|
- 8 aug 2010
Hezbollah to unleash 'thunder' on Israel
A poster shows assassinated former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri.
Hezbollah says it is to prove through a "thunderous" revelation that Israel masterminded the former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri's assassination.
The Lebanese resistance movement's Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah will provide "comprehensive" evidence, verifying that the 2005 murder benefited from Tel Aviv's engineering, said the group's media relations officer, Ibrahim Mousavi.
Speaking to the Palestinian Ma'an news agency on Saturday, he said that the evidence would be "revealing conclusive information."
Nasrallah said on Tuesday, "I accuse the Israeli enemy of the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and... I will prove this by unveiling sensitive information at a press conference on Monday."
He has also warned of attempts by the Israeli side and the United Nations tribunal, which is probing the assassination, to link Hezbollah to the foul play.
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon, set up by the UN and the Lebanese government in May 2007, is to come up with the results of its investigation by the end of the year.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=137925§ionid=351020203
Hezbollah to implicate Israel in Hariri assassination
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah will reveal "thunderous news" Monday when he reveals that Israel was behind the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, a party spokesman told Ma'an Saturday evening.
Spokesman Ibrahim Mousawi said the evidence would be "comprehensive, revealing conclusive information" implicating Israel in the car bombing that killed Hariri in 2005.
Speaking to reporters last Tuesday, Nasrallah said a Hezbollah team spent months compiling information on what he described as Israeli efforts to implicate the Shiite movement in the murder, referring to a UN special tribunal set up to investigate the assassination, which will reportedly implicate the movement.
In mid-July, the Hezbollah leader said he believed members of his party would be named in the tribunal, causing political tension in Lebanon from Lebanon's opposition parties.
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and Saudi Arabian King Abdullah met on 30 July with Lebanon's President Michel Suleiman in Beirut in an effort to diffuse the mounting political tension over possible indictments in Hariri's assassination.
Reports suggest that the tribunal will announce its findings before the end of 2010.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=306216
Israel dismisses Hizbullah claims
PM's Office responds to "ridiculous" Hariri assassination allegations.
Hizbullah's claim that Israel was behind the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri shows just how worried the organization is that the international tribunal investigating the murder will place the blame at its doorstep, Israeli officials said Sunday.
"This is completely ridiculous, and most importantly everyone knows it," one senior official in the Prime Minister's Office said of Hizbullah's claims. "When they start casting for straws like this, it just shows the degree of pressure they are under."
Hizbullah, the official said, will have a serious problem on its hands if it will be indicted for the murder. "They are looking for a way out," he said.
The Palestinian News Agency Ma'an reported Sunday that Hizbullah had evidence that implicated Israel in the car bombing that killed Hariri. The agency cited a Hizbullah source saying that the evidence, which has not yet been released, is "comprehensive, revealing, conclusive information."
Hariri, who was killed alongside twenty others in Beirut, was the father of current Lebanese Prime Minister Sa'ad Hariri.
Last month, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah criticized a UN tribunal investigating Hariri's assassination since 2007, amid reports that members of his organization will likely be implicated in the murder.
Nasrallah called into question the impartiality of the tribunal, stating that some of its members were connected to Israel. The comments came in a prerecorded announcement aired on Lebanese television.
Nasrallah added that Hizbullah possessed proof that would exonerate its members from involvement in Hariri's assassination, and that he would reveal the information in due time.
Officials in the Prime Minister's Office said they saw no connection between Hizbullah's concern over the Hariri tribunal and the incident on the Lebanese border last week in which the Lebanese army opened fire and killed one IDF officer. This prompted counter fire, during which three Lebanese army soldiers and a journalist were killed The officials rejected the notion that this was an attempt to provoke Israel to detract attention form the Hariri tribunal.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=184097 8 nov 2010, 10:09 , Respect -
Maria 9 aug 2010
Hezbollah chief says Israeli agent connected to hit on Lebanon PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU2C0KtaO-o
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- An Israeli agent told former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri years before his assassination that Hezbollah was trying to kill him, the leader of the Shiite movement said Monday.
