(Reuters) - Syria broadcast on Saturday what it said was the confession of a Jordanian-Palestinian man who gave Israel information leading to the assassination of Hezbollah military commander Imad Moughniyah in Damascus three years ago.
The man, who identified himself as 35-year-old Eyad Youssef Enaim, said he was recruited by Israel in 2006 after a visit to the West Bank town of Hebron. He said he was sent to Damascus by his Israeli handlers in February 2008 and gave them details of Moughniyah's car hours before it was blown up on Feb. 12.
"I gave them the number of the car," Enaim said in an interview broadcast by state television.
The channel said Enaim's comments showed the extent of foreign plots against Syria, facing six months of protests against President Bashar al-Assad which authorities say have also been backed by outside powers.
Israel denied involvement in killing Moughniyah, who was on the United States' most wanted list.
Moughniyah was implicated in the 1983 bombings of the U.S. embassy and U.S. Marine and French peacekeeping barracks in Beirut, which killed more than 350 people, and the kidnapping of Westerners in Lebanon in the 1980s.
Israel accused him of planning the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people and involvement in a 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy in the Argentine capital that killed 28.
Enaim, who was based in the coastal city of Latakia, said he was sent to Damascus three times in early February. On the first two visits he was asked to explore a district near the Iranian and Canadian embassies for signs of Hezbollah or Hamas offices.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/09/18/idINIndia-59404320110918
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