"....The ex-general from the General Security Department of the Interior Ministry's detention is among several arrests in recent months that appear to be part of a stepped up campaign in Lebanon against those suspected of gathering information on Hezbollah militants for Israel...."
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Lebanese Retired Army Officer Accused of Spying for Israel
14/04/2009 Security forces have arrested retired Brigadier General Adib A. in Beirut's Dekwaneh district for suspicion he was collaborating with the Israeli Secret Service, the Mossad.
According to Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar, the arrest took place on Saturday after three months of monitoring a "group of suspects" suspected of collaboration with the Zionist entity in areas east and north of Beirut as well as southern Lebanon, particularly south of the Litani River.
The official said the detained officer admitted to collaborating with Israel since more than 10 years, saying his role was to collect information.
The retired brigadier general, however, denied his involvement in carrying out any assassination or bombing attacks, but confessed to meeting Israeli officials in Europe.
His wife was also summoned on suspicion of complicity. She uncovered information that was withheld by her husband, according to Al-Akhbar.
Adib used to work for the Director General of the Public Security before he retired in 1998 to run his own maids service office in Dekwaneh. Al-Akhbar quoted a senior security official as saying that the retired general used his office as cover-up of his "intelligence mission."
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