Dubious editing User Mr Stradivarius has consistently removed heavily sourced paragraphs and kept replacing them until just recently with unsourced hagiography The following are the sourced which he maliciously calls unsourced paragraphs that were removed TAB According to former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky in his book By Way of Deception the Mossad was deeply involved with several other warring Lebanese families paying for information passing it between groups even paying the gangs and some Palestinians in the refugee camps for intelligence and services Besides Gemayel both the Jumblatt and Berri families were on the Mossad payroll Source Ostrovsky Victor 1990 By Way of Deception The Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer p 316 TAB Berri is involved in corruption allegations regarding a 1996 coastal motorway in southern Lebanon The contract for the motorway was won by a firm run by Berri s wife Randa Assi and was said to be overpriced by over three hundred million US dollars Sources Johnson Michael 2001 All Honorable Men The Social Origins Of War In Lebanon p 236 Schwerna Tobias 2010 Lebanon A Model of Consociational Conflict p 128 In 2004 Berri was mentioned in several of the diplomatic cables leaked by WikiLeaks One cable said that Amal is near universally derided as corrupt to the core and that Berri was described by a relative of Musa al Sadr as having provided social services in the south only through wheeling dealing and stealing Also according to the cables Berri receives USD 400 000 a month from Iran using a fourth of the sum to shore up his support and pocketing the rest Sources Gloria Center Wikileaks cables According to one source Berri was considered by Rafik Hariri to be irredeemably corrupt and unreliable as well as an opportunist and is thought to maintain his support base through access to state funds Source Blanford Nicholas 2006 Killing Mr Lebanon The Assasination of Rafik Hariri and Its Impact on the Middle East p 118 According to leaked diplomatic cables during the 2006 Lebanon war Berri publicly an ally of Hezbollah described Israel s attacks on Hezbollah to US Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman as being like honey and hoped that Israel would complete its mission against Hezbollah quickly He suggested that the IDF markedly improve its targeting intelligence to make air strikes more effective Either that or they would have to wipe Hizballah out of the south with a ground offensive He also suggested that if Israel succeeds in weakening Hizballah militarily then he will be more willing to weaken them politically Sources Wikileaks cables NOW Media Aspen Institute Middle East Online Berri s sister in law and close business associate Samira Assi is said to have made a fortune by getting a contract from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to print one million copies of Gaddafi s Green Book Assi s deals are seen as highly controversial since the founder of the Amal Movement Musa al Sadr is known to have been disappeared on the orders of Gaddafi himself Sources Middle East Intelligence Bulletin report written by the current news director of Congress funded Al Hurra Why should anyone bother to edit Wikipedia when their efforts are compromised by the actions of such individuals as