Admissions of the Israeli spy network members arrested in Lebanon in 2004 unveiled the Israeli Intelligence service Mossad involvement in assassinating former Lebanese Minister Eli Hbeika and three bodyguards in a car bomb explosion, the Lebanon News Agency reported yesterday.

It added that the network driver, who was a woman, has heard from her boss that Hbeika would be killed because he would testify against the former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the case of Sabra and Shatela massacre. โ€

The network has also planned to assassinate Hizbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallh and to bomb Hizbollah centres in South suburb and to promote Israeli harmful goods in a number of Arab states,the agency concluded.