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Palestine Backer or Israeli Spy? Lebanese in Shock Over Arrest
NYT ^ | 2/18/09 | ROBERT F. WORTH

Posted on 02/18/2009 7:58:23 PM PST by Nachum

MARAJ, Lebanon — 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.

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

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: backer; israeli; lebanese; spy
This guy is dead meat.
1 posted on 02/18/2009 7:58:23 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

>This guy is dead meat.

Too bad...


2 posted on 02/18/2009 8:05:59 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Nachum

bttt


3 posted on 02/18/2009 8:16:11 PM PST by The Anti-One (So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.)
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