How was the first contact with Hezbollah made?
“It was the period in Lebanon when everyone was fighting everyone else. The Shi’ite Amal organization was Hezbollah’s big adversary in the battle for control of the Shi’ites. I began passing information to Hezbollah about Amal. It was my first job with Hezbollah. They saw that they could depend on me, and that’s how I began to rise through the ranks.” He has no pictures or documents to back up his story that he served for 10 years in Hezbollah, but Sinai insists he was a senior Hezbollah intelligence officer. He even claims that he met Abbas Musawi, who was then Hezbollah’s leader. “He would come to our village to give a sermon. His speeches were cruel, and preached hatred and war against Israel. At the end of every sermon I shook his hand and we spoke. We became friendly. He knew me personally, and we would talk about operational matters as well. I haven’t met Nasrallah face to face.” In 1992 Masawi was killed by the IDF. Israel had received information that allowed its helicopters to
