LEBANON SENDS WARRANT FOR SUSPECTED SPY TO INTERPOL

Lebanon’s chief prosecutor on September 1 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.

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August 16, 2022

Lebanon’s chief prosecutor on September 1 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 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 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.