Following up Operation Grim Beeper, Israel has struck Hezbollah’s entire senior Radwan leadership (around 20 commanders) in Beirut with a big kaboom or two in Beirut. Among those eliminated is Hezbollah head of military operations Ibrahim Aqil, on whom the United States had a bounty of up to $7 million for his role in the 1983 barracks bombing that murdered 241 Marines, sailors, and soldiers. The Israelis believed he was overseeing a plan for the invasion of northern Israel, I have been following the story via Barak Ravid on X and on Axios here as well as Times of Israel staff here.
Aqil has a $7 million U.S. bounty on his head, accused of taking hostages and involvement in 1983 U.S. embassy bombing. pic.twitter.com/OCOeTUIwYg
— Ariel Oseran (@ariel_oseran) September 20, 2024
We owe the Israelis a thank-you that will not be forthcoming from the Biden administration. That much I can tell you. John Brennan did not approve of Operation Grim Beeper. He’s really gonna be upset about today’s kaboom.
NBC’s Craig Melvin: “[I]s detonating a wireless device — is that an acceptable form of warfare?”
John Brennan: “Well, I don’t, I don’t believe so because there’s no way the Israelis would have known who was going to have these pages at the time, which is why we see that there… pic.twitter.com/aN8AvkR5LM
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 19, 2024
Not that it matters to the likes of Brennan, but Hagari explained: “At the time of the strike, Aqil and the commanders of the Radwan Forces were gathered underground under a residential building in the heart of the Dahiyah neighborhood, hiding among Lebanese civilians, using them as human shields.”
"At the time of the strike, Aqil and the commanders of the Radwan Forces, were gathered underground under a residential building in the heart of the Dahiyah neighborhood, hiding among Lebanese civilians, using them as human shields."
Listen to a statement by IDF Spokesperson,… pic.twitter.com/G3ZmLzxTPW
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 20, 2024
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