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| Iran's Mohsen Fakhrizadeh killed by 62-person hit squad, reports say |
| 2020-11-29 |
| When you want it done right, do it overwhelmingly [NY Post] The assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was carried out by a highly trained hit squad of 62 people — pouncing in six vehicles after the local power supply was cut, according to local reports. The killers — who Iranian officials have insisted were sent by Israel — included a team of 50 giving "logistical support" to the dirty dozen who carried out the actual ambush Friday, sources told leading Iranian journalist Mohamad Ahwaze. All involved had "entered special training courses, as well as security and intelligence services abroad," Ahwaze tweeted, as translated by ELINT News. "The team knew exactly the date and course of the movement of the Fakhrizadeh protection convoy in the smallest details," Ahwaze’s sources told him, allowing them to cut the scientist off as he went to his private villa in Absard. Shortly before Fakhrizadeh drove through their ambush site, the team "cut off the electricity completely from this area" to slow reports of their assassination and any calls for help, the reporter said. Fakhrizadeh was traveling in the middle of three bulletproof cars, with the killers striking after the first car entered a roundabout, the report said. see also Iran’s supreme leader vows revenge over slain scientist A booby-trapped Nissan was then detonated to block the car behind Fakhrizadeh — as 12 gunmen pounced on him, arriving in a Hyundai Santa Fe and four motorbikes, Ahwaze tweeted. "After the car bomb was detonated, 12 operatives opened fire towards Fakhrizadeh’s car and the first protection vehicle," his thread said. "According to Iranian leaks, the leader of the assassination team took Fakhrizadeh out of his car and shot him and made sure he was killed." None of the hit squad were wounded or arrested during the gunbattle with the Iranian’s bodyguards, Ahwaze said. Friday’s hit has dramatically escalated tensions between Iran and Israel, which was quickly accused of ordering the hit. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed "definitive punishment of the perpetrators and those who ordered it." He called Fakhrizadeh "the country’s prominent and distinguished nuclear and defensive scientist," and analysts have compared him to being on a par with Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who led the U.S.′ Manhattan Project in World War II that created the atom bomb. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #14 I hope John Brennan get's over his grief soon. Tough news for someone who hates infidels and Dar al-harb. |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2020-11-29 22:37 |
| #13 Every once in a while it just bursts out in silliness, Eternal Optimist, armed. I’m glad you like it. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-11-29 21:27 |
| #12 TW, perfect. Love the lululu... foverever gasp as well. |
| Posted by: Eternal Optimist, armed 2020-11-29 20:46 |
| #11 Yes but that story doesn't allow for the arrest of people the Iranian government doesn't like as Israeli agents. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2020-11-29 19:23 |
| #10 Ha'Aretz is reporting it was a remote machine gun that killed him from 150 meters away. Then several minutes later the truck that was carrying the machine gun blew up. That makes way more sense. https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/iran/.premium-top-iranian-nuke-scientist-was-killed-by-remote-controlled-machine-gun-report-says-1.9335540 |
| Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Desert 2020-11-29 17:45 |
| #9 Sixty-two? Shoooot, there wuz hundreds of ‘em — 413 to be precise, unless I miss my guess, an’ I never miss my guess. And every single one of ‘em wuz blond, blue-eyed, an’ dressed like that Lawrence o’Arabia feller on a bad day. ‘Cept the girlies — they all looked like them 72 virgin hareem dancin’ girls they tell us ’bout every Friday, all doe eyes an’ wearin’ no more than a cuppla bits o’wispy stuff where it warnt needed nohow! Can’t blame that scientist general for stoppin’ his car when he saw all that caperin’ in the road!, no indeed. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-11-29 16:25 |
| #8 So, was this like 'Murder On The Orient Express', where everybody shot the guy? |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2020-11-29 16:23 |
| #7 Clearly a Gulenist...oh. Wait |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-11-29 14:52 |
| #6 So the Iranians took him out -- they're the only people who could stage that large of an operation in Iran and escape notice of the Iranian security services. So had they decided he was a turncoat? Maybe he was having second thoughts about the mullahs having nukes? Or did they need a casus belli? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2020-11-29 14:50 |
| #5 Not my circus, not my monkeys. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-11-29 14:46 |
| #4 So we have five dozen bad guys wandering around emplacing IED and arranging commo from within the installation. Living someplace, eating something for how long? Iranian intel and security didn't notice. Either not true or the above are infiltrated as well. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2020-11-29 14:36 |
| #3 Soooo... who did he owe money too? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2020-11-29 14:06 |
| #2 yah, but it makes a good read. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2020-11-29 14:04 |
| #1 not believable |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2020-11-29 12:16 |