Posted on 08/01/2024 3:25:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sometimes you have to go with your gut instincts, and I wish I'd stuck with mine yesterday.
Wednesday morning it was my happy duty to report on the assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Iran, the night before. "My first thought was that a Mossad assassination team had snuck in, done some dirty work that needed doing, and then snuck back out," is what my gut assured me had happened. But then reports came in that Haniyeh had been killed in a precision airstrike. But no.
"Never trust first reports." I'm going to write that on a blackboard 100 times later today — and not for the first time, either.
If you weren't familiar with Haniyeh or missed yesterday's column, he was usually presented as the "moderate" face of Hamas because our press seems to be largely made up of willing dupes and terrorist sympathizers. They would never put it that way, of course. In their minds, they're just on the side of "the oppressed." In Haniyeh's case, he was oppressed to the tune of an estimated three billion dollars he'd skimmed off of Western relief funds for the Arabs of Gaza.
Haniyeh has been on the State Department's Specially Designated Global Terrorists list since 2018 for his "close links with Hamas’ military wing" and for his support of "armed struggle, including against civilians." The State Department report also said, "He has reportedly been involved in terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens." Even the International Criminal Court, often useless in the extreme, sought an arrest warrant for Haniyeh earlier this year for "war crimes and crimes against humanity including murder, rape, torture and taking hostages," involving the Hamas Oct. 7 terror invasion of Israel.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Haniyeh had been staying at a "heavily guarded complex" in Tehran, according to the New York Times — an official state guesthouse "run and protected by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps." Nevertheless, Israel was able to
* Ascertain which room Haniyeh used during his stays there.
* Slip a remote-detonated bomb under his mattress.
* Ascertain when Haniyeh was back in Tehran.
* Make bomb go boom while Haniyeh slept.
This is all according to local sources who spoke to the Times with the usual protection of anonymity.
Must be a mole in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Obviously, he hates the ruling Mullahs. Or else why would he work with the Mossad?
Money is often the reason—boring but true.
Sloppy housekeeping.
Money, blackmail and revenge are the usual motives.
Sounds like his “bodyguard” was in the bed with him. Goats, too?
Dude, no smoking in the room, OK?
Indeed.
They don’t want to say an Israeli F35 flew over Tehran.
I guessed it was a special ops team when I first heard the news. The reports were it was a drone strike. Bomb between the sheets is a lot more stealthy and requires ground support eg spies. Probably some locals involved too.
What I dont get is the bomb was supposedly there since June, first of all how do they know that..did the bomb say “Made in June” and secondly, Haniyeh has been there numerous times, why wait til now to off him..and yes Israel does have moles in Iran, but putting it there in June seems weird
The Israelis back fit some of their F-35’s with side mounted waist fuel tanks neatly tucked into the flanks of the plane bodies, Gives them heckuva more range. I’m going with a hellfire in the sheets——addressed to a room number.
Anytime would be weird. July would be weird, May would be weird. A bomb in a matress is weird.
I figure that Israel has eyes on a lot of these bad guys 24/7. Which is why the headlines are always something like “Following the terrorist strike yesterday, leader Mohamud Abdul was killed in a targeted strike as he...”
So yeah - wonder why this assassination was now.
and also how do they know the bomb was planted in June
Stephen Green is lying. He has no clue, one way or the other. C’mon Stephy, cite your ‘exactly’ sources.
There had to be moles and people helping. The delay was to make time so when they did the deed it would be harder to trace back to the ones who helped.
The last thing he saw in this world was his ass whizzing by him.
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