By
Youssef Diab
BEIRUT:
Sheikh Hasan Mshaimesh, who was charged last October with collaborating with
Israel, accused Hezbollah during a trial session Thursday of being present when
he had been interrogated by the Internal Security Forces and said he was being
framed because of his dispute with the party.
The
Military Tribunal, headed by Brig. Gen. Khalil Ibrahim, was questioning
Mshaimesh on charges of collaboration by contacting Israeli agents and
providing them with information on Hezbollah in return for money.
During
the session, Mshaimesh argued that he had been arrested and framed because of a
political and ideological dispute with Hezbollah, “which fights against anyone
who goes against its political or religious views and its ideology linked to
Wilayat al-Fakih [clerical rule].”
Mshaimesh
stressed that Hezbollah opposes even high-ranking Shiite scholars and clerics
who disagree with it.
“The
attack against the home of the late Shiite cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein
Fadlallah was at the hand of Hezbollah’s military commander Mustafa
Badreddine,” he said.
Mshaimesh
said he had been “tortured in a way that no one could endure” by Syrian
intelligence when he was arrested in Damascus, at the Lebanese Defense Ministry
and the Internal Security Forces’ Information branch.
He
added that two Hezbollah officials had been present while he was being investigated
by the ISF. When warned by Ibrahim that he was offending a security
institution, he replied “in Lebanon, anything can happen.”
Separately, the Military
Tribunal also continued its questioning of Col. Antoine Abu Jawdeh, who was
also charged last year of collaborating with Israel. During the session, Abu
Jawdeh claimed he had been threatened by a Mossad agent he met abroad and had
only supplied publicly available information. The defendant also claimed he
suffered from an anxiety disorder.
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