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LEXICON OF THE SECURITY ZONE IN SOUTH LEBANON.

                                  UPDATED  TO SEPTEMBER 1999
 
 

 LAHED ANTUAN - GENERAL: GENERAL LAHED  BORN 1925(74 YEARS OLD TODAY)IN THE MATTAN MOUNTAINS.HE CHOSE A MILITARY CAREER AND SERVED IN 1984  AS HEAD OF LEBANON MILITARY INTELLIGENCE .CONSIDERED TO BE A CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST AND A FIRM OPOSITIONER TO SYRIAN PRESENCE IN LEBANON.IN 1984,WHEN HE WAS NOT CHOSEN TO BE THE LEBANEESE ARMY  CHIEFF OF STAFF –HE AGREED TO TAKE THE COMMAND OF THE SOUTH LEBANON ARMY(SLA).THE GENERAL’S CONDITION THIS WITH  HIS RULING OVER THE GEZIN AREA(SEE GEZIN ENCLAVE). SINCE 1991 , AS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT IN LEBANON WAS REESTABLISHED ,UNDER SYRIAN PROTECTION,AND ’SLA’ BECAME A MAINLY SHEEITE FORCE ,PRESUMABLY HE LOST HOPE TO PUSH SYRIA OUT FO LEBANON,WITH ISRAELI HELP ,AND RETAIN AN IDEPENDENT STATUS IN A CHRISTIAN LEBANON .THE GENERAL DOES NOT,PRACTICALLY,COMMAND THE’ SLA’ 'WHICH IS UNDER DIRECT ISRAELI COMMAND NOW .  SIGNS OF HIS WISH FOR A SAFE DEPARTURE  AND A POLITICAL ASSYLUM IN FRANCE ACCUMULATE .TODAY HE SERVES AS A COUNSELOR AND GIVES LEGITIMATION TO THE PRESENSE OF ‘IDF’ (ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCE) IN SOUTH LEBANON.HIS RETIREMENT WILL,NO DOUBT,COUSE A SEVERE CRISIS IN SLA.
 

‘LUL’-LAISON UNIT FOR LEBANON (YAKAL- IN HEBREW):THE ‘LUL’  WAS FORMED IN 1985 ,WITH THE FORMATION OF THE SECURITY ZONE.,TO REPLACE THE  COORDINATING BODY OF SOUTH LEBANON REGION(THEN ‘ADAL’-IN HEBREW)-HEADED BY MAJOR SAED HADAD AND SAMI SHIDIYAK AND SHAPED IN 1978-1982.(SEE SECURITY ZONE).THE TASK OF THIS UNIT WAS TO TRAIN AND SUPPLY ‘SLA’  ,TAKE CARE OF THE SOUTH LEBANON POPULATION , COORDINATE BETWEEN ‘SLA’ AND ‘IDF’ AND  DEVELOPE RELATIONS WITH POWER BASES IN LEBANON.HENCEFORTH THE INTELLIGENCE SECTION OF ‘LUL’ IS ,RELATIVELY,STRONG. ‘LUL’ DID NOT GET OPERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY IN SOUTH LEBANON.EVEN BEFOR 1982  THE COMMAND OF LAISON FOR SOUTH LEBANON  WAS PLACED IN THE HANDS OF SENIOR INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS. THESE OFFICERS SPECIALISED IN LEARNING THE POWER PLAY IN LEBANON, PARTICULARLY UNDERSTANDING OF THE MANIPULATIVE CHARACTER  OF LEBANEESE TO PLAY DIFFERENT PARTIES, INCLUDING ‘IDF’ ,IN THEIR INTERESTS,,AND LESS IN OPERATIONAL QUALITY OF ‘SLA’ .SINCE 1982,WHEN BRIG-GEN’  DAVID AGMON TOOK OVER FROM BRIG-GEN’ DANI ROTSHIELD(ARMY INTELLIGENCE)-THE ROLE BECAME A PROMOTIVE ONE FOR LEADING COLLONELS ,ALL OF THEM WITH INFANTRY BACKGROUND.NATURALY THESE COMMANDERS CONCENTRATED THEMSELVES ON OPERATIONAL QUALITIES OF ‘SLA’, MORE THEN ON OTHER ISSUES.THEY ASKED FOR –AND RECEIVED IN TIME-OPERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES.THREE FACTORS:1.THE LOW OPERATIONAL STANDARD OF ‘SLA’,EVEN WHEN IMPROVED,2.THE TRADITIONAL CHRISTIAN COMMAND OF ‘SLA’ MANIPULATE THE ‘IDF’ AND REFRAIN TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY AND 3. THE    OPERATIONAL DEMANDS OF ‘IDF’-BROUGHT ,IN TIME, TO A GREATER  INVOLVEMENT OF ‘IDF’ ,FAR GREATER THEN NECESSARY FOR THE SUPPORT OF ‘SLA’.NOWDAYS THE STRESS MARK IN ‘LUL’ IS ON OPERATIONS COMMAND AND NOT ON THE TRADITIONAL SUPPORT AND TRAINING OF ‘SLA’ .PARTICULARLY IN AISHIYE-REYHAN AREA A RELATIVELY LARGE ‘IDF’ FORCE GUARDS THE ROAD TO GEZIN,WHICH  ,IS NO MORE UNDER  ISRAELI CONTROL. IN ADDITION TO REGULAR ARMY DUTIES-‘LUL’(YAKAL) HAS A BODY FOR CIVIL SUPPORT,A CONTROL BOARD OVER THE BORDER PASSES: TOWARDS THE NORTH - THROUGH THE RED LINE AND SOUTH ,INTO ISRAEL-THROUGH THE PURPLE LINE ,A BOARD FOR INTERNAL  SECURITY AND A RADIO AND MEDIA NETWORK.
 

