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Former CIA Director Leon Panetta Calls Israel’s Pager Explosion Operation ‘Terrorism’
Mediaite ^ | SEP 22, 2024 | PHILLIP NIETO

Posted on 09/29/2024 7:08:20 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo

Former CIA Director Leon Panetta referred to Israel’s pager operation as “terrorism” during a recent interview with CBS News.

In Lebanon last week, mass explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies belonging to members of the Iran-back Shiite group Hezbollah. The attack has been widely attributed to Israel’s intelligence organization Mossad, leading to the deaths of dozens of people and wounding thousands.

During an interview with CBS News Sunday Morning, Panetta told anchor Lee Cowan that the action’s by Israel are “a form of terrorism.” Panetta then added that the actions by Israel could lead to more deadly operations going forward in the war.

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To: Mr. Mojo

Panetta would rather carpet bomb innocent civilians than actually target the most guilty of terrorism. Alter all, if the Israelis just surrendered, and did not oppose the murderous cowardly terrorists nothing bad would happen to them.


21 posted on 09/29/2024 7:59:39 PM PDT by Thistledew (Prepare, for a future without Biden?)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Hezbollah got terrorized? Good. Maybe they’ll learn something. Nah, who am I kidding?


22 posted on 09/29/2024 8:01:12 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: rdcbn1

See our Founding Fathers and the American Revolution for reference. We were terrorists to the British in England.


23 posted on 09/29/2024 8:02:25 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Mr. Mojo

Hey Leon, Fuck You....


24 posted on 09/29/2024 8:04:40 PM PDT by The Sentient Sheep
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To: FlingWingFlyer

doesn’t know his keister from a whole in the ground. He’s got no credibility.... Typical Dimrat politician.


25 posted on 09/29/2024 8:06:11 PM PDT by Texas resident (Que Mala= Bad Juju.)
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To: Parley Baer

👍👍👍👍👍


26 posted on 09/29/2024 8:19:08 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

You are correct sir, he couldn’t find his a$$ with both hands.


27 posted on 09/29/2024 8:20:54 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: Mr. Mojo
Former CIA Director Leon Panetta referred to Israel’s pager operation as “terrorism” during a recent interview with CBS News.

Panetta is and always was a POS. Gets it wrong every time, like many Democrat politicians.

Terrorism is Hezbollah firing thousands of rockets indiscriminately into Israel since October 7th, towards civilian housing. And Panetta says nothing. So what can Israel do about it? They pinpoint the Hezbollah leadership for retaliation. That is not terrorism, that is Israel preventing ongoing terrorism against Israeli civilians. What a piece of crap he is.

28 posted on 09/29/2024 8:24:15 PM PDT by roadcat ( )
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To: Salman

He is a liar and a cheater.


29 posted on 09/29/2024 8:39:28 PM PDT by abbastanza (Oh boy. Can’t wait. Go nuts kids)
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To: kiryandil

Leon is in the room and among the worst of the worst human beings on earth.


30 posted on 09/29/2024 8:42:04 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you"e)
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To: Mr. Mojo

It’s time to retire the terms “terrorist” and “terrorism”.

War is war. Using terms like “terrorist” leads to confusion - like keeping KSM alive for 23 years after 9/11.

Soldiers inside our lines and out of uniform get shot. “Terrorism” is just another name for a state of war.


31 posted on 09/29/2024 8:50:54 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Leon Panetta, one of many reasons why we lost the war on terror...


32 posted on 09/29/2024 10:11:14 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Mr. Mojo

The Israelis killed one of the leading terrorists who, along with Imad Mugniyeh, murdered 241 US Marines and a similar number of French soldiers. Leon Panetta should be ashamed that it took this long to take that terrorist out, and that some IsraelI intelligence chief had to do the job Panetta and others before him should have done years ago.


33 posted on 09/29/2024 10:14:57 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Mr. Mojo

I challenge anyone to give me an example of a more precise and surgical operation to disable enemy combatant terrorists and their communication system without unduly risking noncombatant casualties.


34 posted on 09/29/2024 10:33:22 PM PDT by csn vinnie
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To: Mr. Mojo

Wake me when pannetta’s pager explodes...


35 posted on 09/29/2024 11:11:00 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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you’re just crying about it because you didn’t think of it first.

Now STFU you Demonratcommieblmantifaterrorscumfeminazipedophilegoatraper !!!


36 posted on 09/29/2024 11:14:55 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Okay, Leon, your big mouth got ahead of your little brain and you’ve outed yourself from out of the secret “Jews are supposed to be murdered without defending themselves” Nazi closet now.

(The Hezballah has fired over 3000 bombs at Israeli villages and homes and schools just since October 7, forcing between 80,000 and 100,000 innocent people out of their homes...)


37 posted on 09/29/2024 11:38:25 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: 4Runner

“Leon Panetta should just stick to making bread.”

Ha! I see what you did there. Small loaves would be his specialty, I suppose


38 posted on 09/29/2024 11:52:52 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: Mr. Mojo

The CIA is hardly in a position to criticize anyone for targeted assassinations.


39 posted on 09/30/2024 12:02:13 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: faithhopecharity
(The Hezballah has fired over 3000 bombs at Israeli villages and homes and schools just since October 7, forcing between 80,000 and 100,000 innocent people out of their homes...)

Kind of what our government is doing to us using illegals instead.

War is war no matter what the weapon being used is.

The o=sooner we realize that the better.

40 posted on 09/30/2024 12:06:45 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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