Retired Lebanon Official Confesses to Spying for Israeli Enemy
20/08/2009 A former security official confessed on Thursday before a military court to spying for the Israeli enemy and also admitted his involvement in a deadly 2006 car bombing.
Mahmoud Qassem Rafeh, a 62-year-old retired Internal Security Forces official, confessed to having "collaborated with Israeli intelligence agents" between 1993 and 2006.
Rafeh also admitted he transported car parts from the Palestinian occupied territories to Lebanon which were used in a 2006 bombing in southern Lebanon that killed brothers Mahmoud and Nidal Mazjoub, members of the Islamic Jihad group.
The trial was adjourned until October 15.
Rafeh is accused of the murders of the Majzoub brothers, Hezbollah officials Ali Hassan Dib and Ali Saleh, and Jihad Jibril, son of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command leader Ahmad Jibril.
More than 70 people have been arrested in Lebanon this year in a crackdown on espionage rings, including a retired general and a policeman.
20/08/2009 A former security official confessed on Thursday before a military court to spying for the Israeli enemy and also admitted his involvement in a deadly 2006 car bombing.
Mahmoud Qassem Rafeh, a 62-year-old retired Internal Security Forces official, confessed to having "collaborated with Israeli intelligence agents" between 1993 and 2006.
Rafeh also admitted he transported car parts from the Palestinian occupied territories to Lebanon which were used in a 2006 bombing in southern Lebanon that killed brothers Mahmoud and Nidal Mazjoub, members of the Islamic Jihad group.
The trial was adjourned until October 15.
Rafeh is accused of the murders of the Majzoub brothers, Hezbollah officials Ali Hassan Dib and Ali Saleh, and Jihad Jibril, son of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command leader Ahmad Jibril.
More than 70 people have been arrested in Lebanon this year in a crackdown on espionage rings, including a retired general and a policeman.
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