In a televised address, Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah said an Israeli operative known as Ahmed Nasrallah sought to frighten the late Lebanese premier with news of a false plot on his life as part of a larger effort to drive Syria, which backs Hezbollah, out of Lebanon. Syria is a strong backer of Hezbollah.
The address, which was carried live on Hezbollah's Al-Manar broadcaster, was split into parts by several video clips which Nasrallah said showed Israeli agents confessing to playing a role in the Hariri assassination.
Israeli officials, who usually do not comment on intelligence allegations, spoke out in advance.
"They are looking for a way out," an official in the Israeli Prime Minister's Office said a day before the address. "When they start casting for straws like this, it just shows the degree of pressure they are under."
"This is completely ridiculous and ... everyone knows it," the official told The Jerusalem Post newspaper.
A UN special tribunal set up to investigate the assassination is expected to blame Hezbollah.
Reports suggest that the tribunal will announce its findings before the end of 2010.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=306818
'Israeli agent' connected to hit on Lebanon PM
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- An Israeli agent told former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri years before his assassination that Hezbollah was trying to kill him, the leader of the Shiite movement said Monday.
In a televised address, Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah said an Israeli operative known as "Ahmed Nasrallah" scared the late Lebanese premier with news of a false plot on his life in order to convince him to drive Syria, which backs Hezbollah, out of Lebanon.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=306818
Nasrallah presents 'proof ' Israel implicated in Hariri plot
Hezbollah chief says Israeli spies tried to convince ex-Lebanese PM that group wanted him dead
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah attempted to avert blame for the murder of Rafik Hariri Monday to Israel, saying he had "evidence" that the state had tried to convince the Lebanese prime minister Hezbollah was trying to hurt him.
In an especially vehement televised speech, Nasrallah presented footage of Ahmed Nasrallah, whom he claimed is of no relation to himself, saying he had served as a spy for Israel.
The second Nasrallah, who was arrested by Hezbollah, was shown telling the camera that he had informed Hariri the group intended to carry out an attack against him and his family using a car bomb, after numerous failed attempts on his life.
"I promised I would convene a press conference to open up new horizons and help in accusing Israel of the assassination of Rafik al-Hariri, and that is what I am doing," Nasrallah said in the beginning of his speech.
"Since 1993 Israel has been trying, using its agents, to convince al-Hariri that Hezbollah was attempting to assassinate him."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3932886,00.html 13 nov 2010, 14:43 , Respect -
Maria 10 aug 2010
Lebanon hails Hezbollah revelations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMvL4UPr99U
Lebanese politicians have hailed evidence presented by Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah on Israel's involvement in the murder of late Premier Rafiq Hariri.
"There is valuable evidence and is worth taking it into consideration," leader of Lebanon's Free Patriotic Movement Michel Aoun told al-Manar TV, Naharnet news portal reported.
On Monday, Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah presented aerial reconnaissance footage of areas frequented by Hariri, including where he was assassinated in February 2005.
The popular resistance leader said this proved Israel was tracking Hariri's movements to assassinate him.
Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt said the evidence "opened the door wide on how the assassination took place."
The Druze leader called on the March 14 coalition to avoid entering into a standoff with other parties.
"We all want to know the truth but not in a way that would change its course and take the country to strife," he said.
"We have to remember that what led to this disaster was (Security Council) resolution 1559. In order for it to be implemented, it was imperative to kill Hariri," the Lebanese politician stated.
Naharnet cited an article in the Lebanese daily newspaper al-Akhbar on Tuesday, saying Israeli media stopped Nasrallah's live broadcast when al-Manar aired footage allegedly intercepted from Israeli surveillance planes of the Lebanese territory prior to Hariri's assassination.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=138103§ionid=351020203
Foreign Ministry dismisses Nasrallah's 'ridiculous lies'
The Foreign Ministry on Tuesday dismissed Hizbullah head Hassan Nasrallah's speech last night as "ridiculous lies" after Nasrallah presented what he called proof that Israel was behind the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.
