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Hezbollah commander lured out of hiding with phone call moments before deadly airstrike: report
New York Post ^ | August 18, 2024 | Ronny Reyes

Posted on 08/19/2024 7:59:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

Israel lured out an elusive Hezbollah commander with a mysterious phone call moments before launching the deadly airstrike that would kill him...

Fuad Shukr, who had evaded even the US for four decades, was killed on July 30 when he received a phone call in the southern Beirut neighborhood of Dahiyeh, a Hezbollah official told the Wall Street Journal.

The evening call instructed the Hezbollah commander to go up to the seventh floor of his building, with an Israeli missile slamming into the complex around 7 p.m., killing him and his family and injuring 70 others, according to Lebanon’s health ministry...

Officials in the terror group believe the call came from someone who had breached its internal communications network, exposing failures in Hezbollah’s intelligence network that compromised one of its most senior and elusive leaders.

Shukr was one of Hezbollah’s key founders and a trusted ally of chief Hassan Nasrallah, both of whom backed the terror group’s ongoing attacks on Israel since Oct. 8...

Despite his high-ranking position, the commander had remained out of the public spotlight since the 1983 Beirut bombings, where militants detonated two truck bombs at military barracks in the city, killing 241 American servicemen...

“He was like a ghost,” one neighbor told the Journal of Shukr, whom he never spotted in the complex...

The IDF had targeted Shukr after he allegedly greenlit the rocket attack against the Israel-controlled Golan Heights that killed 12 young people and left 40 other civilians injured.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Hezbollah; Iran; Israel; Lebanon
KEYWORDS: beirut; dahiyeh; fuadshukr; hezbollah; iran; israel; lebanon; putinista

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Good riddance.

1 posted on 08/19/2024 7:59:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

He heard there were sexy ewes in his area looking to meet up.


2 posted on 08/19/2024 8:00:46 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/how-israel-killed-a-ghost-73e6db68


3 posted on 08/19/2024 8:02:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

[Answers phone] “You don’t say.” “You don’t say.” “You don’t say.” [hangs up] “Who was it?” “He didn’t say.” [Spike Jones, “Chloe”]


4 posted on 08/19/2024 8:02:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: MeanWestTexan

He was distracted, playing “Oxcart 700” on his phone.


5 posted on 08/19/2024 8:03:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The Hezbollahy commander is hiding behind one of these bushes. Let's call him.

6 posted on 08/19/2024 8:04:14 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

:^)


7 posted on 08/19/2024 8:04:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Your Home Owner’s Warranty is about to expire................


8 posted on 08/19/2024 8:06:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: SunkenCiv
“He was like a ghost,” one neighbor told the Journal of Shukr,

He's definitely one now!

9 posted on 08/19/2024 8:08:51 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Fuad Shukr, who had evaded even the US for four decades

Well, if the CIA is run like the Secret Service and FBI, no wonder we can't catch bad guys.

10 posted on 08/19/2024 8:08:58 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SunkenCiv

11 posted on 08/19/2024 8:09:39 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: SunkenCiv
Israel lured out an elusive Hezbollah commander with a mysterious phone call moments before launching the deadly airstrike that would kill him...


12 posted on 08/19/2024 8:10:26 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: SunkenCiv

“Candygram”


13 posted on 08/19/2024 8:10:51 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Zathras

Like a mouse trap-lol. Glad they’re on our side.


14 posted on 08/19/2024 8:13:13 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: SunkenCiv

You’re being hunted by the IDF, you’ve been on the run for years, you hide among women and children and believe you’re safe…then the phone rings. Oh yea, these guys are smart, like Fredo smart. Bye bye idiot.


15 posted on 08/19/2024 8:14:11 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

[ring ring] “Hello?” “Trick or treat.” [kaboom!]


16 posted on 08/19/2024 8:17:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: Red Badger

“...and we’re not covering any air-to-ground missile damage.”


17 posted on 08/19/2024 8:17:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: The Louiswu

He was lulled into a false sense of security, which is more likely among devotees to a death-based religion.


18 posted on 08/19/2024 8:18:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: SunkenCiv
“...and we’re not covering any air-to-ground missile damage.”

Yep, the American Middle class taxpayers will cover that, and everything else like your student loans and funding a war with Russia and rebuilding Ukraine.

19 posted on 08/19/2024 8:19:12 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SunkenCiv

[ring ring] “Hello?” “Land shark.” [kaboom!] Is making the rounds here.


20 posted on 08/19/2024 8:19:54 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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