Suspected collaborator found dead near Kfar Kila

A suspected collaborator with “Israel” from the border village of Kfar Kila who went missing 17 days ago was found dead Wednesday in an olive grove on the edge of the village.
But according to a source at the Nabatieh government hospital, Hassan Daher, 65, was probably not killed by abductors but died from natural causes about a week ago.
Daher went missing at the end of April and was thought to have been kidnapped as part of an escalating campaign against former “Israeli”-proxy South Lebanon Army militiamen and other residents of the South suspected of having collaborated with “Israel”. There was no claim of responsibility for Daher’s disappearance.
His body was discovered noon Tuesday by farmers from Qlaya. Alerted by the smell, the farmers discovered the partially decomposed corpse lying on some rocks in the middle of the grove.
The authorities were alerted and Daher’s body was removed and taken to the Nabatieh government hospital for an autopsy.
Daher was originally from Lebbaya, in the Western Bekaa, just north of the former occupation zone.
Kfar Kila residents said he had been involved in a dispute with another branch of the Daher family in the mid-1980s. The details were unclear but the residents believed the feud had involved the killing of two people, one of them Daher’s daughter, and the rape of his niece. The result was that Daher fled and sought refuge in then-occupied Kfar Kila.
He found a job in “Israel” and allegedly also smuggled drugs across the border. His two sons, both former SLA militiamen, are in Roumieh Prison.
The residents said that his enemies in Lebbaya attempted to abduct him at least once from Kfar Kila during the occupation.
Daher went missing April 30, apparently snatched by unknown men and taken to Nabatieh.
A doctor at the Nabatieh hospital, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that no trace of foul play had been found on Daher’s corpse. He speculated that Daher had died of a heart attack. He added that from the rate of decomposition, Daher had probably died a week ago.
Since the beginning of the year, the border district has witnessed a growing number of attacks against ex-SLA militiamen.