CIA, Israel's Mossad Killed Senior Hezbollah Commander

[Adiosamigo]

Lebanon's Hezbollah members carry the coffin of Jihad Moughniyah during his funeral in Beirut's suburbs January 19, 2015.


A leading U.S. newspaper says the spy agencies of the United States and Israel worked together in February, 2008 to kill a senior Hezbollah commander in Damascus.

A report in The Washington Post, citing unidentified former intelligence officials, said the Central Intelligence Agency and Mossad collaborated their efforts in tracking down and killing Imad Mughniyah, Hezbollah's international operations chief.

The story, posted on the newspaper's website late Friday, said Mughniyah was killed instantly by a bomb blast as he approached his car. The report said the bomb was planted on the car's back tire.

The report said the blast was "triggered remotely" from Tel Aviv by Mossad agents who were in communication with CIA spotters tracking Mughniyah's movements.

A former U.S. intelligence official said "the way it was set up, the U.S. could object and call it off, but it could not execute."

The Washington Post said "the extraordinarily close cooperation" between the U.S. and Israeli intelligence services was indicative of "the importance of the target" who was suspected of being the mastermind behind the abduction of Western hostages in Lebanon in the 1980s and the 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy in Argentina that killed 20 people.

Imad Fayez Mughniyah

The newspaper said, at the time of Mughniyah's death, he had been implicated in a string of killings of hundreds of Americans, including eight CIA officers.

A former intelligence official said getting permission to kill Mughniyah was a"rigorous and tedious" process that required showing that the commander was "a continuing threat to Americans."

The authority to kill Mughniyah, The Post said, in a country where the U.S. was not at war, required the signatures of then-President George W. Bush, the attorney general, the director of national intelligence, the national security adviser and the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department.

The newspaper said the U.S. has never acknowledged its participation in the killing of Mughniyah, which Hezbollah blamed on Israel.

The Washington Post said the operation in Damascus indicated a "philosophical evolution" in the American intelligence services following the September 11, 2001 terrorists attacks in the United States. The newspaper said before the attacks, the U.S. held a "dim view" of Israeli assassination operations.

Source:voanews

 

[Adiosamigo]

Tukiwambia wale wanao msifu Israel hao jamaa zenu hawawezi kufanya kitu bila msada wa USA. Sa ngojea na USA atakipata nayeye, mana Hezbollah sio mchezo.

 

[Echolima]

Lame excuses

Tukiwambia wale wanao msifu Israel hao jamaa zenu hawawezi kufanya kitu bila msada wa USA. Sa ngojea na USA atakipata nayeye, mana Hezbollah sio mchezo.

 

[meningitis]

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[Adiosamigo]

Lame excuses

Ahh rafiki yangu mwanajeshi mstafu, sio mimi nilio sema hayo ni CIA au we huoni gazeti la USA linasema nini.

 

[Sexer]

Ahh rafiki yangu mwanajeshi mstafu, sio mimi nilio sema hayo ni CIA au we huoni gazeti la USA linasema nini.

Hizo ni propaganda za west

 

[incharge]

Hawa israel hawana ubavu hata chembe maneno matupu tangu watandikwe na hezbollah 2006, hadi leo wanawaogopa sana hezbollah ndio maana hata juzi netanyahu kapiga biti lakini kagoma kupambana nao

 

[Extraterrestrial]

CIA Tested 25 Bombs before helping Mossad Kill Top Hezbollah Figure: Report

The US helped Mossad assassinate a top Hezbollah figure in Syria in 2008 by lending bomb expertise and surveillance on the ground, Washington Post reported. The joint operation marked CIA’s post-9/11 drift toward modern-day drone killings.

The death of Imad Mughniyah on February 2008 was initially pinned on the Israelis. Hezbollah’s international operations chief, he was suspected of having a hand in many terrorist attacks, including the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy and the 1994 attack on a Jewish community center, both in Argentina.

The suspicion that the CIA may have been involved in the assassination arose on several occasions. But now the newspaper Washington Post reports that this indeed was the case, citing five former US intelligence officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The US was instrumental in killing Mughniyah, who was among other things suspected of planning the 1983 bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut, the newspaper said. The CIA provided the bomb, which was planted in a spare tire on the Hezbollah official’s car. An American spotter team in Damascus tracked him down and gave a signal to Mossad agents in Tel Aviv that they could remotely trigger the explosive device.

“The way it was set up, the US could object and call it off, but it could not execute,” a former US official told the Post.

The bomb itself was reportedly built by Americans after a series of testing at a CIA facility in North Carolina. The charge was shaped to ensure that no collateral damage would happen – a pledge that the agency allegedly made to US lawmakers during a secret briefing in the lead-up to the operation.

“We probably blew up 25 bombs to make sure we got it right,” the former official said.

The newspaper calls the killing of Mughniyah the most high-risk action by US intelligence in recent years, after the assassination of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011. It also marked a significant shift in how America targeted its enemies triggered by the September 2001 terrorist attacks.

The Bush administration secured approval from the attorney general, the director of national intelligence, the national security adviser and the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department to carry out the operation, one former official said. Getting them to sign off on it required a legal justification, which was that Mughniyah “was a continuing threat to Americans” due to his organizing of attacks against American troops by Iraqi militias.

“The decision was we had to have absolute confirmation that it was self-defense,” the official told The Post.

