naharnet - Lebanon Media Exaggeration of Latest Israeli Spy Aims at Causing Confusion in UN Hariri Probe

An MP with the March 14 coalition said media exaggeration of the latest arrest of an Alfa employee on suspicion of spying for Israel was an attempt aimed at causing confusion in the investigation into the assassination of former PM Rafik Hariri.
"It also targets the credibility of the investigations" conducted by police officer Wissan Eid in the Hariri murder case before his assassination.
Eid, Lebanese Internal Security Forces senior terrorism investigator, was assassinated Jan. 25, 2008.
At the time of assassination, Eid was also top Lebanese investigator into the Hariri murder.
"There is an attempt to exaggerate the issue of the (Alfa) detainee to discredit all reports" issued by the U.N. Committee investigating Hariri's assassination "and to signal that the probe may have been manipulated," the March 14 lawmaker said in remarks published Wednesday by Ad-Diyar newspaper.