Hundreds of Israeli spies in Lebanon: Syria press charges

"You have to recognize the danger of having more than 400 men from Israel's Mossad in Lebanon who are working with the other (Lebanese) agents who once supported the Zionist enemy and its militias," wrote editor Fayez Sayegh.

"These agents are encircling Lebanon like a belt that will explode when Israel and its strategic ally the United States have decided," he said, charging that there was also an increasing number of agents from the CIA and European states in the country.

"All these agents came to Lebanon... to sow dissent, revive hatred, reinforce pressure on Lebanon and Syria and above all spy on national forces, the Lebanese resistance and Palestinians," said the paper.

Syrian troops and intelligence agents left Lebanon in April, ending a near 30-year presence, amid the political turmoil that followed the assassination in February of former premier Rafiq Hariri.

A UN enquiry into the killing has fingered a number of Lebanese and Syrian security officials, with the German prosecutor heading the probe, Detlev Mehlis, accusing Damascus of not fully cooperating.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said that his country is the target of an international witch-hunt, with the United States and Israel continuing to accuse Damascus of interfering in Lebanese affairs, notably via support for the armed wing of Hezbollah.

The Shiite fundamentalist group this week had its worst clashes with Israeli forces since they left southern Lebanon in 2000.

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