Hizbullah Fighter Reportedly Escaped to Israel in June, Party Denies Arresting New Spies
A Hizbullah member escaped to Israel last June after the Shiite party’s leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah unveiled that the group had captured three spies among its members, two of whom were allegedly recruited by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, An Nahar daily reported Friday.
Nasrallah said at the time that CIA members at the U.S. embassy had recruited at least two Hizbullah members and the group was investigating whether the intelligence agency or another foreign agency recruited a third.
On Thursday, Hizbullah denied media reports about the arrest of new members on charges of spying for the Mossad and said a man named Abou Abed Salim has never been a party official.
But An Nahar quoted informed sources as saying that the third member of the spying network that Nasrallah had talked about is Salim who escaped to Israel a few days after the Hizbullah leader’s speech.
Media reports said Thursday that five Hizbullah members had escaped to the Jewish state.
A party member told the newspaper that Salim had participated in the battles between Hizbullah and Amal Movement in Iqlim al-Tuffah in 1990 and had successfully targeted a top Amal official in the southern town of Baysariyyeh with an explosive device. The movement had at the time arrested his accomplices but he managed to escape.
An Nahar’s report came as informed sources told pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat that Hizbullah had arrested four of its members on charges of spying while a fifth had escaped.
Other sources said that a top Hizbullah official had gone missing “for allegedly collaborating with the Mossad.”
The man who was identified by his initials as M.S. was allegedly a top official in Hizbullah’s military operations and was questioned in April 2010 by the U.N. commission investigating ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s assassination.
The sources said the man’s parents and wife don’t know his whereabouts since he disappeared from the family home in the Ghobeiri district of Beirut’s southern suburbs.
According to rumors, the man is an Israeli spy and was involved in the assassination of Hizbullah military commander Imad Mughniyeh. Other rumors say that the party distanced him for unknown reasons.
over 12 years
Hmmm solid reporting once again by Naharnet! With all those rumors and sources it's a miracle the article was written as a fairytale for kids. I've been reading your site for a while now and your journalistic credentials leave a lot to be desired!
over 12 years
they don't care much about israeli spies, all they want is keeping their arms for wilayat el faqih.
over 12 years
Not sure how they will survive in Israel since nobody speaks Farsi over there...
over 12 years
Check Haaretz for the real news.... sounds like Hezbollah have a lot of holes in their pants....
over 12 years
Canaanite: We in Israel speak many languages including Farsi.
Frankly speaking my wife is from Farsi origin, excellent food.
over 12 years
we rae freedom fithers and we will win
over 12 years
@Danny B.. good luck to you...
You obviously don't speak the language of INTERNATIONAL LAW!
over 12 years
we rae freedom fithers and we will win
over 12 years
Well said canaanite !
over 12 years
i see that filthy zionist miltia information war department is getting orgasm because one traitor from resistance ran away before being captured by the party leadership.
however, the filthy zionist miltia information war department is forgetting how blind they were in 2006 despite having much more spies than now. Just remember how much filthy zionist spies were captured since 2006.
Filthy zionist miltia will be even more blind in next war.
over 12 years
Its no wonder that Hezbollah insists that the Israelis killed Hariri. Hezbollah is an agency of Israel it seems. The "infiltrators" as Nasrallah calls them are just Israeli advisors detatched to Hezbollah.
You will notice that both Hezbollah and Israel wish to keep Assad in power in Syria.
You will notice that both Hezbollah and Israel have a common project to repress the emergence of a Lebanese state.
You will notice that Israel needs Hezbollah as a threat so as to justify itself as a "strategic ally" to the US and access $3.0 billion dollars annually from the US.
You will notice that Hezbollah needs Israel to resist in order to justify itself as a "strategic ally" to Iran and access billions of dollars from Iran.
They need each other, Israel and Hezbollah and so they mutually support each others existence at the expense of Lebanon and the Lebanese.
over 12 years
Canaanite: If you intend that Israel will put its head under the gallows, we are not ready to speak this language.
Just read comment of a Baboom named Jabalamel calling us names. it is self explanatory why peace with Arabs can not be achieved as the peace he wants for us is deep in the see. but never mind at least he has someone to hate to backup the Arabian efforts of liquidating Israel, continue your dreams, and from my end I'll continue eating good Farsi food and sleep with a Farsi women.
As for you, You may continue killing each other , you do a good job.
over 12 years
Canaanite: If you intend that Israel will put its head under the gallows, we are not ready to speak this language.
Just read comment of a Baboom named Jabalamel calling us names. it is self explanatory why peace with Arabs can not be achieved as the peace he wants for us is deep in the see. but never mind at least he has someone to hate to backup the Arabian efforts of liquidating Israel, continue your dreams, and from my end I'll continue eating good Farsi food and sleep with a Farsi women.
As for you, You may continue killing each other , you do a good job.
over 12 years
OK lemme see, what do we know thus far about the headbanging hassans and their party:
When the hassans murdered Cpt. Samer Hanna they denied it then admitted to it.
When the hassans planned terrorists in Egypt they denied it then groundhog hassan admitted to it.
When it was revealed that some of the saints in the impenetrable party where in fact spies they denied it but groundhog hassan had to confess his party was zionist infested.
Guess what's gonna happen now, yup you got it deny everything then admit it when the headbanging sheeple are asleep, nighty nite sleepy headbangers brain damaged and all.
over 12 years
Yes even more blind especially when 2 millions shiites will flee the north toward some gardens and schools, once again :)
over 12 years
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha .......the Hezz rats are infiltrated by spies. I am LOL falling off my chair. Last time Nassy said the spies were only CIA and not for Israel. He is so screwed.
Let him get on TV and wave his finger some more. Let Qassem and the other pricks say M14 is with Israel when it is the Hezz who is full of them.
over 12 years
Every civilized person will react when they see a so called religious mafia militia only masscares civilian Lebanese in the name of Iran
over 12 years
And any time I need a fake rumor I will come to Al Manar :)
you see when a rumor is reliable it becomes fact.
each day we will hear news reporting on defections in hizbullah ranks.
this party based his recruitment strategy on fear and money, thus most of its members can be bought by others.
they will fall soon.