Posted on 05/09/2021 3:11:57 AM PDT by USA Conservative
Israel shared three cell phone numbers used by Qasem Soleimani with U.S. intelligence in the hours before American drones unleashed Hellfire missiles on the Iranian general last year, Yahoo News reported Saturday.
The revelation sheds new light on the role that Israel played in the killing of Soleimani, who the State Department says was responsible for hundreds of U.S. troop deaths as the head of the Revolutionary Guard's elite Quds Force.
The drone strike occurred shortly after midnight on Jan. 2, 2020, as Soleimani and his entourage were leaving Baghdad's international airport.
As three Delta Force sniper teams monitored Soleimani on the ground and three American drones kept a bird's eye view of him, Israel shared intelligence with the U.S. military.
"In the six hours before Soleimani boarded his flight from Damascus, the Iranian general switched cellphones three times, according to a U.S. military official," the Yahoo report said.
"In Tel Aviv, U.S. Joint Special Operations Command liaisons worked with their Israeli counterparts to help track Soleimani’s cellphone patterns. The Israelis, who had access to Soleimani's numbers, passed them off to the Americans, who traced Soleimani and his current phone to Baghdad."
Soon after Soleimani's car left the airport in Baghdad, two Hellfire missiles rained down, killing him, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias in Iraq and five others.
Yahoo also reported Saturday that prior to Soleimani's death, Israeli intelligence shared intelligence with the CIA about an Iranian who was leaving the country to pick up cell phones or Iranian leaders. U.S. intelligence was then able to plant bugged cell phones for the courier to buy, according to the report.
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Thanks, you beat me to it.
Assuming all the details are true, I can only think the only source of this leaked info to Yahoo was someone in the current administration likely authorized to do so. If there is no attempt to find the leaker then this theory has validity. Question is, why now? The world knows it was our drones. A logical reason would be to tarnish the Israelis and give the Iranians more reason to hate Israel as well as an excuse to retaliate. As a toofer, they gave up the intelligence method used rendering it likely ineffective from here on out. Yes, future success eliminated endangering national security for political gain or worst, to help an enemy.
Regards
This "report" has John Kerry written all over it.
Remember the “news” LIES!!!
Soleimani could have really been going against the Iranian regime who killed Americans.
DO NOT BELIEVE NOTHING THE SO CALLED “NEWS”, ETC. says.
We don’t know anything because of this.
It also announces to Iran that Israel can track the locations of its leaders through their mobile phones. Iran is now duly alerted of this capability and will take countermeasures.
This is an outrageous breach of security that damages our ability to track the operations of the Islamonazi regime of Iran.
But what else would you expect from Sock Puppet Joe? His government seethes with hatred of Israel, just like his old boss Obama. For them hatred of Israel, and revenge against President Trump, always come first.
If it’s true, good on Israel. But Kerry would view it as an accusation.
Yup, he’d say so, as he texted more intel to the Iranians.
How did Yahoo News get this info? No doubt leaked by the Israel haters in the Biden regime to stir up more trouble for Israel.
Only a fool would trust John Kerry or his shills.
‘Whistleblower’ calls out John Kerry, says he ‘knows for fact’ Obama admin sent multiple letters directly to Soleimani
1/10/2020, 12:46:46 PM · by GrandJediMasterYoda · 32 replies
bizpacreview.com ^ | 1/10/2020 | Frieda Powers
‘Whistleblower’ calls out John Kerry, says he ‘knows for fact’ Obama admin sent multiple letters directly to Soleimani Middle East expert Michael Doran slammed former Secretary of State John Kerry in a series of tweets exposing the Obama administration’s dealings with Iran. “I must become a whistleblower,” Doran, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute specializing in Middle East security issues, tweeted Friday in response to a self-serving opinion piece by Kerry published by The New York Times. Doran called out Kerry for his op-ed and the “ludicrous and reckless contention” that “diplomacy” with Iran and the nuclear deal negotiated...
Schumer and his ilk have been trying to get intel on the strike released since Soleimani bought the farm...
leaks
If the Obama admin was sending letters directly to Soleimani, I wonder if they were also phone calling Soleimani.
But that was ISIS, rather than Soleimani’s forces, who was mass raping women in Iraq.
This seems to be the Yahoo article referenced:
‘Conspiracy is hard’: Inside the Trump administration’s secret plan to kill Qassem Soleimani
Jack Murphy and Zach Dorfman
Sat, May 8, 2021, 4:00 AM·23 min read
In the six hours before Soleimani boarded his flight from Damascus, the Iranian general switched cellphones three times, according to a U.S. military official. In Tel Aviv, U.S. Joint Special Operations Command liaisons worked with their Israeli counterparts to help track Soleimani’s cellphone patterns. The Israelis, who had access to Soleimani’s numbers, passed them off to the Americans, who traced Soleimani and his current phone to Baghdad. (The Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., did not respond to a request for comment.)
Most likely, yes.
If they made a short documentary about this event, it should be entitled “The Drones Strike at Midnight”. It’s theme song will be a new Aerosmith record entitled “Drone On”.
For those of you whose young kids never had a book/cartoon by the title of “The Celery Stalks at Midnight”, my pun will be lost on you.
Soleimani was warned about what could happen to him if he had watched the movie “The Thing” and listened to the wise words of the reporter, “Watch the Skies”.
Sometimes shit happens to deserving bastards., but not enough times so far.
#3. Not “in minutes” but in seconds. Remember John Kerry is still part of the Biden/Harris/Obama Marxist regime, as is maoist Anita Dunn, Red Diaper babies Harris, Peter Buttigieg, and Malley. Also Brennan,Clapper and Comey are still out there. So is McCabe, Strzok, Yates, etc.
Call me paranoid but when you have this many traitors and fools, you have to be paranoid in order to survive.
I would suspect those scum sucking dirt bags are just the tip of the ice berg.
Sharing intelligence with the US is a good thing.
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