I am a Double Agent, Hizbullah Commissioned Me to Blow Up Israeli Embassy in Rome
Press reports on Saturday said arrested Lebanese national Ali al-Jarrah currently on trial for espionage stated that he is a double agent working for both Israel and Hizbullah. Reports added that Jarrah was commissioned by Hizbullah to carry out a suicide attack inside the Israeli embassy in Rome, while carrying a briefcase full of explosives.
Jarrah”s statements were allegedly said in court during his trial.
On July 15 during his first court session, Jarrah requested to have a closed door trial “to say the truth that should reach the United Nations Security Council."
He accused an unnamed party of "standing behind a case that does not concern me …I am a hero but after July 9th I was made an agent simply because I refused to carry out a single act."
He called on the court to arrest his brother Khaled and his brother”s girlfriend "for wanting to place an item in my bedroom in exchange for $30,000, and this item is the truth."
Jarrah added that while under arrest at Roumeih prison someone came to see him and told him to confess to his crime exactly in the manner he did earlier when being interrogated by Hizbullah "otherwise he would threaten my family."
"I began working for Israel in 1982, as requested by the Palestinian Fatah movement, which he joined in 1976.
The first time Jarrah visited Israel was in 1990 via Rome. At the time he provided the Israeli with information about the Palestinian Intifada in exchange for $10,000, a three year pay."
He added that he had a special night table next to his bed, which had a special sophisticated communications device, which he used to contact the Israelis when his family was away from home. Jarrah added that is family did not know the nature of his double life.
He was asked by the Palestinians in 1998 to end his contacts with the Israelis because of the peace process at the time. Jarrah was told by the Palestinians that they wouldn”t be able to protect him as before.
During the “Grapes of Wrath” Israeli war on southern Lebanon in 1996, Jarrah built up his contacts with Hizbullah, and in 2001 he visited Israel, with the full knowledge of Hizbullah”s Security Chief Hajj Abbas.
While in Israel, Jarrah was received by his old recruiters who trained him on new communication methods. In the same year Jarrah visited Syria.
The next trial session is scheduled on October 2.