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| October 21, 2012
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The Sunday Times: Dagan faces threat from Iranian assassination squad

The Sunday Times: Mossad has sent enough agents to Minsk “not only to defend the hospital but the entire city.”

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Former Mossad chief and Yesh Sikuy director Meir Dagan is facing the threat of assassination by an Iranian hit squad as he recovers from a liver transplant in Belarus, The Sunday Times reported.

Meir Dagan with PM Binyamin Netanyahu. - Photo: REUTERS

Meir Dagan with PM Binyamin Netanyahu. – Photo: REUTERS

After Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko revealed last week that Meir Dagan was recovering in a hospital in Minsk, Israeli officials immediately increased his protection, The Times reported. It added that sources indicated Iran, or its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah, would try to kill him.

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| September 10, 2012
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Exposé: How Israel Knew Syria Reactor had to be Bombed

The Israeli operation on the Syrian nuclear reactor began with intel gathered 6 months earlier, in a daring raid on an Austrian home.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

The Israeli bombing of a Syrian nuclear strike began with intelligence gathered six months earlier in a daring raid on the Austrian home of the Syrian Atomic Energy Commission director Ibrahim Othman, The New Yorker reported in its new edition.

David Makovsky, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, wrote under the headline “The Silent Strike,” that in March 2007, Mossad agents raided the home following suspicions concerning a large building the Assad regime was building in the northeastern Syrian desert. Continue Reading »

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| September 4, 2012
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Syrian Information Minister accuses Mossad of targeted assassinations in Syria

Syria’s Information Minister criticizes Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi after he voiced sympathy for the Syrian revolt: “There is no difference between Mubarak and Morsi, who has done nothing for the Palestinians & continues to sell gas to Israel.”

By Daniel Siryoti, News Agencies & Israel Hayom Staff

 

Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoebi accused Israel’s Mossad on Monday of carrying out targeted assassinations in Syria, as well as aiding the rebellion which has brought Syria to civil war.

Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoebi rebel attacks have “the fingerprints of intelligence services, including Israel’s Mossad” – Photo: AP

“We found arms caches with the weapons used by the terrorists, and their source was Israel,” al-Zoebi said.

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| July 10, 2012
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Report: Hezbollah nabs 3 ‘Mossad spies’

Shiite terror group claims to have exposed spy ring in Beirut; says operatives were on Israel, CIA’s payroll

By Roi Kais

 

Hezbollah announced that it has arrested three people it believes were running a spy ring on behalf of the United States and Israel, the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya news network reported Tuesday.

Hezbollah Chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah Photo: Reuters

Hezbollah Chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah – Photo: Reuters

The suspects, identified as Mohammed al-Husseini, Jihad Jaloul and Mohammed al-Sabaa, were apprehended in a southern Beirut suburb, the report said.

A report by the Lebanese daily An-Nahar added that the men “were not members of Hezbollah but had good relations with people in the group.” Continue Reading »

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| May 20, 2012
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Turkey investigates bird for being Israeli spy

Alleged spy bird damned for having a big nostril.

 

An increasing paranoia of Israeli zoological militancy conspiracy theories has turned a small bird with a larger than normal nostril and Israeli foot band into the latest suspected Mossad spy.

“Tell me. If it’s a spy would they put that it’s from Israel? Are they that stupid?” Ohad Hatzofe, an avian ecologist for Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority (NPA), told The Media Line.

Swifts bird at Western Wall - Photo: Marc Israel Sellem

Swifts bird at Western Wall - Photo: Marc Israel Sellem

A farmer in Gaziantep province in southeastern Turkey last week turned the dead Merops Apiaster, commonly known as the European Bee-Eater, to police after he noticed its band read “Tel Aviv University, Israel,” with serial number C43917. Continue Reading »

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| May 16, 2012
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Wikileak perhaps led to Iran’s ‘Mossad’ hanging

‘Times of London’ finds similarities between accused spy and Wikileaks description of Iranian intelligence source.

 

Iran may have used a secret cable published by Wikileaks to target and hang an alleged Israeli spy, The Times of London reported Wednesday.

While the report is inconclusive and the evidence anecdotal, it notes striking similarities between a Wikileak cable’s description of its Iranian source and twenty-four year old Majid Jamali Fashi, hanged in Tehran on Tuesday in connection with the murder of an Iranian nuclear scientist in 2010.

Majid Jamali Fashi, accused of killing scientist -Photo: REUTERS

Majid Jamali Fashi, accused of killing scientist -Photo: REUTERS

Though Wikileaks redacted the source’s name before releasing the cable penned by an intelligence operative in Baku, Azerbeijan, it published the description of the source as “a licensed martial arts coach and trainer.”

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| May 15, 2012
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Turkey suspects bird of being Israeli spy

Ankara investigating possibility that bee-eater was ‘implanted with Mossad surveillance device’; Israeli wildlife officials say accusation ridiculous

 

Turkish authorities believe that they have found a bird used for espionage purposes by Israel, the country’s media reported.

Suspicious chirping? Merops Apiaster Photo: Shutterstock

Suspicious chirping? Merops Apiaster - Photo: Shutterstock

According to a Tuesday report in Yedioth Ahronoth, an investigation to that effect was launched in Ankara several days ago, after a farmer discovered a dead Merops Apiaster, commonly known as the European Bee-Eater, in his field. The bird had a ring reading “Israel” on one of its legs.

Bird-banding is a common practice in ornithology, meant to help scientists track bird migration routes. Continue Reading »

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| May 8, 2012
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Mossad agent Bar Refaeli seduces Hamas man in cinematic depiction of Dubai operation

Speaking on new film ‘Kidon,’ Israeli supermodel says: I would love to be in the Mossad and maybe I am. Who knows? I think that being a famous model is the best cover.

 

The brazen 2010 assassination of a Hamas operative in Dubai, in which Israel’s Mossad was accused, unfurled like a spy movie thriller — and in fact much of it was caught on camera. Now an Israeli movie plays it as a spy caper, complete with a sly seductress played by Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli.

Israeli Supermodel Bar Rafaeli.

Israeli supermodel Bar Rafaeli - Photo by: Guy Kushi & Yariv Fine

The movie “Kidon”, or Spear, gives the plot a twist by having a small-time gang of criminals murder Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in an attempt to frame Israel’s Mossad spy agency.

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| March 13, 2012
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Israelis warned of travel to Turkey over imminent terror threat

Israel’s Counter Terrorism Bureau cites intel showing militant groups intend to strike Israeli, Jewish institutions in the country in the next few days.

Israel’s Counter Terrorism Bureau warned Israeli citizens Tuesday against traveling to Turkey, citing intelligence that terror groups were planning attacks against Israeli or Jewish institutions in the country.

Istanbul police - Reuters - 1/3/2012

Police officers standing guard at the scene where a bomb explosion took place in central Istanbul March 1, 2012. - Photo by Reuters

According the warning, Israelis are asked to refrain from travel to Turkey over information of intent to go forward with the attack in next few days.

Last Wednesday, the Turkish daily Hurriyet reported that Mossad warned Turkey that Israeli diplomatic missions in the country could be the target of attacks, quoting a story aired on NTV news, in which it was reported that Israel’s main intelligence agency sent a letter to the National Intelligence Agency saying that the “Iranian Revolutionary Guards-Quds Force” is preparing to attack Israelis in Turkey

According to the report, four individuals have already “entered Turkey from Iran” with weapons and the materials to carry out the alleged attacks on Israeli diplomats. Continue Reading »

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