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| UN force turns over Lebanese staffer accused as 'Israeli spy' | ||
| 2015-11-12 | ||
[Ynet] Peacekeepers hand over employee of over 20 years to authorities following Lebanese claims that is is a spy for the Jewish state.
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... peacekeeping force in south Leb UNIFIL said Wednesday it has turned over a longtime local staffer to Lebanese authorities who accuse him of spying for Israel. The Lebanese man who had worked in the UNIFIL administration for over 20 years is among three people accused by authorities of spying for the Jewish state.
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! the three suspects, a Syrian man and his Lebanese wife and a Lebanese man. But the Lebanese man "was in the UNIFIL compound when authorities requested him", UNIFIL front man Andrea Tenenti told AFP. "We asked UN headquarters in New York to determine whether immunity would be applied in his case, and the UN determined that since the allegations were not related to his official functions, immunity from legal proceedings would not apply," he added. The man was taken into custody on Wednesday. On Sunday, Leb's General Security service announced it had arrested a "spy network". It accused the three suspects of gathering information on individuals and security and military targets. It said the three also allegedly filmed "sensitive" roads and other areas in south Leb "and sent the footage to their employers to be used in later attacks". Leb and Israel remain technically in a state of war, with occasional skirmishes on the ceasefire line between the two. UNIFIL, the United Nations Interim Force in Leb, monitors the line and has a force of some 10,000 international peacekeepers. It also employs numerous local staff members serving in non-peacekeeping roles. In 2006, Leb's Shi'ite Hezbollah movement fought a month-long war with the Jewish state that devastated parts of Leb. Last December, Hezbollah detained a senior party official on allegations of spying for Israel and "sabotaging security operations" abroad. Between April 2009 and 2014, Lebanese authorities detained more than 100 people accused of spying for Israel, most of them army members or telecommunications employees. | ||
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 UNIFIL has proved itself a worthless organization. At least recently a large number of remf military from France, India, Indonesia, and Ghana were sucking funds from the UN teat. |
| Posted by: Beldar Phinese2093 2015-11-12 08:28 |