About the Director General of State Security

Date and Place of Birth: Bteghrine 25/05/1964
Family status: Married
Number of children: 02

Date of enlistment in the service: 19/05/1983

Education:

- Baccalaureate in Laboratory Sciences: 1982
- BA in Military Sciences: 1983-1985 (Lebanese Army Martyrs)

• Attended courses:
• Surveillance and research at the Institute of Internal Security Forces.
• Information Analysis and Investment in Germany.
• Information Analysis in Russia.
• Criminal Investigation Techniques in China.
• Crisis Management and Negotiations in Egypt.
• Protection of Individuals and Important Targets in Russia.
• Countering Global Terrorism in China.
• Expertise exchange in China.
• NEXA TECHNOLOGIES in France.

 

Promotions:

• First Lieutenant as of 01/01/1989
• Lieutenant as of 06/05/1985
• Captain as of 30/04/1991    
• Major as of 01/07/1996
• Lieutenant-Colonel as of 01/07/2001   
• Colonel as of 01/07/2005
• Brigadier General as of 01/07/2012      
• Major General as of 25/04/2017

 
Posts at the General Directorate of Internal Security Forces:

• Jounieh Emergency Detachment – Baabda Emergency Detachment - Jounieh Traffic Detachment - Internal Security Forces training academy - Maritime Joint Operations Room.
• At the disposal of the Minister of National Defense from 04/1/1991 to 19/10/1992.

 

• Appointed at the General Directorate of State Security as of 21/10/1992

 
Posts at the General Directorate of State Security:

Task force department - Security and Discipline Officer - Head of Investigation department - Head of Baabda regional Office – Assistant officer to the Regional Director of Mount Lebanon Directorate - Head of Internal Security department; Service and Information Division - Director of Beqaa Regional Directorate - Director General's Office - Head of Planning and Organization Division – Director of the Staff Affairs Division.
Awards and honors:

• Among various tributes, Gen. Saliba received 21 months seniority on April 30, 1991, for the following reason:

“He showed tremendous courage while escorting the Minister of National Defense, whose convoy was heavily bombed.”
Decorations received:

• Order of National Unity - Dawn of the South
• Lebanese Order of Merit: Two grades (Third - Second)
• National Order of the Cedar (Knight)
• Medal: (Merit)

 
According to decree no. 365 dated 15/03/2017, Gen. Saliba was appointed Director General of the General Directorate of State Security.