March 14 Forces Communicate via Paper Letters for Security Reasons
The March 14 forces have shunned modern technology in communicating with each other in light of recent security fears.
“We have concerns regarding the use of cellphones,” al-Mustaqbal bloc MP Ahmed Fatfat said in an interview with LBCI television.
“It is possible to tap the phone lines through simple modern technology and we know that some political forces, specifically Hizbullah, have these technological means,” Fatfat added.
In response to a question, the lawmaker said: “Nowadays, we're using small paper letters that are being carried by a certain messenger and destroyed immediately afterwards.”
On Monday, the March 14 General Secretariat suspended its weekly meetings over the delicate security situation in the country and replaced them with “secret” meetings.
According to a statement issued by the general-secretariat the meetings will be suspended “temporarily” and its offices in Ashrafieh will remain open to administrative work.
“The March 14 general secretariat will remain committed to defending its cause and will continue its weekly meetings in secret and in different locations,” the statement said.
Several prominent March 14 politicians and media figures, who oppose Syria's regime and its ally Hizbullah, have been threatened, the state-run National News Agency reported on Sunday.
The report comes less than a fortnight after a car bombing in central Beirut killed eight people including ex-finance minister and member of the March 14 coalition Mohammed Shatah, who is also ex-PM Saad Hariri's adviser, while he was on his way to attend a meeting for the March 14 alliance in the Center House.
Shatah's death on December 27 was the latest in a string of nine high-profile assassinations of Syria critics that began in February 2005 with former prime minister Rafik Hariri's murder.
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