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RE: The windows to take him out aren't always there

Posted on: January 10, 2020 at 10:26:20 CT
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Either way, the operation was successful. Mughniyeh (Hezbollah’s chief of staff) was located in Damascus and was placed for weeks under tight and highly complicated surveillance by the intelligence agencies across the Syrian capital, before the civil war era.



Until one morning, the time was right: Mughniyeh approached the car in which the bomb had been planted. The finger was on the activation button, but then it turned out that he wasn’t alone. He was seen leaning on a car, having a friendly chat with Qasem Soleimani.



The operation’s commanders wanted to seize the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. Soleimani had been involved in numerous activities against Israel and had been responsible for the death of many Jews and Israelis. “Let’s take them down together,” the intelligence official said.



But that morning, the finger remained by the button without activating it. The reason was that the CIA is officially forbidden to carry out assassinations. It was only after the 9/11 attacks that the agency’s legal advisors generated a complex solution—a sort of euphemism—that while assassinations are forbidden, “targeted killings” are permitted in areas where the US is engaged in battle.



This trick allowed the CIA to launch an intensive assassination campaign against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, Yemen and Iraq. Those days, however, the US had diplomatic relations with Syria, including an active embassy in Damascus until early 2012. In other words, Bashar Assad's country didn’t even come close to falling under the category of a “combat zone.”



For that reason, President Bush’s condition for the entire operation was complete certainty that Mughniyeh would be the only one to end his life. According to non-Israeli reports, the CIA and the Mossad conducted a series of experiments on the special bomb that was planted instead of the spare wheel of the Mitsubishi Pajero jeep, to ensure that only a person standing at a certain angle next to the vehicle would get killed. That morning, however, there were two people standing at that exact angle, and even hugging like old friends: Mughniyeh and Soleimani. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who was determined to keep his promise to Bush, ordered the Mossad to avoid taking any action. Soleimani survived. Mughniyeh was assassinated that same evening.

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I now understand why Israel didn't take out Soleimani - tigerinhogtown STL - 1/10 09:12:13
     Israel did take him out - raskolnikov MU - 1/10 09:41:16
          you're an idiot (nm) - ashtray UF - 1/10 09:54:07
               But he elects to continue confirming that with darned near - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 1/10 09:55:21
                    Avoid substance at all cost 4Tigs, just hurl insults(nm) - raskolnikov MU - 1/10 10:02:13
                         You have still not provided substance either time - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 1/10 10:14:55
                         That's the same exact thing you did on your post. - RHAYWORTH MU - 1/10 10:03:47
                              He's a hoot - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 1/10 10:06:04
                         I asked you for substance below - let's see how you do - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 1/10 10:03:27
          Little early to be smoking that much crack Ras. - RHAYWORTH MU - 1/10 09:46:38
     It appears the reason they didn't is because - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 1/10 09:16:43
          and the one before that(nm) - tigerinhogtown STL - 1/10 10:26:53
          It's been 3 years - JayHoaxH8r MU - 1/10 09:17:35
               The windows to take him out aren't always there - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 1/10 09:20:18
                    RE: The windows to take him out aren't always there - tigerinhogtown STL - 1/10 10:26:20
     There’s a reason Don Corleone had Lucca Brasi - El-ahrairah BAMA - 1/10 09:13:56




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