In his recent book “Rise and Kill First,” journalist Ronen Bergman lays bare one of the distinctions of Israeli’s intelligence: a program of targetted assassination that has no rival. While the Russian FSB has record of using poison and the American CIA uses drones neither is as prolific in killings its perceived foes as Israel’s Mossad.
Which makes me give slightly more credence to this story than I otherwise would.
Syrian daily newspaper al-Watan blamed Israel’s espionage agency, Mossad, for the attack that killed a senior Syrian chemical weapons scientist Saturday.
The Al-Nusra front, an al-Qaeda offshoot, has a record of suicide bombings, not targeted killings. Mossad, on the other, is adept at these sorts of operations. I’m not saying Mossad did it. I’m watching Israeli sources to see if Israeli doesn’t quietly take credit, which they have done for other assassinations.