GEZIN ENCLAVE: THE TOWN OF GEZIN IS 35 KM NORTH OF METULA AND 17 KM EAST OF
SIDON,ON THE  WESTERN SLOPES OF  BARUCH MOUNTAIN AND OVER THE SOURCES
 OF  THE AWALLI RIVER.THE TOWN SERVED AS A CENTRE OF TOURISM AND RECREATION
 FOR RICH CHRISTIAN OF LEBANON.QUITE A NUMBER OF GEZIN CITIZENS SERVE IN HIGH
 RANKING POSITIONS IN THE LEBANEESE GOVERNMENT.IN THE  YEARS 1976-1982 THE
 TOWN WAS UNDER  SYRIAN GOVERNING,WITH ISRAELI APPROVAL,WHICH PERMITTED
 THE SYRIAN INTERFERENCE ON BEHALF OF THE CHRISTIANS IN LEBANON .THE AREA OF
 THE ENCLAVE IN 1985,INCLUDING SOME VILLAGES, WAS SOME 110 SQ.KM .ITS’
POPULATION  ABOUT 15,000 AND ABOUT 35,000 CHRISTIAN  REFUGEES,WHO ESCAPED FOR
 FEAR OF THE DRUZ ONCE IDF RETREATED FROM THAT AREA..THE POPULATION WAS
 PROTECTED BY A CHRISTIAN FORCE (WHICH LATER BECAME A BATTALION IN THE’ SLA’)
 AND  A REGULAR LEBANESE COMPANY –THE TWO COOPERATED. THE LOCATION’ THE
 SIZE OF CHRISTIAN POPULATION,,FINANCIAL ASSETS AND MILITARY FORCE-WERE  ALL
 REASONS WHY GENERAL LAHED CONDITIONED HIS COMMAND OVER SOUTH LEBANON
 ARMY WITH CONTROL OVER THE ENCLAVE. ON 20.04.85 ISRAELI DEFENCE MINISTER
 GAVE PERMITION TO SUPPLY,TRAIN AND FINANCE THE  FORCE UNDER  GEN. LAHED’S
 COMMAND,BUT NOT INCLUDE IT IN THE SECURITY ZONE. TO FORM A TERRITORIAL
 CONTINUITY THE SECURITY ZONE WAS STRETCHED 25 KM NORTH TO METULA UP TO THE
 SUBURBS OF GEZIN,HENCEFORTH  AN UNFORSEEN BOND FORMED BETWEEN ISRAEL AND
 GEZIN ENCLAVE.
SINCE 1991 A REBUILDING OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT IN LEBANON TOOK PLACE
 ,UNDER SYRIAN PROTECTORATE,AND THIS RESULTED IN RETURN HOME OF REFUGEES.AT THE SAME TIME THE COOPERATION BETWEEN  LEBANESE  ARMY AND ‘SLA’ BATTALION
 ENDED.FIGHTING IN THE AREA  CUT THE ENCLAVE FROM THE REST OF LEBANON-AND
 FOLLOWING THAT WERE A FINANCIAL DOWNFALL, DESERTION OF POPULATION AND A
CONTINUOUS FRICTION BETWEEN ‘SLA’ AND LOCAL POPULATION, WHICH RENEWED
 COOPERATION WITH THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT AND INTELLIGENCE.ONCE THE
 ISRAELI UMBERELLA WAS WITHROWN, THE ‘SLA’ SOLDIERS BECAME VULNERABLE AND
 STARTED TO DESERT.THE ‘SLA’ BATALLION WITH SOME 650 SOLDIERS IN 1985 CAME
 DOWN TO 210 IN 1999,AND THE AREA CONTRACTED TO 15 SQ.KM.ONCE THE ENCLAVE
 COLLAPSED IN 01.06.99,SOME 3500 CITIZENS REMAINED.SO GEZIN BECAME A BURDEN
 INSTEAD OF AN ASSET.
 

