collaborators with Israel in six weeks. One of the houses belonged to Robin Abboud, who commanded the SLA in the central sector of the occupation zone. He fled with his family to Israel in May 2000 during the withdrawal of the Israeli Army.
The other house belonged to Samir Raslan, a former head of SLA security in Addaisseh who lost all his limbs in a letter bomb attack during the occupation.
It is forbidden to enter this house, on orders of Hizbullah, the movement had warned in black ink on the door, forcing Raslan and his nine children to move in with his parents in the same village.
The two houses were stacked with 40 kilograms of dynamite and detonated early Tuesday morning, according to an Internal Security Forces bomb expert.
A UNIFIL patrol inspected the damage.
As in similar attacks in the past, no claim of responsibility was issued. But anonymous leaflets circulated in the village have warned against the return of collaborators to the village.
The reprisals were the first in several weeks against those accused of collaborating with Israel. A spate of revenge incidents earlier in the year, consisting of car bombings, beatings of suspects and arson attacks on houses, caused considerable unrest in the border district. It was unclear who was behind the assaults, although several previously unknown groups claimed responsibility.
Abboud was one of the longest-serving and staunchest members of the SLA.
In the mid-1970s, in the early days of the Christian militia created by Saad Haddad, the forerunner of the SLA, Abboud developed a ferocious reputation during battles with Palestinian fighters and Lebanese Muslim and leftist militias. In 1975, during an argument with an armed Palestinian at a checkpoint beside the Kahaldeh bridge between Kfar Tibnit and Kfar Kila, Abboud grabbed the rifle from the fighter, strangled him with his bare hands and threw his body into the Litani River.