A Top Syrian Scientist Is Killed, and Fingers Point at Israel
Source: The New York Times
By David M. Halbfinger and Ronen Bergman
Aug. 6, 2018
9:53 PM
JERUSALEM — Aziz Asbar was one of Syria’s most important rocket scientists, bent on amassing an arsenal of precision-guided missiles that could be launched with pinpoint accuracy against Israeli cities hundreds of miles away.
He had free access to the highest levels of the Syrian and Iranian governments, and his own security detail. He led a top-secret weapons-development unit called Sector 4 and was hard at work building an underground weapons factory to replace one destroyed by Israel last year.
On Saturday, he was killed by a car bomb — apparently planted by Mossad, the Israeli spy agency.
It was at least the fourth assassination mission by Israel in three years against an enemy weapons engineer on foreign soil, a senior official from a Middle Eastern intelligence agency confirmed on Monday. The following account is based on information provided by the official, whose agency was informed about the operation. He spoke only on the condition of anonymity to discuss a highly classified operation.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/world/middleeast/syrian-rocket-scientist-mossad-assassination.html
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Sentiment changed only after he moved to the other side of an imaginary red and blue line on a map with better commercial branding available to it.
The important thing though, is we maintain the pretense of absolute knowledge in the face of that which we know so very little of. Good job on that. 