An army officer of the rank of Colonel, from a well-known Bedouin family whose sons have served and serve in the IDF, was indicted today on charges of treason. The charges, handed down in the Nazareth District Court, accuse him of passing secret information about the IDF and its officers to the Hizbullah terrorist organization in Lebanon. He was arrested six weeks ago, and nine other Bedouin soldiers have also been arrested. One of them transferred a cellular phone to Hizbullah elements, and it was later found on the body of a suicide terrorist. This grave espionage incident has already led to reports of built-in problems in Northern Command tracker units, which have become the "exclusive domain" of the Bedouin soldiers with insufficient supervision by the upper IDF echelons.