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.
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Sometime around 1983 here was CIA agent in Beirut who looked and acted like a typical American, and drove a taxi as a cover, and made no secret about his nationality. He claimed to locals he liked living in Beirut, which was plausible in 1983 when it still had a number of Christians and remnants of French culture. It is amazing how much intelligence a cab driver can pick up if his ears are open.
Even today, there are a number of exiled Lebanese Christians living in the U.S. and Israel who would make great agents.
Barbaric - inexcusable.
[Answers phone] “You don’t say.” “You don’t say.” “You don’t say.” [hangs up] “Who was it?” “Same guy!” [Spike Jones, “Chloe”, later in the song]
Duck, You Sucker!
“ Well, if the CIA is run like the Secret Service and FBI, no wonder we can’t catch bad guys.”
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Well at least it has a diverse workforce now so give them some credit. /sarc
I wonder how many completely innocent staff who worked at their ‘secret’ facility have been tortured and executed because they had access to that specific area where the bomb exploded? They’ve likely had people who didn’t have a clue, admitting after hours of torture to being the perp, just to save their family. And the Iranian’s likely killed their families anyway.
The good news... They are likely under the illusion that they got the person responsible, when the true infiltrator is sitting back and laughing at them.
“GRANDPA, I AM IN JAIL & I NEED BAIL”
BURG.
72 virgin goats. Ready to be milked. Foaud is ready
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW??/s
Damned telemarketers, always bothering me right at supper time.
I look forward to US being on their side again.
Israel often manages to put cellphones to their best use use. In 1996 they killed Hamas’ chief bomb maker, Yahya Ayyash, with a cellphone loaded with 15 grams of RDX.
My grandson calls me and says that, I say, “You got yourself in there you get yourself outta there!”.............
INCREDIBLE - He was killed by Israel 3 DAYS after his terrorist attack. Israel must have had this plan ready for a long time. Gotta scare the crap out of other leaders.
HELLO???
Yes this is Achmed the terrorist.
WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?? NO I DONT FANTASIZE ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON!!!!!!
WHAT THIS IS ABDUL IN ACCOUNTING CALLING FROM THE 7th FLOOR?
I VILL COME UP THERE AND KILL YOU!!!!!
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