{"id":74321,"date":"2021-11-16T15:37:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T21:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=74321"},"modified":"2021-11-16T15:37:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T21:37:55","slug":"74321","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=74321","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Something down Paul’s neck of the woods<\/p>\n

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Hezbollah planned to murder Israeli in Colombia to avenge Soleimani\u00a0<\/a>
\nTarget said to have been ex-diplomat and intelligence operative; Mossad officials reportedly visit country amid fears of rising terror activity<\/em><\/p>\n

Hezbollah planned to assassinate an Israeli national in Bogota as part of an operation that also targeted Americans to avenge the January 2020 killing of Iranian al-Quds Force commander General Qassem Soleimani, a Colombian newspaper reported Sunday.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0El Tiempo newspaper<\/a>\u00a0said the Israeli targeted by the Lebanese terror group was a former intelligence officer who had been stationed in the city as a member of the diplomatic corps, then opened a company involved in the import and sale of surveillance cameras and technology.<\/p>\n

The report, citing unnamed sources in Colombia\u2019s military intelligence services, said Israel\u2019s Mossad security service discovered that the businessman had been spied on at a number of locations.<\/p>\n

The Colombian daily said an intelligence dossier on the matter, including information provided by Mossad, indicated that in addition to the Israeli, members of a US delegation in the city were also under surveillance by the terror group.<\/p>\n

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The report said Colombian authorities were notified that evidence indicated that the Israeli was going to be assassinated, and that the group was additionally spying on other foreigners in the Colombian capital.<\/p>\n

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The newspaper said the Israeli national was quickly whisked out of Bogata, back to Tel Aviv.<\/div>\n
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The report said that three senior officials from Mossad recently visited the Latin American country amid growing concerns about it being used as a base for terror operations. Until now, it had been thought that Hezbollah was only using Colombia for financial operations.<\/div>\n
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The report came as Colombia said Sunday that it is monitoring Hezbollah\u2019s activities, and accused the terror group of having conducted \u201ccriminal\u201d activities in the country.<\/div>\n
\u201cTwo months ago we had to deal with a situation where we had to organize an operation to capture and expel two criminals commissioned by Hezbollah with the intention of committing a criminal act in Colombia,\u201d Defense Minister Diego Molano said in an interview with the same newspaper, without providing any details on the operation, which the report implied was related to the assassination plot.<\/div>\n
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Colombia has a sizable Lebanese community and Hezbollah has a presence in neighboring Venezuela as well as other Latin American countries. In addition,\u00a0Hezbollah\u00a0and\u00a0Iran, its patron, have long been linked to the 1994 bombing that killed 85 people and injured hundreds at a Jewish center in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n

Molano said there was a \u201crisk with Hezbollah in Venezuela and what its links to drug traffic or terrorist groups on the Venezuelan side [of the border] could generate for national security.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colombia has long accused Venezuela of sheltering and supporting guerrillas fighting against Bogota.<\/p>\n

The El Tiempo report said it was believed that Hezbollah was planning to use former members of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who had been trained in Venezuela, to carry out the attack on the Israeli, as implied by Molano\u2019s use of the phrase \u201ccriminals commissioned by Hezbollah.\u201d In addition, Venezuela has close ties with Iran.<\/p>\n

On November 8, while accompanying President Ivan Duque on an official visit to Israel, Molano said the two countries had a \u201ccommon enemy in Iran and Hezbollah,\u201d which he said not only operated against Israel but supported the leftist regime in Venezuela.<\/p>\n

But on Sunday, Molano said he had spoken \u201chastily.\u201d<\/p>\n

His remarks in Israel were sharply criticized in Iran \u2014 with which Colombia has had diplomatic relations since 1975 \u2014 and by its ambassador to Bogota, Mohammad Ali Ziaei, who said \u201cthe destruction of this relationship does not profit the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Duque later said that \u201cColombia does not use the word \u2018enemy\u2019 to designate a country,\u201d while adding, \u201cthat does not mean that we don\u2019t have divergences on specific questions with Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

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