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| Lebanon army dismantles Israeli spy devices |
| 2010-12-17 |
| [Ma'an] The Lebanese army said it dismantled two "espionage devices" on Wednesday that Israel had placed on top of two of the country's mountains, acting on an alert from Hezbullies. "Earlier today, military intelligence discovered the two devices and dismantled them," an army front man told AFP, without specifying the nature of the equipment. The spying devices were found on Mount Sannine, northeast of Beirut, and the Barouk Mountain, east of the capital, he added. An army statement said the device on Mount Sannine consisted of visual emission and reception parts. The second device was "more complicated," it added, without elaborating. Voice of Leb radio, however, reported that an kaboom heard in Leb late Wednesday was an Israel Air Force operation aimed at destroying an espionage device it had installed off the coast of the city of Sidon, Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz reported. The report comes a day after the Lebanese Army said it had uncovered two Israeli spy installations in mountainous areas near Beirut. The installations included photographic equipment as well as laser and broadcast equipment. It said the military had been alerted to their existence by Leb's powerful Hezbullies, which has been cooperating closely with army intelligence since the launch of a national crackdown on alleged Israeli spy rings in 2009. The Shiite Islamic myrmidon Hezbullies has accused its arch-enemy Israel of having infiltrated the country's telecom sector. On December 3, the Israeli army detonated two of its spy devices in southern Leb, slightly injuring two passers-by, after Hezbullies uncovered their location near the coastal city of Tyre. The movement hailed the discovery as "another achievement" of its counter-espionage teams. Wednesday's incident came amid high tension in Leb over impending indictments by a UN-backed probe into the 2005 liquidation of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri. The Special Tribunal for Leb is allegedly set to implicate high-ranking members of Hezbullies in the killing, a move the party has repeatedly warned against. Hezbullies, which fought a devastating one-month war with Israel in 2006, has accused the STL, which has based its indictments on extensive telecommunications evidence, of being part of a US-Israeli plot. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 They knew it was Israeli because the devices worked. Unlike of course someones centrifuges. |
| Posted by: Steven 2010-12-17 12:03 |
| #1 A lot of this sounds odd. The Leb army claims (in other articles on this) that they knew it was Israeli because it had Hebrew letters on it. Yeah right. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2010-12-17 11:21 |