he didn't consider the pain and he didn't entrust any so-called forensic doctor when he saw his very bad physical & psychological situation. The case of Tarek is full of violations, infringements and even plenty of falsifications perpetrated by high ranking level officers in the state
of Lebanon which triggered a coalition of seven international organizations to promptly demand last year the lebanese state to investigate the torture and arbitrary detention and to release Tarek immediately.


Falsified indictment and the plot reveals:


Tarek's file contains neither confession nor evidence and he was suspected based on a French number belonging to a Taxi company called Welcome V&V in Tregastel France. 
While Tarek was arbitrary detained in the ministry of
defense detention center (underground), the so-called Hizbullah & pro-syrians party in Lebanon have triggered a wide defamation campaign telling the Lebanese worldwide, the telecom sector in Lebanon is infiltrated by the israelians after arresting those spies in Alfa company. As a result, they added, the CDR (Call Data Registry) is tampered and subsequently the indictment to issue by the special tribunal for
Lebanon is not reliable anymore. What has been revealed lately that Tarek Rabaa didn't confess for spying and no evidences against him but seven international organizations have announced Tarek Rabaa a victim of torture and arbitrary detention but the state in Lebanon is careless and pretend transparency in the military court headed by Nizar Khalil who is pro 8 of March coalition.
Tarek's family rallied many times to raise the voice high to stop the oppression and they have wondered the suspicious silence of Alfa which didn't announce till today the irrelevancy between Tarek and the CDRs. Tarek Rabaa is in jail since 19 months and he was suspected wrongly based on a French number which has been revealed to be for a Taxi company named Welcome V&V in France. The number is +33607867583 used by Vanni Tran Vivier, a manager for a transport
company in France (please check this link http://www.numero-tva.info/numero-tva/01/86/01860512.html). This number called Tarek on his mobile one time he was attending a training course at Alcatel-Lucent University in 2007. The military intelligence did a mistake intentionally in identifying the number and accused Tarek for spying by saying the number is for the Mossad. Knowing that Welcome V&V was used by Alcatel-Lucent to transport Tarek from the train station in Gingan to the Grand hotel in Perros-Guerec. However when Charbel Kazzi was arrested based on different numbers, the military intelligence had found among Charbel Kazzi's data calls the same French
number who called him in 2008 when he was selected by Alfa company to attend a training at Alcatel-Lucent University. Then the military intelligence committed the
ERROR by not verifying the owner of the number and they had made the link to
accuse Tarek for spying. As long as Tarek was saying NO, he was tortured beastly to end by considering the ex technical director of Cellis Lionel Coussi as the recruiter of Tarek. During the public interrogation of Tarek in the court he has revealed that he didn't meet with Lionel Coussi since 1997 and the intelligence had used this name in the file until 2010 by a scenario directed by the ministry of defense. Please check this link to see who's Lionel Coussi (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/lionel-coussi/17/652/b71) 

it's a scandal for at least the military intelligence, the so-called Hizbullah, for Alfa company from one side and for the state of Lebanon from another side. 
The resistance did many press conferences pretending the violation of telecom network in Lebanon without any evidence but they pre-sentenced Tarek as spy. They have used some paid reporters like Hassan Illeik to support their non-logical story.
Tarek Rabaa's lawyer Nada Rabaa has published an article regarding the case
of no case explaining by evidences the innocence of Tarek of such fabricated prosecution and has asked where's the crime? Is travelling to Europe is prohibited? Does receiving a call from a taxi company is not allowed?. Then the case is purely political and not legal at all. From another side, the foreign suppliers already have the infos about every technical detail in Alfa network, so what more to spy on?



Why they had targeted Tarek Rabaa? The chronological facts:

Since Tarek didn't confess for spying in all stages of interrogations and investigations, they fabricated a falsified story by force and torture. The motive behind accusing Tarek Rabaa with a fabricated indictment has at least 5 major reasons:


1. To decredibilize the STL's indictment which accuses four persons affiliated to the so-called Hizbullah
2. To have a pretext to support the fiber optic project costing 60 millions US dollars by pretending it's more secure than microwave links and if the project will not be approved they will accuse the government to not working for the sake of the country.
3. To protect and cover the military intelligence after torturing Tarek & arbitrary detained him.
4. To likely protect the real spies by distracting the lebanese authorities by arresting wrongly a suspected engineer such as Tarek Rabaa.
5. Alcatel-Lucent wanted to retaliate for loosing its market share in Lebanon against Huawei in 2008.



