Ex-prisoners released by Syria admit to having worked for “Israeli” secret service

Investigators say that a pair of detainees whom Syrian authorities recently handed over had been acting as undercover agents for “Israel’s” Mossad.
Judicial sources said that Jihad Jammal and Khaled Yassin, a Palestinian, had committed “Israeli”-ordered terrorist acts in several Arab countries, including Lebanon, Syria, Libya and Egypt.
State Prosecutor Adnan Addoum referred the two men’s cases to the Military Tribunal on Wednesday.
Yassin, a former member of the Democratic Front for Liberation of Palestine, admitted to blowing up a mosque in West Beirut in 1994.
The sources said the bombing, ordered by Mossad, was aimed at diverting the Lebanese authorities’ attention from an earlier Mossad-instigated church bombing on the eastern side of the capital. The former blast killed and wounded several people.
Yassin, who was arrested by the Syrian authorities in 1997, said Mossad ordered both operations in order to sow division and stoke sectarian tension.
He confessed to being trained by Mossad officers who ordered him to provide them with information on Palestinian factions in Lebanon.
Yassin said he was ordered to create political conflict between Libya and Egypt by leaking false news of Libyan nationals residing in Cairo who were supposedly planning to commit terrorist acts in the Egyptian capital.
Mossad officers also asked him to spread rumors of terrorist acts targeting several prominent Lebanese politicians.
Jammal confessed that he, too, carried out several operations for the Mossad until his arrest in 1994. Among them were the capture of Lebanese and Palestinian resistance fighters, gathering information on the Syrian army in Lebanon, and planting explosives near Syrian army positions.
Jammal said he contacted the Mossad through his relative, Farouk Jammal.

The Daily Star, 21-12-2000.