Mossad tracked and tracked Nasrallah with the same methodology with which the CIA killed Bin Laden

As the American CIA already did, Israeli intelligence agents had to not only track Nasrallah’s movements, but also discover behavior patterns of the leader of the terrorist group And in that of his closest entourage.

“We must think that it took them a very, very long time” explains Cedric Leighton, military analyst and retired US Air Force colonel, at CNN. “As when the United States attacked Bin Laden, the Israelis followed Nasrallah’s movements,” he emphasizes.

American spy services spent nearly a decade finding bin Laden, a hunt that used the most sophisticated technology and means, but in which The human factor was vital.

In this case, the key was in the messenger. The United States intercepted a call made by Bin Laden’s trusted messenger, Abu Ahmed al Kuwaiti. This was the clue that led the CIA to exactly locate the al-Qaeda leader in Abbottabad, a city in Pakistan north of Islamabad.

According to the revelations of American officials, collected by EfeEvery time Al Kuwaiti or others in Bin Laden’s personal entourage wanted to talk on the phone, they would drive for more than an hour and a half before dying on their cell phone’s battery.

Through the messenger, American spies located the Abbottabad residence, where they detected a person who walked every day in an interior patio of the house, but he never left the place. Using satellite images, U.S. intelligence identified the walker as Bin Landen.

“Operation New Order”

Little is still known about how Mossad managed to find out exactly where Nasrallah was. The leader of Hezbollah since 1992, “to our knowledge, did not communicate through a system of you are looking for not even through cell phones,” Leighton told cnn.

“[Para localizarlo] “They used signals, human intelligence, images… All of those things came together and determined not only where he was, but what times he was entering and leaving these places and how he was getting there. addressed his supporters on television or in other media,” said the ex. – underlines the soldier. All of this “was the key.”

So much for the parallels. It was on May 2, 2011 that an elite Navy Seals team made up of 25 soldiers carried out a night raid on the three-story bunker where bin Laden was hiding.

After eight hours of intervention, the ideologue of the September 11 attacks was eliminated. The Navy Seals collected all physical and computer equipment found and returned to base. This is what the CIA told the so-called Operation Neptune’s Spearon his Twitter account in 2016.

Before leaving the scene, one of the SEAL members who participated in the operation made a photograph of the corpse. Once sent for identification, the terrorist’s body was transferred to a warship for then thrown into the sea.

“President Obama had the possibility of using bombs. The possibility of using drones in the operation against bin Laden was also considered. The Israelis could have done something like this“Leighton believes in it.

He points out, however, that “one of the main differences” is that the terrorist of Saudi origin “was at ground level”, while Nasrallah “was in a very extensive underground complex”under the buildings of apartments inhabited by civilianswhich represented “a huge challenge” for the Israelis.

“They could have used a special operations team, but at a very high risk, much higher than that of the Seals team during the bin Laden raid.” “The Israelis would have had to deal with a whole maze of roads and alleys. They did a cost-benefit analysis and figured that it was easier and more efficient for them to use planes and bombs“, underlines the military analyst.

Because contrary to the decision taken by Obama 13 years ago, Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu opted for bombs. In an unprecedented operation – called New Order – The Israeli Air Force used F-15 fighters against the Hezbollah headquarters where Nasrallah was located.

Each of them wore six bunker busting bombsas the GBU-31s are called. In total, 85 tons destroyed the building under which Hezbollah headquarters was located as well as a large part of the suburb of Dahye, south of Beirut. The bombardment lasted 10 seconds.

“Hasan Nasrallah will no longer be able to terrorize the world” The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced after carrying out the operation. “The attack was carried out while the senior chain of command of Hezbollah was operating from its headquarters and promoting terrorist activities against citizens of the State of Israel,” the text adds.

In addition to Nasrallah, Israel reported the deaths of several Hezbollah commanders, including Ali Karki, head of the organization’s Southern Front.