The Independent Nasserite Movement – INM ( ar-at, حركة الناصريين المستقلين-المرابطون, translit=Harakat al-Nasiriyin al-Mustaqillin) or simply Al-Murabitoun ( lit. ''The Steadfast''), also termed variously Mouvement des Nasséristes Indépendants (MNI) in French language, French, Independent Nasserite Organization (INO), or Movement of Independent Nasserists (MIN), is a Nasserism, Nasserist political party in Lebanon.

Name

Initially, the Movement of Independent Nasserists was the name of the political organization, whilst "al-Murabitoun" designated their militia forces. However, this distinction between political and military wings became blurred over time (and the militia has been subsequently abolished), "the Sentinels", but also meaning "Guardians" or "Saviours" – carries historical Islamic connotations (see Almoravid dynasty, Almoravids).

Origins

Founded in 1957 at Beirut by a group of Lebanese Nasserite activists led by Ibrahim Kulaylat who opposed the pro-Western policies of President Camille Chamoun, the INM came to prominence at the height of the Lebanon crisis of 1958, 1958 Civil War. The Movement’s own 2,000-strong militia, ‘The Sentinels’ (Arabic: ''Al-Murabitun'', ''al-murabitûn'' or ''al-Mourabitoun'') or ‘Les Sentinels’ in French language, French, clashed with the Lebanese Armed Forces, Lebanese Army and pro-government Christian militias in northern Lebanon and Beirut. Despite experiencing a temporary decline in the years immediately after the 1958 crisis, the INM remained an active force in Lebanese politics throughout the 1960s and 1970s. At the beginning of the 1970s, the Movement re-emerged as a major political faction within the Sunni Islam in Lebanon, Sunni Muslim community, forging alliances with other anti-establishment leftist parties such as the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) led by Kamal Jumblatt and the Lebanese Communist Party (LCP). In 1969 the INM became a member of the "Front for Progressive Parties and National Forces" (FPPNF), later reorganized in 1972 as the Lebanese National Movement (LNM). Consistent with its Pan-Arab ideals, the radical INM was a staunch advocate of the Palestinian cause in Lebanon since the late 1960s, cultivating close political and military ties with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in the immediate pre-war years.

Political beliefs

As its name implies, the INM espoused the ideals of the late Egyptian President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, a blend of Socialism and secular Pan-Arabism, pan-Arab nationalism, expressed on his party slogan 'Freedom – Unity – Socialism' (Arabic: الحرية - الوحدة - الاشتراكية , ''al-Hurriyat – al-Wahdat – al-Aishtirakia''). Being radically opposed to the Maronite Christianity in Lebanon, Christian Maronite-dominated political order in Lebanon, the political goals of al-Murabitoun were to preserve the Arab and secular character of Lebanon and, in the long-term, establish a socialism, socialist political and economic system.Mroueh Kerim; Sabbagh Samir.
"Lebanon is Where the US and Israel will Settle Accounts with the Palestinians"
'' in MERIP Reports, No. 77. (May 1979), pp. 12-15+26. The INM presented itself as being pragmatic in ideological terms however, and that its doctrine was based upon a fusion between materialist Marxism, Marxist and liberal idealism, idealist theories.Hafez, Ziad.
Independent Nasserite Movement: Interview with Ziad Hafez
" in ''MERIP Reports'', No. 61. (October, 1977), pp. 9–14. In 1979, leading party cadre Samir Sabbagh described the INM as particularly close to the Lebanese Communist Party (LCP).

