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| Debka: Argentina nabs Iranian-Hizballah cell, aborts attack | |
| 2012-01-29 | |
| Argentina has captured a three-man Iranian-Hizballah cell and is hunting for the rest of the network, according to exclusive DEBKAfile sources. Its counter-terror police were a step ahead of attacks plotted against several of the 10 Habad centers in the country, part of a worldwide joint terrorist offensive against Israeli and Jewish targets. Two strikes were thwarted earlier this month in Thailand and Azerbaijan. The three-man cell was captured in the Argentine resort town of San Carlos de Bariloche, 1,680 kilometers from Buenos Aires, a favorite starting-point for Israeli backpackers touring Patagonia and the Andes. The town is situated on the banks of Lake Naheil Huapi, a major tourist attraction of the Rio Negro district which is famous for its beauty. Argentina's anti-terrorist Federal Special Operations Group, known as T4, waylaid the three faceless myrmidons on tips from US and Israeli intelligence. In their possession were incriminating documents and maps.
A Hizballah cell backed by intelligence from Tehran and external Iranian terror cells in Turkey, Bulgaria, Georgia and Armenia, was captured in Baku on Jan. 19 by Azerbaijan's National Security Ministry (MNS) officers as it was about to launch a series of attacks on the Israeli embassy, Â Chief Rabbi Shneor Segal and Rabbi Mati Lewis at the Habad center and visiting Israel personages. DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources disclose that two of the Hizballah cell members live permanently in Baku. The third, who resides in Tehran, was recruited by Iranian intelligence to lead the Hizballah operation, which was the first joint Iranian-Hizballah terrorist attack ever discovered. In its sights too were the former Israeli chief of staff Gaby Ashkenazi who was due to visit to the Azerbaijan capital and several local high officials who work with the United States and Israel. They were suspected by Tehran of helping the US and Israel set up an attack on Iran from Azerbaijan. The two Habad figures are Israeli-born heads of the Jewish community in Baku and the Ohr Avner Chabad Jewish Day School. The cell was rounded up just weeks after a Hizballah terrorist strike against the local Habad center was preempted in Bangkok, thanks to Thai-Israeli counter-terror cooperation. There, Hizballah had intended to take hostages and blow up the Habad headquarters, aping al Qaeda's 2009 outrage in Mumbai. Our sources can identify the Hizballah terror cell's Baku chief as an Iranian Azeri by the name of Balaqardash Dadashov and the two local operatives as Rasim Aliyev and Ali Huseynov. Found in their possession were guns and explosives said to have been delivered to them by smugglers from Iran, although DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources say they entered Azerbaijan from Armenia. The operation leader Balaqardash arrived from Tehran with a file full of photos of the targeted Israeli figures, plans of the buildings to be attacked, and maps as well as $9,300 to cover the costs of the preparations. Each of the snuffies was promised a fee of $150,000. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 ION NOT IRAN-HIZBALLAH, WORLD NEWS >SENIOR UK MILITRAY OFFICAL SAYS BRITAIN FACES "IMPOSSIBLE" BATTLE IFF ARGENTINA [successfully] INVADES FALKLANDS [again]. > No Harriers. > No heavy = fixed-wing Aircraft Carriers [STOBAR] - Helo Carriers potency not enuff. > Army at smallest size since Napoleonic era. Despite much-improved island defenses since the 1980's conflict, UK is screwed big time iff the Argies ever break through, UK may not even be able to recover the Falklands iff-n-when they are ever lost??? [ONCE AGAIN, HUGO "THE US HAS EARTHQUAKE BOMBS" CHAVEZ here]. Falklands for UK = [future]GUAM-MICRONESIA, OTHER PACIFIC ISLES for USA??? * SAME > [Belfast Telegraph] > SPLIT FALKLANDS TO RPEVENT ANY MORE CONFLICT. Ditto the ditto. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-01-29 21:43 |
| #4 No Debka salt? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-01-29 17:00 |
| #3 I think Iran might have made a tactical boo-boo by announcing that it was sending teams to attack Israeli and US targets around the world. That is, there are only a limited number of ways of getting from there to here. Also, as is common practice, intelligence agencies pay premium dollars for personnel rosters of such organizations as al-Quds. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-01-29 16:37 |
| #2 Busy little captured terrorists, Frank. The Thais must've got a cell phone from the one they captured...or Mossad and/or the CIA was/were already tracking them via the Labanese phone system. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-01-29 14:43 |
| #1 busy little terrorists, aren't they? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-01-29 09:53 |