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From: "Mario Profaca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: November 4, 2008 3:24:41 AM PST
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Subject: [SPY NEWS] 'Lebanese working for Mossad' may have played role
in Mughniyeh hit
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'Lebanese working for Mossad' may have played role in Mughniyeh hit
04/11/2008 7:53:00 AM
The alleged leader of a Mossad spy network arrested by Lebanese
authorities monitored the Kfar Sousa neighborhood in Damascus a few
months before senior Hizbullah military commander Imad Mughniyeh was
assassinated by a car bomb last February, according to a report
published by As-Safir newspaper on Monday.
As-Safir identified the spy leader as Ali Jarrah. It said the other
suspect arrested was his brother, Youssef.
The daily said investigations into Ali Jarrah indicated that Israel's
Mossad intelligence service had tasked him with carrying out
surveillance in Kfar Sousa a few months before Mughniyeh's
assassination.
"Did Jarrah know why the survey was conducted? Or was he ordered to
just monitor the area?" the newspaper asked. "And did he play a role
in the summer 2006 war?"
The Lebanese Army announced over the weekend that it had arrested two
people in the Bekaa Valley linked to an Israeli espionage network.
A senior Palestinian official in the Bekaa told As-Safir that Ali
Jarrah has, since quitting Fatah al-Intifada and joining Ahmed
Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General
Command, obtained a special military pass that allowed him to cross
the Syrian-Lebanese border without being searched by authorities.
The Palestinian source added that Jarrah had moved freely in Damascus
and frequently visited the homes of Palestinian officials and
Palestinian centers.
During the 34-day war in July and August of 2006, Jarrah was seen with
a video camera moving at some sensitive areas that included relief
centers known to be connected to parties supporting Hizbullah,
As-Safir reported. "Was he pinpointing security targets at the Bekaa?"
the daily asked.
According to the newspaper, investigators working on the case are
attempting to determine whether a video camera fixed inside his
four-wheel drive was connected via satellite to his controllers in
Israel - as a GPS navigational system in his vehicle reportedly was.
As-Safir also asked whether the breaking up of the network would
ultimately lead to the uncovering of other spy rings in the country.
Security sources connected to the investigation told the pan-Arab
daily Al-Hayat that details could not be released because the
investigation was sensitive and confidential.
The sources stressed that the suspect had confessed to working for the
Mossad, that he has monitored certain political party centers and the
movements of certain party leaders for Israel.
They said that Jarrah, who is in his 50s, was previously detained in
Damascus by elements of Syrian State Security, and accused with being
a member of Fatah-Intifada, a group officially labeled as "terrorist"
by Syrian authorities.
In Syria, Jarrah was questioned for days concerning his relationship
to Al-Qaeda-inspired Fatah al-Islam leader Shaker al-Abssi, who is
wanted in Lebanon for his role in the 2007 fighting at the Nahr
al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp.
Sources added that Jarrah was subject to intensive interrogation by
Syrian authorities in Damascus that went beyond his connection to
Abssi and Fatah al-Intifada members. They said that Syrian authorities
later released him.
According to the Al-Hayat sources, Jarrah later returned to his
hometown of Al-Marj in the western Bekaa and continued with his normal
life up to his disappearance a month ago while on his way from the
Bekaa to Beirut.
Sources in his hometown refused to comment to Al-Hayat on news that a
certain political party had placed Jarrah under intense watch and
later detained him under suspicion of spying for Israel. Meanwhile,
Jarrah's family sought the help of Lebanese police to locate him,
according to the daily.
Sources following up on the investigation told Al-Hayat that the
political party that had arrested Jarrah soon delivered him to
Lebanese Army Intelligence.
Residents of al-Marj told As-Safir on Saturday that late in October an
army unit raided Jarrah's home, confiscated his four-wheel-drive and
arrested his brother. Residents said the army also searched his
uncle's home without taking further action. - The Daily Star, with
Naharnet
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