Lebanon says IAF detonated car bomb which killed 2 Palestinians
Lebanese defense minister says Israel behind bombing deaths of two members of Islamic Jihad.
By The Associated PressBEIRUT - An Israeli aircraft detonated the car bomb that killed two officials of Palestinian militant group in south Lebanon last month, Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr said Thursday.
The government has decided to complain to the UN Security Council about Israeli attacks in Lebanon, Information Minister Ghazi Aridi said following a Cabinet meeting that heard the defense minister's report.
Murr briefed the Cabinet on the May 26 car bombing that killed Mahmoud Majzoub, a senior Islamic Jihad official, and his brother as they walked out of their home in the southern city of Sidon. Both men were Lebanese citizens.
Earlier Thursday, Murr told reporters at his office that the state's investigation had found an aircraft was looking out for the Majzoubs via a camera on the ground.
"The bomb was detonated from this aircraft," he said.
Murr said the main suspect had received "bags filled with explosives" delivered by Israeli sea-borne commandos north of Beirut.
On Saturday, the Lebanese army said it had arrested Mahmoud Rafeh, 59, a retired police officer, for the killing of the Majzoubs. Rafeh "had links to Israeli intelligence," the army said in a statement.
On Tuesday, the army said Rafeh had confessed to killing the Majzoub brothers as well as to other operations - including the killing of officials of the militant Hezbollah group in 1999 and 2003, and the slaying of the son of Ahmed Jibril, leader of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, in 2002.
Murr told reporters that Rafeh's group was the most dangeous to be discovered in Lebanon in 30 years.
Lebanon has detained many people on charges of spying for Israel. The country considers itself at war with its southern neighbor and bans its citizens from having any contact with the Jewish state.
Why Facebook Connect?
Comment on Haaretz.com articles with your Facebook login, and share your thoughts on your own wall.
- Latest
- Most Viewed
- Most Rated
- Open all
How insane it is for a country to admit they house and support terrorists. The UN must be no better if they even consider the matter.
THEY ARE NOT SAFE ANYWHERE ! BRAVO MOSSAD
based on our knowledge and according to our maps ..our southern neighbor is palestine. even at the UN ,you have no name on their maps because you still not decided about your bosders .. as far as we are concerned ,palestine it is and will keep it that way .
a money dispute.
Elias Murr, defense minister of Lebanon, and son in law of President Lahoud. Both are remaining kingpins of the pro-Syrian apparatus in Lebanon. As Bashar al Assad of Syria had warned to Hariri, "Emile Lahoud is me!"
A couple of days ago the Lebanese army announced that a Lebanese man, with connections to Israel, had planted the bomb that killed the Islamic Jihad bros. Today, the defense minister of Lebanon, Elias Murr, son in law of President Emile Lahoud, announces that it was actually an Israeli plane that detonated the device by remote control and using a camera deployed on the ground to follow the bros (never mind that an umanned Israeli drone could accomplish all of the above without these intricate James Bond details). When the next report comes out, who knows? Maybe they will says Hariri's son is an agent and that Israel has an underground base in Beirut.
Bravo- this is what our enemies understand. kill them all.
and what if hitler was visiting lebanon? what does sovereignty have to do with justice or necessity?
This story has been in the Lebanese press for days.
let them know that they will not be safe even in their own house
How's this for an idea, Lebanon? Take control of your own territory and not let militias like Hezbollah operate from them? Then maybe you'll have reason to complain about violations of your sovereignty.