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conspiracy2riot
conspiracy2riot What will be the fate of Ali al-Jarrah, the Lebanese man arrested for spying for Israel?
Background: To Israel, he appears to have been a valued spy, sending reports and taking clandestine photographs of Palestinian groups and Hezbollah since 1983.
Now he sits in a Lebanese prison cell, accused by the authorities of betraying his country to an enemy state. Months after his arrest, his friends and former colleagues are still in shock over the extent of his deceptions: the carefully disguised trips abroad, the unexplained cash, the secret second wife.
Lebanese investigators say he has confessed to a career of espionage spectacular in its scope and longevity. Many intelligence agents are said to operate in the civil chaos of Lebanon, but Mr. Jarrahâs arrest has shed a rare light onto a world of spying and subversion that usually persists in secret.
He was finally arrested last July by Hezbollah, which now has perhaps the most powerful intelligence apparatus in this country. It handed him to the Lebanese military along with his brother Yusuf, who is accused of helping him spy — and he awaits trial by a military court.
It is not the family's first brush with notoriety. One of Mr. Jarrahâ's cousins, Ziad al-Jarrah, was among the 19 hijackers who carried out the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, though the men were 20 years apart in age and do not appear to have known each other well.
FULL ARTICLE HERE:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/world/middleeast/19lebanon.html?_r=1&hp
Now he sits in a Lebanese prison cell, accused by the authorities of betraying his country to an enemy state. Months after his arrest, his friends and former colleagues are still in shock over the extent of his deceptions: the carefully disguised trips abroad, the unexplained cash, the secret second wife.
Lebanese investigators say he has confessed to a career of espionage spectacular in its scope and longevity. Many intelligence agents are said to operate in the civil chaos of Lebanon, but Mr. Jarrahâs arrest has shed a rare light onto a world of spying and subversion that usually persists in secret.
He was finally arrested last July by Hezbollah, which now has perhaps the most powerful intelligence apparatus in this country. It handed him to the Lebanese military along with his brother Yusuf, who is accused of helping him spy — and he awaits trial by a military court.
It is not the family's first brush with notoriety. One of Mr. Jarrahâ's cousins, Ziad al-Jarrah, was among the 19 hijackers who carried out the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, though the men were 20 years apart in age and do not appear to have known each other well.
FULL ARTICLE HERE:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/world/middleeast/19lebanon.html?_r=1&hp
Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source.
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Initial likelihoods: He is released : 5%, He is given a prison sentence: 20%, He is part of a prisoner swap with Israel: 5%, An outcome not listed: 20%, Nothing reported by settlement date: 50%
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bigken1
predicted Nothing reported by settlement date (H$200 at 48%)
frogchop
predicted He is given a prison sentence (H$350 at 18%)
jahzino
predicted He is given a prison sentence (H$20 at 20%)Comments (1)
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