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Alleged Israeli cell arrested in Lebanon JPost.com Staff May. 18, 2004
A group of people were arrested in Lebanon and accused of plotting to kill Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, according to the Lebanese-based A-Safir newspaper.
The Tuesday report said Jamal Zaa'roura, a 40-year old Palestinian female from a Lebanese refugee camp carrying a Tunisian passport, had been travelling between Beirut and Tunisia and had been contacted by Israeli intelligence.
Tthe woman claimed that an Israeli who identified himself as "Abdel Hafiz" contacted her, then introduced to another person who told her that her mission would be to "gather intelligence in Lebanon."
She was told she needed to recruit other agents in Lebanon from various Arab nationalities other than Lebanese.
In Beirut, Zaa'roura allegedly met an Egyptian man, Mujahed Yunis, who she felt was suitable for the "mission". Later, she was told by her Tunisian contacts that she would serve as the "link" between two cells that aimed to kill Hassan Nasrallah. One cell was commissioned to follow the Hizbullah leader's movements and the second was instructed to assassinate him.
She said the plan included sophisticated explosives that couldn't be monitored by regular means. The plan also included the use of poison material (as in the Mossad's botched 1997 attampt to kill Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in 1997).
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