Following

Although the INM claimed to be a secular, non-sectarian movement, its membership has always been overwhelmingly Muslim, being perceived within Lebanon as a predominantly Sunni Islam in Lebanon, Sunni organization. During the Movement's resurgence in the early 1970s, it drew its support largely from working class’ and impoverished petty bourgeoisie Sunni Islam in Lebanon, Sunnis,Barbee, Lynne.
Interviews with the Lebanese National Movement: Introduction
'' in MERIP Reports, No. 61. (October, 1977), pp. 3-5. but this did not prevent them of attracting followers from other sects. Indeed, a 1987 report used by the U.S. Library of Congress study on Lebanon estimated the INM membership since the mid-1970s to be about 45% Sunni Islam in Lebanon, Sunni, 45% Shi'a Islam in Lebanon, Shia and 10% Druze in Lebanon, Druze, although other unconfirmed sources present the remaining 40% as Christians. Geographically, the movement had its epicentre in the Sunni Islam in Lebanon, Sunni areas of Beirut.

Military structure and organization

Quietly re-formed in early 1975, their "Sentinels" militia, now known as the Al-Mourabitoun Forces (Arabic: قوات المرابطون , ''Quwwat al-Murabitun''), started with just 150–200 poorly armed militants, but it subsequently grew to 3,000–5,000 men and women drawn from the Muslim quarters of West Beirut placed under the command of Kulaylat himself. Headquartered at the Tarik al-Jadida quarter of the Mazraa commercial district in West Beirut, the INM/al-Murabitoun in the early 1980s numbered some 1,000 regular fighters and 2,000 reservists secretly trained by the Palestine Liberation Organization, Palestinian factions (Fatah, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, PFLP and ''As-Saiqa'') and later by Lieutenant Ahmed Al-Khatib's Lebanese Arab Army. Since its foundation the militia quickly attained a 'regular' outlook, attested by the high discipline and organization of its 3,000 uniformed militiamen into conventional branches of Armor, Infantry and Artillery, backed by Medical, Signals and Military Police support units. Whilst Druze in Lebanon, Druze, Sunni Islam in Lebanon, Sunni and Shi'a Islam in Lebanon, Shia Muslims filled the rank-and-file, its officer corps was staffed mostly by Sunnis and a few Christianity in Lebanon, Christians trained in Libya and Iraq.

Units

*the "Hawks of az-Zeidaniyya" (Arabic: صقور الزيدانية , ''Suqūr az-Zaydānīya'') *the "Maarouf Saad Units and the Determination brigade" (Arabic: معروف معروف وحدات ولواء تقرير , ''Merouf Maeruf Wahadat wa Liwa' Taqrir'')

List of Al-Mourabitoun Forces commanders

*Ibrahim Kulaylat *Shawqi Majed

Weapons and equipment

Most of the INM/Al-Murabitoun's own weapons and equipment were provided by the PLO, Libya, Egypt, Iraq and Syria or pilfered from Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) barracks and Internal Security Forces (ISF) police stations. Additional weaponry, vehicles and other, non-lethal military equipments were procured in the international black market.