The chronological facts of the PLOT:


1. On 23 May, 2009 Der Spiegel published a report revealing that the special tribunal for Lebanon STL will indict the Resistance in assassinating Rafic al Hariri based on cellular data calls.

2. Afterwards, the lebanese intelligence departments become suddenly active and they arrested more than 70 suspected spies until they arrested Charbel Kazzi in June 2010 & Tarek Rabaa in July 2010. Subsequently the resistance had triggered a wide TV campaign targeting in advance the STL's indictment which will accuse them based on the CDR (Call Data Registry). The resistance pre-sentenced Tarek regardless of what happened with him in the ministry of defense and they told the Lebanese that the telecom sector was manipulated and the data was tampered by the israelians to jump to a conclusion: the STL indictment is not reliable.

3. On July 15, 2010, thus 3 days after detaining arbitrary Tarek, the Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRA) headed by Dr Imad rushed to meet with the ex prime minister Saad Hariri and with the deputy so-called Hassan Fadlullah from the resistance under a pretext 'network security issue'. They were very active to diffuse an image showing the telecom network as under attack. Meanwhile, Tarek was detained and the first so-called investigation report was dated July 27, 2010 not ratified or signed by Tarek. This confirms that their plan to act as if really the telecom networks are under attack and they stressed on the urgent approval on the fiber optics project.

4. On November 1, 2010, the first military investigator judge Riad Abu Ghayda finalized Tarek Rabaa's interrogation without any confession for spying in spite of all types of pressures they performed on Tarek including physical torture.

5. On November 21, 2010, the CBC newspaper published a new report confirming the STL's indictment will accuse the resistance based on cellular phone calls used in Hariri assassination.

6. On November 23, 2010 the ex minister of telecom Charbel Nahhas together with the telecom regulatory authority as well as the deputy Hassan rushed to carry out a conference press pretending the violation of Telecom sector under the cover of Alfa chairman Marwan Hayek. They based their conference press on the assumption of suspected spies Charbel Kazzi & Tarek Rabaa. At that time, Tarek was transferred to Roumieh jail without indictment yet, but suffering from injuries.

7. Few days after the famous press conference, Riad Abu Ghayda issued on December 6, 2011 a wrong indictment based on lies and he transferred Tarek to the court for prosecution. Riad abu Ghayda had lied in his indictment and he was influenced by the press and the military intelligence.

8. On December 24, 2010 Al-Akhbar newspaper which is pro 8 of March coalition published on its first page a story defaming Tarek Rabaa and it was followed with a TV campaign on al-MANAR & on NBN pre-sentencing Tarek as a spy. The article was prepared by a paid reporter Hassan Illeik who is very close to the military intelligence.

9. On June 2011 the STL issued its indictment accusing 4 persons from the resistance to kill Rafic Hariri and the campaign against Tarek was re-triggered again by al-Manar TV by insisting on considering Tarek as a spy while he's still under prosecution in the military tribunal where he has manifested self-confidence of being innocent from their fabricated stories.
Tarek confirmed not meeting, not contacting and not working for any intelligence group. Tarek explained to the court that he has no decision in the company and all fundings as well as engineering projects are approved by the ministry of Telecom and Alfa management. While Nizar Khalil, the head of the court was interrogating Tarek, the STL issued the indictment. The court had cut the interrogation and postponed Tarek 2.5 months to see what the resistance position will be.

10. From another side, the minister of telecom Charbel Nahhas took the opportunity last year to use Tarek story as pretext to have the approval on the Fiber optic project to say it is safer than microwave and he got this 60 millions$ project though no justified need at that time. Lately, in 2011 the hidden goal has been revealed in Tarchiche area. The resistance planned to use implicitly and discretely the fiber network of the ministry of telecommunication. To cover the project they activated 3G in Lebanon with a very bad quality.

This is a part of the scandal behind targeting Tarek Rabaa: the STL indictment, the private transmission network of the resistance as well as personal interests in the ministry of telecom and last but not least to cover the torture, arbitrary detention, the violation of law and to uncover the real spies. Tarek is still in jail victim of their agenda and he is for sure innocent from their fabrications and lies.
Tarek is an employee who follows orders and he cannot do any expansion in the transmission network without the approval of Alfa management and the ministry of telecom. He has been accused of knowing an agent in the Mossad called Lionel to discover that Lionel is Lionel Coussi who was working in Lebanon for the account of France Telecom.

