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Karim Merhej| Friday, July 3, 2020  In the early 1960s, the late Raymond Edde claimed, perhaps with some exaggeration, that Lebanon had become a police state. At the time, Lebanon’s military intelligence – the notorious Deuxieme Bureau close to then-president Fuad Chehab – was increasingly playing an active role in politics, exerting pressure on the country’s media and political elites, often on an extrajudicial basis, in order to promote the Chehabist socioeconomic and political agenda, and silence dissident voices.
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