The Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth published details regarding the assassination of leading Hizbullah military leader Imad Mughniyeh, explaining that the hands that placed the deadly blow up charge at Mughniyeh's vehicle to the right of the driver's headrest were solely Israeli.
Cheez, the people at the Israeli newspaper are as bad as the New York Times. Keep yer bloomin' mouths shut, ya morons ...
The paper said that operational planning for Mughniyeh's assassination commenced with the arrest of Ali Moussa Daqdouq a Hizbullah 'foreign operations' official by Israeli security close to Karbala, Iraq in January 2007. The Israelis interrogated Daqdouq and later delivered him to U.S. Central Intelligence Agents, which also questioned him regarding Mughniyeh, according to the Israeli daily.
The paper said that Mughniyeh was assassinated because he committed one mistake more than required. The fact that it was common knowledge that he would be visiting Iran's new ambassador to Damascus Hujat al-Islam Mossawi, on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the Islamic revolution on February 12.
The paper added that the Israeli assassination team sneaked into Syria from Iraqi-Kurdistan in three vehicles and monitored Mughniyeh the night before his assassination.
According to Yedioth Ahronoth, the Israeli team reached Mughniyeh's Mitsubishi Pajero and exchanged the headrest with another loaded with explosives. The Israeli team did not use a time bomb because they feared unforeseen sudden changes. Once Mughniyeh was seen seated next to the driver, the headrest blew up by remote control, the paper said.
Yedioth Ahronoth added that Israel fears Hizbullah and Iran would take revenge for Mughniyeh's killing. The first anniversary of the assassination is soon approaching on February 12.
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Y'know, this sounds an awfully lot like wishful thinking on the part of the Israeli newspaper. There are far too many loooonnngg strings hanging out of this narative that don't seem to be reasonable. Begin with the "commenced with the arrest of Ali Moussa Daqdouq a Hizbullah 'foreign operations' official by Israeli security close to Karbala, Iraq in January 2007." I can't see a bunch of Israelis running around the countryside in Iraq, even if they ARE Mossad agents. Secondly, IIRC, Iraqi Kurdistan doesn't have a common border with Syria - Anbar Province does. Frankly, I think the whole thing is a sun-dream. I'm sure the Mossad had a hand in his killing, but I don't believe this fairy-tale.
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Russia plans to begin operating the nuclear reactor it has been building for Iran before the end of 2009, the Interfax News Agency quoted a top official as saying on Thursday. "If there are no unforeseen events... then the launch will go according to the timetable," Sergei Kiriyenko, chief of Russia's state nuclear corporation, Rosatom, was quoted as saying. "The launch is scheduled for this year."
A Rosatom spokesman said Kiriyenko was talking about the so-called "technical" start-up, which would be the first time the reactor is fully switched on, to test its systems before electricity is supplied to the grid.
Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor project has encountered delays in the past, mainly on the grounds of payment disputes between the Islamic Republic and Moscow.
Russia has already delivered nuclear fuel to Bushehr under a $1 billion contract to build the plant on the Gulf coast in southwest Iran.
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ION RUSSIA, WAFF > RUSSIA'S ARMY CAN'T WIN A FULL-SCALE CONVENTIONAL WAR AGZ POLAND OR TURKEY [Polish Analysis as per Russo-Georgian War = Russ Armed Forces'internal, combat opers SNAFUS? FUBARS?]; + OVER 1/3 OF RUSSIAN FIGHTER JETS ARE OLD OR UNSAFE [YAHOO NEWS vee KOMMERSANT Report].
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ION RUSSIA, TOPIX > ALEXANDER DUGIN: RUSSIA SHOULD CONSIDER WAR TO HEAD OFF NABUCCO PIPELINE PROJECT [War to stop efforts to stop or limit foreign = EUrozone, etc. dependency on Russ energy]???
Also on TOPIX > ANTI-ISRAELISM: IS TURKEY THE NEXT VENEZUELA?
Iran's president says world powers should learn how to speak the language of logic and to drop the language of threat and enticement. That makes sense. I guess. Continued on Page 47
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ISRAELI MILITARY FORUM > WSJ: GERMANY PROVIDING MASSIVE ASSISTANCE TO IRAN FOR A [nuclear] BOMB, and to a lessor extent AUSTRIA???
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