Israeli Spy Confesses to Providing Israel with Mughniyeh’s Car Plate Number

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Syrian state television broadcast on Saturday the confessions of an alleged Israeli spy who conspired to assassinate top Hizbullah commander Imad Mughniyeh.

He confessed that Mughniyeh was murdered a day after he gave Israel his car plate number.

The top Hizbullah official was assassinated in Damascus on February 13, 2008.

The alleged Israeli spy Iyad Youssef Naim told the Syrian TV that he headed to Damascus twice, on Israeli orders, to locate any assembly of a political or international organization, but he wasn’t able to reach any valuable information.

However, the Israeli side that he was in contact with urged him to pursue the issue and head to Damascus again, providing him with a street address. “But I didn’t find any political gathering,” Naim told the state television.

“They meant (by political gathering) any center for Hamas, Hizbullah, or any other non-Syrian assembly,” the spy explained.

He confessed that he “saw a man holding a newspaper on the street and two other people in a Korean car… but they contacted me again to check if there was any (Mitsubishi) Pajero car on the site.”

Naim was born in 1976 and is a Palestinian – Jordanian national.

“I saw the car entering the street along with a Mercedes, so I gave them the Pajero plate number… and headed back to Latakia,” the spy said.

He confirmed that his espionage mission took place on February 12, 2008, and he knew the next day that Mughniyeh was assassinated in the same car he had seen a day earlier.

Asked about the nature of the information that Israel wanted to obtain, he noted that it was related “to Latakia city and its demographic issues like the residents’ sects and if there were any churches in the area, as well as issues related to Tartus and Latakia ports, ships numbers and most importantly the containers and the capacity of the port,” Naim added.

He pointed out that he was forbidden from drinking alcohol, contacting women, and conducting any long conversations.

He as was also ordered to avoid contact with anyone working in a security institution.

Mughniyeh, linked to the kidnappings of western hostages in the 1980s, was killed in a car bomb in Damascus in February 2008.

Hizbullah had repeatedly accused Israel of being behind his murder.

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Missing hmorsel 18 September 2011, 00:55

oh yeah and I beleive everything the Syrians say. these are the ost lying people in the world nothing they say can be believed, never

Default-user-icon hanna (Guest) 18 September 2011, 01:51

really funny....
credibility ZERO

Default-user-icon Ghassan (Guest) 18 September 2011, 02:58

The Syrians are trying to push Hizballah to retaliate to Moughniyeh's killing so they can have a distraction from what the regime is going through.
Accusing Isreal will agitate the emotions of the Hizballahi's and bring the long waited revenge back to the spotlight.
Assad and his gang are desparate and would try anything at any price.

Default-user-icon Joe (Guest) 18 September 2011, 04:06

Another silly fabrication by the Syrian regime. Hizballa knows the killing of Mughniyeh was in a collaboration between the Syrian intelligence and Israel. They Syrians have no option but to frame someone and force a fabricated confession. They done it before countless times and will do it again thinking that people will believe their lies.

Default-user-icon Muhahid (Guest) 18 September 2011, 07:28

This is the real Saint....!

Missing truth1976 18 September 2011, 07:28

hmorsel I agree with you all the way. and this fool who is trying to speak for my country is nothing more than that. He is not an American and if he is in my country I'll work hard to get him expelled like I have done so many others. We have no time for such people. hmorsel you have the foresight use it. What you have spoken we all know and in due time will be dealt with. God bless you all who keep a true Freedom, Justice and Equality as you future goal. Keep your head up brother

Default-user-icon LebYankee (Guest) 18 September 2011, 07:33

If you don't like America, what the hell are you doing there? I will never understand you Arabs. America... Love it or leave it.

Default-user-icon The Truth (Guest) 18 September 2011, 07:52

One man walking around casually was able to find the 2nd most hidden member of Huzb Allah after the CIA, Mossad and MI6 couldn't find him for 2 decades? What a joke. Syria took out Mughniyeh for a reason unknown to us. Maybe to send a message to Huzb Allah or maybe because he was no longer needed.

Default-user-icon Rami (Guest) 18 September 2011, 08:34

Bashar must have lots of sleepless nights those days. On top of that, Israeli spies roaming around in Syria without the knowledge of the so called strong Mukhabarat, Bashar, your in deeper trouble then I thought so.

