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    Lebanon detains man suspected of spying for Israel

    BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese army has detained a man on suspicion of collaborating for years with Israel's Mossad spy agency, Lebanese media and officials said Thursday.

    The state-run National News agency identified the man arrested earlier this week as Elias Younes, a retired employee of the state telecommunications company Ogero.

    Judicial and security officials speaking to The Associated Press confirmed the report but said Younes has not yet been charged and was being questioned on the suspicion he dealt with Israel during his years as an Ogero employee.

    The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations. They declined to provide more details, pending further investigation.

    The man's family could not be immediately reached for comment.

    Al-Manar TV, owned by Lebanon's anti-Israel Hezbollah group, hailed the arrest as a major achievement, describing Younes as the "dean of collaborators and spies."

    It said he had been dealing with Israel for "over 35 years," supplying information regarding marine security as well as names, numbers and other valuable telecommunications data.

    Lebanese officials claim that Israel regularly recruits spies in Lebanon and has penetrated the telecommunications networks.

    The two countries remain in a state of war and spying for or collaborating with Israel can be punishable by death.

    Lebanon has arrested dozens of alleged collaborators in the past few years, including several people working in the telecommunications industry.

    It has also accused Israel of planting espionage devices in southern Lebanon.

     

    20 comments

    • Enemy of the State  •  4 mths ago
      Assassins, and terrorists, and lobbyists Oh MY! The zionist terror state is the only terrorist organization that is guaranteed a protected state by the United States and fully funded by American taxpayers.
    • Goldman's Sach  •  4 mths ago
      Israel is just an arm of thew US State department/pentagon . . . One day the base will simply be closed.
    • Neko  •  San Jose, California  •  4 mths ago
      I wonder how many Israeli spies in the Pentagon and the State Department?
      Anyone remember Johnathan Pollard?
      • Banana Kiwi 4 mths ago
        He's the only one I remember...
      • Tamarindwalk 4 mths ago
        Remember the Rosenboigs???
      • jim 4 mths ago
        rosengergs yes i remember and we gassed them imagin the us gassing a jew we had balls then
    • F.E.A.R.L.E.S.S.  •  Reno, Nevada  •  4 mths ago
      PUBLIC EXECUTION
      • Banana Kiwi 4 mths ago
        For being SUSPECTED of SPYING for Israel ? really ?
    • Dark Knight  •  4 mths ago
      How come we never hear of Muslim spies caught by Israel? Dont they exist?
    • bob  •  Sun Valley, Nevada  •  4 mths ago
      Hang his #$%$ #$%$
    • Persepolis  •  4 mths ago
      Imagine if we went after Zionist spies in Washington? i bet the whole Aipac is infested by them
    • Templar Knight  •  4 mths ago
      Kick Hezbollah out & restore Lebanon to its Christian roots
      • Banana Kiwi 4 mths ago
        Sure, nuts... I know many christians who would disagree with this statement
      • A Yahoo! User 4 mths ago
        The time will come and Huzbullah will get what they deserve ,remember what we did to the PLO we will do it to Huzbullah, right after Assad demise, wait and see
      • ts 4 mths ago
        80% of Lebanese Christians are against Israel. then again 90% of the world is against Israel.
    • Time traveler  •  Baltimore, Maryland  •  4 mths ago
      Paranoid group knows its days are numbered. With Assad going down hezbollah is surrounded by enemies. Its not if Nashrallah is killed its when.
    • ballbreaker1900  •  Hicksville, New York  •  4 mths ago
      they should arrest HEZBOLLAH for spying for iran
    • Kevin  •  Corvallis, Oregon  •  4 mths ago
      kill that jew lover
    • Mattapan26  •  4 mths ago
      Gee, I bet a retired phone company worker has lots of military secrets to spill.
    • JohnH  •  Collierville, Tennessee  •  4 mths ago
      God bless Israel! God bless Israeli intelligence agencies!
    • השואה לעולם לא עוד  •  New York, New York  •  4 mths ago
      In Lebanon if you want someone job, like in all Muslim infested lands, simply call that person an "Israeli" collaborator. Oh, Allah wasn't so Akbar when a Jewish grandmother kicked the collective #$%$ of the Army of Allah? LOLOLOLOL The man they are charging is not, nor was he ever an Israeli spy. He was just some poor slob who is in the way of someone else getting his job. Muslim retirement plan= "be called a collaborator."
      • ts 4 mths ago
        ממזרים מלבנון כמו חתלתולים, שלימדו אתכם לקח שלא תשכחו לעולם.
      • ts 4 mths ago
        Shoah Never Again,
        they left Lebanon like the cowards that they are, they were taught a lesson they will never forget.
        to me though, Hizbbolla is = to the Zionists, they have an agenda similar to that of the Zionists only a different religion.
      • Mahmood Ali 4 mths ago
        השואה לעולם לא עוד "he was just some poor slob who is in the way of someone else getting his job,"
        Are you retarded ? I know you can read, but I doubt that you can understand/ You did not see that the article said the accused was a retired employee. How the hell some one wants the job of a retired man? You are mentally ill, I hope that you seek help before it is too late.
    • Tariq  •  4 mths ago
      Kick Hezbollah out & restore Lebanon to its Christian roots
    • RAkER JK  •  London, United Kingdom  •  4 mths ago
      Lebanon is trying to play games to keep HEZBOLLAH sweetened! The UN is up their SSS!
    • AKHTAL  •  Beirut, Lebanon  •  4 mths ago
      In 1982-83 all Lebanese politicians, many of them still in power, rushed to gain favor of Israel, holding meetings and discussing future relationship. It is such an murky regime that Lebanese never united enough to get rid of and of the hypocritical oligarchic rule.
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    • A Yahoo! User  •  Oakland, California  •  4 mths ago
      Dean Havens... it's how you spell loser.
    • MouthofWar  •  San Diego, California  •  4 mths ago
      Kill the Zionist Pig Now.
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