Middle East: ‘Israel wanted to cut off Hezbollah’s head, it didn’t succeed’ says CIA’s John Kyriakou – The unknown Mossad operation in 1996

On that Friday, January 5, 1996, Yahya Ayyash, the “Engineer” arsenic helium was known to everyone, since helium was the main weaponry shaper for Hamas, had woken up astatine 7 a.m., adjacent though helium had slept done the night. When the telephone belonging to his person with the fig 050507497 rang astatine 8 forty sharp, helium knew it was his father, to whom helium had texted the fig of that instrumentality to telephone him.

What the antheral who slipped retired of Mossad similar an eel didn’t cognize was that his friend’s Motorola had been booby-trapped with explosives, pursuing an unthinkable cognition by Israeli agents that was reminiscent of a movie.

Over the municipality of Beit Lahia, wherever the “Engineer” was staying, an Israeli level circled astir waiting for the telephone from Ayah’s father, who called him, and astatine the archetypal ringing they sent the telephone awesome to the Operations Center, which was coordinating the mission. When the dependable of the antheral liable for the deaths of 150 radical was heard saying “Father, what are you doing?”
The booby-trapped telephone his person was holding was detonated by agents successful a gathering precise adjacent to Ayas’s house, shattering the close broadside of his face.

The Israeli Mossad and Shin Bet agents who handled the cognition had done specified a thorough occupation successful presumption of the magnitude of explosives that the manus of the violent holding the telephone was unharmed by the blast, portion his friend, who was lasting nearby, sustained lone a laceration. Ayas’s begetter called again and again, but a connection repeated astatine slightest 3 times that his telephone was forwarded, and a abbreviated clip aboriginal helium learned the destiny of his son, who was sealed by Israel’s notorious quality services with a rigged phone.

This deed was considered until a fewer days agone 1 of the apical achievements of the Mossad and the Shin Bet, since this peculiar people was precise hard to track, was precise cautious astir his movements, disguised himself and was ever 1 measurement ahead.

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The cardinal idiosyncratic and the champion friend

Yaya Ayas disguised himself arsenic a pistillate wearing a burqa to get astir the Gaza Strip, and helium surely ne'er imagined that the Israelis would sprout him with a mobile telephone belonging to a friend. Mossad and Shin Bet archetypal approached Kamal Haddad – Osama’s uncle, who was a adjacent person of ‘The Engineer – who was a shaper and fto him cognize that each helium could bash was assistance them successful the cognition they had planned.

Haddad, the manufacturer, bought a Motorola compartment telephone – astatine that clip compartment phones were inactive uncommon and precise costly – which helium gave arsenic a acquisition to Osama Haddad’s nephew and, erstwhile Ayas saw it, asked him to usage it to pass much securely with his family. The h2o was good and genuinely nether the span and erstwhile Kamal asked his nephew for the telephone 1 time with an excuse that his ain had broken, the young antheral gave it to him and it ended up successful the hands of the Israelis. Shin Bet experts placed 50 grams of RDX explosive successful the artillery compartment of the phone, an magnitude capable to termination lone the idiosyncratic who had that telephone successful his receptor and was talking.

Osama was shocked to spot the near broadside of Ayia’s look intact and the close broadside each smashed to bits a fewer seconds aft the explosion, an eerie representation of fearfulness helium ne'er forgot. As for his uncle, according to a study successful the Independent, a fewer months aft Ayas was shot, helium was allegedly paid $1,000,000 by the Israelis, who provided him with a fake passport and a visa to America. He has ne'er been seen again since!

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Jon Kyriakou: “The Israelis wanted to chopped disconnected Hezbollah’s head”

John Kyriakou, a erstwhile CIA operative with a stint successful the Middle East, commented to protothema.gr connected the astir awesome Mossad strike, with the simultaneous detonation of thousands of bombs and portable radios utilized by the organization: ‘I spoke to respective friends of mine, including the erstwhile counter-terrorism manager astatine the FBI, who made the pursuing points: This was intelligibly a deed connected Hezbollah’s communications proviso concatenation operation.
The Israelis either created the Hungarian institution with the bombers oregon stole them, aft they were shipped from Taiwan, successful a precise well-organized peculiar operation, and that’s erstwhile they enactment the explosives successful the bombers.”

He continued: “This determination volition origin further disruption successful that proviso concatenation for Hezbollah, and determination is present a determination successful Lebanon to bargain connection devices lone from Huawei due to the fact that it is simply a highly trusted company. The Israelis went up with this peculiar onslaught for respective reasons. First, they hoped to chopped disconnected Hezbollah’s head. They did not succeed. Now they person to look a existent warfare and the past clip they fought the Lebanese, they lost. Second, Israel was fervently hoping that a conflict connected a 2nd beforehand would unit the United States to articulation its side, but that simply won’t happen. We person repeatedly told the Israelis implicit the past 25 years that we are not funny successful helping them onslaught Iran. We are adjacent little funny successful helping them combat Hezbollah.”