Middle East|Assassinations have been carried out with mobile phones, but not on this scale, says security expert Mikko Hyppönen.
The summary is made by artificial intelligence and checked by a human.
The Mossad reportedly carried out the Lebanon pager attack that killed nine people.
Security expert Mikko Hyppönen considers the attack to be extraordinary in its scale.
The Mossad has previously carried out numerous well-known operations, such as the abduction of Adolf Eichmann.
of Israel the foreign intelligence service Mossad is known as one of the world’s most capable intelligence services, but the attack in Lebanon is in a class of its own, even in the history of Israeli attacks.
At least nine people were killed and thousands wounded on Tuesday when pocket-sized pagers used by members of the Hezbollah organization exploded. It was reportedly a Mossad operation in which explosives had been placed in approximately 5,000 paging devices ordered by Hezbollah, a Lebanese security source told the news agency for Reuters.
If it was an attack carried out by the intelligence service, it was historic in its scope, says the security expert, research director of the WithSecure company Mikko Hyppönenwhich HS reached by phone from Brazil.
“Individual people have been killed with mobile phones containing explosives, but history does not know of an incident of this scale,” Hyppönen said.
Hyppönen commented on the matter on Wednesday before the explosions in Lebanon continued. Sources of news agencies told Wednesday early evening that Hezbollah’s radio phones exploded, several people died and at least hundreds were wounded.
Murders have been part of Israel’s and especially its foreign intelligence service Mossad’s tool selection for a long time.
One of the most prominent recent deaths in the Middle East was a Hamas leader To Ismail Hahiyeh killing in Tehran last July. Haniyeh died in the middle of the night when an airstrike hit the building where he was staying. Hamas and Iran immediately blamed Israel for the attack.
Israel has also been using cell phones to kill people for decades. A fairly early and very attention-grabbing mobile phone belonged to the bomber of the Islamist organization Hamas by Yahya Ayyash killing in 1996.
Ayyash died when a Motorola mobile phone rigged with explosives exploded in his hand in Gaza. Tells about the case, for example Financial Times. The call he answered was from his father.
Yahya Ayyashi’s funeral in Gaza in January 1996.
The operation was organized by Israel’s internal security service Shin Bet, says Center for Israel Education.
Of history the most famous Mossad assassinations include the revenge attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics. At the Olympics, 11 Israeli athletes were killed in a kidnapping by a group called Black September, and Israel vowed revenge.
Israel initially responded to the terrorist act with airstrikes on bases of the Palestinian organization PLO in Syria and Lebanon. In the end, it decided to kill the planners of the Munich attack.
Agents murdered suspected planners in, for example, Rome, Paris and Beirut. In Beirut, an Israeli strike group killed three leaders of the Palestinian organization PLO. He led the strike group Ehud Barakwho later became the prime minister of Israel.
The revenge operation of Black September was not only a success, because completely innocent bystanders were also victims of Israeli agents. The most famous of them was Moroccan waiter Ahmed Bouchikiwho was shot dead by the Mossad in Lillehammer, Norway, after returning from the movies with his Norwegian spouse.
Mossad has gained a reputation over the years for demanding intelligence-related operations other than murder. For example, the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann the discovery and kidnapping from Argentina to Israel in 1960 brought much notoriety to Israeli intelligence.
Adolf Eichmann surrounded by guards during his trial in Jerusalem in November 1961.
In Israel, one of the most prestigious Mossad operations was the infiltration of a spy close to the Syrian regime in the early 1960s. About the spy used in it That is, about Cohen became a national hero. Streets in Israel are named after him, and a museum is dedicated to him.
Cohen’s operation is considered one of Mossad’s biggest successes and failures, says The New York Times. In Damascus, Cohen made friends with leading Syrian politicians and was able to send Israel detailed insider information about defense and political relations, for example.
However, he was eventually caught. The reason for the revelation has been disputed. According to The New York Times, he was exposed because the radio transmitter he was using caused interference with the radio traffic of the Syrian army headquarters across the street. Cohen was executed in Damascus in 1965.
Memorial to Israeli spy Eli Cohen in the Golan Heights.
Mossad is certainly not the only intelligence or security service in the world that has carried out successful assassinations. For example, in 2011, the founder of the al-Qaeda organization was made in Pakistan Osama bin Laden the killing was the result of a nearly ten-year manhunt led by the US CIA.
In connection with historical intelligence service operations, it is also worth noting that the most important areas of competence of intelligence services include keeping things secret. The most successful and historic intelligence operations may never be revealed.
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