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2020-11-29 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran's Mohsen Fakhrizadeh killed by 62-person hit squad, reports say
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Posted by Frank G 2020-11-29 11:45|| || Front Page|| [9 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 not believable
Posted by Lord Garth 2020-11-29 12:16||   2020-11-29 12:16|| Front Page Top

#2 yah, but it makes a good read.
Posted by Mercutio 2020-11-29 14:04||   2020-11-29 14:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Soooo... who did he owe money too?
Posted by DarthVader 2020-11-29 14:06||   2020-11-29 14:06|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-11-29 14:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Posted by Clem 2020-11-29 14:46||   2020-11-29 14:46|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-11-29 14:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Clearly a Gulenist...oh. Wait
Posted by Frank G 2020-11-29 14:52||   2020-11-29 14:52|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-11-29 16:23|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-11-29 16:25|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-11-29 17:45|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-11-29 19:23|| Front Page Top

#12 TW, perfect. Love the lululu... foverever gasp as well.
Posted by Eternal Optimist, armed 2020-11-29 20:46||   2020-11-29 20:46|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-11-29 21:27|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-11-29 22:37|| Front Page Top

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