Until today, the military court is refusing to release Tarek Rabaa because the so-called Hizbullah is impeding that because he fears the scandal and the consequences of using Tarek Rabaa as a scapegoat to decredibilize the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
This is a real story of a pretented spying case which has been communicated to public with an obvious target and scandalous file.

The secret plot of the so-called Hizbullah to rule Lebanon

Time has passed and the major weaknesses of the so-called Hizbullah have revealed after the famous July war between Lebanon and the Israelis in 2006 as well as after the assassination of Rafic al Hariri.
The driver to publish such article is the shocking facts that reflect the real face and weaknesses of such armed party in Lebanon dressing the mask of defending the sovereignty of Lebanon but in fact the so-called Hizbullah with his slogan "The Resistance" is executing a Syrian-Iranian direct agenda with the explicit support of Russia and China from one side and the implicit coordination with the Israelis and the cover of American from another side.

Scandalizing facts
1. The assassination of Rafic Al Hariri in 2005
2. July war 2006
3. May 7, 2008 invasion to Beirut
4. The Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the military court and the Telecoms chapter.
5. The fear from change in Syria and from Saad Al Hariri

1. Killing Rafic Al Hariri
The prime minister Rafic al Hariri was assassinated on February 14, 2005 during the Syrian occupation to Lebanon. On the same day the leader of so-called Hizbullah had announced the strong bond with Hariri and revealed meeting with him secretly. After the assassination, Lebanese were split to March 14 who accused the Syrian regime in the assassination versus March 8 coalition which has accused the Israelis in the assassination. The Syrian troops left Lebanon under the manifestation pressure leaving behind them a country with escalated conflicts, but empowering the so-called Hizbullah to take their role.
Pro-Syrians in Lebanon have claimed the Lebanese to ask the question who benefits from Hariri's assassination? They added that Killing Hariri was the reason behind the Syrian's withdrawal from Lebanon and thus they defended the innocence of Syrians from the explosion.

In fact, the massacres in Syria nowadays are an indicator of such criminal regime who is killing not only men but also children and woman. Also, the so-called Hizbullah's leader Hassan Nasrallah had announced on screens he will not permit the collapse of the Syrian regime and already his party is fighting there.
Moreover, before they killed Rafic Hariri in 2005, the pro-Syrian parties in Lebanon had communicated a wrong message to Syrian about "Hariri loss of popularity". Because of that message, who killed Hariri didn't expect the Lebanese will revolt on Syrian and he considered Lebanese will forget easily. A fact on that is the fast cleaning of the explosion area which was criticized by General Ashraf Rifi.
Also, the weakness of the so-called Hizbullah is his lack of understanding in reading what was really going on field to the extent a message was being propagated that the reason for those who were crying on Hariri is not the love but they were crying because no more money to get. Consequently, the so-called Hizbullah had invited the Lebanese to a manifestation on March 8, 2005 to say Goodbye Syria, thus provoking the other part of Lebanese. Then March 14, 2005 manifestation was the answer to March 8 slogan and afterwards the Syrian troops had left Lebanon.

2. July war 2006
After killing Rafic Hariri, the authority of Syrian becomes weaker in Lebanon and the field has become open the Iranian plan to reach their goal and to adapt their strategy accordingly. To hide their goal, they triggered a war with the Israelis in July 2006 and afterwards a wide campaign on so-called traitors in Lebanon and Lebanese start hearing a new type of indictments tailored by the so-called Hizbullah to use it as a pretext to invade Beirut afterwards.
Observers were shocked by Tsipi Livni who was complimenting the Resistance during July war by saying "if the Israelis army cannot defeat the so-called Hizbullah then no other army will defeat them". Tsipi Livni has scandalized an implicit consent to not reach the target they set to disarm the resistance then opening the door to a new era in Lebanon by BLOWING THE BALLOON of the so-called Hizbullah to the extent their leader Hassan had repeated the words of Tsipi Livni to convey a threat message to the Lebanese.
As a reply on Tsipi Livni message, the facts on field during July war had proved the opposite with a major weakness in the so-called Hizbullah communication network as they announced the use of cellular network during the war. Military experts consider using VHF and UHF devices with simplex mode are 99% safer than using digital communication such as GSM because cellular phones can be easily traced compared to VHF. Consequently, the usage of cellular phones by the resistance is a main indicator of the lack of understanding of security issues within the so-called Hizbullah who was blown by Tsipi Livni to give them implicitly the green light to invade Beirut in 2008 because of the private wired transmission network as well as the theory of those they classified as traitors.

