Lebanon Prosecutor Seeks Execution of "Israeli" Spies

 
Source: Al-Manar TV, 17-3-2009

Lebanese military prosecutor Rashid Mezher said on Tuesday he has demanded that two brothers charged with spying for the Zionist entity be condemned to death if convicted.

Mezher declared he has called for the "harshest punishment" for Yusef and Ali Jarrah, who have been charged with several counts of spying for "Israel" and of forgery.

The prosecution alleges that the brothers were recruited by "Israel's" Mossad spy agency in the early 1980s and gathered information on Hizbullah, Lebanese army positions and Palestinian groups in the country.

Mezher did not say when they would face trial.

The Jarrah brothers, who are from the eastern Bekaa region, were detained last year. Last month, the Lebanese army also detained a man from the southern town of Nabatiyeh on suspicion that he spied for "Israel". He has not yet been charged.