Bombings and the Lebanese Security tactic

Background:

Most of the pedestrians in Beirut are used to by now to the spectacular presence of the military with in their streets. A presence that the Lebanese themselves had always missed until they got accustomed to its absence, and got over this yearning for law enforcement since the civil war, where a law enforcement was a gun attached to your belly side, and a grenade in your hand.

The civil war ended, and the Lebanese dropped the “manual”id self law enforcement, and handed it out to the Syrians that had their own law explanations, and surly implementations.

This excessive presence of the military spreading around, with tanks, and military jeeps, soldiers at guard with gear and weapon, does not fool fellow Lebanese citizens and co. that they are being protected. The Lebanese unlike any other nation do not respect their army, in fact most of the Lebanese males spent more time thinking about how to escape the military service, then the actual service time. They have a developed a strange practice towards “ the state missionaries that should protect, save and punish counter state activities, such as steeling electricity, that ranks in the same problematic frame as bombing and terrorism for examples.

These tow practices are related to each other, and cannot be separated. The most general practice is to ignore their existence, from the complicated military presence to the simpler from of it the Darak (the men in blue, drive white or black Ford jeeps, and listen to Haifa Wehbe, and they never show up at emergencies or when they are actually needed). This ignoring might be misleading to the army officers and soldiers, and could give the impression that they (the Military) are feared and respected, which is not the case. This leads to the second practice, to refuse and repel against them, like the “Hay El Solom “incident.

The Lebanese Security Tactics

Imagine that there is a “terrorist that is going to place a bomb under some politician’s car; I believe this could happen.

The terrorist is in his can, where in the back he has 20 kilos of TNT, and few gun, and grenades; he is stopped at on one to the checkpoint:

Military officer: ween raya7? Ma3ak shi bel sayara ? (Where are you heading to, do u have something in car?)

Terrorist: in a very typical Lebanese attitude “ 7ad bet walid jomblat, la2a ma3i shi mehem , shwayet metfejrat,heheh” ( next to Walid Jomblat house, nothing important, few explosives, hehehe)

Military officer: bala hadam, het wora2ak. ( it is not funny give me your papers )- looks at the papers, “ ah intah min beit flen, bet3refo la flen flen”

Terrorist” lik sho bek ya zalmeh , ma howeh ibn 3ami il lazam- ( what are talking man, he is my cousin”

Military officer: :”tab head wora2ak wo salemleh 3alih , ilo a7la 2yem walla kenet be il ejbereh, bas neylo faraka, wala sheghel bel jeish metel 2lto“( ok , take your papers, and give him my best regards, we spent our best time in the service together, he is lucky he ran away.. working in the army makes no difference ”

Terrorist: shokran . yalla ntbeh 3a 7alak , ya zalameh il wade3 she bekhwef , kil youm infijar .. (Thanks, take care of your self man, every other day we have a explosion..) .END

Ps :Walid Jomblat was just an example, any incident that my occur has nothing to do with the scenario above, and the imaginary Arab was or will be not a part of it, or even thought about out it, or know somebody who did. The imaginary Arab claims no responsibility of what happens or will happen to Walid jomblat. ( it is the Syrians)