3. May 7, 2008 invasion
After assassinating Hariri in 2005 and July war in 2006, the Syrian president Bashar Assad has announced the victory of Lebanon and asked the Resistance to translate this victory to political gain. An agreement between American and Iran took place in 2008 regarding Iraq thus giving the green light to the so-called Hizbullah to invade Beirut. The pretext was to push the government to change the decision taken on May 5, 2008 to dismantle the private network of the resistance. Hundreds of Lebanese were killed under the silence of the UN. What was shocking also the satisfaction of Georges Bush towards the Lebanese army. He expressed his position in an interview on Al-Arabia TV.
After May 7, 2008 the resistance has reached one of its anchor goal to govern Lebanon with a pretext to protect its arms from what they called traitors, but they didn't pay attention that a Special Tribunal for Lebanon is waving in the horizon. This reveals another major weakness in understanding that they cannot hide their real face and plans even if they were supported by Russia, China, Syria and implicitly by Israelis and American.

4. The Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the military court and the Telecoms scandal
Once again the telecom sector is a major parameter that scandalize the real face of the falsified slogan of the so-called Hizbullah. Trying to mystify Hariri's assassination didn't succeed. July war 2006 manifested errors by using cell phones they couldn't prevent when they killed Rafic Hariri.
After they rebalanced their power during 2008 and the triggering of a campaign on suspected spies, Der Spiegel published an article in 2009 revealing an indictment to issue by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon to accuse the resistance in the assassination of Hariri. Consequently, the intelligence in Lebanon commenced in 2009 to arrest randomly Lebanese because of what they call suspected number and to accuse them for spying. They have arrested more than 150 persons and the Lebanese state governed by the so-called Hizbullah has taken the issue as serious matter to complain to the UN as a breach for the resolution 1701.
Why they did that?
The answer is simple: to mask what has been revealed here above and to convey an image to the Lebanese they are strict towards collaborating with the Mossad and thus to distract the population from any implicit agreement. Most of what they called spies have been released or sentenced for just 1 year or 2 years. Some cases' sentences were politicized with the military court headed by Nizar Khalil under the pressure of the Resistance but released by the military court of cassation. Lately, 4 persons sentenced by the military court for 15 and 10 years prison were released after less than 3 years by the military court of cassation to trigger a defamation campaign on the judge Alice Shobtini because she's uncovering implicitly the so-called Hizbullah plans and plots. The most flagrant case is a telecom engineer from Beirut who was working at Alfa, cellular operator, called Tarek Rabaa. He was arrested in 2010 and the Resistance used his story to attack the Special Tribunal for Lebanon indictment. Tarek Rabaa have been announced internationally a victim of torture and he didn't collaborate with the Mossad. However, the military court is refusing to release him because the so-called Hizbullah will be scandalized again. What is weird, is the silent position of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon which has based a case on the cellular calls. Where's the States position? The UN position on oppression?
This is a flagrant weakness in the structure of the resistance.

5. The fear from the change in Syria and from Saad al Hariri:
After May 7, 2008 the Resistance has governed Lebanon by force. The prime minister Saad al Hariri has discovered by his own experience the real face of the so-called Hizbullah in Lebanon which stands on dishonesty which has led to loss of trust. As a young deputy, Saad Al Hariri the son of Rafic al Hariri will be able to courageously face the lies and the conspirators who killed his father. Because he knows their malicious plot, Saad Al Hariri left Lebanon temporarily to support the freedom of the Syrian people, but from another side, 'the masked resistance' fears the change of the regime in Syria which will lead to weakening the authority of all March 8 coalition in Lebanon.
Also, Tarek Rabaa is a citizen from Tarik al Jadidah district in Beirut which is represented in the parliament by Saad al Hariri, thus the so-called is putting a strong pressure on the military court to not release Tarek Rabaa as to target Saad al Hariri from one side, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon from another side as well as to retaliate from Tarik al Jadidah district the masked resistance couldn't invade on May 7, 2008 because they risked to loose the control and drive the country to sectarian war. However, a party fearing a prisoner is not a healthy indicator of strength. A party backed up by Iran, Syria, Russia, the States and the Israelis, yet fearing the son of Rafic al Hariri is another anchor indicator of weakness.

