Lebanese spying for Mossad get life, hard labor
By The Daily Star
BEIRUT: The Lebanese judiciary demanded on Wednesday a lifetime of hard labor for three suspects who allegedly collaborated with the Israel intelligence and provided it with information about Hizbullah officials.
First Military Investigative Magistrate Riyad Abu Ghayda demanded the sentence for suspect Mussa Mussa and for two runaway suspects Ali Soueid and Ahmad Abdullah.
He transferred them to the Permanent Military Tribunal to be tried for entering Israel without the approval of the Lebanese government and for working with the Mossad.
After examining Mussa’s telephone calls and questioning him, the judiciary revealed that the suspect had first entered Israeli territories in 1977 and underwent military training with the Israeli Army for 25 days. He then returned to his hometown of Khiyam in south Lebanon before Suweid and Abdullah offered him to work with Mossad in 1998.
The three men met with an Israeli officer and agreed to a sum of money in exchange for their services. The first mission assigned to Mussa was to deliver a brown envelope to a person in Hamra Street in Beirut.
Later assignments included providing information about Hizbullah locations in Khiyam and about Hizbullah leaders, their vehicles, their meetings and their movements.
Mussa confessed during questioning that he received an Israeli telephone number to communicate with the Mossad and that he was paid for his efforts through what he called “The Fast Dead Mail Service.”
He explained that an Israeli officer would place a mark near a rock or a tree, which indicated that he should dig in that location to find the money.
Mussa went on to say that he was paid a total of $30,000 for the information he gave, which he gathered from south Lebanon villages disguised as a cattle merchant. – The Daily Star
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