Retired Lebanon Official Confesses to Spying for Israeli Enemy
Source: Hizbollah Site Staff, 21-08-2009
A former security official confessed on Thursday before a military court to spying for the "Israeli" enemy in addition to admitting 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, Hizbullah officials Ali Hassan Dib and Ali Saleh, and Jihad Jibril, son of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command leader Ahmad Jibril.
A former security official confessed on Thursday before a military court to spying for the "Israeli" enemy in addition to admitting 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, Hizbullah officials Ali Hassan Dib and Ali Saleh, and Jihad Jibril, son of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command leader Ahmad Jibril.
Since the beginning of a major crackdown on spy networks earlier this year, more than 70 people have been arrested, including a retired general and a policeman.
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