Three more spies for Israel arrested in Lebanon. There has been a wave of such arrests in the country as Israel's spy ring collapses. The arrests include high-ranking army officers. Reports have surfaced recently implicating Israel in the assassination of Hariri. They are probably behind the subsequent car bombings as well. More on this at Lebanon's Daily Star:
BEIRUT: Arrested Colonel Shahid Toumiyeh has admitted in his interrogation that he was recruited by Israel in the mid-1990s and entrusted with spying on both the Lebanese and the Syrian armies as well as on Hizbullah.
Al-Akhbar newspaper quoted well-informed sources on Tuesday as saying that communication devices - which were being used by Toumiyeh to stay in touch with his Israeli employers - had been confiscated from his home.
In a related development, Lebanon's General Security Department known as Surete Generale arrested an Egyptian in the southern village of Aita al-Shaab on suspicion of spying for Israel.
They said a security force raided his house and seized a computer set and a number of CD ROMs.
A police patrol also arrested a school teacher in the southern town of Qsseibeh. The teacher, in his 60s, was not identified. But media reports said a computer set was confiscated from his house.
Meanwhile, authorities charged nine people with collaborating with Israel, raising the number of suspects arraigned in the past few weeks to 35.
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