Small-arms

Al-Murabitoun militiamen were provided with a variety of small-arms, including MAS-36, Lee–Enfield, Mosin–Nagant and Mauser Karabiner 98k bolt-action rifles, MAT-49, Sa vz. 23, Sa 25/26 and M56 submachine gun, Crvena Zastava Automat M56 submachine guns, M1 carbine, M2 carbines, M1 Garand (or its Italian-produced copy, the Beretta Model 1952), Beretta BM 59 and SKSEl-Assad, ''Civil Wars Volume 1: The Gun Trucks'' (2008), p. 91. semi-automatic rifles, FN FAL, M16 rifle, M16A1, Heckler & Koch G3,Katz, Russel, and Volstad, ''Armies in Lebanon'' (1985), p. 44, Plate G2. Vz. 58, AK-47 and AKM assault rifles (other variants included the Zastava M70, Chinese Type 56, Romanian Pistol Mitralieră model 1963/1965, Bulgarian AKK/AKKS and former East German MPi-KMS-72 assault rifles). Several models of handguns were also used, including Colt Single Action Army, Colt Single Action Army second generation revolvers, TT pistol, Tokarev TT-33, CZ 75, M1911 pistol, M1911A1, Browning Hi-Power, FN P35 and MAB PA-15 pistols. Squad weapons consisted of Degtyaryov machine gun, DP-28, MG 34, M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, M1918A2 BAR, Bren light machine gun, Bren, AA-52 machine gun, AA-52, RPK, RPD machine gun, RPD,Kassis, ''Véhicules Militaires au Liban/Military Vehicles in Lebanon'' (2012), p. 47. PK machine gun, PK/PKM, FN MAG and M60 machine gun, M60 light machine guns, with heavier M1919 Browning machine gun, Browning M1919A4 .30 Cal, M2 Browning, Browning M2HB .50 Cal,Kassis, ''Véhicules Militaires au Liban/Military Vehicles in Lebanon'' (2012), p. 44. SG-43 Goryunov, SG-43/SGM Goryunov and DShK, DShKMKassis, ''Véhicules Militaires au Liban/Military Vehicles in Lebanon'' (2012), p. 45. machine guns being employed as platoon and company weapons. Heckler & Koch G3, Heckler & Koch G3A3 assault rifles equipped with telescopic sights were used for sniping. Grenade launchers and portable anti-tank weapons consisted of M203 grenade launcher, M203, M72 LAW, RPG-2 and RPG-7 Anti-tank rocket, rocket launchers, whilst crew-served and indirect fire weapons included M2 mortar, M2 60mm mortars, 82-PM-41, 82-PM-41 82mm mortars and 120-PM-43 mortar, 120-PM-43 (M-1943) 120mm heavy mortars, plus M18 recoilless rifle, Type 36 57mm (Chinese-produced version of the shoulder-fired US M18 recoilless rifle), M20 recoilless rifle, Type 56 75mm (Chinese variant of the US M20 recoilless rifle), B-10 recoilless rifle, B-10 82mm, B-11 recoilless rifle, B-11 107mm and M40 recoilless rifle, M40A1 106mm recoilless rifles (often mounted on Technical (vehicle), technicals). Soviet PTRS-41, PTRS-41 14.5mm anti-tank rifles were used for heavy sniping.

Armoured and transport vehicles

Created in February 1976, the Al-Murabitoun's early armored corps initially fielded two obsolescent Sherman Firefly medium tanks, a few Charioteer tanks, M113 armored personnel carrier, M113 and Panhard M3, Panhard M3 VTT armored personnel carriers (APC), M42 Duster Self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon, SPAAGs, Cadillac Gage Commando, Cadillac Gage V-100 Commando, Panhard AML, Panhard AML-90 and T17E1 Staghound, Staghound armoured cars seized from the Lebanese Army and the Internal Security Forces, backed by Gun trucks and Technical (vehicle), technicals. The latter consisted of commandeered Austin Champ, US M151 ¼-ton 4×4 utility truck, M151A1/A2, Willys M38A1, Willys M38A1 MD (or its civilian version, the Jeep CJ#CJ-5, Jeep CJ-5) and Kaiser Jeep M715, Kaiser M715 jeeps, Land Rover series, Land-Rover series II-III, Toyota Land Cruiser (J40),Kassis, ''30 Years of Military Vehicles in Lebanon'' (2003), p. 66. Toyota Land Cruiser (J40), Toyota Land Cruiser (J45), GMC (automobile), GMC K25 Sierra, Chevrolet C/K (second generation), Chevrolet C-10/C-15 Cheyenne light pickup trucks, and Chevrolet C/K (third generation), Chevrolet C/K 3rd generation pickup trucks,El-Assad, ''Civil Wars Volume 1: The Gun Trucks'' (2008), p. 93. plus Unimog, Mercedes-Benz Unimog 416 light trucks, Chevrolet C/K (second generation)#Medium-duty trucks, GMC K1500 medium-duty trucks, Chevrolet C/K (second generation)#Medium-duty trucks, GMC C4500 medium-duty trucks and ZIS-151, ZIL-151 General purpose trucks armed with heavy machine guns, recoilless rifles and Anti-Aircraft autocannons. For logistical support, the INM militia relied on Toyota Land Cruiser (J40), Toyota Land Cruiser (J42) hardtop, Toyota Land Cruiser (J40), Toyota Land Cruiser (J45) and Jeep Gladiator (SJ), Jeep Gladiator J20 light pickups, Pinzgauer High-Mobility All-Terrain Vehicle, Pinzgauer 712M light all-terrain vehicles, Volkswagen Type 2, Volkswagen Type 2 Transporter Pickups, Chevrolet C/K (second generation)#Medium-duty trucks, Chevrolet C-50 medium-duty, Dodge Power Wagon, Dodge F600 medium-duty and Chevrolet C/K (second generation)#Medium-duty trucks, GMC C4500 medium-duty trucks, and Chevrolet C/K (second generation)#Medium-duty trucks, GMC C7500 heavy-duty trucks. Modified Peugeot 504, Peugeot 504 pickup trucks were used as military ambulances. The armored corps was later expanded in October 1982 following the departure of PLO regular forces from West Beirut. INM militia forces were able to salvage a number of BRDM-2 Amphibious vehicle, amphibious Armored car (military), armoured scout cars, ten Soviet Union, Soviet-made T-34, T-34/85 medium tanks,Kassis, ''30 Years of Military Vehicles in Lebanon'' (2003), p. 67. five BTR-152 wheeled APCs,El-Assad, ''Civil Wars Volume 1: The Gun Trucks'' (2008), p. 95. two or three ZSU-23-4, ZSU-23-4M1 Shilka Self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon, SPAAG tracked vehicles and a few T-34 variants, T-34T Armoured Recovery Vehicles. It is rumoured that the INM militia forces also captured one Magach, Magach 3 Main battle tank, MBT from the Israel Defense Forces, IDF earlier in September 1982, though it remains unclear if this particular vehicle was taken into their service or was simply returned to its previous owners.