Conclusion:
The so-called Hizbullah with his masked resistance project in Lebanon has done major strategical errors which have led to an obvious conclusion to describe him as a BLOWN BALLOON which will deflate soon if no radical changes are decided inside the organization. The real face of this pro-Iranian party has revealed, his implicit relations with foreign intelligences, the spies he detected lately internally, the exaggeration on some empty suspected spying cases, the lies, the plots to govern Lebanon, supporting the Syrian regime, his intervention in the judicial system and threatening the Lebanese, the defamation campaigns will lead to a collapse of this organization and change will emerge soon with change in Syria and the return of Saad al Hariri. The puzzle is solved.

Targeting the engineer Tarek Rabaa uncovers the plot to decredibilze the Special Tribunal for Lebanon

Hundreds of Lebanese citizens have been arrested and strangely convicted for spying. The big question today is Spying on what in Lebanon? What secrets, either technological or military Lebanon have? Lebanon is importing the technology from abroad and no weapons or equipment secrets are available since years to export. Recently, a new type of spying cases has emerged in Lebanon, the pretended cases of telecom spies. This article is revealing the truth behind fabricating a spying case for a telecom employee and the goal behind such exaggerated and falsified accusations; it's the case of Tarek Rabaa.
Hundred of articles have been published on the net regarding a conspiracy to target the so-called Hizbullah by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon by manipulating the Call Data Registry to indict the Resistance in Lebanon in assassinating the ex-prime minister Rafic Hariri. Sharmine Narwani is one of the reporters who has published an article based on a conspiracy theory by using as input a story fabricated by the military intelligence in Lebanon about Telecom spies and she had based her article on an assumption that the telecom sector in Lebanon was infiltrated by the Israelians while ignoring the real political situation and distribution of power in Lebanon. She used the name of telecom engineer Tarek Rabaa who was suspected in 2010 for collaborating with the Mossad. The following article will reveal a shocking truth about the malicious plan to target Tarek Rabaa by the intelligence of the army which is known in Lebanon by its collaboration with the so-called Hizbullah. Once the reader will understand the truth behind indicting Tarek Rabaa he will easily conclude who targeted Rafic al Hariri.

Who is Tarek Rabaa?
Tarek Rabaa, a 41 years old Lebanese Telecom engineer was working as head of transmission engineering unit at Alfa (http://www.alfa.com.lb), one of the cellular operator in Lebanon, was purposely accused in 2010 for collaborating with the Mossad, but in fact it has been revealed he is a victim of torture, fabricated indictment and a conspiracy by those who planned to undermine the STL's indictment (Special Tribunal for Lebanon http://www.stl-tsl.org) which accuses four persons affiliated to the so-called Hizbullah in Killing Rafic Hariri.
Tarek Rabaa holds two university degrees, a Bachelor in telecom engineering and a Master degree in business administration with distinction. He started his career in 1993 as electronic engineer at Cablevision, a private cable tv company and in 1995 he started his job at Cellis as a transmission engineer. Cellis was owned by France Telecom and Najib Mikati until 2004 during which the company brand name has changed to Alfa with a new management company called Fal-Dete. Fal-Dete had managed the cellular network until November 2008 and was replaced by Orascom, an Egyptian company, until today. The CEO of Cellis was Salah Bouraad with many names for the technical director position such as Bernard Limeul, Lionel Coussi, Patrick Soulard and Patrick Eid. The CEO for Fal-Dete was Ineke Botter and since 2008 three CEO changed from Kamal Bou Farhat to Samer Salameh to end by Marwan Hayek. The CTO (Chief Technical Officer) for Fal-Dete was Felix Wass and for Orascom Lebanon Assad Abou Sleiman. Tarek Rabaa has acquired a strong experience in the field of microwave transmission engineering and his name becomes prominent in this domain as an expert with 17 years of experience. He got promoted to head of transmission engineering unit in 1999 but he couldn't reach higher positions in 2005 because of sectarianism in the company. Tarek is married with no children and he was traveling either to attend trainings and conferences or for having treatment and tourism.
Tarek was among the employees who deal with the suppliers for transmission equipment Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Huawei and Tellabs and he traveled to France, Finland, Sweden, Italy and many other countries as part of his work.
Tarek Rabaa is a Muslim Sunni, raised in Tarik al Jadidah district in Beirut. He is known by his sincerity, transparency, generosity and ethics. On May 7, 2008 the so-called Hizbullah invaded Beirut but he excluded Tarik al Jadidah for strategical and tactical considerations to target this district by arresting Tarek Rabaa in 2010.

