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Mossad killed Iran's top nuke scientist with remote-operated machine gun

2021-09-19

[Time of Israel] Safe in a command center thousands of miles away, Israeli team reportedly used AI-powered weapon built into abandoned-looking vehicle to take out Mohsen Fakhrizadeh last November.

Top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated in November 2020 in a sophisticated hit led by a Mossad team that reportedly deployed a computerized machine gun, required no on-site operatives, took less than a minute, and did not injure anyone else, including the scientist’s wife who was with him at the time.

According to an in-depth New York Times report published on Saturday, the weapon used in the high-profile assassination last year of Fakhrizadeh — regarded by Israel and many Western officials as the "father" of Iran’s nuclear weapons program — was a modified Belgian-made FN MAG machine gun attached to an advanced robotic apparatus and powered with artificial intelligence technology. The whole device weighed about a ton and was smuggled into Iran in small parts ahead of the operation and then reassembled.

Nobody questioned a bunch of men in “Star of David Mechanics, Inc” labelled boiler suits working on a car at the side of the road? How long would such a thing take if they were careful to abide by union labour laws in order to avoid notice?

The Mossad team handled the whole operation from a command center outside the country, according to the report which the publication said was based on interviews with American, Israeli and Iranian officials, "including two intelligence officials familiar with the details of the planning and execution of the operation."

Courtesy of Frank G, the Jerusalem Post confirms the NYT report laid out here, with some additional details. And from Skidmark, the Daily Mail story on the subject, with even more details.

Posted by:Besoeker

#11 "It keel us, and then it explode!" or, Reverse Engineering

A blessing by Allah bestowed
Was that wreck by the side of the road,
So we hauled it away
And, by Allah, today
Were bombarded my lab and abode!
And as I've told you a dozen times, it was only by the mercy of Allah that I was late getting home from the wedding chapel. Aieeeeee.

Posted by: Snomolet Elmusonter1848 2021-09-19 21:06

#10 ^ sorry, Ahmed's 1/2 hr of electricity is over. They have to go back to lathing steel for rockets. Priorities

Posted by: Frank G 2021-09-19 16:32

#9 That's exactly what it is (terrorism) and Israel's PM at the time deserves to be executed for this act.

Don't you know there is a war on?

Posted by: SteveS 2021-09-19 16:13

#8 ^ *Snort*

Posted by: Frank G 2021-09-19 16:10

#7 One of these days Israeli and American civilians are going to start getting murdered like this and you guys will call it terrorism.

That's exactly what it is and Israel's PM at the time deserves to be executed for this act.

Posted by: Flater Forkbeard8651 2021-09-19 15:20

#6 ref #4, it almost seems like someone saw that rerun and decided it would be a great way to protect other means still traceable inside Iran. Otherwise, why reveal a technique with future application?
What I found far more interesting was the trigger for a long planned OP being the likely loss by Trump and the conviction that the Obama/ValJar Presidium would have immense power in the future Biden Administration. That fits exactly with my sense of how Israel sees US policy as feckless going forward, even more than in years past.

Posted by: NoMoreBS 2021-09-19 13:38

#5 Weight a ton?. Come on man you can do better than that. Disposable I suppose. What! leave it. Play nice so they can reverse engineer. I wonder if Milley made another call.

Posted by: Dale 2021-09-19 12:25

#4 As seen in Day of the Jackal and the final episode of Breaking Bad.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-09-19 07:31

#3 What? The Space Laser (TM) was off line?

Posted by: Mercutio 2021-09-19 07:30

#2
The idea at the least is cost efficient and greatly reduces the ROI.

But in the USA the military complex and industry would never allow it. We use $700k disposables to $23m models.

Posted by: NN2N1 2021-09-19 05:59

#1 seems unbelievable

Posted by: Lord Garth 2021-09-19 01:51

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