As proof of his theory, Nasrallah produced a tape of a man named Ahmed Nasrallah, who had been arrested in 1996 for allegedly spying for Israel. “I met someone who worked with Rafik Hariri and I told him that Hizbullah wants to kill him (Hariri),” the man was heard saying in the tape, referring to an apparent attempt to turn Hariri against Hizbullah.
http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=184260 - 11 aug 2010
Sayyed Nasrallah - Hariri Assasination Evidence Expose | Full Press Conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5odeTwU2zjw
Sayyed Nasrallah: Israel behind Hariri's Assassination
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah accused on Monday the Israeli enemy of involvement in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, presenting tangible proof and evidence of an Israeli potential role in the crime as well as other crimes that hit Lebanon during the few past years.
His eminence unveiled footage intercepted from Israeli surveillance planes of the site of the 2005 murder of ex-Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri prior to his assassination. Several clips, each minutes long and undated, showed aerial views of the coastline off west Beirut on various days prior to the Hariri assassination.
Sayyed Nasrallah was speaking during an exceptional press conference he held at Shahed hall in Beirut's southern suburb of Beirut. The conference, attended by media outlets' top editors and journalists, was set to mark political turning point in the case of Hariri's murder and open new horizons that the court could pick up and build on "if it wanted to be impartial." 13 nov 2010, 14:45 , Respect -
Maria 12 aug 2010
Hariri: Look into Israeli involvement in my dad's death
Lebanese newspaper as-Safir reports Lebanese prime minister prepared to adopt Hezbollah claims of Israeli responsibility for assassination of former premier
Lebanese newspaper as-Safir reported Thursday that Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri had called for a serious investigation into Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah's claims of Israeli responsibility for the assassination of his father, former Lebanese Prime Minsiter Rafik Hariri.
The late Hariri was murdered in a car bomb explosion in Beirut in February 2005. His known anti-Syrian positions raised considerable suspicions of Syrian involvement in the hit, allegations which have been vehemently denied by the regime in Damascus.
Rafik Hariri. Who killed him?
However, a UN team investigating the incident intends to implicate Hezbollah in the murder. Ahead of the publication of the tribunal's results, Nasrallah said in a speech that he has "proof" of Israeli involvement in the hit.
According to Thursday's report in as-Safir, current Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri initiated a series of urgent meetings and conversations in order to discuss Hezbollah's claims around his father's assassination. For example, he met Wednesday with Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Azizi in Riyadh and French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday.
The volatile situation has raised a serious predicament for Hariri, who is currently ruling a coalition government together with Hezbollah. According to as-Safir, Hariri told his associates that Nasrallah's statements were "very important and sensitive." As such, he supports dedicating all the time and efforts necessary to thoroughly examine the assertions made by the Hezbollah leader.
Hariri also said that Nasrallah expressed an opinion held by many Lebanese and presented information and documentation that cannot be ignored. "I, personally, support their examination. It is important for me to know the truth, both as the prime minister and as the son of the slain," said Hariri, according to the report.
The Lebanese prime minister added that should Israel decline to summon for investigation the witnesses likely to appear in Nasrallah's "proof," the Jewish State will be considered in his eyes as guilty, and not merely suspect. The newspaper also noted in its report that the prosecutor in the Hariri tribunal received the material Nasrallah presented in his latest speech.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3935077,00.html - 16 aug 2010
Hizbullah: Ignoring Nasrallah's Evidence Means Support for Israel's Strife Project
Hizbullah official in the south Sheikh Nabil Qaouq has said ignoring the evidence presented by Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah means insistence on implementing Israel's strife projects in Lebanon.
The evidence that allegedly implicates Israel in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's assassination is enough to allow the investigation to take a new course, Qaouq said during an Iftar.
"Ignoring or neglecting this evidence means insistence on adopting the wrong path and insistence on Israeli strife projects," he said.
Qaouq also said that four years after its victory, the resistance has become more efficient.
"The resistance was able to make a 20-year-progress politically, militarily and on the popular level," he said, rebuffing Israeli claims that it would take Hizbullah 20 years backwards.
Another Hizbullah official, Sheikh Mohammed Yazbek said the party won't allow anyone "to tarnish the image and reputation of the resistance."
He believes it is Hizbullah's "duty to defend itself when attacked through the international tribunal."
