"Don't Mess With Us!"
"When they are buying from us, they have zero clue that they are buying from the Mossad.""We make like Truman Show, everything is controlled by us behind the scene.""Those people without hands and eyes are living proof, walking in Lebanon, of 'don't mess with us'."Gabriel, pseudonym for former senior Israeli Intelligence agent
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| 60 Minutes |
There
were two retired Israeli Intelligence agents who revealed details of a
clandestine operation that had taken years to fully develop. The deadly
operation focused on targeting Hezbollah terrorist operatives in Lebanon
and Syria to remove them from the business of violence against Israel.
With the development, implantation and triggering of exploding pagers
and walkie-talkies three months ago, Israel performed an undercover
technical feat meant to warn off and disable its enemies.
In
the immediate aftermath of the Hamas coordinated attack on southern
Israel from Gaza, with other Palestinian terrorist groups that took the
lives of over a thousand Israelis, from infants to the elderly, a
campaign that deliberately delivered carnage to entire families, many of
whom were incinerated in their homes, along with systematic rapes of
girls and women who were mutilated and tortured while being gang raped,
Hezbollah's leadership saw fit to attack Israel from the North, raining
missiles down on Israeli towns and farms in the Golan Heights.
A
low-intensity conflict ensued, one that saw tens of thousands of
Israelis forced to vacate their homes and relocate to safer areas in
Israel. The two retired agents were interviewed for a revelatory program
with CBS 60 Minutes on Sunday night. Wearing masks, speaking with altered voices to protect their identities, the two agents were given names: 'Michael' and 'Gabriel'. "We created a pretend world", Michael revealed during the interview.
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The
operation began a decade ago, to develop a technology that would allow
for the use of walkie-talkies filled with hidden explosives. When
Hezbollah bought the devices it did not occur to them that they were
acquiring these devices from their enemy, Israel. In 2022 once Israel's
Mossad intelligence agency discovered that Hezbollah had been buying
pagers from a Taiwan-based company, phase two of the plan was initiated.
The
pagers, slightly larger than the norm, to accommodate hidden
explosives, were tested on dummies to find the just-right amount of
explosives that would harm only the Hezbollah individual carrying the
device, and not anyone else in close proximity. Numerous ringtones were
also tested to select one that sounded sufficiently urgent to compel the
user to pull the pager out of a pocket.
According
to 'Gabriel' patience was required to convince Hezbollah to switch its
choice to the heftier pager. Misleading ads were used on YouTube to
promote the devices as dustproof, waterproof, the use of a long battery
life and other user-tempting promises. Shell companies, one based in
Hungary, were used to dupe the Taiwanese company to partner with the
Mossad.
Hezbollah
operatives ended up with 5,000 of these explosive pagers in their
pockets by September. The attack went operational on September 17, when
pagers all over Lebanon began to beep. Even if the person failed to push
the buttons to read an incoming message, the devices would still
explode. The day following the devices being triggered, the activated
walkie-talkies began exploding at funerals taking place for some of the
30 people who were killed in the earlier pager attacks.
The goal of the operation was really meant to send a message, rather than actually killing Hezbollah operatives. "Don't mess with us!"
"We want them to feel vulnerable, which they are.""We can't use the pagers again because we already did that. We've already moved on to the next thing.""And they'll have to keep on trying to guess what the next thing is."Michael to CBS
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Labels: A Teaching Moment, Hezbollah, Israel, Mossad Intelligence, Technological Military Devices
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, December 25, 2024
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