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Israel intelligence helps Argentina arrest suspected members of Hezbollah
Argentine police announced last Thursday they had arrested two men on suspicion of ties to the terrorist group A terror plot against Jewish targets was thwarted when the Mossad intelligence service passed information to Argentine security officials which led to the arrest of suspected members of the Hezbollah terrorist group, Hadashot TV reported Monday.
According to the report, police arrested two brothers and their cousin at a hideout in Buenos Aires which was found to contain an arsenal of weapons and explosives. The suspects were said to have admitted they planned to attack Jewish targets in the country.
Argentine police announced last Thursday they had arrested two Argentine men on suspicion of ties to the terrorist group and that in the course of the investigation, they had discovered evidence of foreign travel “along with credentials in Arabic and an image of the Hezbollah flag”, the Reuters news agency reported.
No further details were given on the credentials or travel, and the discrepancy in the number of individuals arrested has not been clarified.
The two men, aged 23 and 25, were arrested at a Buenos Aires residence, and were also found to be in possession of a “small arsenal” including a rifle, a shotgun and a number of handguns.
Earlier this year the Argentine government targeted a Hezbollah fundraising network in the northern Triple Frontier with Brazil and Paraguay.
Israeli officials have repeatedly stated that the Mossad not only is responsible for preventing attacks against Israeli targets, but also provides intelligence to Israel’s allies around the world.
In October, Israeli officials said the Mossad provided its Danish counterpart with information concerning an alleged plot by Tehran to assassinate three Iranian opposition figures living in the Scandinavian country.
Mossad is also said to be behind the thwarting of an Iranian government bomb plot that aimed to target an opposition group in Paris in June.
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Read all commentsThe arrests of the two men by a heavily armed elite squad “in a hideout” possessing a “small arsenal“ with the help of none other than the Mossad yielded little more than a flurry of large headlines in Argentina's diligent media outlets.
Nov 23rd, 2018 - 07:51 pm 0The ”small arsenal“ in question was a collection of old weapons with little fire power, and the individuals arrested did not have a police record and were not connected to previous incidents.
On another note, another lie that influenced Argentine electors in 2015 has finally been debunked.
Judge Marcelo Martínez De Giorgi has ruled that Máximo Kirchner and Nilda Garré never owned a secret bank account abroad as ”suggested“ by the Clarín newspaper and the Brazilian magazine Veja.
In 2015, both media outlets published front page stories with large headlines stating that Kirchner and Garré ”would“ have an account in the Felton bank in Delaware, opened by a Belize company with deposits worth USD $41 million. Subsequently, a criminal investigation was started.
Three years later, the judge has ruled that ”the facts investigated had not been committed.”
The potential effects of this fake story (and others) on the electors' decision in the 2015 elections in Argentina, however, cannot be undone.
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