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Lebanon, United States
Abbas Ibrahim still in hot water in US despite pulling off prisoner release

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The head of the Lebanese General Security Directorate Abbas Ibrahim.
The head of the Lebanese General Security Directorate Abbas Ibrahim. © Mohamed Azakir/Reuters

Ibrahim has done many hostage and prisoner deals in his day and has now succeeded again by securing the release of a Lebanese detainee in Abu Dhabi. Yet the latest has done nothing to allay growing US anger over accusations that the spy chief was behind the torture of Amer al-Fakhoury.

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Abbas Ibrahim, who seems to have been omnipresent since Michel Aoun became president in 2016, has kept control since then of Lebanon's relations with neighbouring Syria. This alliance of circumstance is being superceded, however, by religious loyalities, driven by the resurgence of personal ambitions, which have opened up the road to Damascus for State Security director Tony Saliba.

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The head of the General Security Directorate, Abbas Ibrahim, and his counterpart from State Security, Tony Saliba.

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