Hezbollah Declares ‘Victory’ in Intelligence War with CIA

Wednesday 23 November 2011

Hezbollah Declares ‘Victory’ in Intelligence War with CIA

Hezbollah announced Wednesday that it has succeeded in exposing CIA operatives in Lebanon and urged the government to take immediate measures against the US embassy near Beirut.

"Our security...has exposed several American and Israeli plots on Lebanon," Hezbollah's Loyalty to Resistance bloc member in the Lebanese parliament MP Hasan Fadlallah told reporters outside parliament.

“The American official confession to an embassy-based espionage apparatus in Lebanon is a clear and serious recognition of the assault on Lebanese sovereignty and violation of treaties and international laws, especially as it is run by U.S. officers impersonating diplomatic status,” he said.

"We call on the Lebanese government to take immediate action...and raise the issue with the United Nations and embassies, so that the whole world is aware of what the US embassy in Lebanon is doing," he added.

Fadlallah, who heads parliament's telecommunications committee, said Hezbollah had succeeded in uncovering Central Intelligence Agency operatives that had infiltrated the party.

“This confession reveals the level of the hard achievement made by the resistance to protect national security and counter the US and Israeli espionage,” he stressed.

"Lebanese intelligence vanquished US and Israeli intelligence in what is now known as the intelligence war," Fadlallah said.

"The resistance blinded American intelligence eyes."

More than 100 people in Lebanon have been arrested on suspicion of spying for Israel since April 2009, including military personnel and telecoms employees.
Lebanon has protested to the United Nations over the spy networks.