Between 09:58 and 10:22 this morning, Al-Ghadeer TV and Watan TV carried National Security Service spokesman Arshad al-Hakim's Arbaeen figures: a new centralised electronic-technical system linking operations rooms and field detachments, ten arrests on suspicion of affiliation with extremist movements, 55 field and electronic rumours monitored and handled, an electronic inventory of 16,000 processions with data on their staff and medical and food detachments in an updated central database, and seizures of 330 tonnes of non-compliant goods, over 17,000 irregular medicine packets and 42 vehicles. Al-Ghadeer ran the arrests-and-rumours line twice, at 09:58 and again at 10:22 paired with the seizures. The figures are the National Security Service's own; no independent line in the supplied evidence tests them.
- Al-Ghadeer TVBadr Organization — official owned media02 Aug, 12:58
“National Security: arrest of ten suspects for affiliation with extremist movements and the monitoring and handling of 55 field and electronic rumours.”
الأمن الوطني: القبض على 10 متهمين بالانتماء إلى حركات متطرفة ورصد ومعالجة 55 شائعة ميدانية وإلكترونية
- Watan TVBadr Organization — affiliated/aligned media02 Aug, 13:22
“Launch of a central electronic-technical system to manage the technical and intelligence effort, linked to operations rooms and field detachments … an electronic inventory of 16,000 Husseini processions with documentation of the processions' data and their personnel … within an updated central database.”
إطلاق منظومة إلكترونية تقنية مركزية لإدارة الجهد الفني والاستخباري ترتبط بها غرف العمليات والمفارز الميدانية … جرد إلكتروني لـ(16) ألف موكب حسيني مع توثيق بيانات المواكب والعاملين فيها … ضمن قاعدة بيانات مركزية محدثة
- Al-Ghadeer TVBadr Organization — official owned media02 Aug, 13:22
“National Security: arrest of ten suspects for affiliation with extremist movements and the seizure of non-compliant and unfit materials and medicines during the Arbaeen pilgrimage.”
الأمن الوطني: اعتقال 10 متهمين بالانتماء إلى الحركات المتطرفة وضبط مواد وأدوية مخالفة وغير صالحة للاستهلاك خلال الزيارة الأربعينية
A single service is describing the registration of 16,000 processions and their personnel into one central database and the "handling" of 55 items of speech during a mass religious gathering, and the outlets amplifying that description belong to the faction whose national security adviser lineage runs through the Interior Ministry.