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The head of an Israeli spy ring, arrested last Saturday, reportedly used a mini-bar fitted with a state-of-the-art communications system to transmit sensitive information to Israeli intelligence ahead of the 2006 summer war. Adib Allam, a retired general in Lebanon's General Security, was arrested last weekend along with his wife Hayat for spying for Israel.

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