Tarek Rabaa's arrest circumstances:
The last trip for Tarek Rabaa before his detention was in April 2010 to Germany aimed at to visit his brother-in-law. The trip was for one week but it was extended to 15 days because of airports' closure due to Iceland's volcano. After his safe return to Lebanon, he was working on the ministry of telecom's plan to expand the transmission network to cope with the fast increase of subscribers in Lebanon with Marwan Hayek assigned as CEO for Alfa. In June 2010, Charbel Kazzi was arrested and charged for collaborating with the Mossad. Charbel Kazzi, a technician, was the head of Radio and Transmission sub-unit in a maintenance department and his office was in Libatel building co-located with dozens of Alfa's employees. Charbel Kazzi was part of the maintenance department, while Tarek Rabaa was part of the engineering department. However, the activity of each department is independent but inter-departmental coordination is needed to improve the network performance. The engineering department has many units which has a planning role whereas the maintenance department's role is to maintain the quality targets set by the ministry of telecom as key performance indicators. The engineering department deals with planning and follows with the suppliers the executions of the ministry's plans then transfer the network to the maintenance department.
After the arrest of Charbel Kazzi, the 8 of March politicians had demanded to hang the spies, thus giving a political cover to the army's intelligence to arrest more and more. The intelligence was visiting Alfa offices daily and Tarek Rabaa was attending to his work normally until July 12, 2010. Tarek reports directly to his line manager Farid Baz who was the head of Engineering department and indirectly to the CTO and the CEO and he has, as part of his job description, contacts with local and multinational suppliers as well as with the ministry of telecom and the telecom regulatory authority. Moreover, the minister of telecom at that time was Charbel Nahhas who is a follower to Michel Aoun who has signed a treaty with the so-called Hizbullah. Also, Marwan Hayek is belonging to Aoun's movement and the president of the telecom regulatory body is also pro March 8 coalition.

What happened on July 12, 2010? The real story:
Two weeks after arresting Charbel Kazzi, Tarek Rabaa was summoned to the ministry of defense (on July 12, 2010) where the military intelligence had investigated a French number Tarek had denied to be for any intelligence organization, yet he was subject to torture because he refused their plot regarding the infiltration to the cellular network and suddenly they announced on TV and newspapers the arrest of Tarek Rabaa as a suspected telecom spy.
Unlawful file:
The military intelligence had detained Tarek unlawfully for 32 days without any arrest warrant. After 16 days of kidnapping, on July 27, 2010, the military prosecutor Sakr Sakr, known by the government's delegate to the military tribunal, requested to arrest Tarek and to keep him in the ministry of defense underground detention center. On July 28, 2010 Sakr Sakr wrongly charged Tarek for collaborating with the Mossad and he demanded to arrest and to investigate with him while he was already arbitrary detained and tortured in the ministry of defense. Tarek Rabaa's file was fabricated before the order of Sakr Sakr and without any monitoring or auditing and he was afterwards swinging from a judge to another in a malicious way while his family was completely unaware of what was going on and unable to meet with him for 42 days. All procedures applied until today are unlawful and weird. For example, two arrest warrants were issued but they were registered in the registry record as follows: on page 1, the case was founded by the military
investigate judge Samih el Hajj on August 4, 2010 who issued an arrest warrant on August 5, 2010 before interrogating Tarek & without a lawyer. (All unlawful process was hidden to his lawyer). On August 12,2010 the first military investigate judge Riad Abu Ghayda issued the formal arrest warrant after 32 days of arbitrary detention, but the registry record was falsified by stating on page 3 that the case was founded on July 28, 2010 by Riad Abu Ghayda! How Abu Ghayda who received the file after Samih el Hajj will have a registry date previous to Samih el Hajj? The case is full of infringements & violations of the Lebanese law to the extent the tribunal headed by general Nizar Khalil has replied on all the infringements by considering as normal the unlawful process in swinging the file from a judge to another, the manipulation in the dates and the pages numbers, the arbitrary detention, and 108 days of physical and psychological torture.
As for his lawyer Nada Rabaa, they didn't inform her about the arrest warrant, they prevented her to meet with Tarek and her role was just to attend the interrogation sessions and nothing else. Then, Tarek was not only deprived of his defense but also his lawyer was not allowed to perform her tasks.
Tarek had complained the torture & told the military investigate judge about the maltreatment in the ministry of defense but he didn't consider the pain and he didn't entrust any so-called forensic doctor when he saw his very bad physical & psychological situation. The case of Tarek is full of violations, infringements and even plenty of falsifications perpetrated by high ranking level officers in the state of Lebanon which triggered a coalition of seven international organizations to promptly demand last year the Lebanese state to investigate the torture and arbitrary detention and to release Tarek immediately.

