By Youssef Diab
BEIRUT: The Military Tribunal
sentenced Thursday a Shiite Muslim preacher – who headed an anti-Israel
resistance group – to five years in prison for collaborating with Israel, a
judicial source told The Daily Star.
The sentence against Sheikh Mohammad
Ali Husseini was handed down by the tribunal headed by Brigadier Nizar Khalil.
Husseini was convicted of
“contacting the Israeli enemy and its intelligence service, dealing with other
foreign states that have security dealings with Israel and possessing
unlicensed military arms,” the source said.
Husseini, who was also stripped of
his civil rights, ran the Arab-Islamic Resistance movement and claimed
responsibility for firing rockets toward Israel three years ago.
Husseini was arrested in May by
Lebanese intelligence personnel at his apartment in the Riz complex, east of
the southern port city of Tyre and taken to the Defense Ministry in Yarze, east
Beirut, for questioning.
The Lebanese intelligence unit also confiscated
a number of computers, communication equipment and documents from Husseini’s
home. Reporters based in south Lebanon claim Husseini – who is critical of both
Hezbollah and the Amal Movement of Speaker Nabih Berri – carried out a
simulation of a military maneuver in 2008. 
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