Lebanese in Shock Over Arrest of an Accused Spy

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/world/middleeast/19lebanon.html?_r=2&hp">New York Times

For 25 years, Ali al-Jarrah managed to live on both sides of the bitterest divide running through this region. To friends and neighbors, he was an earnest supporter of the Palestinian cause, an affable, white-haired family man who worked as an administrator at a nearby school.

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Ali al-Jarrah
To Israel, he appears to have been a valued spy, sending reports and taking clandestine photographs of Palestinian groups and Hezbollah since 1983.

Now he sits in a Lebanese prison cell, accused by the authorities of betraying his country to an enemy state. Months after his arrest, his friends and former colleagues are still in shock over the extent of his deceptions: the carefully disguised trips abroad, the unexplained cash, the secret second wife.

Lebanese investigators say he has confessed to a career of espionage spectacular in its scope and longevity, a real-life John le Carré novel. Many intelligence agents are said to operate in the civil chaos of Lebanon, but Mr. Jarrah’s arrest has shed a rare light onto a world of spying and subversion that usually persists in secret.

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1. Would you like to place this in a context you feel it serves here in the 9/11 forum?

I mean the fact that the Israelis have spies can hardly be surprising.

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2. Not that I care to answer you, but here ya go:

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It is not the family’s first brush with notoriety. One of Mr. Jarrah’s cousins, Ziad al-Jarrah, was among the 19 hijackers who carried out the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, though the men were 20 years apart in age and do not appear to have known each other well.

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Next time, try reading the link. I'm not making any claims or wild assumptions, just thought it was interesting and knew it would end up here in the Obfuscation Dungeon had I posted it anywhere else.

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3. Ah, so you were laying a little gotcha trap

Post something obscure, get a nibble, slap someone around. Silly games. I should have known.

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4. Quit you're whining and just read the article linked next time. n/t

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5. Small-minded, petty games. n/t

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6. Whatever. n/t

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7. Than you for that info Subdivisions.

Ignore the small minds that wish to deflect and distract here in the dungeon.
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt.

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8. Read a link?

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