Mia* – According to Lebanese law, the only crime punishable by death penalty is child molestation, which is by hanging. That being said, treason, in every country, is a high crime, and would probably get them executed. But I’m not sure it will be by hanging.

Ray – The Lebanese army arrested them; not Hizbullah or Syria. If Hizbullah wanted them, they would have jsut confiscated the organization themselves. The Lebanese military is highly factional, but at least at present, is not Hizbullah controlled; it is nominally Christian, with large Sunni and Shia Muslim contingents. Further, I don’t think Syria would want to get involved in a supposed Mossad ring in Lebanon – too many problems. If it came otu that the information came from Syria or that Syria was behind the round-up their would be a political fall-out with the West, over Syrian involvement in Lebanon, at a time which such a fall-out would be particularly inconvenient, given the tensions between Syria and the U.S. after the American attack on militants in Syrian territory.