Maarve: Israel announces the discovery of a second spying network
Israel-Lebanon, Politics, 11/2/2002

The Israeli daily Maareve unveiled that the Hizbullah party had also succeeded in organizing a second spy network inside Israel. It said that the Israeli central court in al-Nasera permitted issuing the details of the list of accusations addressed to two citizens of the Arab villages in northern Palestine and explained that the two involved individuals are 26 year old, each.

The list of accusations indicates that "the two men, with the support of other two Arabs handed information to the enemy at times of war, contacting a foreign hireling and trading with drugs."

The paper indicated that investigations in this case were made in collaboration between the investigation unit in the Israeli police and al-Shabak.

According to Maarve, the attorney general Ya'il Koukhabi claimed that the two convicted persons used two other Arab-Israelis as middle men to distribute drugs and to convey security information to the Hizbullah Party. She said that the liaison man in this case is a Lebanese drug trader, the one who used to receive the security information from the two accused men and give them for that sums and drugs.

According to the list of the accusation, the two convicted men worked for a short time from May until July this year during the several times they went to Lebanon to provide sensitive security information. The court also permitted publishing news that the two men transported to Lebanon books about the mountains of Jerusalem and al-Khalil desert, tourist maps and signals for various roads in Israel. They had also sent to Lebanon a mobile phone, a computer, a printer and computer programs in return for thousands of dollars, drugs, pistol, mortars and ammunition.

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