He said Hizbullah does not trust the international tribunal because it has ruled out Israel's involvement in Hariri's murder
http://fwd4.me/0jSi
Hezbollah ruins Israeli drone contract
Israeli soldiers look at an IAI Eitan (Heron TP) surveillance drone at an air force Base near Tel Aviv, February 21, 2010.
Hezbollah's recent revelation in airing photos taken by Israel's unmanned surveillance planes has markedly affected the sale of the drones.
On August 9, Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said the Lebanese resistance movement had intercepted Israeli drone transmissions and used the intelligence in a deadly attack on Israeli commandos in the Lebanese coastal village of Antsaria back in 1997.
Nasrallah also presented footage taken by Israeli drones of routes taken by Lebanon's slain Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri prior his assassination in February 2005, saying the video proved Israel's involvement in the murder.
Citing a report by Jane's Defense Weekly , al-Manar said the televised speech and the revelation has affected agreements between Tel Aviv and Moscow for purchasing Israeli surveillance drones.
Russian officials had reportedly launched talks with Israeli counterparts on a drone sale contract worth USD 300 million, but the Israeli side had to pull out of the negotiations due to security considerations.
Experts believe Hezbollah's interception of the intelligence collected by the drones will affect the willingness of other countries such as Brazil, India and Turkey to purchase the spy aircraft.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=138916§ionid=351020203 24 nov 2010, 13:41 , Respect -
Maria 17 aug 2010
Hezbollah gives anti-Israel evidence to UN court
Shi'ite group intent on proving Israel involved in murder of former Lebanese leader
Lebanon's Hezbollah submitted a dossier to a state prosecutor on Tuesday after a UN court requested the Shi'ite group provide the evidence it said it had of Israel's involvement in the 2005 killing of Rafik al-Hariri.
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah last week displayed what he said was Israeli surveillance footage of routes used by Hariri, saying this pointed to Israel carrying out the suicide bombing which killed the former prime minister and 22 others.
Nasrallah displayed the footage a few weeks after he was told the Special Tribunal for Lebanon may indict some of the group's members over the Hariri killing, an allegation he categorically rejects.
He has strongly criticised the UN tribunal and attacked it as an "Israeli project", raising fears of renewed potential conflict between the Iranian-backed militant group and the US- and Saudi-backed Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, Rafik's son.
At a gathering late on Monday Hariri called for calm, saying Lebanon should not fear "any political noise, which we hope to calm down and turn into calm speech, and start democratic dialogue".
On Saturday, he said he wanted to know who killed his father but at the same time he wanted stability. "Dialogue cannot succeed with the accusations of treason and with repeated calls for tests of patriotism and nationalism," Hariri said.
After Nasrallah's two-hour presentation of footage, witness testimonies and analysis aimed at making a case that Israel was behind the assassination, the Office of the Prosecutor at the UN tribunal asked Lebanese authorities to provide all information in Nasrallah's possession, including the footage.
Lebanese Prosecutor Saeed Mirza passed on the evidence, which he received from senior Hezbollah official Wafiq Safa, to the chief prosecutor Daniel Bellemare's office in Lebanon, judicial sources said.
Hariri formed a national unity government last year which includes Hezbollah ministers. Analysts say if the tribunal does indict Hezbollah members, the group, together with Shi'ite and Christian allies, could decide to collapse the government.
As-Safir newspaper said on Tuesday Hariri and Nasrallah's assistant Hussein Khalil held a late night meeting on Sunday. It quoted sources describing the meeting as "positive and very useful".
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3938546,00.html 24 nov 2010, 13:46 , Respect -
Maria 18 aug 2010
Report: Ex-IDF soldier offered Lebanon info on Hariri murder
Lebanese newspaper al-Diyar reported that a Druze lawyer, who says he served as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, entered the Lebanese Embassy in Prague and said he had information from Jerusalem and Beirut about the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
According to the report, the man asked the embassy workers for a political asylum, but they asked him to leave, saying he should file the request in Lebanon. There were no additional details on his identity.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3939020,00.html 28 nov 2010, 22:07 , Respect -
Maria 28 nov 2010, 22:08 , Respect -
Maria 20 aug 2010
IDF Artillery Corps seeks new budget to aid future conflict with Hizbullah.
