28/06/2010 Confessions made by mobile telephone network technician Charbel Q. not only showed he spied for the Israeli Mossad secret service, but also the seriousness of the work he did for the Israelis over the past 14 years in his capacity as both an Alfa employee and communications ministry staffer
Speaking to Lebanese daily As-Safir, Lebanese security sources described Charbel's arrest as a very valuable treasure. "This is more than a hefty catch. This is the very most precious treasure in terms of services and data the detainee has been providing Israel all those years," one security official told As-Safir.
Preliminary investigations with Charbel showed that the Israelis instructed him with installing technical equipment across the entire Alfa stations which helped provide Israel with frequencies, thus, making it able to monitor Alfa mobile phone calls.
Investigators are trying to pin down Charbel's accomplices, given that more than a technical expert noted that the detainee may be head of a network himself or part of a larger network or system.
Meanwhile, Telecommunications Minister Charbel Nahhas told As-Safir that he wasn't aware of the employee's detention before the issue was raised in the media. "I told the company's administration that they should have told us since Thursday but they were confused," he said.
Nahhas said that the detained employee is not new in the Telecoms sector, noting that he was working in it since the days of "Cellis". He pointed out that he was not a first-class employee in Alfa, meaning he was not a manager, but a technician (head of a department), stressing that this doesn't undermine the importance of date he might received from his position.
The Minister said that he would pay attention to the whole file based on a contract between the Lebanese state and Alfa, "given that we really seek that the sides we're working with be non-violated and fortified."
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