‘SLA’-SOUTH LEBANON ARMY: NUMBERS APPROXIMATELY 2500 SOLDIERS,THE STANDARD OF WHICH RELATES TO THEIR GROUP AFFILIATION,BUSINESS CONTACTS IN LEBANON AND FUTURE ASPIRATIONS-THEREFORE PROBLEMATIC.IN THE LAST YEARS  ABOUT 70% OF ‘ SLA’ SOLDIERS ARE SHEEITE,WITH NEXT OF KIN IN THE HIZBULLAH(OUR MAIN ENEMY).COMMAND OVER’ SLA’ IS ,MAINLY, IN CHRISTIAN HANDS,PARTLY IN DRUZ HANDS AND ONLY A SMALL PART OF ‘SLA’ COMMAND IS SHEEITE .ON THE OTHER HAND AMONG THE SIMPLE SOLDIERS THERE ARE NO CHRISTIANS.ALSO MANY OF THE CHRISTIANS HAVE RELATIVES  AMIDST LEBANESE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS.THIS RESULTS IN DISLOYALTY AND TENSION BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT GROUPS IN ‘SLA’..
‘SLA’ HEADQUARTER IS IN MARG-AYOUN. ‘SLA’ CONTAIN HEADQARTERS OF TWO(2) REGIMENTS(EASTERN AND WESTERN),REGIONAL BATTALIONS, ARMOUR AND ARTILLERY ELEMENTS AND A TRAINING CORPS.INCLUDED IN ‘SLA’ IS A LOCAL SECURITY FORCE AND CIVIL MANAGEMENT SERVICE.THE SALARY OF A RECRUIT TO ‘SLA’ IS 360 US& PER MONTH,RAISED ACCORDING TO RANK,SENIORITY AND PROFESSION-A WORTHY PAY ,IN LEBANESE STANDARDS.
 
