Israel Spy Networks in Eye of Lebanon Security Storm
Mohamad Shmaysani Readers Number : 65
04/05/2009 Falling one after the other, Israeli spy networks are in the eye of the Lebanese security storm.
Al-Manar has learned that security forces have arrested Monday afternoon two agents with the Mossad, brothers Hassan Y. and Jaafar Y. in the south Lebanese town of Sultaniyyeh. Security forces have also arrested Hussein H. from the town of Deir Ntar.
Eight Israeli spy networks have been dismantled so far since last September as it seems that the country will witness more such moves.
Al-Manar has also learned that Military Intelligence have arrested Monday an individual and interrogated him over the “Sehmarani network.” The Lebanese dailies Al-Akhbar and Assafir have said that Haytham Sehmerani, a Sergeant in the Information Branch of the Internal Security Forces, had been arrested a week earlier in the Bourj al-Barajneh neighborhood in Beirut’s southern suburb. His wife, according to reports, was later arrested and she had a significant amount of information.
Sehmarani confessed to have been working for Israel since 2004 through his sister who fled to occupied Palestine in the wake of the liberation in 2000. Security forces have confiscated a computer set through which he used to make contact with his Israeli operators.
The Mossad agent’s mission was to collect detailed information about Islamic Resistance officials and members as well as Hezbollah offices in Dahiyeh (Beirut’s southern suburb). He also took part in marking a large number of targets, some of which were bombed during the Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006.
Investigations with Sehamarani focused on the possibility that the Information Branch had been infiltrated by Israeli network.
Another agent was arrested in the southern city of Nabatiyyeh. Al-Akhbar said it quoted a senior Hezbollah official as saying the Islamic Resistance’s security apparatus had succeeded, in coordination with the ISF, in arresting Mustapha Awada (55 years) who runs a car sales company. Awada owned sophisticated equipment necessary for his work as well as a surveillance device planted in the side mirror of his car.
The spy networks had been working on several targets related to Hezbollah and the arrested agents are being intensively interrogated to find out the nature and the quantity of information they passed to Israel.
As for agent Ali Mantash, who was arrested a week ago, investigations conducted by the Information Branch revealed that he had been assigned with collecting personal and detailed information about Hezbollah’s liaison and coordination official Hajj Wakik Safa and his family, his home, his visits to his hometown. Hajj Safa was one of four senior Hezbollah officials monitored by agent Mantash.
Mohamad Shmaysani Readers Number : 65
04/05/2009 Falling one after the other, Israeli spy networks are in the eye of the Lebanese security storm.
Al-Manar has learned that security forces have arrested Monday afternoon two agents with the Mossad, brothers Hassan Y. and Jaafar Y. in the south Lebanese town of Sultaniyyeh. Security forces have also arrested Hussein H. from the town of Deir Ntar.
Eight Israeli spy networks have been dismantled so far since last September as it seems that the country will witness more such moves.
Al-Manar has also learned that Military Intelligence have arrested Monday an individual and interrogated him over the “Sehmarani network.” The Lebanese dailies Al-Akhbar and Assafir have said that Haytham Sehmerani, a Sergeant in the Information Branch of the Internal Security Forces, had been arrested a week earlier in the Bourj al-Barajneh neighborhood in Beirut’s southern suburb. His wife, according to reports, was later arrested and she had a significant amount of information.
Sehmarani confessed to have been working for Israel since 2004 through his sister who fled to occupied Palestine in the wake of the liberation in 2000. Security forces have confiscated a computer set through which he used to make contact with his Israeli operators.
The Mossad agent’s mission was to collect detailed information about Islamic Resistance officials and members as well as Hezbollah offices in Dahiyeh (Beirut’s southern suburb). He also took part in marking a large number of targets, some of which were bombed during the Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006.
Investigations with Sehamarani focused on the possibility that the Information Branch had been infiltrated by Israeli network.
Another agent was arrested in the southern city of Nabatiyyeh. Al-Akhbar said it quoted a senior Hezbollah official as saying the Islamic Resistance’s security apparatus had succeeded, in coordination with the ISF, in arresting Mustapha Awada (55 years) who runs a car sales company. Awada owned sophisticated equipment necessary for his work as well as a surveillance device planted in the side mirror of his car.
The spy networks had been working on several targets related to Hezbollah and the arrested agents are being intensively interrogated to find out the nature and the quantity of information they passed to Israel.
As for agent Ali Mantash, who was arrested a week ago, investigations conducted by the Information Branch revealed that he had been assigned with collecting personal and detailed information about Hezbollah’s liaison and coordination official Hajj Wakik Safa and his family, his home, his visits to his hometown. Hajj Safa was one of four senior Hezbollah officials monitored by agent Mantash.
'Israeli Withdrawal Plans Ploy to Divert Attention from Spy Cells'
Readers Number : 185
04/05/2009 A few hours after Israeli daily Haaretz said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is likely to announce this week that Israel is interested in withdrawing from the northern part of the village of Ghajar on the border with Lebanon in order to "bolster" Lebanon's PM Fouad Saniora, the latter responded saying that the Israeli plans were a ploy to divert attention from spy networks uncovered in Lebanon.
"This shrewd propaganda by the Israeli press reflects Israeli anger and embarrassment in the face of several Israeli spy networks uncovered by Lebanese security throughout Lebanon," Saniora said in a statement released by his media office.
The Lebanese Prime Minister said Israeli media reports that the withdrawal was a bid to boost his own government ahead of the June parliamentary elections were but a ploy to divide the Lebanese. "No one will be fooled by these claims," he said, adding that since the July 2006 war, Lebanon has been demanding that Israel withdraw from Ghajar unconditionally in line with UN Resolution 1701.
Saniora concluded his statement by calling on relevant authorities to provide the Foreign Ministry with all the necessary information on the Israeli spying cells to present them to the United Nations Security Council.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh recalled that the UNSC resolution 1701 obligates Israel to immediately withdraw from all occupied territories. "We refuse that the Israeli enemy portrays a withdrawal from the Ghajar village as a favor after delaying it for nearly three years," Salloukh said, recalling that the Zionist entity was continuing it violation for all international norms with its occupation of the Shebaa farms and its daily violations of the Lebanese sovereignty.
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