'Prisoner X' exposed two Israeli spies to Hezbullah
According to the report, Siad al-Homsi and Mustafa ali Awadeh were arrested in May 2009 for spying for Israel in Lebanon and sentenced to long prison terms after Zygier passed their names to a Hezbollah operative.
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Zygier was eventually demoted and ordered to return to Israel in 2007 after his work failed to meet the Mossad's expectations. He left the organization in 2008 to return to his native Australia, Der Spiegel reported.
The Australian quoted Fairfax newspapers, which carried out the joint investigation into Zygier with Der Spiegel, as reporting that Zygier's contacts with the Hezbollah operative were part of a "rogue" operation by which he attempted to get back into the Mossad's good graces following his demotion.
According to the report, the alleged Mossad agent had met with the Hezbollah operative in hopes of turning him into a double agent. The Hezbollah operative who Zygier hoped to turn then double-crossed him, sending information on the two informants back to Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut.
Zygier had given the Hezbollah operative information on the informants, Israel's top two Lebanese assets, to prove he had access to valuable knowledge, according to the report.
Fairfax reported that one of the informants, Siad al-Homsi, had told Israel that he could lead them to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
The report added that Zygier was carrying discs with further information at the time of his arrest that he may have intended on passing to the Hezbollah operative as well.
Once arrested, Zygier quickly confessed to passing the intelligence and was facing a ten year prison sentence, Fairfax reported, according to the Australian.Sounds like a tragedy all the way around.
Labels: collaborators, Hezbullah, Lebanon, Mossad, Prisoner X
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