Wissam el hassan biography sample

Wissam al-Hassan, a top Lebanese security official who worked closely under Rafik al-Hariri, Lebanon’s former prime minister, was killed in a Beirut car bombing on Friday.

Prior to his death, the 47-year-old general had suspected the leadership in neighbouring Syria of orchestrating the assassination of his mentor al-Hariri in 2005.

As intelligence chief of Lebanon’s police, the Internal Security Forces (ISF), Hassan dismantled networks of armed religious movements in his country and shut down Israeli-linked spy operations.

He was also instrumental in the ongoing investigation against Michel Samaha, former Lebanese information minister.

The investigation led to the August 9 arrest of Samaha over allegations that he was plotting to plant explosives in the northern city of Akkar at the behest of Ali Mamlouk, a Syrian intelligence official.

Hassan had previously pointed the finger at Damascus, not only for the Hariri assassination, but also for a series