Pour mémoire : en août 2007 (avec un an d’avance), Hamadeh fait mine de découvrir le réseau de communication du Hezbollah. Les américains écrivent « découvert » entre guillemets et expliquent qu’en gros, tout le monde connaît déjà l’existence de ce réseau.
#cablegate : LEBANON : HIZBALLAH TELEPHONE NETWORK ’DISCOVERED’
►http://wikileaks.org/cable/2007/08/07BEIRUT1301.html#
The Ministry of Telecommunications announced it had
found an illegal telecom network established and operated by
Hizballah in the parts of Lebanon Hizballah controls.
Minister of Telecom Marwan Hamadeh initially said the GOL
would react “fiercely” to what he portrayed as a surprising
discovery. Embassy contacts indicate privately, however,
that the existence of the alternate system was well known.
An ad hoc government committee of four ministries was
investigating, but two weeks after the announcement of the
discovery, there was no decision on what action, if any the
GOL would take. The system links villages in the south to
the southern suburbs of Beirut, and may also link the Biqaa’
and even downtown Beirut. Hamadeh says that he will not take
action without full GOL support.