 

RED LINE:THE NORTHERN BORDER OF THE SECURITY ZONE STRETCHES  FOR 130 KM FROM NORTH-EAST SLOPES OF HERMON MOUNTAIN TILL THE MEDITTERANEAN SEA IN SOUTH WEST.THE BORDER WAS DERIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING :1.NECCESSITY TO  PUT OBSTACLES ON TERRORIST INFILTRATION GROUPS 2.ACCORDING TO REGIONAL TOPOGRAPHY 3. FORMATION OF TERRITORIAL CONTINUITY  WITH GEZIN ENCLAVE(SEE-GEZIN ENCLAVE) AND 4..INCLUDE SYMPATHETIC POPULATION ,LIKE DRUZ FROM THE HATZBAYA REGION IN THE EAST.PRACTICALLY THE LINE REPRESENTS THE LIMITS OF ACTION FOR’ IDF’ ACTIVITY,SUPPORT AND AID TO’ SLA’,WITHOUT REQUIRING A CABINET(GOVERNMENT) PERMISSION FOR EVERY ACTION,AS IS DEMANDED BY LAW WHEN ‘IDF’ ACTS OUT  OF THE ISRAELI BORDER.PRACTICALLY THERE ARE PARTS INSIDE THE ZONE WHICH ARE ABANDONED OPERATIVELY BY ‘IDF’ AND ‘SLA’.
 
 

THE PURPLE LINE: IS THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER LINE BETWEEN ISRAEL AND LEBANON.THE BORDER STRECHES FOR A 120 KM FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA IN THE WEST TO MT HERMON IN THE NORTH WEST.ALONG THE LINE ARE MINEFIELDS AND SEVERAL OBSTACLES INSTALLED TO PREVENT ,DETECT AND UNCOVER EVERY INFILTRATION INTO ISRAELI TERRITORY.IN PARTS THE LINE STRECHES ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF VILLAGES LIKE ZAR’IT,DOVEV,AVIVIM,MALKIA ETC.ALONG THE LINE THERE ARE CONTROLLED PASSES FOR SHIPMENT OF GOODS AND MEN BETWEEN ISRAEL AND SOUTH LEBANON.
 
 

SECURITY ZONE: AREA OF SOUTH LEBENON RUNNING PARALLEL TO THE ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER.ITS’ LENGTH IN A STRAIGHT LINE  FROM THE SLOPES OF MT.HERMON TILL THE MEDITERRANEAN  SEA IS 90 KM.PRACTICALLY,DUE TO THE WINDING ROUTE OF THE BORDER,ITS’ LENGTH IS 120 KM.THE WIDTH OF THE ZONE VARIES FROM A MERE 3 KM AT ZAR’IT AND FROM METULA TO THE KNEE OF LITANI RIVER, UP TO 25 KM FROM METULA TO THE PASS AT KAFR HUNA. AREA  OF SECURITY ZONE IS SOME. 1000 SQ.KM.THE ZONE FORMED ON THE FOUNDATION OF CHRISTIAN ENCLAVES FORMED BY THE LEBANESE ARMY IN 1976.ONE ENCLAVE ,ROUND MARG- AYOUN(OPPOSITE METULA)WAS UNDER THE COMMAND OF MAJOR  SA’ED HADAD  AND THE SECOND ,IN RUMEISH/DIBEL,UNDER THE COMMAND OF MAJOR  SAMI SHIDYAK(OPPOSITE BIRANIT).AS THE TWO ENCLAVE S WERE CUT OFF THE CHRISTIAN CENTRE IN THE NORTH-THE TWO COMMANDERS TURNED TO ‘IDF’ FOR SUPPORT,WHICH WAS GRANTED.THESE TWO ENCLAVES WERE ENLARGED INTO A TERRITORIAL CONTINUITY AFTER THE ‘LITANY’ OPERATION IN 1978,AND INCLUDE, SINCE ,A LARGE SHEEITE POPULATION.STRECHING  OF THE ZONE TO IT’S CURRENT MEASUREMENTS  IS A RESULT OF THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT DESCISION FROM JANUARY 1985.THIS WIDENING BROUGHT TO A MEANINGFUL ENLARGEMENT OF SHEEITE POPULATION ,ADDITIONAL DRUZ AND SUNITE  MOSLEMS. TO THE HUMAN MOSAIC.THE ZONE’S POPULATION NUMBERS NOWDAYS SOME 100,000 –70 % SHEEITE,10% CHRISTIANS,10 % DRUZ AND THE REST SUNITE MOSLEMS. AT ITS’ FORMATION THERE WERE 160,000 INHABITANTS.
THE GOAL OF THE SECURITY ZONE –AS STATED BY CHIEFF OF STAFF (MOSHE LEVI) MAY.10,1985-“SERVE AS BARRIER ,PREVENT DIRECT SHOOTING INTO OUR TERRITORY,PREVENT INFILTRATION OF TERRORIST GROUPS ANS SERVE AS A BASE FOR ‘IDF’  OPERATIONS AND ARTILLERY .INTENTIONALLY THERE WAS NO MENTION OF INDIRECT SHOOTING(KATIUSHA ROCKETS),WHICH CAN BE PERFORMED  ALONG SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE ZONE,DUE  TO NARROW WIDTH IN SOME  PARTS OF IT.
 
