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Spymaster Abbas Ibrahim keeps networks active during power vacuum

Lebanon's General Security Director, Abbas Ibrahim.
Lebanon's General Security Director, Abbas Ibrahim. © Mohamed Azakir/Reuters
With no replacement in sight for the outgoing president Michel Aoun, the ambitious intelligence chief Abbas Ibrahim is determined to hold on to his circles of influence in Beirut as much as in Damascus and Washington. [...]
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