Posted on 02/15/2008 4:06:32 PM PST by maquiladora
The Israel Defence Forces have been placed on high alert at the Lebanese border and Israel's counter-terrorism bureau has advised citizens traveling abroad, diplomatic missions and Jewish communities and institutions around the world to take strict safety precautions and request police protection, following Sheik Hassan Nasrallah's threats on Thursday to avenge the killing of Hezbollah's Operations Chief Imad Mughniyah.
Special commando units have been dispatched to reinforce the northern command to combat attempted abductions of Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah militants and all troop leave has been cancelled until further notice.
The Navy has also been alerted to possible offshore infiltration and rocket attacks and city mayors and local government councilors as far south as Haifa have been alerted and briefed by the homeland command to possible military escalation along the Lebanese frontier.
"We have a feeling that something big and serious is about to happen," a senior Israeli diplomat serving abroad told local media.
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They have went to a war footing.
They have been talking on Coast for years about this feeling of foreboding.
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I think he’s referring to Coast to Coast AM, formally with Art Bell and now hosted by George Noory and Ian Punnet.
The Syrians believe that a mole had infiltrated the top echelons of the Syrian intelligence and security service and leaked precise information to foreign intelligence agents about Mughniyah's exact time and place of arrival in the Syrian capital from Teheran.
A rumour circulating in Damascus and in Beirut claims that senior Syrian security officers colluded to assassinate Mughniyah to facilitate a reconciliation between Damascus and Washington.
Here’s to hoping Nasrallah will fall on something pointy in the near future.
sounds like a great story. Doubt it happened.
Not yet. The Reserves have to be mobilized next.
While his car/driver/guards waited outside, somehow a small disguised bomb was placed on the rear floorboards. When Mugniyah and Khalil entered the backseat, kaboom.
Unlikely the Syrians did it, they didn't know he was in the country.
Unlikely a Hezbollah fratricide as Khalil was killed also and he was very close to Nasrallah.
Nope, somebody very patient, very lethal, Mossad or us. If it was Mossad, they pre-post readiness all the time when ops are underway or not, but no mobilization this time, very odd.
Israel knows they are the first to get blamed and usually wink, wink when they do the op, but not this time, they are giving only cryptic responses, when there is no downside to admitting it if they did the op. Who would be surprised?
I think we did the op with Mossad intel and they are covering for us. Semper fi, carry on.
BTW, see how the car is all torn apart, but not very burned? This detonation was not C4 or anything like it. Something very high speed and compact, not many have that technology.
Another report now says Mugniyah drove past a bomb-laden car that had been continuously parked down the street. Not to worry, Iran (Moe), Syria (Larry), and Hezbollah (Curly) are doing a joint investigation, LOL.
Hezbollah’s unlikely to do squat right now...they’ve got to be scared that they are wholly compromised and OWNED.
The story reads as though Israel has taken up defensive positions.
The continued whacking of lead terrorists sounds much more like offense to me.......
Offense is a more effective method of reducing the threat.
Some of us were thinking Rods from the Gods, but the projectile damage is from ground upwards, not from the sky downwards.
The the explosive damage is from the inside expanding outward. I like the planted explosive theory, minimizes collateral damage, no guesswork on timing the detonation as you would if one car was driving past another.
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