Falsified indictment and the plot reveals:
Tarek's file contains neither confession nor evidence and he was suspected based on a French number belonging to a Taxi company called Welcome V&V in Tregastel France. 
While Tarek was arbitrary detained in the ministry of defense detention center (underground), the so-called Hizbullah & pro-Syrians party in Lebanon have triggered a wide defamation campaign telling the Lebanese worldwide, the telecom sector in Lebanon is infiltrated by the israelians after arresting those spies in Alfa company. As a result, they added, the CDR (Call Data Registry) is tampered and subsequently the indictment to issue by the special tribunal for
Lebanon is not reliable anymore. What has been revealed lately that Tarek Rabaa didn't confess for spying and no evidences against him but seven international organizations have announced Tarek Rabaa a victim of torture and arbitrary detention but the state in Lebanon is careless and pretend transparency in the military court headed by Nizar Khalil who is pro 8 of March coalition.
Tarek's family rallied many times to raise the voice high to stop the oppression and they have wondered the suspicious silence of Alfa which didn't announce till today the irrelevancy between Tarek and the CDRs. Tarek Rabaa is in jail since 19 months and he was suspected wrongly based on a French number which has been revealed to be for a Taxi company named Welcome V&V in France. The number is +33607867583 used by Vanni Tran Vivier, a manager for a transport
company in France (please check this link http://www.numero-tva.info/numero-tva/01/86/01860512.html). This number called Tarek on his mobile one time he was attending a training course at Alcatel-Lucent University in 2007. The military intelligence did a mistake intentionally in identifying the number and accused Tarek for spying by saying the number is for the Mossad. Knowing that Welcome V&V was used by Alcatel-Lucent to transport Tarek from the train station in Gingan to the Grand hotel in Perros-Guerec. However when Charbel Kazzi was arrested based on different numbers, the military intelligence had found among Charbel Kazzi's data calls the same French number who called him in 2008 when he was selected by Alfa company to attend a training at Alcatel-Lucent University. Then the military intelligence committed the
ERROR by not verifying the owner of the number and they had made the link to accuse Tarek for spying. As long as Tarek was saying NO, he was tortured beastly to end by considering the ex technical director of Cellis Lionel Coussi as the recruiter of Tarek. During the public interrogation of Tarek in the court he has revealed that he didn't meet with Lionel Coussi since 1997 and the intelligence had used this name in the file until 2010 by a scenario directed by the ministry of defense. Please check this link to see who's Lionel Coussi (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/lionel-coussi/17/652/b71) 

it's a scandal for at least the military intelligence, the so-called Hizbullah, for Alfa company from one side and for the state of Lebanon from another side. The resistance did many press conferences pretending the violation of telecom network in Lebanon without any evidence but they pre-sentenced Tarek as spy. They have used some paid reporters like Hassan Illeik to support their non-logical story.
Tarek Rabaa's lawyer Nada Rabaa has published an article regarding the case of no case explaining by evidences the innocence of Tarek of such fabricated prosecution and has asked where's the crime? Is traveling to Europe is prohibited? Does receiving a call from a taxi company is not allowed?. Then the case is purely political and not legal at all. From another side, the foreign suppliers already have the infos about every technical detail in Alfa network, so what more to spy on?

Why they had targeted Tarek Rabaa? The chronological facts:
Since Tarek didn't confess for spying in all stages of interrogations and investigations, they fabricated a falsified story by force and torture. The motive behind accusing Tarek Rabaa with a fabricated indictment has at least 5 major reasons:
1. To decredibilize the STL's indictment which accuses four persons affiliated to the so-called Hizbullah
2. To have a pretext to support the fiber optic project costing 60 millions US dollars by pretending it's more secure than microwave links and if the project will not be approved they will accuse the government to not working for the sake of the country.
3. To protect and cover the military intelligence after torturing Tarek & arbitrary detained him.
4. To likely protect the real spies by distracting the Lebanese authorities by arresting wrongly a suspected engineer such as Tarek Rabaa.
5. Alcatel-Lucent wanted to retaliate for loosing its market share in Lebanon against Huawei in 2008.