The assertion apparently was enough to override a Reagan-era prohibition on US intelligence agencies carrying out assassinations established by Executive Order 12333 and to team up with the Israelis to kill Mughniyah in the Syrian capital, far from any battlefield. The same reasoning was later used by Bush and Obama administrations to deliver hundreds of drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen and even kill American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki without a trial in 2011.

The Post says that the US determination to kill Mughniyah was voiced to Israelis as early as in 2002. At a secret meeting with the chief of Israeli military intelligence service senior officials from US military’s elite Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) suggested to discuss such an operation.

“When we said we would be willing to explore opportunities to target him, they practically fell out of their chairs,” a former US official described the reaction of the Israelis to the suggestion.

JSOC envisioned a commando raid rather than a clandestine bombing attack and wanted Israeli support for evacuation.

Eventually the mission to kill Mughniyah became a long term CIA-Mossad effort with at least a year spent on studying the target’s habits to establish a plan for the attack. At one moment the team reportedly had a chance to kill both him and Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds Force, when they met in Damascus, but the Bush administration didn’t give the agents the authority to kill the Iranian.

After the news of Mughniyah’s death broke, the US hailed it.

“The world is a better place without this man in it. He was a coldblooded killer, a mass murderer and a terrorist responsible for countless innocent lives lost,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said at the time.

 

[Adiosamigo]

Kumbe umekuja kidini!! Tafuta mdini mwenzio mbishane sio mimi sawa?! Say yes sir

Sa we kinacho kufanya ubishe ukweli ni kitu gani kama sio udini wako.

Poleni sana taifa la mungu wa wakikristo linazidi kuwa masikini, umesikia kule Israel. Hata vitanda vya Hospitali sa tabu, yani watu wanalazwa kama vile Muhibili, inabidi watumie kitanda kimoja watu wawili sasa hahaha.

 

[Sexer]

Sa we kinacho kufanya ubishe ukweli ni kitu gani kama sio udini wako.

Poleni sana taifa la mungu wa wakikristo linazidi kuwa masikini, umesikia kule Israel. Hata vitanda vya Hospitali sa tabu, yani watu wanalazwa kama vile Muhibili, inabidi watumie kitanda kimoja watu wawili sasa hahaha.

Eti ukweli! Haohao wa magharibi wikisema jambo linakutoka povu " propaganda za west" afu watu walewale wakisema jambo tena povu linakutoka "ukweli" teh! teh! Udini ni sawa na upofu

 

[Adiosamigo]

Eti ukweli! Haohao wa magharibi wikisema jambo linakutoka povu " propaganda za west" afu watu walewale wakisema jambo tena povu linakutoka "ukweli" teh! teh! Udini ni sawa na upofu

Kuna tofouti sana dogo hapo, hao western hawasemi ya uwongo kuhusu Israel, wao wanasema uwongo kwa warabu tu. Kwani ni nani anaye msaidia Israel sio hao hao, lazima ufahamu dogo; Ukizidi kuchukua misaada ya bure bure, lazima wakusimange tu siku moj, kama wanakusaidia.

 

[Nando]

Tukiwambia wale wanao msifu Israel hao jamaa zenu hawawezi kufanya kitu bila msada wa USA. Sa ngojea na USA atakipata nayeye, mana Hezbollah sio mchezo.

U know nothing about israel+jews.

 

[Sexer]

Kuna tofouti sana dogo hapo, hao western hawasemi ya uwongo kuhusu Israel, wao wanasema uwongo kwa warabu tu. Kwani ni nani anaye msaidia Israel sio hao hao, lazima ufahamu dogo; Ukizidi kuchukua misaada ya bure bure, lazima wakusimange tu siku moj, kama wanakusaidia.

Watu walewale wakisema ya waarab negatively ni uongo, walewale wakisema ya waarab positively ni ukweli, walewale wakisema ya israel positively ni uongo, walewale wakisema ya israel negatively ni ukweli hahahaha! Ama kweli udini ni sawa utoto kama sio upofu

 

[Adiosamigo]

U know nothing about israel+jews.

The Israelis "stupid and dumb''.

 

[Adiosamigo]

Watu walewale wakisema ya waarab negatively ni uongo, walewale wakisema ya waarab positively ni ukweli, walewale wakisema ya israel positively ni uongo, walewale wakisema ya israel negatively ni ukweli hahahaha! Ama kweli udini ni sawa utoto kama sio upofu

We nieleze wapi Israel anaweza kufanya kitu bila msaada wa USA.

 

[Yusomwasha]

ixraEl c taifa la mungu na wala halina uhusian wowot na mung maSonic natiOn

 

[Kyenju]

Sa we kinacho kufanya ubishe ukweli ni kitu gani kama sio udini wako.

Poleni sana taifa la mungu wa wakikristo linazidi kuwa masikini, umesikia kule Israel. Hata vitanda vya Hospitali sa tabu, yani watu wanalazwa kama vile Muhibili, inabidi watumie kitanda kimoja watu wawili sasa hahaha.

Inashangaza kuona mleta mada hata hujui mada uliyoileta inaongelea nini.

 

[Adiosamigo]

Inashangaza kuona mleta mada hata hujui mada uliyoileta inaongelea nini.

dogo kelele za kichaa huwa hazinsumbui.

 

[Sexer]

Inashangaza kuona mleta mada hata hujui mada uliyoileta inaongelea nini.

Udini umempofusha

 

[Sexer]

We nieleze wapi Israel anaweza kufanya kitu bila msaada wa USA.

We umejuaje anasaidiwa?!