A colonel, identified only D.J., escaped to Israel last week, according to the daily Al-Akhbar. The newspaper said that on Wednesday the colonel left his parents' home in the southern town of Qlaiaa July 1 and never came back. He told his mother that he would stay overnight at his house in Baabda and come back the following morning.
When the officer failed to show up at the specified time and would not answer his phone, his sister went to check on him, only to find that his apartment was locked. After informing the Lebanese army intelligence of her brother's disappearance, armed forces learned that the officer had left his military phone at his apartment, while his BMW car remained parked outside the building where he lived, al-Akhbar went on to say.
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