Artillery

In addition, the seizure of some ex-PLO artillery pieces, namely obsolete Soviet 57 mm anti-tank gun M1943 (ZiS-2), ZiS-2 57mm and 76 mm divisional gun M1942 (ZiS-3), ZiS-3 76.2mm anti-tank guns, 122 mm howitzer M1938 (M-30), M1938 (M-30) 122mm howitzers and 130 mm towed field gun M1954 (M-46), Type 59-1 130mm field guns, plus five BM-21 Grad, BM-11 122mm and BM-21 Grad, BM-21 Grad 122mm Multiple rocket launcher, MBRLs which allowed them to strengthen their own artillery corps. British Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60, Bofors 40mm L/60 anti-aircraft guns, Yugoslav Zastava M55 20mm, Soviet ZPU, ZPU (ZPU-1, ZPU-2, ZPU-4) 14.5mm and ZU-23-2 23mm AA autocannons (mounted on Technical (vehicle), technicals, ZIS-151, ZIL-151 trucks and M113 armored personnel carrier, M113 and BTR-152 APCs) were employed in both Anti-aircraft warfare, air defense and direct fire supporting roles. In addition to AA guns and autocannons, the INM/Al-Murabitoun received either from Syria or the PLO a number of man-portable, shoulder-launched Soviet 9K32 Strela-2, SA-7 Grail surface-to-air (SAM) missiles, which they employed against Israeli Air Force (IAF) fighter jets, fighter-bomber jets during the 1982 Lebanon War.