The chronological facts of the PLOT:
1. On 23 May, 2009 Der Spiegel published a report revealing that the special tribunal for Lebanon STL will indict the Resistance in assassinating Rafic al Hariri based on cellular data calls.
2. Afterwards, the Lebanese intelligence departments become suddenly active and they arrested more than 70 suspected spies until they arrested Charbel Kazzi in June 2010 & Tarek Rabaa in July 2010. Subsequently the resistance had triggered a wide TV campaign targeting in advance the STL's indictment which will accuse them based on the CDR (Call Data Registry). The resistance pre-sentenced Tarek regardless of what happened with him in the ministry of defense and they told the Lebanese that the telecom sector was manipulated and the data was tampered by the israelians to jump to a conclusion: the STL indictment is not reliable.
3. On July 15, 2010, thus 3 days after detaining arbitrary Tarek, the Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRA) headed by Dr Imad rushed to meet with the ex prime minister Saad Hariri and with the deputy so-called Hassan Fadlullah from the resistance under a pretext 'network security issue'. They were very active to diffuse an image showing the telecom network as under attack. Meanwhile, Tarek was detained and the first so-called investigation report was dated July 27, 2010 not ratified or signed by Tarek. This confirms that their plan to act as if really the telecom networks are under attack and they stressed on the urgent approval on the fiber optics project.
4. On November 1, 2010, the first military investigator judge Riad Abu Ghayda finalized Tarek Rabaa's interrogation without any confession for spying in spite of all types of pressures they performed on Tarek including physical torture.
5. On November 21, 2010, the CBC newspaper published a new report confirming the STL's indictment will accuse the resistance based on cellular phone calls used in Hariri assassination.
6. On November 23, 2010 the ex minister of telecom Charbel Nahhas together with the telecom regulatory authority as well as the deputy Hassan rushed to carry out a conference press pretending the violation of Telecom sector under the cover of Alfa chairman Marwan Hayek. They based their conference press on the assumption of suspected spies Charbel Kazzi & Tarek Rabaa. At that time, Tarek was transferred to Roumieh jail without indictment yet, but suffering from injuries.
7. Few days after the famous press conference, Riad Abu Ghayda issued on December 6, 2011 a wrong indictment based on lies and he transferred Tarek to the court for prosecution. Riad abu Ghayda had lied in his indictment and he was influenced by the press and the military intelligence.
8. On December 24, 2010 Al-Akhbar newspaper which is pro 8 of March coalition published on its first page a story defaming Tarek Rabaa and it was followed with a TV campaign on al-MANAR & on NBN pre-sentencing Tarek as a spy. The article was prepared by a paid reporter Hassan Illeik who is very close to the military intelligence.
9. On June 2011 the STL issued its indictment accusing 4 persons from the resistance to kill Rafic Hariri and the campaign against Tarek was re-triggered again by al-Manar TV by insisting on considering Tarek as a spy while he's still under prosecution in the military tribunal where he has manifested self-confidence of being innocent from their fabricated stories.
Tarek confirmed not meeting, not contacting and not working for any intelligence group. Tarek explained to the court that he has no decision in the company and all fundings as well as engineering projects are approved by the ministry of Telecom and Alfa management. While Nizar Khalil, the head of the court was interrogating Tarek, the STL issued the indictment. The court had cut the interrogation and postponed Tarek 2.5 months to see what the resistance position will be.
10. From another side, the minister of telecom Charbel Nahhas took the opportunity last year to use Tarek story as pretext to have the approval on the Fiber optic project to say it is safer than microwave and he got this 60 millions$ project though no justified need at that time. Lately, in 2011 the hidden goal has been revealed in Tarchiche area. The resistance planned to use implicitly and discretely the fiber network of the ministry of telecommunication. To cover the project they activated 3G in Lebanon with a very bad quality.

This is a part of the scandal behind targeting Tarek Rabaa: the STL indictment, the private transmission network of the resistance as well as personal interests in the ministry of telecom and last but not least to cover the torture, arbitrary detention, the violation of law and to uncover the real spies. Tarek is still in jail victim of their agenda and he is for sure innocent from their fabrications and lies. Tarek is an employee who follows orders and he cannot do any expansion in the transmission network without the approval of Alfa management and the ministry of telecom. He has been accused of knowing an agent in the Mossad called Lionel to discover that Lionel is Lionel Coussi who was working in Lebanon for the account of France Telecom.
Until today, the military court is refusing to release Tarek Rabaa because the so-called Hizbullah is impeding that because he fears the scandal and the consequences of using Tarek Rabaa as a scapegoat to decredibilize the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
This is a real story of a pretented spying case which has been communicated to public with an obvious target and scandalous file.