Ground forces aim for new rocket systems
In an effort to increase its precision strike capabilities ahead of any future conflict with Hizbullah in Lebanon, the IDF Artillery Corps is aiming to receive a new budget from the IDF next year to purchase new advanced accurate rocket systems.
The multiyear plan, under review by the IDF’s Planning Division, is to be approved by the General Staff and inserted into the IDF’s multiyear plan, to go into effect in 2011.
Accular, developed by Israel Military Industries (IMI), is a 60 mm. autonomous surface-to-surface missile guided by a GPS system that puts it within 10 meters of a target. The rocket, designed to destroy artillery batteries and infantry command posts, was successfully tested several months ago in the South.
The missile’s guidance and navigation is performed by a flight computer, which includes a GPS, while the control of the missile is achieved by the jet pulses, which enable trajectory correction for precise strikes.
The missile is fired from a new launcher developed by IMI called Lynx, which is designed to fire a variety of rockets – 160 mm., 122 mm. and 300 mm.
The launcher is loaded on the back of a truck and can be reloaded in less than 10 minutes.
The IDF is also looking at EXTRA, under development by IMI, which has a range of 150 km. and carries a 120 kg. warhead.
Both systems would be operated by the Artillery Corps and would be used to attack static targets like radar stations and military bases. “Our precision rocket capabilities will grow significantly in the coming years,” a senior Ground Forces Command officer said Thursday.
Behind the requirement to obtain longer-range rockets with great precision is an overall IDF desire to take some of the load off the Israel Air Force and allow it to focus strictly on strategic targets deep in enemy territory.
With the new rocket systems, the IDF will create a division of responsibility between the Artillery Corps and IAF to clarify who is responsible for which targets and at which ranges. “This will allow a much better use of our resources,” the officer said.
Another missile under review is the Jumper, developed by Israel Aerospace Industries, which can function as an autonomous artillery system for infantry forces operating behind enemy lines. The system includes a 3x3 canister that can be deployed in enemy territory.
Soldiers, operating a significant distance away, can then insert coordinates of their desired target and fire one of the eight missiles inside the canister.
The missiles then “jump” out of the vertical launch hive to precisely strike targets at ranges of up to 50 kilometers. The system’s autonomous capability enables troops to distance themselves from the missile launcher, whose position will likely be compromised after it fires at enemy forces.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=185396 28 nov 2010, 22:09 , Respect -
Maria 1 dec 2010, 17:26 , Respect -
Maria 23 aug 2010
Lebanese: Hariri tribunal untruthful
A poster of assassinated former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri
Most Lebanese distrust the UN tribunal probing the assassination of the country's former premier, a survey has revealed.
The former Lebanese leader, Rafik Hariri was killed alongside 22 others in the capital Beirut on February 14, 2005 as a result of massive car bombings, triggering a whole host of recriminations including between Lebanon and neighboring Syria.
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon was subsequently formed within the year in an attempt to defuse the tensions.
"Interestingly enough, we found that 60 percent of the respondents found that the international investigation is politicized and not honest," statistical analyst Alicia Obeid Jamal from Beirut-based independent regional research and consultancy firm, the Information International -- which conducted the study -- told Press TV.
"55 percent of the respondents considered the documents presented by Seyyed Hassan Narallah during speech to be very very convincing," Jamal added.
The distrust came after the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah's Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said last month he had been informed by the slain leader's son and successor, Saad Hariri, that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon will accuse some Hezbollah members.
Nasrallah rejected the allegation and warned that the plot was part of "a dangerous project that is targeting the resistance."
Speaking earlier in the month, the Hezbollah leader presented video materials, captured by Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), as well as recorded confessions by Israeli fifth columnists, substantiating that Israel had masterminded the assassination.