Activities and controversy

Stubborn and determined fighters, adept at employing guerrilla tactics in urban areas, the INM/al-Murabitoun operated mainly within West Beirut, controlling by the mid-1980s the important Mahallat Abu Shaker, Wadi Abu Jamil, Hamra, Beirut, Hamra, Corniche El-Mazraa, Corniche El-Manara, Bashoura, Basta El-Tahta (Beirut), Basta El-Tahta, Chyah and Ras Beirut districts and quarters. They also operated two clandestine ports located at Ouza'i district and at the Ain El-Mreisseh waterfront sector of the Lebanese capital, which were used primarily for arms-smuggling in collusion with the Sidon-based Popular Nasserist Organization (PNO). A third illegal port located at the Karantina dock area in East Beirut was briefly held by the INM since November 1975, until being forced out by the Christian militias on January 18, 1976. Like other Lebanese factions, the INM operated its own media services. A radio station was set up in 1975, the "Voice of Arab Lebanon" (Arabic: ''Iza'at Sawt Lubnan al-Arabi'') or "La Voix du Liban Arabe" in French language, French, followed in 1982 by a television station, the "Television of Arab Lebanon" (Arabic: ''Televizyon Lubnan al-Arabi'') or "Télévision du Liban Arabe" in French language, French, their broadcasting facilities being allocated at the Mahallat Abu Shaker Party headquarters' offices. They also had a medical relief agency, designated the Lebanese Red Crescent Association (Arabic: جمعية الهلال الأحمر اللبناني , ''Jameiat al-Hilal al-Ahmar al-Lubnaniyya'') or l'Association du Croissant Rouge Libanais in French language, French, best known as ''Al-hilal'' for short.

The Al-Murabitoun in the Lebanese Civil War

Ascendancy 1975–76

When the Lebanese Civil War broke out in April 1975, as a member of the LNM the INM/Al-Murabitoun was an active founder of its military wing, the Joint Forces (LNM-JF). The movement claimed that was the first amongst the Lebanese "progressive" militias during the war, and by 1977 it was the largest organization within the LNM-JF, both in terms of popular support and military capacity. During the Lebanese Civil War#First phase, 1975–77, 1975-77 phase of the Lebanese Civil War, the al-Murabitoun militia forces were heavily committed in several battles and suffered considerable casualties, especially at the Battle of the Hotels in October 1975 where they engaged Christian Kataeb Regulatory Forces and Tigers Militia fighters, and later at the 'Spring Offensive' held against East Beirut and Mount Lebanon in March 1976. They also took part on January 20 of that same year in the violent (and controversial) sieges of the Christian towns of Es-Saadiyat, Damour massacre, Damour, and Jiyeh in the Iqlim al-Kharrub, on the side of PLO and Palestine Liberation Army (PLA) units to avenge the earlier Siege of Tel al-Zaatar, Tel al-Zaatar massacre by the Lebanese Front militias.

Reversals 1976–82

The Syrian intervention in Lebanon, Syrian military intervention of June 1976 – which the INM/al-Murabitoun initially strongly opposed, even fighting the Syrian Army at the Battle of Bhamdoun in the Aley District, but gradually came to terms with itReilly, James A.
Israel in Lebanon, 1975–82
" in ''MERIP Reports'', No. 108/109, The Lebanon War. (September–October, 1982), pp. 14–20. – and the slow decline of the Movement's political role at the beginning of the 1980s, caused their influence within the Sunni Islam in Lebanon, Sunni community to wane, losing in the end its final base of support amongst the political and intellectual elites. Towards the end of the 1970s heavy casualties and their involvement in atrocities against non-Muslims caused the number of militants from other sects in the ranks to drop sharply, a situation further aggrieved by internal splits that occurred at the early 1980s. This led a significant number of prominent Sunni Islam in Lebanon, Sunnis – such as the jurist Walid Eido and the activist Samir Sabbagh – to leave the INM leadership board to set up their own organizations, and thereby the Movement became an exclusively Sunni Islam in Lebanon, Sunni force. Relations with its Lebanese coalition partners were also strained to the point of the al-Murabitoun battling rival Nasserite parties such as the Union of Working People's Forces-Corrective Movement, Nasserite Correctionist Movement (NCM) in November 1975 over control of the Karantina district in East Beirut, later fighting the Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Lebanon, Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) factions in 1980–81 for the possession of certain West Beirut quarters. Nevertheless, the al-Murabitoun did not lose its military capabilities, and during the 1982 Lebanon War, June 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, they helped the PLO in the defense of the southwestern outskirts of the Lebanese Capital from Israel Defense Forces, IDF attacks until the end of the siege in September of that year. The 1982 Israeli Judicial inquiry into Sabra and Shatila massacre, events in Beirut estimated that the strength of the al-Murabitoun in West Beirut was 7,000 fighters.

