[Iran Press TV Latest] Cairo has leveled new accusations against Hezbollah, alleging that the movement plans to carry out a massive bomb attack in Tel Aviv. A new report published in the Egyptian daily Al-Masri Al-Youm on Thursday alleges that the group recently arrested over supposed links to the Lebanese movement was planning to carry out "a suicide attack" in Tel Aviv.
Cairo announced last week that its security forces had arrested a group of 49 people -- who it accuses of having links with the Lebanese movement -- on charges of plotting attacks in Egypt.
Based on the Thursday report, however, the detainees had been on a mission to carry out a suicide attack in Tel Aviv.
The claims come from alleged painful confessions of two of the detainees -- Mohamed Ramadan Abdel Fattah Baraka and Nadal Fathy Hassan -- who are believed to be members of the Palestinian Fatah.
According to the report, the detainees said they had joined the "Hezbollah group" in Egypt in early 2008 after entering the country from the Gaza-Sinai border. Cairo had initially claimed that the detainees were Hamas supporters only to change its allegation shortly afterwards, saying they were plotting "terrorist attacks inside Egypt".
Hezbollah has dismissed the Egyptian claims as politically motivated and aimed at undermining the group in line with Israeli policies.
Differences between Fatah and Hamas have so far prevented the formation of a Palestinian national unity government and although Hezbollah has no problem with Fatah, relations between the two groups are not very warm.
In 2006, Sultan Abu al-Einin, a Fatah leader in Lebanon, accused Hezbollah of curbing the movement attempts to launch cross-border attacks on Israel. According to Einin, Hezbollah on several occasions arrested Fatah gunmen who wanted to infiltrate into Israel and handed them over to Lebanese authorities.
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[Jerusalem Post Front Page] Another member of an alleged spy network for Israel has been arrested in Lebanon, local media reported on Thursday.
G. Alam, a general security department corporal, was arrested earlier this week in the South Lebanese town of Naqoura and his home, located in another province, was also raided. Authorities retrieved a computer from his home, according to al-Hayat newspaper.
On Saturday, his uncle, a retired Lebanese general named Adib Alam, was arrested at his office in Beirut, also on suspicion of spying for Israel. Adib's wife was also questioned. The uncle is accused of using his business, which managed foreign domestic workers, as a front for his espionage activities.
"We are facing a professional and well-trained network, even while it is being discovered, and as a result, the investigation will take a long time," a security source told a-Safir newspaper. The spy ring may not be limited to only espionage activities but might also be engaged in carrying out missions, he said.
Hizbullah's Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem has called the arrest of Adib Alam a major achievement for security forces. "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 told AFP.
Since the Second Lebanon War in 2006, Lebanese officials say Israel continues to recruit and operate spies. Several arrests were announced in November and February. Last year two people were arrested for allegedly trying to pass information to the Mossad about a range of Lebanese activities, both via pictures of military and civilian installations and through spoken contact.
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The uncle is accused of using his business, which managed foreign domestic workers,
Lebanon has economic immigrants? What hell-hole are they escaping? (Yes, I do realize that the non-Hizb'allah portion of Lebanon has been peaceful for, what, a decade or so? But still!)
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[Jerusalem Post Front Page] Another member of an alleged spy network for Israel has been arrested in Lebanon, local media reported on Thursday. 
