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2020-04-05 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hezbollah commander assassinated in southern Lebanon
[Jpost] Hezbollah commander Ali Mohammed Younis was assassinated by unknown individuals in southern Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
on Saturday, according to Iranian media.

Younis was "responsible for pursuing spies and collaborators," according to unofficial statements, the Iranian Fars news agency reported.
He didn’t pursue them well enough, it seems.
The Fars report included an image of a body lying next to an open vehicle.

Video of a minaret announcing Younis's death in southern Lebanon was shared by the Iranian Tasnim news agency on their Twitter account.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-04-05 03:29|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top
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#1 Well, it wasn't us - we're in respirator business nowadays.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-05 05:07||   2020-04-05 05:07|| Front Page Top

#2 And that's one less respirator you need to make.
Posted by Matt 2020-04-05 09:02||   2020-04-05 09:02|| Front Page Top

#3 There was a time when it would be accurate to immediately point at the Mossad, but nowadays I don’t know. As fractured and factioned, it could as likely he was taken out by a rival group with Islam
All of these groups are at each other’s throats fighting for various agendas in Syria
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2020-04-05 14:15||   2020-04-05 14:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Fractured and factioned with the help of Mossad?
Posted by Ebboling Angeretch6205 2020-04-05 14:40||   2020-04-05 14:40|| Front Page Top

#5 #4 Like they need help on fracturing?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-05 16:35||   2020-04-05 16:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Four shots and stabbed twice, once in the heart. Someone really hated 'im.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-04-05 16:46||   2020-04-05 16:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Not clean enough to be a Mossad hit
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2020-04-05 16:57||   2020-04-05 16:57|| Front Page Top

#8 ^Any (relatively) innocent bystanders hurt?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-05 17:00||   2020-04-05 17:00|| Front Page Top

#9 The car was found on a lonely stretch of road between Qaqiyat al-Jisr and Zutar al-Gharbiya in Nabatiyeh district. There's a pic of a dead guy lying on the road next to a white vehicle, in jeans.

They believe it could be wholly unrelated to Hezbollah work. Of course, that's Lebanese intelligence for you.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-04-05 17:14||   2020-04-05 17:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Another one's down, and Another one bites the dust.
Posted by AlanC 2020-04-05 17:17||   2020-04-05 17:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Not too mention Mossad seems to take the hands off approach. Oh look, his cellphone exploded while he was talking off it. Shouldn't hide his C4 kaboomite in there.
Posted by Silentbrick 2020-04-05 18:24||   2020-04-05 18:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Awwww - ain't that just too bad.

My pico-violin must be around here somewhere. :-D
Posted by Barbara 2020-04-05 19:50||   2020-04-05 19:50|| Front Page Top

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