Following the arrest of dozens of people in Egypt accused of spying for the Iran-backed Hizbullah terrorist 
While Egypt and Jordan are prosecuting cells of Hizbullah and Hamas terrorists, Lebanon has said its security forces captured several spies who were working for Israel.
organization, Middle Eastern espionage intrigue continues in Jordan and Lebanon. Spies working for Hamas were sentenced this week in the Hashemite kingdom, while Lebanese security forces claimed to have caught several key Israeli agents.
Three Jordanians were sentenced to five years of hard labor by a Jordanian court on Wednesday for gathering intelligence on potential terrorist targets in their country. They were charged in August 2007 with taking pictures of the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordanian-Israeli border positions and other security facilities. The cell was acting as agents for the jihadist Hamas organization when they collected the "secret information that should not be exposed," according to the court.
Hamas, currently the ruling faction in the Gaza half of the Palestinian Authority, is an illegal organization in the kingdom of Jordan.
While Egypt and Jordan are prosecuting cells of Hizbullah and Hamas terrorists, Lebanon has said its security forces captured several spies who were working for Israel. The third arrest of three thus far was announced on Thursday, when General Security Department Corporal G. Alam was picked up in the border town of Naqoura. The man's uncle, a retired Lebanese security services general named Adib Alam, and Adib's wife Hayat, were arrested on Saturday. The Alam family is from the southern Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil, scene of fierce battles between the IDF and Hizbullah terrorists in the 2006 Second Lebanon War.
Adib Alam was accused of providing intelligence to the Israeli secret service, the Mossad, ever since Israel's offensive against PLO terrorists in southern Lebanon in 1982. After he quit his security post eight years ago, Alam allegedly continued providing intelligence information to Israel through the foreign employment business he ran.
Hizbullah's second-in-command, Naim Kassem, claimed that Lebanese security forces turned to his organization for information on Adib Alam after a three-month surveillance operation.
Adib Alam reportedly admitted to espionage on Israel's behalf, but said his activities were limited to passing of information. He said he met with his Israeli handlers in Europe on a regular basis.
The Lebanese As-Safir newspaper said that more arrests are expected. Hizbullah said it will reveal more of its own intelligence on Alam as well.