 
 

HIZBULLAH-POLITICAL HISTORY: ”GOD’S PARTY” WAS ESTABLISHED AT THE END OF 1982 (PEACE FOR GALILEE WAR) ,IN LEBANON BY THE IRANIANS ,AT THE PEAK OF HUMEINI’S REVOLUTION AND IN AN ATTEMPT TO SPREAD THE REVOLUTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST.THE MOVEMENT INCORPORATED SEVERAL RADICAL ISLAMIC PARTIES WHICH EXISTED ALREADY IN LEBANON.A LARGE SHEEITE POPULATION ,DEEP AND JUSTIFIED FEELINGS OF DISCRIMINATION,POLITICAL ANARCHY AND DIRECT FRICTION WITH THE ENEMIES OF THE IRANI REVOLUTION-THE”BIG AND SMALL SATANS”-MEANING U.S.A AND ISRAEL-WERE THE FOUNDATION AND FERTILE LAND FOR THE ORGANOSATION.
IN THE YEARS 1982-1994 ACTIVISTS OF HIZBULLAH PERFORMED NUMEROUS ACTS OF TERRORISM IN LEBANON AND AROUND THE WORLD.LEADERS OF THE ORGANISATION IN THE ’80 ‘TIES ,HEADED BY THE SECRETARY GENERAL SUBHI TUFFEILY,DECLARED THE INTENTION OF THEIR ORGANISATION “ TO BUILD  A MOSLEM REPUBLIC IN ALL OF THE MIDDLE EAST” AND THAT “THE WAY TO JERUSALEM LEADS THROUGH SOUTH LEBANON”-DERIVED FROM IT.THE ORGANISATION DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN ANY   DEMOCRATIC ACTION IN LEBANON.
IN 1989-90 A VIOLENT CRASH BROKE OUT BETWEEN THE HIZBULLAH AND THE ‘AMAL’ ORGANISATION OVER THE REPRESENTATION AND LEADERSHIP OF THE SHEEITE COMMUNITY.MOST OF THE FIGHTING TOOK PLACE IN SOUTH LEBENON, WITH HIZBULLAH GAINING THE UPPER HAND.FOR THE FIRST TIME THE HIZBULLAH GAINED DIRECT  CONTACT WITH THE SECURITY ZONE,UNDER ISRAELI RULE,AND A CONTINUOUS AIMED AT THE ISRAELI PRESENCE BEGAN-FIGHTING WHICH CORRESPONDED TO TERRORIST ACTIONS AGAINST JEWISH TARGETS ABROAD.
IN APRIL 1992 THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF HIZBULLAH-ABBAS MUSAWI,WAS KILLED BY ‘IDF’ AND HASSAN NASSERALLAH WAS APPOINTED IN HIS PLACE.THE NEW SECRETARY GENERAL STARTED HIS OFFICE WHILE MANY CHANGES STARTED TO FORM ON THE MIDDLE EASTERN SCENE.THE LEBANESE GOVERNMENT ,ACCORDING TO “TA’EF AGREEMENT”(SEE TA’EF AGREEMENT) FROM 1989,STERTED TO TIGHTEN IT’S GRIP OVER LEBENON ,PUSHIHG OUT OF ITS’ WAY POSSIBLE THREATS TO SOVEREIGNTY.SYRIA FOUND HERSELF WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF THE SOVIET UNION(WHICH COLLAPSED),AND WITHELD FORTHER SUPPORT OF TERRORISM IN AN ATTEMPT TO REVIVE  ITS’ INTERNATIONAL STANDING.CORRESPONDINGLY ,IN IRAN THE REVOLUTIONARY ENTHUSIASM DIED OUT IN FAVOUR  OF FINANCIAL AND POLITICAL  PROGRESS
