Mahmoud Abou Rafeh
{{Short description|Lebanese police officer and spy}}
Mahmoud Abou Rafeh is a Lebanese police officer accused of running a spy ring on behalf of Israel.
Arrest
On 10 June 2006 the Lebanese army arrested members of an alleged Israeli spy ring, including Mahmoud Rafeh, his wife, and two children.{{cite web
|last=Blanford
|first=Nicholas
|title=Lebanon exposes deadly Israeli spy ring
|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2227831,00.html
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726225915/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2227831,00.html
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=July 26, 2008
|publisher=The Times UK
|date=2006-06-15
|accessdate=14 August 2006}} Police discovered bomb-making materials, code machines and other espionage equipment in his home. Rafeh reportedly confessed to the Majzoub killings and to working for Mossad,{{cite web
|url=http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2006/06/lebanon_arrests.php
|title=Lebanon arrests key suspect in Islamic Jihad assassination
|date=2006-06-11
|publisher=Ya Libnan
|accessdate=18 October 2006
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061111134056/http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2006/06/lebanon_arrests.php
|archivedate=11 November 2006
}} and admitted that his cell had assassinated two Hezbollah leaders in 1999 and 2003 and the son of Ahmed Jibril, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, in 2002.{{cite web
|title=Murr: Israeli aircraft detonated the car bomb in Sidon
|url=http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2006/06/murr_israeli_ai.php
|publisher=Ya Libnan
|date=2006-06-16
|accessdate=18 October 2006
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061111131153/http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2006/06/murr_israeli_ai.php
|archivedate=11 November 2006
}} Prominent Lebanese politician and lead Cedar-Revolutionist Walid Jumblatt, a then-outspoken critic of Hezbollah, suspected that the exposure of the spy ring was a Hezbollah fabrication.
References
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