After the release of the American ultra-Orthodox youth from Lebanon, additional and rather amazing details are revealed. The guy who held two passports was ordered to fly on Shabbat because of mental health supervision. An ultra-orthodox businessman from the USA close to Hezbollah helped the Yeshiva candidate to be released, causing great outrage among Hezbollah for the quick release
The general security apparatus in Lebanon referred for the first time in a statement yesterday to the arrest of the American ultra-Orthodox in Beirut last week in response to a publication in the Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar, close to Hezbollah, which criticized his release under American pressure.
According to the report by Roy Kays in ‘Khan Haudas’, which revealed the story for the first time, in a message published on the Twitter account of the General Security Mechanism, it was clarified that “it is an American citizen who entered Lebanon on September 12. He was arrested and interrogated after the Directorate of Intelligence reported that he was a person with Israeli citizenship. In his investigation it became clear that he does not have Israeli citizenship and that he is staying in Israel (“Occupied Palestine”) on the basis of a student visa.
The general security apparatus in Lebanon in its first reference to the case of the arrest of an American Jew in Beirut last week and his release under American pressure. Comes out in a message against the criticism in the Hezbollah-affiliated al-Akhbar newspaper that did not like his release and the American intervention that led to it https://t.co/hI3fVhJjtm pic.twitter.com/tCaJg8mmGM
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It was also stated that “the security mechanisms did a comprehensive check on him under the supervision of the relevant judicial authorities who decided to release him after it became clear that there was no legal or security reason to keep him in custody.” In a statement, the General Security Mechanism came out against the publication in Al-Akhbar which, according to it, tried to damage and downplay the role played by the General Security Mechanism in maintaining national security in the face of Israel’s attempts to penetrate the Lebanese arena. It was also reported by Roy Kays that the message also made an indirect reference to the American intervention that led to his release and it was said that the general security apparatus in Lebanon does not receive instructions from anyone either inside Lebanon or outside of it as implied in Al-Akhbar.
In the ultra-Orthodox rooms, we learned that the Lebanese are trying to lower the level of anger towards them on the part of Hezbollah, and that a number of American senators were involved in the story, led by Richard Durbin, from the Democratic Party, who serves as a senator from the state of Illinois, including a prominent ultra-Orthodox businessman in the US, according to The information that reached ‘Bahadari Haredim’, the ultra-Orthodox young man who studied at a yeshiva in Jerusalem flew from Israel to Cyprus and from there to Beirut, and from there he planned to fly to northern Iraq – Kurdistan, but was arrested on suspicion of espionage in Lebanon, a newspaper close to Hezbollah was outraged that he was released after American efforts and he flew to Dubai.
The guy’s US passport
But until his arrival in Dubai, his family went through days of anxiety, that senior ultra-orthodox businessman turned to a Lebanese millionaire close to Hezbollah, and asked him to act to free the young man who innocently entered Lebanon, not understanding the magnitude of the danger, and this after two American passports were found in his possession, one with a visa to Israel, and one Without it, the ultra-Orthodox young man tried to hide the fact that he had been to Israel, and showed the police the passport without the visa, but they searched him and discovered that he had another passport with a visa to Israel.
As mentioned, the ultra-Orthodox businessman involved a number of senators, and pressured them to act. Also, the young man received an order to fly on Shabbat from a large crowd to whom the businessman turned with a question about flying on Shabbat, he received the order through the US Embassy in Lebanon, he was told to fly on Shabbat if he was released, because “it Mind control, every minute you are there is dangerous, fly away as soon as you can, even on Shabbat.” But the boy was released towards Friday and flew to Dubai.
As you may remember, Roy Kays, head of the Arab section at ‘Khan News’, reported that the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, which is affiliated with Hezbollah, approved the publication in ‘Khan News’ about an American ultra-orthodox youth who was arrested last week in Beirut for questioning and was released due to American pressure. The newspaper published a photograph of his passport and also of the hotel reservation which stated that he was an Israeli citizen and that his place of residence was Israel, which led to his arrest on the streets of Beirut.
Legal officials connected to the investigation were quoted in the newspaper as saying that the decision to release him was made after it became clear that he did not violate Lebanese law and was not involved in an espionage or security operation: “If he intended to carry out a security operation, he would not have written personal details about his Israeli citizenship and his place of residence in his hotel reservation in Israel”.