Hard-Learned Lessons -- Don't Mess With Israel
"We have just received the indictment along with a request for detention until the end of proceedings." "We haven't yet seen the investigation materials, so at this stage, it's difficult to delve into the details of the case. We can already say that this is a person who has greatly assisted Israel's security services, whose children serve in the security forces, and who made an error in judgment in the context of his business.""It's not for nothing that the indictment wasn't filed for other offenses. My client cooperated and continues to fully cooperate with the authorities.""The suspect has a wife in poor mental condition, two children in the army - one serving now in Gaza and the other in the north, and another young child."Attorney Eyal Besserglick, representing the accused
A Jewish Israeli business was arrested in Israel on suspicion of having met with Iranian intelligence operatives. It is suspected that the man was involved in offering to assist Iranian operatives in a plan to assassinate a number of high-ranking Israeli authorities, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to Israel's Shin Bet Security Agency.
The man, Moti Mamam, hails from the southern coastal city of Ashkelon. The 73-year-old took two visits to Iran in recent months. There, he demanded $1 million as a down payment to fund a series of missions, the Shin Bet announced. The missions included recruiting and paying other agents, as well as gathering intelligence to enable the assassination of senior politicians in Israel. Among them, former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, and Shin Bet head Ronen Bar.
Information whether the man had made a confession was not yet available. The suspect was paid for agreeing to travel to Iran, illegal for citizens of Israel. This is a man who had great familiarity with Muslim countries in the region, having lived for an extended period in Turkey, travelling there afterward for some of the meetings held with Iranian intelligence operatives. The report named two Turkish men as Iranian intelligence assets, responsible for setting up the meetings..
The original trip to Iran for the subject was ostensibly to meet with a man for a business proposition. That proposition was transformed into an attempt at recruiting the suspect. There is no shortage of assassination attempts anywhere in the Middle East, at any given time. This occasion is a time in history of over-heated Islamist terror groups, proxies of the Shiite Islamic Republic of Iran in yet another one of many futile attempts to dislodge the Jewish State of Israel from its ancestral geographic moorings.
The Shin Bet revealed a second attempt by Hezbollah had been thwarted to assassinate a former senior security official. This attack was related to an explosive divice, scheduled to be performed in the near future. The intended target of the bombing, retired Lt. Gen. Aviv Kovachi, IDF chief of Staff between 2019 and 2023.
The retired military leader had been surveilled by Hezbollah operatives at a "sports facility" he frequented in Tel Aviv. Hezbollah had attempted to assassinate former Israeli defence minister and IDF chief of staff Moshe Ya'alon via a remotely detonated bomb in Yarkon Park a year ago in Tel Aviv. It is uncertain whether any of these events had input by the recently detained suspect.
One imagines Hezbollah has been rather busy of late, as has been parts of Syria and even Iran, given its ambassador to Lebanon for some mysterious reason in possession of a pager which had so unfortunately exploded, along with thousands of others, injuring, maiming and certainly disturbing the idyllic lifestyle of dedicated mass murderers slavering to destroy the lives of Jews and destroying the presence of modern (technologically advanced) Israel from its landscape.
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| People stand near a pit after Lebanese soldiers destroyed a communication device in a controlled explosion in the parking lot of the American University of Beirut Medical Center on Wednesday. (Wael Hamzeh/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) |
"It was clear he didn't like the country, that he wasn't happy here. Whenever I saw him, he would complain.""Two weeks ago, security forces arrived at the building with weapons, looking for him. He lives here with his partner.""The moment we saw that the spy was from Ashkelon, we immediately knew it was him. I called a friend and told her it must be him - and I was right. It doesn't surprise me at all."Maman's neighbors in Ashkelon
Labels: Assassination Plots, Iranian Proxies, Iranian Recruitment, Orchestrated Pager Explosions
posted by Pieface @ Sunday, September 22, 2024
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