Posted on 09/29/2024 10:54:04 AM PDT by Libloather
The devastating airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was the result of a years-long operation by Israeli intelligence that penetrated the terror leader’s entire network — allowing him to be tracked to his underground command center in Beirut.
The Israeli military then used 80 tons of specially designed bunker-busting bombs to blast through the heavily fortified hideout on Friday and kill the slippery Nasrallah — who has survived multiple previous attempts to assassinate him.
Nasrallah’s death was exactly what Israel had been hoping for when it launched a bombing campaign that day, the Financial Times reports.
Unbeknownst to Nasrallah, Israeli intelligence was well aware of the movements of Hezbollah’s leadership following years of hacking and surveillance work on the Lebanese terror group — which is one of the largest and best armed militias in the world.
After failing to kill Nasrallah multiple times during the 2006 war, Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate (Aman) devoted itself to penetrating Hezbollah.
The Jewish state got its big break in 2012 when the militant group deployed its fighters to Syria to help ally President Bashar al-Assad quell an uprising.
Former Israeli intelligence officials and Lebanese politicians told the FT that the battle in Syria unearthed a trove of information from the otherwise secretive terror group, with Hezbollah constantly publishing information on its slain fighters that revealed their personal information.
“They went from being highly disciplined and purists to someone who [when defending Assad] let in a lot more people than they should have,” Yezid Sayigh, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center, told the outlet.
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And those spies did SUPERB WORK.
I hear that they gathered to watch Netanyahus UN speech which if true means the last thing they saw was Netanyahu.
A report today indicated the meeting of Nasrallah et al was held specifically because phones and other electronics were monitored.
It had to be human intelligence. Totally infiltrated by spies and ratted on by locals.
The plan, in hindsight, was pretty smart.
First they blew up their pagers and radios.
That forced them to meet face to face to communicate and plan. All Israel had to do was wait until the leadership was seen gathering. They knew exactly where and when. And they had the right bombs ready for that moment knowing it was going to be in an underground bunker.
Good. Now he is a shiite stain on bedrock.
We can only hope that there was puh-lenty of "collateral damage" (i.e., deaths of other terrorists). None of this "surgical sh*t!"
BTW: "Nasrallah" is phonetically identical to "She shat," in Russian.
Regards,
Nice work by some very talented people.
Keep going ‘til it’s done.
“Never Again” starts now.
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Israel does good intelligence work. Why do you think they didn’t have some better info before the Oct 7th attack?
Wait, I think I can hear an incoming bomb...
The Ayatollah is next.
This thread needs some appropriate music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17lkdqoLt44
Down side...who do we trust in our Intel agencies not to leak Mossad info and plans? Maybe the above is not such a great idea.
Hezbollah must be in a state of panic and paranoia.
Israel obviously has spies, working for them, on the ground looking like every other terrorist or innocent civilian, who obtain intel and report back to Israeli intelligence through secret channels.
Because their focus was on Hezbollah and Iran. They thought that Hamas was under control, with bribes from Qatar, etc. and that Hamas served a useful purpose in countering the influence of the PA.
Hezbollah was seen as a much greater threat, and that’s where they directed the bulk of their intelligence resources.
And with 80 tons, they were not taking any chances
Yeah, was wondering what they could scrape up to bury.
Dont get why they are mad. Israel just gave these guys their greatest goal in life.
Death.
As a martyr.
Maybe they were playing Jihad Bingo and someone called “ F 16”
Bingo!
Ha. That’s pretty good!
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