[Al Arabiya Latest] Hezbollah actively coordinated with Lebanon's security services on the arrest of a retired general suspected of spying for Israel, the Shiite movement's deputy chief said on Wednesday. "Security forces monitored the movements of Adib al-Aalam and asked Hezbollah for information on him," Sheikh Naim Qassem told AFP in an interview.
Aalam was arrested alongside his wife at his office near Beirut on suspicion of having provided Israel with information for the past decade on Lebanese security services and the Shiite Muslim militant group.
" Israel works vertically, and not horizontally. It collaborates with two or three people, and if one network is caught, it may not point in the direction of the other networks "
Sheikh Naim Qassem
Though retired, Aalam continued to maintain an office at the general directorate for Internal Security Forces, which he allegedly turned into a communications center for passing information to the Israelis.
"Preliminary information indicates he had been working as a spy for Israel for over 25 years and retired from his position in national security eight years ago," Qassem said, adding that Aalam's wife was also implicated in the spy operation.
"His arrest was a major achievement," Qassem said.
He added, however, that this did not mean that Israel's network had been busted in Lebanon.
"Israel works vertically, and not horizontally. It collaborates with two or three people, and if one network is caught, it may not point in the direction of the other networks," Qassem said.
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" Israel works vertically, and not horizontally. It collaborates with two or three people, and if one network is caught, it may not point in the direction of the other networks "
They'll never figure that Nasralla works for us.
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He also worked under Arafat, if you know what I mean.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Russia's state arms export service has declared that the country is not delivering its advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to Iran.
"Nothing is happening. There are no deliveries," Interfax news agency quoted Alexander Fomin, First Deputy Director of Russia's Federal Military and Technical Cooperation Service, as saying at an arms fair in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Any possible sale of the advanced missile system to Iran is a sensitive issue that could put Moscow and Washington at odds.
Israel had also urged Moscow not to sell the missile system to Iran.
Last week, Israel agreed to sell three surveillance drones worth $50 million to Russia. The Israeli media reported that the move was made in exchange for Russia's decision not to sell the S-300 missile to Iran.
The truck-mounted S-300PMU, which can travel at more than 2 km per second, can shoot down cruise missiles and aircraft from up to 150 km (90 miles) away.
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Given their behavior with that Indian carrier, it sounds like they don't accept anything less than 140% of the agreed-upon price in cash. And that's when they're feeling generous.
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[Jerusalem Post Front Page] After an Egyptian official said Hizbullah would pay "a heavy price" for what Cairo alleges were attempts to carry out terror attacks inside the country, Iran dismissed the accusations as an "old trick" aimed at influencing the Lebanese parliamentary elections, and accused Israel of involvement. "Labels against... Hizbullah and (its chief Sayyed) Hassan Nasrallah are an old and frayed trick and will not achieve anything," Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was quoted as saying by Iran's Fars news agency.
Mottaki also said Israel and "hands from outside the region" were seeking to "create problems" in the June 7 elections. "The Zionist regime will not succeed in this political plot," he said.
Meanwhile, Hizbullah deputy head Naim Kassem reiterated the group's insistence that Cairo's claims were fabricated. He said Egypt wanted to muddy Hizbullah's name and image, and get back at the group for calling on Cairo to open the Rafah border crossing. "We have one enemy, that's Israel," said Kassem. "Egypt is not our enemy."
Cairo and Hizbullah have been on a collision course since last week, when Egyptian security forces arrested 49 people accused of plotting to carry out attacks against tourists in the Sinai Peninsula.
The investigation carried out by the Egyptians even resulted in fire exchanges between Egyptian officers and Sinai Beduin when the officers wanted to search the Beduin's residence for Hizbullah terrorists on Monday night.
Furthermore, Hizbullah loyalists purchased a building in Cairo and several buildings in the Sinai and were using them as bases, Egyptian sources claimed.
On Wednesday, a top official was quoted by Al Ahram as saying that Egypt would not necessarily attack Hizbullah installations or kill members of the terror group, but Hizbullah members, including ministers in the Lebanese government, might be banned from entering Egypt.
After the interrogation of Hizbullah suspects in Egypt is finished, "treatment of the organization will be different from what it has been in the past," the official promised.
Animosity between the Sunni African country and the Shi'ite terror group flared in the wake of Israel's Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip, when Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah called on Egyptians to storm the streets in protest. Back then, Egyptian officials fumed at Nasrallah and accused him of trying to provoke a coup d'etat in Egypt.
But recent developments also stem from historical animosity between Sunni-Arab Egypt and Shi'ite-non-Arab Iran, Hizbullah's patron and enabler.
On Tuesday, the larger regional conflict implicit in the Egypt-Hizbullah clash became explicit when Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit told the London-based Asharq Alawsat that "Iran, and Iran's followers want Egypt to become a maid of honor for the crowned Iranian queen when she enters the Middle East." He was referring to Hizbullah's activity in Egypt, which Cairo interprets as Iranian meddling in its internal affairs.
Meanwhile, Al Quds al Arabi reported Wednesday that Jordan had raised its level of alert following the allegations of Hizbullah activity in Egypt.
According to the London-based paper, the move came despite the lack of specific warnings on possible terror cells working in the Hashemite kingdom.
Apart from the possibility that Hizbullah sleeper cells might be operating in the country, the monarchy also fears that cells affiliated with the Sunni terror group al Qaida might attempt to infiltrate Israel via the Jordanian border, the report said.
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[Jerusalem Post Front Page] After an Egyptian official said Hizbullah would pay "a heavy price" for what Cairo alleges were attempts to carry out terror attacks inside the country, Iran dismissed the accusations as an "old trick" aimed at influencing the Lebanese parliamentary elections, and accused Israel of involvement. "Labels against... Hizbullah and (its chief Sayyed) Hassan Nasrallah are an old and frayed trick and will not achieve anything," Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was quoted as saying by Iran's Fars news agency. 
