The Permanent Military Tribunal
headed by Brig. Gen. Nizar Khalil on Friday sentenced to death Haitham
al-Sahmarani, a retired Internal Security Forces first sergeant, on charges of
collaboration with Israel.
Upon his arrest in 2009 Sahmarani
confessed to collaborating, along with his wife, with the Mossad, Israel’s
intelligence agency.
With the help of his sister who had
fled to Israel in 2000, Sahmarani began his relation with the Israelis in 2004.
The sister, Sahera al-Sahmarani, and
her husband Mohammed Amin Khazaal were sentenced to death in absentia on
Friday.
Hizbullah’s mouthpiece, Al-Manar
television, said “Sahmarani met with Israeli officers in Turkey and Israel and
gave coordinates to the enemy during the (2006) July war of (Hizbullah chief)
Sayyed (Hassan) Nasrallah's possible locations.”
Separately, the military tribunal
sentenced Ragheda Daher to two years hard labor on charges of spying for Israel.
And it handed a similar verdict to
Assem Hammoud, who had been accused of plotting to bomb train tunnels in the
U.S.
More than 100 people have been
arrested on suspicion of spying for the Israeli Mossad since April 2009,
including members of the security forces and telecom employees.
Several have since been sentenced to
death.
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