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Report: Alleged Lebanon spy was tracking Hezbollah for Israel
By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Lebanon, Israel News 

The Lebanese citizen who was recently arrested for allegedly spying on behalf of Israel has been identified as Ali Jarrah, the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar reported on Monday.

Jarrah is suspected of monitoring the movements of senior Hezbollah officials, according to the report.

The newspaper also said that he was arrested in July by Hezbollah, before being transferred to the custody of the Beirut authorities.
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He was detained over the summer in the southern Beirut neighborhood of Dahia, long considered a Hezbollah stronghold, according to the report.

The Lebanese army had reported Sunday that security officials had detained Jarrah and one other alleged spy suspected of working for the Mossad since the 1980s.

The terse military statement did not name the two detainees or say when they were captured, but did mention that they had advanced communication equipment and cameras.

According to the Al-Akhbar report on Monday, Jarrah was first arrested by Hezbollah in what was a culmination of months of surveillance efforts by the Shi'ite terrorist organization.

On the morning of his arrest, he set out for Beirut from his home in the Beka'a village of Al-Marj in a Honda Accord registered under his name.

After he failed to return home, his relatives notified the Lebanese security services. Investigators subsequently pinpointed the location where his cellular phone was last detected - near the Shatila refugee camp adjacent to Beirut.

Authorities believed that Jarrah's disappearance was the result of inter-factional Palestinian strife. Jarrah was a member of Fatah Intifada, a faction of Fatah that is backed by Syria. Investigators released a photograph of Jarrah, which appears in Monday morning's Al Akhbar, while appealing for the public's help in accounting for his whereabouts. Hezbollah subsequently turned him into authorities.

Sources who are well-versed in the details of the investigation say that Jarrah confessed to being recruited by Israeli intelligence in the mid-1980s to gather information about Palestinian organizations active in Lebanon. In recent years he started to surveil senior figures in Hezbollah.

According to Jarrah's statements to police, his brother Yusef was also arrested for aiding him in espionage, the newspaper reported. Investigators impounded a Pajero jeep parked in front of Jarrah's home. The vehicle was said to be outfitted with audio and visual surveillance equipment used by the two brothers.

Thus far, no evidence has been uncovered which would suggest the two men were involved in sabotage or bombing activities in addition to their intelligence gathering, the newspaper reported.

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      1.   A spy of questionable value 10:07  |  Natallie Durson 03/11/08
      2.   IT`S OUR DUTY TO PROTECT ISRAEL! 10:46  |  Khaled 03/11/08
      3.   Always Israel on their minds 11:59  |  x-ray 03/11/08
      4.   NATALIE"Questionable value"?Not according to hiding Hassan 12:20  |  PETER SM 03/11/08
      5.   Thenk you natallie for the kind permission to spy and be human 12:30  |  Israeli citizen 03/11/08
      6.   Khaled: Kol Khara 12:41  |  :D 03/11/08
      7.   Lebanese spy 12:53  |  Ralph 03/11/08
      8.   One thing the Arabs are good at - Lying! 13:24  |  D 03/11/08
      9.   Spy Identified 13:45  |  Monty Klaus 03/11/08
      10.   9/11 and the Israeli connection 13:51  |  Dave K 03/11/08
      11.   Yeah Dave, Israel and the Jews were behind 9/11, smart! Nobel! 14:17  |  Israeli citizen 03/11/08
      12.   POOR LITTLE DAVE 14:42  |  Brant 03/11/08
      13.   A few weeks ago 15:05  |  Mark Lincoln 03/11/08
      14.   #12 Brant 15:14  |  Sonny 03/11/08
      15.   #12 Brant 15:15  |  Sonny 03/11/08
      16.   I have a feeling 15:26  |  Ron 03/11/08
      17.   Doesn`t say too much for Mossad`s recruiting tactics and someone 15:47  |  Shem 03/11/08
      18.   Lebaneese Paranoia 16:20  |  Abu Yusuf 03/11/08
      19.   hopefully there are more 16:59  |  asad ul Islam 03/11/08
      20.   no body will dare to spy for israel any more 17:23  |  tea man 03/11/08
      21.   He Must Have Been Playing Smack The Mole 18:01  |  Yosemite 03/11/08
      22.   Natalie, your evaluation is as exiting as watching paint dry 18:30  |  Gabriel 03/11/08
      23.   tea man in marayoun 19:26  |  rich 03/11/08
      24.   Reminds me of Daniyal 8! 19:28  |  Paul 03/11/08
      25.   possibly anti-shiite spy cell 20:19  |  lebanese american 03/11/08
      26.   #10 Dave you are absoulty right. they let them go 20:52  |  US person 03/11/08
      27.   A brave man is gone, but we`ll continue the effort 20:57  |  Abbas Al-Musawi 03/11/08
      28.   OH Well,They were only doing the United Nations Job 21:10  |  ROBOCOP 03/11/08
      29.   terrorist organisation 22:02  |  truth melbourne 03/11/08
      30.   #13 22:34  |  joe 03/11/08
      31.   Now it sounds that he was a Syrian Spy. 00:25  |  Stephen. 04/11/08
      32.   look a round you man 00:32  |  jay 04/11/08
      33.   #.19 Dave K... Another lost soul..! 00:33  |  Stephen. 04/11/08
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      35.   US PERSON "BEBE"DIDN"T say that! 06:37  |  PETER SM 04/11/08
      36.   #35, PETER SM refutes haaretzs own article 10:01  |  viper 04/11/08
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