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Lebanon arrests man accused of spying for Israel
[IsraelTimes] Beirut says unnamed 40-year-old Canadian-Lebanese citizen confessed to being recruited in 2013 to gather info about Hezbollah, whereabouts of Ron Arad.Lebanese intelligence said Tuesday a Lebanese-Canadian dual national had been locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! on suspicion of spying for Israel. "In the framework of pursuing operations to combat Israeli espionage... the directorate of General Security arrested a Lebanese-Canadian," the General Security service said in a statement. There were no details on exactly when or where the individual was detained. The statement said the 40-year-old man confessed to being recruited in 2013 by a Lebanese runaway it said belongs to an Israeli spying network described as "unit 504." He was ordered to recruit Lebanese agents to spy on Hezbollah and collect information on missing Israeli airman Ron Arad, a navigator whose plane was shot down over Leb in 1986 and was thought to have been handed over to the Shiite group, the statement said. Leb and Israel remain technically in a state of war, with occasional skirmishes along their shared border. Between April 2009 and 2014, Lebanese authorities detained more than 100 people accused of spying for Israel, most of them members of the military or telecom employees. Such arrests have been less frequent recently. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-03-20 |
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