Lebanese police in southern Lebanon arrested a Saudi man allegedly spying for the Israeli secret service Mossad. He told investigators that he was depressed and wanted to commit suicide. So he decided to head to southern Lebanon to lure Israelis into killing him.
The man according to the reports was hiding behind a rock on the Lebanese side of the border and speaking with an Israeli army patrol, when he was arrested. When the suspect saw the Lebanese patrol, he tried to escape to the Israeli side but was captured by police.
The man was caught on Wednesday when he was spotted by a police patrol near the Israeli-Lebanese border. Police revealed Thursday that the suspect had arrived in Lebanon from Jordan a week ago.
The man was handed over to the Lebanese army for further interrogation.
Late last month, Lebanon’s military prosecutor indicted three Lebanese with spying for Israel as part of an espionage investigation lasting nearly a year in which at least 27 suspects have been detained.
If convicted, the three could be given death sentences. In the indictment, Judge Samih al-Haj said the suspects had given Israel information on civil and military locations and on political figures.
One of the three was indicted in absentia. Hezbollah, the Iranian- and Syrian-backed military and political group, has called for the death penalty for all suspects convicted of spying for Israel.
About two weeks ago, a Lebanese man was sentenced to death for masterminding a bombing in southern Lebanon that killed a senior member of a Palestinian militant group and his brother in 2006.
(Haaretz)
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