Default-user-icon Marie (Guest) 18 September 2011, 08:35

This guy sounds like a relative of jabal amel and his followers.....,

Default-user-icon Benzema (Guest) 18 September 2011, 08:47

Well, how does the guy know he was actually spying for Israel? Did he ask his contacts for their IDs? "Hi, we are israeli spies (here is the ID), and we would like to know the plate number of M. Moghniyeh. Please don't tell your girlfriend!". And the guys disappeared behind their copies of the jerusalem Post...

Default-user-icon falanges (Guest) 18 September 2011, 09:19

By the way mfawaz, Lebanese people are just as embedded in the political system as the jews in America. there is a lot of lebanese voters in the united states and we the true Lebanese are not arabs like you, syrian or palasininan want to be Leb. Top government officals in America are of Lebanese origin. God bless America and the Ununited State of Lebanon.

Default-user-icon fad (Guest) 18 September 2011, 10:38

@truth1976 - take a hike buddy. You don't make sense, it's better off you find a chicken and play with her thighs....

Default-user-icon Go-bells (Guest) 18 September 2011, 12:12

Let me "fallaw" your thin-king, fellow American citizen...
Until and unless the US turn their eternal love for the pro-Israel lobby into hate, Syrians, as weel as Arabs and the whole world should swallow all the propaganda pieces that the syrian autist regime gratify the world with.Go to school!

Default-user-icon Truth (Guest) 18 September 2011, 12:57

All What you re saying Fawaz applies first and foremost too, to Syria and Iran. For I prefer to be in the same camp as the one who granted you the us citizenship, and all the freedom the protection, and respect before the Law you enjoy. I d rather share some common interests with this camp than with those who want to establish a stone-age Islamic republic in Lebanon, and may some day lead us in a nuclear confrontation, just by trying to break the on going balance of deterrence estabished for decades in that part of the world. Remember there s only one superpower left.Period.

Default-user-icon an (Guest) 18 September 2011, 13:21

mfawaz,

by far the most correct post here, taken the words out of my mouth.

I agree, and don't waste your breathe here, some of these people are so blinded by hate, arrogance and stupidity that they would rather piss against the wind and laugh as they get bathed in their own medicine.
its too bad these people need some serious eye openers but i think its too late now.
oh did i mention they are also suicidal? by supporting this so called uprising (which is now almost over which is why the zionists are running about for a plan B) they are digging their own graves.

Thumb ithinkthere14iam 18 September 2011, 16:25

Oh yeah of course this comes out 3 years later in the midst duringthe big crisis of the regime...wouldn't it had made more sene to put the man on trial and have him executed :)doesn't that make more sense than an interview??too many holes, eerie timing, more bs

Default-user-icon Arz10452 (Guest) 18 September 2011, 17:14

One thing we seem to forget. Mughaniyeh is a murderer and a terrorist, he deserves to be on the road to "Sainthood". Israel should have no concerns with him, he only hurt the US. He was under the full custody of the Syrian regime and his killing was done by the "shakika" as a favor to the US. By the way, this resembles Ghazi Kanaan committing suicide news. A joke

Default-user-icon neutral (Guest) 18 September 2011, 22:04

Thats a syrian propaguanda. like they did not know a thing. with all the moukhabarat they have. who knows what their goal is by putting this on tv. they have a reason i am sure. they know every thing about every one in lebanon and they assassinate any one they want in lebanon. but they did not know who killed moughannieh? give me a f...n break. like do they think their people are going to beleive them ? The syrians are the biggest liars in this fnnn world. they play not a double standard but a tripple and quadruple standard. liars all the way. look at their ambassador in the US he lied over and over again every time they interviewed him on tv. they are allways right and every body else is wrong. yes? did they for once admit their lies? they allways blamed their massacres on others . creating a reason or reasons. its about time the whole world beleives that this regime is a liar and not to be trusted at all. they are full of bs.

Default-user-icon Sandwich (Guest) 19 September 2011, 09:13

Why would I believe anything shown on Syrian TV? No Israeli spy would come forward. Whoever believes this is naive!