Drawing on regional reporting, interviews, court documents, and insider accounts, this report traces how forged and fraudulently obtained identities, allegedly linked to

  Lebanon’s parliament adopted a new law to increase media freedom last Tuesday — a first since the last century. But while the

Photo by FADEL ITANI / AFP. Mourners pray next to the coffins of Ali Samir Al-Haj Hassan, a Commander in Hezbollah's elite