(Daily Star-Lebanon) Ghassan al-Jidd, a retired Lebanese Army colonel who fled the country in 2009, was convicted of spying for Israel and sentenced to death in absentia by a military tribunal, a judicial source said Saturday. The Lebanese judiciary has handed down several death sentences against collaborators with Israel over the past years but none have been executed.
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