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Dany M. Zeeny Biography

Dany Zeeny was born in 1969 to a middle-class family in Achrafieh district, Lebanon near the seaport, a neighborhood of central Beirut that suffered extensive destruction by shelling attacks during the Syrian invasion of Beirut in 1976-78. His father, Mounir Zeeny a contractor and owner of a building company who motivated the housing cooperation building society in the city, was married to Josephine Saad. Dany have one brother, Rony a Ph.D. clinical pharmacist and a university professor. Zeeny's parents emphasized the importance of hard work, bravery, discipline and patriotism; his grandfather was a judge of amiable conflicts in north Lebanon in the 40s. At school Dany would get into fights with larger children if he thought his friends were being harassed or treated inequitably.

Organized crime was present in the area but quiescent; as a boy Dany was infatuated by motorcycles and Gangs, but only to understand their world and patterns. Most of his classmates ended up as militia members or left the country for a better future. He grew up at a time when Beirutians did not acknowledge the existence of the Government as an authority and entity defending rights, due to the civil war, were militias took control of life as coherent organized group in the Christian area of Beirut city;

After a classical education at St. Joseph school (la Sagesse), Dany studied law at the University of St. Esprit a Lebanese Christian Maronite order’s educational institution, following a brief period to study the Christian theology and Islamic legislation. He drifted away from his parents' middle-class conservative Catholicism- Maronite methods towards a more open and liberal Christian believes. He became religious but not conservative; in his youth he had been a supporter of the Christian civil defense front, a right-wing student organization affiliated with the Lebanese Christian phalanges’ party. However, he never joined any political party, or shared the ideologies of any political movements; he was always interested in opposing organized crime. Zeeny wanted a security forces career, after receiving his double national and General Law diplomas in 1991, so he was listed in the Special Forces (the panthers) of the internal security forces in 1992-93, and underwent a specialized anti-crime military raid and attack training for 3 months, but his family especially his father thought him too independent-minded for the armed forces, and insisted on sending him to the judicial institute.

In 1993, Zeeny left the Special Forces and began to practice law, and since he was oriented to the fight against crime, and according to his inner believes to belong to a credible, reliable and integer corps he was appointed a judge in 1996, to graduate from the national judicial institute after studying for 3 years and writing 4 “memoires” about the art of international investigations and penal procedures. He eventually gravitated toward penal law after serving as a consultant in bankruptcy courts till 2003 and as a district magistrate for 4 years and investigation one for 2 years. He was assigned to the military tribunal as a consultant in 2008 and to the military prosecution office in Beirut since 2009.

His work as a deputy military prosecutor and as deputy commissioner of the government to the military courts dealt with monitoring, investigating all kind of “terrorist cases” all over the Lebanese soil and foreign territories, possession and trade of explosives, mass killings and arm deals in the phase of the preliminary investigation in fields of terrorism and counterterrorism; counter intelligence and espionage; comparative security, risk analysis; weapons of mass destruction; technology and security.

Judge Zeeny was in charge of conducting the preliminary investigations of the attacks on the UNIFIL forces in Lebanon and particularly the Italian and French Battalions, starting from investigating the scene of the explosions to interviewing suspects and preparing, managing the strategy of the investigation as a Liaison Judicial officer between the UNIFIL and the prosecution military corp. He managed the investigation’s strategy of Lebanese central prison “Roumieh prison” file since 2011 and uncovered the existence of the terrorist group al Nousra front inside the prison facility and dismantled their effective activities, and solved a murder case of a Palestinian alleged to commit suicide. Judge Zeeny is still serving as a deputy military prosecutor and a deputy joint commissioner of the Lebanese government to the military tribunal till the present time