Decline and demise 1983–88

On January 29, 1983, the Israeli-run Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners detonated a car bomb close to the Fatah HQ at Chtaura, and another in West Beirut, close to the HQ of the INM/al-Murabitoun. Some sixty people were killed and hundreds wounded. Ibrahim Kulaylat emerged from the wreck of the LNM and the Palestinian withdrawal as the dominant Sunni leader, though he opted not to join the LNRF/Jammoul nor the pro-Syrian LNSF alliances in the mid-1980s, and consequently the political influence of the INM/al-Murabitoun had waned significantly.Russell, Tom.
A Lebanon Primer
" in ''MERIP Reports'', No. 133. (June 1985), pp. 17–19. The Movement initially waged its own guerrilla war at the Beirut area against Israeli forces, but later fought in a more conventional fashion at the 1983–84 Mountain War allied with the Druze in Lebanon, Druze PSP/PLA, the LCP/Popular Guard and SSNP in the Chouf District against the Christian Lebanese Forces (militia), Lebanese Forces (LF) and the Lebanese Army. Later during the Coastal War in March–April 1985, the Al-Mourabitoun joined in a Syrian-backed coalition with the Popular Nasserist Organization (PNO), the Druze PSP/PLA and the Shia Islam in Lebanon, Shi'ite Lebanese Resistance Regiments, Amal Movement, which defeated the Christian Lebanese Forces (militia), Lebanese Forces (LF) attempts to establish bridgeheads at Damour and Sidon. This alliance was short-lived, however, and when the War of the Camps broke out in April 1985 at West Beirut, it saw the Al-Mourabitoun allied with the PLO, the Nasserite Sixth of February Movement, the Communist Action Organization in Lebanon (OCAL), and the Kurdish Democratic Party (Lebanon), Kurdish Democratic Party – Lebanon (KDP-L) pitted against a powerful coalition of PSP/PLA, LCP/Popular Guard and Shia Lebanese Resistance Regiments, Amal movement militia forces backed by Syria,Stork, Joe.
The War of the Camps, The War of the Hostages
" in ''MERIP Reports'', No. 133. (June 1985), pp. 3–7, 22. the Lebanese Army, and anti-Yasser Arafat, Arafat dissident Palestinian guerrilla factions. Eventually, the Al-Murabitoun was crushed after a week of heavy fighting,William E. Smith, "Lebanon: A Country's Slow Death", ''Time'', April 29, 1985, p. 46. and ceased to exist as a significant fighting force. Thus deprived from its own military wing, the weakened INM went underground again for the remainder of the war and gradually withered away, forcing Ibrahim Kulaylat to flee the Country in 1986 to seek asylum in Switzerland. Some remnants of the Al-Murabitoun, however, remained at large in West Beirut, waging a fierce guerrilla war against the Syrian Army until February 1987, only to be brutally suppressed in the 1987–88 anti-militia sweeps carried out jointly by Defense Companies (Syria), Syrian Commando troops and the Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF).

The post-war years

After a long period of inactivity throughout the 1990s, the INM finally returned to the spotlight in April 2001, when they announced in a press conference held in Beirut their official comeback to Lebanese domestic politics. In 2006 it re-opened offices in Beirut, the North (Tripoli (Lebanon), Tripoli and the Akkar District, Akkar), the Beqaa Valley and the South (Jabal Amel). The movement is still headed by Ibrahim Kulaylat.

Notes

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External links

Chamussy (René) – Chronique d'une guerre: Le Liban 1975-1977 – éd. Desclée – 1978
(in French language, French)
Movement of Independent Nasserists - al-MurabitunMagazine Al- Rassed/ Electronic edition

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