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Why Now? Story Breaks That US Teamed With Israel In Assassinating Iranian ‘Agent’ In ’08
Last weekend both Newsweek and the Washington Post published long investigative pieces on the assassination of a senior Hezbollah figure in Damascus seven years ago– February 2008. Lots of folks are wondering, why now? As the Jerusalem Post notes, “Whoever leaked the details… to two US publications… did not do so capriciously.”
The two publications say the cold case is news because it was long assumed that the Hezbollah leader, Imad Mughniyah, was killed by Mossad. No; both pieces carried a simple new message: the United States was in on it too. Newsweek:
“Media reports fingered Israel’s legendary Mossad for the hit. But according to former U.S. intelligence officials interviewed by Newsweek, the Mugniyah hit was a CIA operation, authorized personally by President George W. Bush…
“A former CIA operative said,] “It was an Israeli-American operation. Everybody knows CIA did it—everybody in the Middle East anyway.”
Source: mondoweiss.net