Hezbollah has submitted the evidence to the Lebanese government for due consideration.
http://www.presstv.com/detail/139844.html 1 dec 2010, 17:27 , Respect -
Maria 2 jan 2011, 23:18 , Respect -
Maria 24 aug 2010
Prosecutor asks Hezbollah for full file on Hariri
The prosecutor in the assassination case of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri said Tuesday that Hezbollah was holding back evidence it claims to have implicating Israel as the killer.
The UN-appointed prosecutor, Daniel Bellemare, said a packet of evidence handed over by the powerful Lebanese militia last week was "incomplete," and failed to add anything to what Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah disclosed at a news conference earlier this month.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3943375,00.html 2 jan 2011, 23:21 , Respect -
Maria 17 jan 2011, 01:30 , Respect -
Maria 1 sept 2010
UN prosecutor: No indictments drafted in Hariri probe
Assassination tribunal may file charges by end of year; considering Hizbullah video footage "implicating" Israel.
There will be no rush to indict suspects in the international probe into the killing of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, UN prosecutor Daniel Bellemare said Wednesday, according to a Reuters report.
"Let me state clearly that the indictment has not been drafted yet," Bellemare was quoted as saying by the website NOW Lebanon. "I will only file the indictment when I am satisfied there is enough evidence."
The comments came after a flurry of media reports which claimed the UN prosecutor would indict Hizbullah members this month.
Bellemare did express optimism that indictments would be filed by the end of the year.
The UN Prosecutor said that the tribunal is considering video footage provided by Hizbullah which the organization's leader Hassan Nasrallah claimed proves Israel's guilt in Hariri's murder.
"If somebody comes to me with credible evidence that shows me that I may not be on the right path, whatever path I am on, then of course I will look at that material. That is exactly what we are doing."
Bellemare refused to say whether or not he had interviewed any Israelis as part of his investigation.
Despite providing the tribunal with the video footage, Nasrallah has said that Hizbullah has no faith in the investigation, stating that some of its members are connected to Israel.
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=186714
Lebanon issues warrant for suspected Israeli spy in Harari murder
Appeal to Interpol follows accusations that Ghassan al-Jid is an Israeli agent who was involved in the assassinations of the former Lebanese prime minister and a Hezbollah commander.
Lebanon's chief prosecutor on Wednesday sent an arrest warrant against a suspected spy for Israel to international police agency Interpol, after reports the suspect, who fled the country last year, may be in France.
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah first spoke of Ghassan al-Jid during a news conference last month in which he was presenting testimony that he said linked Israel to the 2005 assassination of former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri.
Nasrallah said Jid had been an 'Israeli collaborator' since the early 1990s and that he had been present at the St. Georges yacht club, near the scene of Hariri's killing on the Beirut seafront, a day before the attack took place on February 14, 2005.
After Nasrallah's news conference, Lebanese authorities initiated proceedings against Jid, a retired army colonel, and issued an arrest warrant. Nasrallah said Jid had also been involved in the assassination of Hezbollah commander Ghalib Awali in 2004.
Dozens of Lebanese have been arrested since last year as part of an espionage investigation in which many have been formally charged with spying for Israel.
The high-profile detentions, including a high-ranking army officer, a Christian party member and telecommunications employees, have shocked Lebanon, showing how deeply Israel has potentially managed to infiltrate and compromise its security.
The charges brought against the telecom employees at state-owned firms Alfa and Ogero have prompted Hezbollah to suggest Israel could have used telecom agents to manipulate phone records to implicate the group in Hariri's killing.
Hezbollah, which fought Israel in a 2006 war, has criticized the U.N. tribunal investigating the assassination after reports emerged that members of the militant Shi'ite guerrilla group may be indicted, raising tensions in the country.
Lebanese President Michel Suleiman has called for severe punishment for spies. Three Lebanese have been sentenced to death for spying for Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/lebanon-issues-warrant-for-suspected-israeli-spy-in-harari-murder-1.311526
Lebanon sends warrant for suspected spy to Interpol
Lebanon's chief prosecutor on Wednesday sent an arrest warrant against a suspected spy for Israel to international police agency Interpol, after reports the suspect, who fled the country last year, may be in France.
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah first spoke of Ghassan al-Jid during a news conference last month in which he was presenting testimony that he said linked Israel to the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3947638,00.html