BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- A man arrested for allegedly spying on Israel was working for the Lebanese telecommunications sector, Hezbollah said.
Lebanese army intelligence officers arrested a 66-year-old man they said was working as a spy for Israel. The man, identified only as "Milad A." was working in the international section of the Lebanese land-line company Ogero, the al-Manar news station of Hezbollah reports.
He is accused of monitoring calls made from Lebanon to Israel. He is the fourth person in the telecommunications sector accused of spying for Israel, al-Manar adds.
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said the July arrest a second employee at Alfa cell phone network provider shows Israeli intelligence has infiltrated Lebanon.
He claimed that the potential exists for the spies to manipulate call patterns, call times and other data. This casts doubt on the veracity of any Alfa telephone information that Lebanese security authorities might use when prosecuting alleged spies.
Nasrallah said use of any phone data by the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon investigating the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005 is evidence the STL is "an Israeli project."
