By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-29 18:37:56 | Updated at 2024-09-30 07:36:47
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Israel killed Hezbollah leader Nasrallah with 80 tons of bunker-buster bombs after spies spent years penetrating his entire network
NY Post ^ | 9/29/24 | Ronny Reyes
Posted on 09/29/2024 10:54:04 AM PDT by Libloather
The devastating airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was the result of a years-long operation by Israeli intelligence that penetrated the terror leader’s entire network — allowing him to be tracked to his underground command center in Beirut.
The Israeli military then used 80 tons of specially designed bunker-busting bombs to blast through the heavily fortified hideout on Friday and kill the slippery Nasrallah — who has survived multiple previous attempts to assassinate him.
Nasrallah’s death was exactly what Israel had been hoping for when it launched a bombing campaign that day, the Financial Times reports.
Unbeknownst to Nasrallah, Israeli intelligence was well aware of the movements of Hezbollah’s leadership following years of hacking and surveillance work on the Lebanese terror group — which is one of the largest and best armed militias in the world.
After failing to kill Nasrallah multiple times during the 2006 war, Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate (Aman) devoted itself to penetrating Hezbollah.
The Jewish state got its big break in 2012 when the militant group deployed its fighters to Syria to help ally President Bashar al-Assad quell an uprising.
Former Israeli intelligence officials and Lebanese politicians told the FT that the battle in Syria unearthed a trove of information from the otherwise secretive terror group, with Hezbollah constantly publishing information on its slain fighters that revealed their personal information.
“They went from being highly disciplined and purists to someone who [when defending Assad] let in a lot more people than they should have,” Yezid Sayigh, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center, told the outlet.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Science
KEYWORDS: beirut; bombs; bombsaway; hezbollah; israel; lebanon; nasrallah; network; spies; suckstobethem; syria; theybloweduprealgood; wellbye
This will teach ya to stay off your phone.
1 posted on 09/29/2024 10:54:04 AM PDT by Libloather
To: Libloather
And those spies did SUPERB WORK.
2 posted on 09/29/2024 10:58:06 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAXted)
To: Libloather
I hear that they gathered to watch Netanyahus UN speech which if true means the last thing they saw was Netanyahu.
3 posted on 09/29/2024 11:00:23 AM PDT by fso301
To: Libloather
A report today indicated the meeting of Nasrallah et al was held specifically because phones and other electronics were monitored.
4 posted on 09/29/2024 11:02:15 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
To: Libloather
It had to be human intelligence. Totally infiltrated by spies and ratted on by locals.
The plan, in hindsight, was pretty smart.
First they blew up their pagers and radios.
That forced them to meet face to face to communicate and plan. All Israel had to do was wait until the leadership was seen gathering. They knew exactly where and when. And they had the right bombs ready for that moment knowing it was going to be in an underground bunker.
5 posted on 09/29/2024 11:04:27 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
To: Libloather
Good. Now he is a shiite stain on bedrock.
6 posted on 09/29/2024 11:06:31 AM PDT by Salvavida
To: Libloather
The Israeli military then used 80 tons of specially designed bunker-busting bombs [...]
We can only hope that there was puh-lenty of "collateral damage" (i.e., deaths of other terrorists). None of this "surgical sh*t!"
BTW: "Nasrallah" is phonetically identical to "She shat," in Russian.
Regards,
7 posted on 09/29/2024 11:08:19 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: Libloather
Nice work by some very talented people.
Keep going ‘til it’s done.
“Never Again” starts now.
8 posted on 09/29/2024 11:09:33 AM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
To: Libloather
remember hezbollah terrorists
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9 posted on 09/29/2024 11:20:23 AM PDT by joshua c
To: Libloather
Israel does good intelligence work. Why do you think they didn’t have some better info before the Oct 7th attack?
10 posted on 09/29/2024 11:28:01 AM PDT by bluescape
To: Libloather
Nasrallah has now kicked the bucket
Saw a bomb and he just couldn't duck it
What he said as he bled
From the hole in his head
Was "This is the end? Well, just..."
Wait, I think I can hear an incoming bomb...
To: Libloather
12 posted on 09/29/2024 11:31:42 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
To: Libloather
13 posted on 09/29/2024 11:32:45 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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