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Last update - 21:57 24/03/2008 IDF soldier suspected of handing intel over to Hezbollah By Yuval Azoulay, Jack Khoury and Eli Ashkenazi, Haaretz Correspondents Tags: IDF, Lebanon, drug smuggling The military police, the northern district police and the security services arrested a career Israel Defense Forces soldier last month on suspicion that he had handed over secrets to the Lebanon-based guerilla group Hezbollah. Two other suspects were also arrested during the course of the investigation, who apparently belonged to a ring of drug smugglers from southern Lebanon into Israel. The police suspect that the soldier, a Galilee resident, transferred information regarding military patrols along the border with Lebanon and the amount of troops to be stationed along the border. This activity was allegedly part of the suspect's involvement in the smuggling of drugs. The information was used to facilitate the smuggling across the border while circumventing Israeli authorities, the police suspect. Advertisement The gag order on the affair was lifted Monday, but the no details regarding the identity of the suspect were released. An indictment will likely be submitted in the coming days. According to police sources, the drug smuggling occurred mainly in the town of Ghajar, which is divided by the Israel-Lebanon border. The two prime suspects in the affair are a 30-year-old Nazareth resident and a 26-year-old resident of the upper Galilee village of Tuba. The Commander of the Galilee region police's central unit, Superintendent Shmuel Boker, said that two of the ring leaders recruited the suspect to help smuggle the drugs because he had ties to drug dealers in Israel and because he was able to contact figures on the Lebanese side, among them Hezbollah-linked individuals. Related articles: Police arrest four suspected of attempting to smuggle ecstasy Postal Authority employees suspected of drug smuggling Report: Australia charges Israeli with large-scale drug smuggling Bookmark to del.icio.us   Love story Israel grants permission for gay Palestinian to join lover in Tel Aviv. Interfaith get-together Saudi King plans first interfaith conference to include Jews.   1.   not just a soldier 23:17  |  Eric Gogol 24/03/08   2.   That`s soooooo Gangsta 00:36  |  POP 25/03/08   3.   #2 POP 01:31  |  POP`S KEEPER 26/03/08

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