"Israel" Breaks Silence: Breakdown of Spy Cells "Catastrophe"

Source: almanar.com.lb, 20-5-2009

A painful blow... This is how Zionist analysts and experts described the successive breakdown and collapse of the "Israeli" spy networks in Lebanon while others went on to describe it as a real catastrophe for the Zionist entity.

Since the beginning of the detection of the "Israeli" networks operating in Lebanon and the "scandalous" detentions of the "Israeli" agents throughout the country, the Zionist entity maintained a "suspicious silence," at least in relation to the "Israeli" political leadership.

However, this suspicious silence was finally "broken" on Wednesday when the "Israeli" media didn't hesitate to express openly the "Israeli" worries and fears of the "repercussions" of the "scandal."

Thus, "Israeli" analyst and expert in intelligence and strategic affairs Ronen Bergman described as a "painful blow" the arrests in Lebanon of "Israel"-linked spy cells. He said that the arrests will lead to a form of "blindness" to the "Israeli" intelligence work at the Lebanese scene.

Bergman noted that mobilizing only one agent needs a lot of time. "So, if the number of agents discovered was accurate, then this is a huge number. Moreover, if all of those agents or even a part of them were actually connected to "Israel", then this will lead to a blindness to the "Israeli" intelligence from now on," he said.

The "Israeli" expert, meanwhile, admitted that the expansion in spreading the spy networks all over Lebanon was a result of the lack of information that happened in the July war.

RIFI: LARGE NUMBER OF SPIES MAY HAVE FLED LEBANON

Meanwhile, Police chief General Ashraf Rifi said that Lebanese suspect Nasser Nader, recently arrested in Ghandouriyeh on charges of spying for "Israel", was a "good catch."

"Perhaps he (Nader) is the most important suspect among the detained members of the "Israel"-linked spy networks that have been arrested so far," Rifi told Lebanese daily As-Safir on Wednesday.

Rifi said interrogation showed that Nader had focused his work on Beirut's southern suburbs, conducting a thorough survey of the area. Nader was arrested over the weekend in the southern town of Ghandouriyeh on suspicion of spying for "Israel". Sophisticated equipment designed to take photographs and transmit pictures had been confiscated from his house.