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.