The SSNP commemorates the Wimpy Operation annually.[6] In 2000, the site of the attack was renamed "Place Khaled Alwan" by the municipality of Beirut, in honour of his contributions to the resistance.[2][6] In 2003 Alwan, who was killed in an ambush in 1984, was awarded the Lebanese Order of Merit posthumously.[1] Writing on the political dimensions of resistance memorials, Franck Mermier notes that members of the Lebanese Communist Party claimed that Alwan had been aided in the Wimpy Operation by two persons; another SSNP member and a Communist Party member named Charbel Abboud. According to Mermier, this claim does not appear in the official SSNP narratives regarding the operation.[1]