By Daily Star Lebanon - BEIRUT: Lebanon will work with U.S. authorities in a bid to minimize the impact of new sanctions being drafted to target Hezbollah financing and its suspected affiliates, Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Thursday.“There’s a new bill being prepared by the U.S. Congress and we should have a team working on explaining our efforts in combating money laundering and other [illicit activities],” Hariri told reporters after a meeting with President Michel Aoun at the Baabda Palace. “The [implementation] of the bill will be harsh on Lebanon,” he said, adding that Beirut would work with Washington to “change [the bill].” A number of members of the U.S. House of Representatives have prepared the draft “Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Amendments Act of 2017” – that aims to cut off all forms of financial support to the party, which Washington deems a terrorist organization.
The new draft, which has not yet been introduced in the House, has reportedly added additional entities, such as the Amal Movement, to the list of already sanctioned parties. A similar draft is said to be making the rounds in the Senate. A high-ranking Lebanese political and banking delegation is set to travel to Washington in May in a bid to negotiate with U.S. authorities regarding the measures. Sources told The Daily Star Monday that the delegation may include ministers and MPs as well as representatives of the Association of Banks in Lebanon. The prime minister also chaired a meeting Thursday at the Grand Serail with a delegation from north Lebanon municipalities. “You represent different political movements, but what is important is the citizen who lives in this municipality, knowing that in the end, the state will benefit from consolidating its presence through the development projects that will be implemented,” Hariri told the delegation. “What is required today is to set priorities and develop a road map to implement all the projects that must be complementary to each other.” Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Ghassan Hasbani attended Thursday’s meeting, as did representatives of other ministers, including those of President Aoun.
“All of us in Lebanon and Armenia realize that this darkness must be prevented,” Michel Pharaon, Lebanon's State Minister for Planning Affairs, told the reporters at the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex. Today, in the morning, the Lebanese delegation led by Michel Pharaon and accompanied by Armenian Minister of Economic Development and Investments Suren Karayan visited Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute and Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex, paying tribute to the memory of the Armenian Genocide victims. As the Information and Public Relations Department of the Armenian Government told Panorama.am, Michel Pharaon left a note in the Memory Book of Honorable Guests of the Genocide Museum-Institute. “It is difficult to believe what we saw here, but, unfortunately it is true,” part of the note reads. “I saw a hope amid all this pain – a hope to live. Everything is different from the distance, but here, seeing this touching images every person in the world must simply accept and recognize the fact of the Armenian Genocide. The most important thing is the recognition itself. I come from a country the people of which faced great sufferings in the same period. All of us in Armenia and Lebanon realize that this darkness must be prevented. Today we must take efforts to stop the bloodshed in all over the world through all the high-level international organizations,” Michel Pharaon told the reporters.
by gulfnews BEIRUT: The Lebanese High Relief Commission, HRC, has praised the important and pioneering role played by the UAE in the …
by Natasha Bertrand - Business Insider
The US needs to change how it hires hackers and other tech talent if it wants to stay competitive in the cyber arena, former FBI special agent Clint Watts told the Senate Armed Services Committee during a Thursday hearing on "cyber-enabled information operations." Watts, now a senior fellow at George Washington University's Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, argued that Russia's ability to hack into US political organizations last year and launch a sustained disinformation campaign — which it now appears to be replicating ahead of the French and German elections — stemmed not from its "employment of sophisticated technology, but through the employment of top talent."
Many experts say Russia has harnessed some of the best tech talent in the world because of its willingness to hire hackers who would likely be passed over in the US — either because they aren't "technologists" in the traditional sense or because their records would preclude them from obtaining security clearance. "Actual humans, not artificial intelligence, achieved Russia’s recent success in information warfare," Watts said, referring to Moscow's election-related meddling. "Rather than developing cyber operatives internally, Russia leverages an asymmetric advantage by which they co-opt, compromise or coerce components of Russia’s cyber criminal underground," he added. "Others in Russia with access to sophisticated malware, hacking techniques or botnets are compelled to act on behalf of the Kremlin."
Brandon Valeriano, a researcher at Cardiff University specializing in international relations and cyber coercion, said the strategy allows the Russians both to "maintain their control over the hackers" and "take advantage of whatever capabilities these hackers might have." Ian Bremmer, president of the political risk firm Eurasia Group, went one step further. "Cyber crime and state espionage go hand in hand in Russia's system," he told Business Insider last month. "Russia has employed cyber criminals for state ends for as long as they have been hacking," Bremmer said. "Private hackers are a source of talent, for one thing, as well as a degree of separation and deniability between state organs and end users."
Population Movements to Keserwan - The Khazens and The Maans
ما جاء عن الثورة في المقاطعة الكسروانية
ثورة أهالي كسروان على المشايخ الخوازنة وأسبابها
Origins of the "Prince of Maronite" Title
Growing diversity: the Khazin sheiks and the clergy in the first decades of the 18th century
Historical Members:
Barbar Beik El Khazen [English]
Patriach Toubia Kaiss El Khazen(Biography & Life Part1 Part2) (Arabic)
Patriach Youssef Dargham El Khazen (Cont'd)
Cheikh Bishara Jafal El Khazen
Patriarch Youssef Raji El Khazen
The Martyrs Cheikh Philippe & Cheikh Farid El Khazen
Cheikh Nawfal El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Hossun El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Abou-Nawfal El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Francis Abee Nader & his son Yousef
Cheikh Abou-Kanso El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Abou Nader El Khazen
Cheikh Chafic El Khazen
Cheikh Keserwan El Khazen
Cheikh Serhal El Khazen [English]
Cheikh Rafiq El Khazen [English]
Cheikh Hanna El Khazen
Cheikha Arzi El Khazen
Marie El Khazen