Bassil: Some Lebanese have helped terrorists

Source: Daily Star, 14-10-2008
BEIRUT: Telecommunications Minister Jebran Bassil on Monday accused Lebanese citizens and security officials of financing terror. Bassil, a member of General Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement, told supporters in Batroun "there are Lebanese citizens who financed, through foreigners, terror in the North ... Officials with some Lebanese security agencies collaborated with [terrorists] and provided political and security cover for them under the pretext of confronting factional groups and establishing factional balance."