New threats against Lebanese suspected of links with “Israel”

“ A leaflet dropped Thursday in formerly “Israeli”-occupied southern Lebanon threatened collaborators with reprisal and urging them to leave their villages.

The unsigned leaflet was left at the doorstep of a number of houses in the mostly village of Aadayseh, adjacent to the borders with “Israel”.

"Let the blood of these microbes who sullied the sacred soil of southern Lebanon be spilled," said the leaflet, which called for "throwing these collaborators out of our villages."

"They should suffer aggression, they should get their just punishment," it said.

Since March 26, five bombings have targetted suspected collaborators in the nearby village of Houla. No one was injured in any of the blasts, after which similar leaflets were found on the scene.

On April 24, a previously unknown group gave a one-week ultimatum to Lebanese who collaborated with “Israeli” occupation forces, saying the "gates of hell will open up in front of them" if they don't leave southern Lebanon.

The ultimatum issued by the "Revolutionary Cell for the Punishment of Collaborators and aimed at "all collaborators and members of their families" expired on April 30 .

When the “Israeli” army pulled out of southern Lebanon in May 2000, about 6,000 Lebanese collaborators left the country, in fear of retaliation by the local population.

Several hundreds of them later returned to Lebanon and many of them have been tried in Beirut for collaborating with the “Israeli” enemy.

AFP, 3-5-2001