5hout wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 12:20 pm
mbasic wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 6:50 am
Its funny .....
Helicopters ARE kinda fussy to begin with in the first place.
I bet the odds of a legitimate accident are worse than fixed wing.
Was foggy, etc. sounds like a Kobe Bryant thing. Flying into some Cumulus Granite.
And ....again .... Iran (pilots, aero-mechanics, maintenance, etc)
If Mossuad, I wonder if they take stuff like this into consideration when they strike?
Accident waiting to happen? Here, let me help you with that
Who knows? I'm it's something nuanced like for stuff where they want to make a point they go #ClassicMossad and for other stuff they are actually super sneaky.
Theyy don't seem noted for stealth, but of course you'd never hear if they were and this is the kind of inflammatory thing you'd actually want to have a sneak (vs having motorcycles stick bombs to his car before zooming off).
I think (it has been years since I read up on this stuff) that the motorcyclists planting bombs were actually mujahedeen e khalq (MEK), Iranians who hate the Iranian government. And it was the Israelis who funded the MEK assassins and gave them the magnetic bombs they stuck to cars.
So the MEK were not subtle, some were caught, publicly hung. It’s hard to know how much Mossad cared about them getting caught, and it’s almost certain the MEK were not as highly trained as actual Mossad. So, I wouldn’t use the motorcycle assassinations of the Iranian WMD scientists to gauge the clandestinity (yes, a real word!) or covertness of actual Mossad.
A year or so ago, I think Israel claimed to have kidnapped, from inside Iran, an IRGC employee/affiliate/something with orders to execute Israelis. To me, this would represent a greater display of Israeli covert abilities and ability to collect and utilize intelligence than the 3rd party assassinations of the Iranian wmd scientists.