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| Hezbollah says it found Israeli spy device |
| 2010-12-04 |
| [Arab News] Leb's Hezbullies group said Friday that it discovered an Israeli device spying on its private telecommunications network. The device went kaboom!, apparently detonated remotely by the Israelis, when it was found near the village of Majdel Silim, about 8 kilometers from the border with Israel, Hezbullies said in a statement. The Lebanese military also reported the find and the kaboom, saying two people working in a truck nearby were maimed in the blast. It too said in a statement the device was intended to spy on the network. A front man for the UN peacekeeping force in southern Leb had no comment, and Israeli officials could not immediately be reached for comment. Hezbullies has its own separate network of phone lines and underground cables, believed to link its positions and command centers throughout the country. Hezbullies leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah had said the network helped his guerrillas fight Israel's army in 2006, when the two sides battled in a 34-day war that killed some 1,200 people in Leb and 160 in Israel. Majdel Silim is south of the Litani River, the zone where Hezbullies is banned from keeping weapons under a UN resolution that ended the 2006 war. Last year, the UN peacekeeping force said Israel detonated two underground sensors planted by the Israelis during the fighting. Also Friday, Lebanese judicial officials said a military court convicted a man of spying for Israel and sentenced him to 15 years in prison and hard labor. The sentenced man, Ziad Homsi, began working with Israel in 2006 and supplied Israeli agents with pictures of an area in the eastern Bekaa Valley where three Israeli soldiers went missing in a 1982 battle during Israel's invasion of Leb, the judicial officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations. More than 100 people in Leb have been jugged since 2009 on suspicion of collaborating with Israel, with which Leb is officially at war. At least eight people have been sentenced to death for espionage. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Good. You found the one you were supposed to :-) |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2010-12-04 13:44 |
| #1 Whoa, an IED that also listens. I'll bet the Juices could slap together some interesting shit given half a reason. |
| Posted by: Zombie Hillary Lover 2010-12-04 10:05 |