HASSAN NASSERALLAH, WITH REGARD TO THESE CHANGES,LED HIZBULLAH TOWARDS LEGITIMATION IN LEBANESE SOCIETY.FOR THE FIRST TIME ,ALTHOUGH IN A JOINT LIST WITH “AMAL”,THE ORGANISATION PARTICIPATED IN LEBANESE ELECTION IN 1992. ITS’ REPRESENTATIVES CAME TO AN UNDERSTANDING WITH CHRISTIANS AND SUNITES AS TO JOINT SUPPORT OF CANDIDATES. ITS’ LEADERS STARTED TO USE TERMS AS  “WELFARE OF POPULATION “,” WE ARE ALL LEBANESE”, AND “RESPECT NATIONAL SOVEREINTY” .TOWARDS THE 1996 ELECTION HIZBULLAH WENT EVEN FURTHER AND ESTABLISHED A PSEUDO-ORGANISATION CALLED “ LEBANESE BATTALIONS OF LIBERATION ” (LBL),WHICH CALLED ALL LEBANESE TO JOIN IN,WITHOUT RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES,TO FIGHT THE ISRAELI OCCUPANT-AS FIGHTING AN OCCUPANT WAS  A CONSENSUS. SINCE 1995  THE INTERNATIONAL HIZBULLAH TERRORISM CEASED.THE ORGANISATION ACCEPTED THE”GRAPES OF WRATH “UNDERSTANDING FROM APRIL,1996, WHICH FORBIDS SHOOTING INTO ISRAEL,BUT ALLOWS FIGTING AGAINST THE OCCUPANT IN LEBANON .MOST IMPORTANT,THIS UNDERSTANDING  RECOGNIZE  THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER BETWEEN ISRAEL AND LEBANON.THIS TURN AROUND IN THE ORGANISATION BROUGHT UPON A VIOLENT CLASH BETWEEN TRADITIONAL ISLAMIC LINE ,HEADED BY EX-SECRETARY GENERAL S. TUFFEILY AND THE NEW LEADERSHIP OF HASSAN NASSERALLAH.AND TO A SPLIT IN THE ORGANISATION IN THE BEGINNING OF 1998.
IN THE LAST FEW YEARS THE HIZBULLAH SPOKESMEN STRESS THEIR DETERMINATION TO FIGHT ISRAEL,UNTIL THE LAST ISRAELI LEAVES LEBANESE LAND,BUT KEEP IN FOG THEIR FURTHER INTENTIONS. ONE CAN LEARN OF THIS GOAL FROM NUMEROUS DECLARATIONS OF HIZBULLAH LEADERS AS TO THEIR COMMITMENT TO LEBANON, LEBANON’S SOVEREINGTY AND ITS’ POPULATION.
THE HIZBULLAH MADE A LONG WAY FROM  A REVOLUTIONARY ,TERRORIST AND ALL-ISLAMIC ORGANISATION SINCE ITS’ FOUNDATION IN 1982,INTO  A NATIONAL SHEEITE  MOVEMENT LOOKING FOR ITS’ PLACE IN THE MULTI-SOCIAL LEBANESE SOCIETY.
 
