Lebanon takes Mossad terror cell to the UN

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Lebanon has decided to file a complaint with the UN against Israel for its role in killing members of Hezbollah and Palestinian resistance groups, the prime minister said on Saturday.

Lebanon will assert in its complaint that Israeli intelligence, Mossad, was behind a wave of assassinations in the country, Fouad Siniora told reporters on Saturday

"We consider this as an act of aggression (by Israel)," he said.

"We are working on the file and once it is completed we will submit a complaint to the United Nations Security Council."

An investigation carried out by Lebanese intelligence recently has uncovered a “terror network” that was used by the Mossad to carry out attacks inside Lebanon, mainly against Hezbollah and Palestinian resistance groups.

Yesterday, the army issued a statement saying: “The terrorist network has been active in Lebanon for several years. Its members received training inside and outside Israel and were equipped with the latest tools and techniques used by Israel's Mossad to carry out assigned assassinations in Lebanon".

"The network was tasked by this agency (Mossad) with carrying out these operations and was given secret communication and monitoring devices for this purpose along with detailed maps of the target... forged documents and bags with secret pockets”

The report on the investigation said that Lebanese retired police officer, identified as Mahmoud Abu Rafeh, was the head of the terror network, and that he confessed to assassinating a number of Hezbollah and Palestinian fighters on behalf of the Mossad.

The Lebanese army released pictures showing equipment that was used in the terror cell’s attacks, and found at Rafeh’s house in the Lebanese town of Hasbaya, on the border with Israel.

Rafeh admitted his role in the assassination of two officials of Lebanon's Hezbollah group as well as a senior member of a Palestinian resistance organisation, the army said.

Beirut will file a complaint with the Security Council in order to "present Israel's nakedness before the international community," Lebanese As-Safir newspaper reported.

Several members of various Palestinian resistance organisations and Lebanon’s Hezbollah have been killed in Lebanon in recent years by attacks mostly blamed by their organisations on Israel.

The decision to take the case to the Security Council, according to As-Safir newspaper, apparently aims at reducing the diplomatic pressure Beirut’s been facing, specially after U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman raised doubts over the credibility of the investigations findings.

Feltman argues that Hezbollah stands behind the claim that a Mossad-run terror network had been operating against resistance figures inside Lebanon.

He even hinted that the matter might have a negative impact on the American-Lebanese relations and thus threaten the steady military aid the U.S. provides Lebanon with.