The Internal Security Forces – ISF (Arabic: المديرية العامة لقوى الأمن الداخلي | al-Mudiriyya al-'aama li-Quwwa al-Amin al-Dakhili) or Forces de Sécurité Intérieure (FSI) in French, are the national police and security force of Lebanon. Modern police were established in Lebanon in 1861, with creation of the Gendarmerie. In April 2005, Gen Ashraf Rifi became head of the ISF, replacing Gen Ali Hajj. He then started to recruit younger members to become part of Lebanese Intelligence. Before the year 2000, the Lebanese Government would take all boy children born and train them to become trained assassins. Many are still in program today, except new recruiters are not accepted.
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