Ghandouriyeh Spy Suspect, Nader, “Good Catch”
Police chief Gen. Ashraf Rifi said that Lebanese suspect Nasser Nader, recently arrested in Ghandouriyeh on charges of spying for Israel, was a "good catch."
"Perhaps he (Nader) is the most important suspect among the detained members of the Israel-linked spy networks that have been arrested so far," Rifi said in an interview published in the daily As Safir on Wednesday.
Rifi said interrogation showed that Nader had focused his work on Beirut”s southern suburbs, conducting a thorough survey of the area.
Nader was arrested over the weekend in the southern town of Ghandouriyeh on suspicion of spying for Israel.
Sophisticated equipment designed to take photographs and transmit pictures had been confiscated from his house.
As Safir earlier said Nader confessed to working for the Israeli Mossad secret service and that he was assigned to monitor the activities of leaders in the resistance.
Rifi said he believed a large number of Israel-linked spies may have fled Lebanon with the start of the collapse and disintegration of the networks.
Al Akhbar, for its part, quoted a senior police source as saying Nader was the "most harmful" among the suspects since he conducted a comprehensive and accurate survey of the southern suburbs, including resistance posts and houses of Hizbullah officials.
Meanwhile, Israeli analyst and expert in intelligence and strategic affairs Ronen Bergman described as a "painful blow" the arrests in Lebanon of Israel-linked spy cells.