 

HIZBULLAH-STRUCTURE OF ORGANISATION: AT THE HEAD OF THE ORGANISATION ,AS FORMED IN THE MID ’80 ‘TIES ,IS A SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY-SHEICH MUHAMMAD HUSSEIN FADELALLAH.AT HIS SIDE  IS A SMALL COUNCIL OF ELDERS CALLED THE ”SHURA”.THIS BODY MAKES PRINCIPAL DECISIONS  ONLY AND IS NOT PART OF DAILY MANAGEMENT OF THE ORGANISATION,CALLED UPON ACCORDING TO NEEDS .UNDER THE ‘SHURA’ IS THE SECRETARY GENERAL-SHEICH HASSAN NASSERALLAH TODAY-WHO IS THE HEAD OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ( THE ‘EXECUTIVE SHURA’)  WHICH RUNS THE  ORGANISATION ACCORDING TO GUIDELINES MADE BY THE ‘SURA’ .MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEN TWO OTHER COMMITEES-SECURITY AFFAIRS AND POLITACAL AFFAIRS.THE EXECUTIVE RUNS THREE REGIONS-BAK’A ,SOUTH LEBANON AND BEIRUT,CORRESPONDING TO  THE SPREAD OF SHEEITE POPULATION. IN ADDITION THE EXECUTIVE CONTROLS   SEVERAL HEADS OF ADMINISTRATION:1.SOCIAL ADMINISTRATION WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SCHOOLS,EDUCATION,SOCIAL AND MEDICAL HELP ,2.MILITARY ADMINISTRATION WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FIGHTING ELEMENTS OF THE ORGANISATIN  3.INTELLIGENCE  AND 4. INTERNAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION.
THE MILITARY ADMINISTRATION CAN BE DEVIDED INTO THREE PARTS:
1.BASIC-STANDARD MILITIA OF A FEW THOUSAND VOLUNTEERS WHO MEN THE GUARD AND OBSERVATION POSTS IN THE VILLAGES ,FIRE MORTARS FROM THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE VILLAGES ON SECURITY ZONE LINE,  AS NEEDED.SOME OF THEM PASS PROFESIONAL TRAINING .SOME-FROM REAR LINE VILLAGES-ARE RECRUITED FOR  SERVICE A WEEK IN A YEAR  ON THE FRONT LINE. ON DAY TO DAY BASIS THESE VOLUNTEERS LEAD NORMAL LIVES AND RECEIVE ALL SERVICES GRANTED BY THE ORGANISATION TO ITS’ MEMBERS (SCOOLING ,MEDICAL HELP ETC.)
2.ABOVE THE BASIC MILITIA THERE IS A REGULAR MILITARY CORPS OF SEVERAL HUNDRED  FIGHTERS, WHICH AQUIRED PROFESIONAL ARMY TRAINING ,SOMETIMES IN IRAN.THIS IS THE UNIT WHICH LAYS BOOBY-TRAPS ,MAKES AMBUSHES AND ANTI-TANK AMBUSHES,AND PERFORMS ATTACKS ON ‘IDF’ AND’ SLA’ POSITIONS.THIS REGULAR ARMY CORPS PRACTISES ARMY PROCEDURES WHICH INCLUDE OBSERVATIONS,PLANNING AND TRAINING ON MODELS.THESE MEN GET FULL WAGES AND ALL THEIR TIME IS SUBMITTED TO THEIR SERVICE IN THE ORGANISATION.
3.IN ADDITION ,THERE IS A SPECIAL CORPS, NUMBERING A FEW DOZEN OF HIGHLY TRAINED MEN(TRAINED MAINLY  IN IRAN), EACH WITH A SPECIALISATION IN A SPECIFIC DISCIPLINE LIKE SABOTTAGE, INTELLIGENCE ,SNIPING ETC.