Within A Lebanese Dungeon
"Within the frame of its fight against espionage for the Israeli enemy entity and the dismantlement of its rings inside Lebanon, the General Directorate of the General Security has arrested Lebanese-Canadian F.G., born 1978, upon the notice of the military prosecution."
"[The detained spy was also] preparing to enter the occupied Palestinian lands."
General Security intelligence agency, Lebanon
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| In this December 13, 2018 photo, Israeli soldiers stand guard next to cameras at their new position in front of a Hezbollah flag, near the Lebanese southern border village of Mays al-Jabal, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) |
Spywork is dangerous work. There has to be very strong motivating factors to convince a man born in Lebanon and who has moved to a safe Democratic country like Canada far from the violence of the Middle East, that spying on his country of birth to benefit the intelligence interests of a neighbouring country his birth country considers an enemy would make sense. It would make sense if that man felt that Lebanon had fallen under the control of a truly malevolent influence threatening the stability of the entire region and much further afield.
It was members of the al-Quds Iranian Revolutionary Guards who were dispatched by the Ayatollahs into Lebanon in the 1980s to assemble, fund, arm and train Shiite Lebanese in guerrilla tactics in the creation of its proxy militia, Hezbollah, recognized as a terrorist group in many western countries. Its first wholesale act of mass murder was the bombing of the American multinational force barracks in Lebanon, killing hundreds of U.S. marines with two truck bombs. The U.S. and French embassies were their next targets.
Hezbollah has since carried out bombings, instructed by the Islamic Republic of Iran to hit Jewish or Israeli targets abroad. More recently, Iran and the Quds Force deployed Hezbollah in Syria to the service of the Syrian regime struggling to put down a civil war brought about by revolting Syrian Sunnis. Hezbollah had also provoked a three-month war with Israel in 2006.
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| Lebanese security forces stand guard as others carry out documents and computers from a shop that handles money transfers on Hamra street, in Beirut, Lebanon, on March 8, 2017. (Photo by The Associated Press) |
Hezbollah has since graduated from being an independent army of terrorist fighters in a country where Druze, Shiites, Sunnis and Christian Lebanese communities have lived in an uneasy truce for generations and where Palestinian 'refugee' camps have added to the distrust and unease amongst various Arab groups of sectarian and tribal dissonance, to being part of the government, even though it has never agreed to coalesce its forces with that of the national military. Lebanon remains a country riven between its various parts and strong-armed into an alliance with Iran.
And into this morass of steaming disunity and terrorist enablement returned a Lebanese-born Canadian with a purpose, ostensibly as an agent recruited by an arm of the Israeli Mossad to try to ferret out intelligence on arms in the possession of Hezbollah. Iran has steadily provided Hezbollah with increasingly dangerous-to-Israel advanced rocketry and other weapons, stockpiled against a time when Iran plans to assemble its Shiite militias, Hezbollah and Hamas in Gaza for a concerted attack on a number of fronts against Israel.
Now, taken by Lebanese security, a man of 40 identified only by two initials has been accused of working for the benefit of Unit 504, the human intelligence division of the Israeli Defense Forces. His mission was to himself recruit informers and to obtain data on Hezbollah. Critically, Israel would have wanted him to discover what he could about the fate of a downed and captured Israeli pilot, Ron Arad, in Lebanese custody since 1986.
This newly-detained man with Canadian-Lebanese citizenship is not a rarity among Lebanese deciding to work on behalf of Israel. Dozens of people were arrested on espionage charges after the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon.
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| This picture taken on December 4, 2018 from the southern Lebanese village of Kafr Kila shows a view of the border with Israel, with Israeli vehicles driving on the right side and UN and Lebanese vehicles driving on the left. (Ali Dia/AFP) |
Labels: Hezbollah, Intelligence, Israel, Lebanese-Canadian, Lebanon, Mossad, Terrorism
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, March 27, 2019
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