Israeli Intelligence Apparatus
BY Herschel Smith
18 years, 4 months ago
Foxnews (from AP) is reporting:
JERUSALEM — A missile fired by Hezbollah, not an unmanned drone laden with explosives, damaged an Israeli warship off Lebanon, the army said Saturday. Elite Iranian troops helped fire the missile, a senior Israeli intelligence official said.
One sailor was killed and three were missing.
The intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the information, said about 100 Iranian soldiers are in Lebanon and helped fire the Iranian-made, radar-guided C-102 at the ship late Friday.
The official added that the troops involved in firing the missile are from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, an elite corps of more than 200,000 fighters that is independent of the regular armed forces and controlled directly by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Initial information indicated the guerrillas had used a drone for the first time to attack Israeli forces. But the army’s investigation showed that Hezbollah had fired an Iranian-made missile at the vessel from the shores of Lebanon, said Brig. Gen. Ido Nehushtan.
“We can confirm that it was hit by an Iranian-made missile launched by Hezbollah. We see this as very profound fingerprint of Iranian involvement in Hezbollah,” Nehushtan said in an interview with The Associated Press.
I have always wondered about the difference between Israeli intelligence and U.S. intelligence. How can Israel get the rapid, accurate and meaningful intelligence that they do in a region of the world that hates them so deeply? Why can’t the U.S. do the same thing? Israel relies on intelligence to keep their nation secure, and so their future depends on it.
Does the future of the U.S. depend any less on getting good intel with feet on the ground? In fact, if we are at war with Iran (by proxy, because Iran is the terror-master in the middle east as Michael Ledeen has always been quick to point out), why don’t we know more than we do about where they are with their weapons programs?
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