07
Oct
2013
Colonel gets death penalty over spying for Israel
BEIRUT: The Military Tribunal handed down a death sentence in absentia to a retired Lebanese colonel for collaborating with Israel, a judicial source told The Daily Star over the weekend. Ghassan al-Jidd, a retired Lebanese Army colonel, was convicted of spying for Israel. He fled the country in 2009. Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said in a speech in 2010 that Jidd was present near the scene of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s 2005 assassination a day before the attack. Nasrallah also accused Jidd of involvement in the assassination of Hezbollah commander Ghaleb Awali in 2004 in the Beirut southern…
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