Hezbollah member guilty of plotting to attack Israeli tourists. A court in Cyprus found a man guilty of participating in a plot to attack Israeli tourists on holiday there, part of a conspiracy similar to a deadly bombing in July in Bulgaria. The court found Hossam Taleb Yaacoub, a dual Swedish-Lebanese citizen, guilty on five of the eight charges against him on Thursday, including participation in a criminal organisation and in the preparation of a criminal act. The three other counts were conspiracy charges, which the ruling said were covered under the other counts. Yaacoub will be sentenced at a separate hearing. He admitted in court last month that he was a member of Hezbollah, the Shiite militant group, and that he was trained in the use of weapons and sent around Europe on missions. He described operating in a world of codenames and secret passwords, and a secretive handler who wore a mask. "It's a rare opening, a rare lifting of the veil on how they operate," Magnus Norell, a former Swedish Secret Service terrorism analyst who testified in the case, said on Thursday.