Israeli Journalist: Mughniyeh”s killing Was Needed to Restore Faith in Israel”s Intelligence Services
An Israeli investigative reporter comes close to saying outright in a new book that Israel was responsible for the assassination of Hizbullah commander Imad Mughniyeh in a car bombing in Damascus last February.
"Although Israel has denied responsibility for the assassination, the Mughniyeh hit was exactly the kind of thing needed to restore the country”s faith in, and more importantly the enemy”s fear of, Israel”s intelligence services," Ronen Bergman says in his book "The Secret War with Iran."
Bergman then quotes an Israeli intelligence official, who recalls the exact model of the vehicle Mughniyeh was driving when he was killed. "Pity about that new Pajero," he said.
"The Secret War With Iran: The 30-year Clandestine Struggle Against the World”s Most Dangerous Terrorist Power" deals with the covert clash between Iran and the West from 1978–2008.
Through several tales, the analyst for Israel”s newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, says Israel and the U.S. are intensifying a clandestine war against Iran that has run hot and cold since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 but has grown more urgent as Tehran races to obtain an atomic bomb.
Bergman told the Israeli Haaretz daily recently that the past year has witnessed positive developments.
"The killing of Hizbullah terror mastermind Imad Mughniyeh last winter, the explosion at a Syrian chemical-weapons facility in July 2007 and the bombing of its nuclear plant last September, are a few examples that may suggest that Western and Israeli intelligence are recovering their ability vis-a-vis Iran and its proxies," he said.