Clifford D. May
Higher Ground Times, Sept. 24, 2024
“… last Friday, unnamed Washington officials leaked a new policy that will please Iranian leader Ali Khamenei: President Biden plans to withdraw the tiny contingent of American forces — just 2,500 troops — from Iraq by 2026.”
The long war that Iran’s rulers and their proxies have been waging against Israel took an unexpected turn last week. Thousands of Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon had ditched their cellphones — afraid Israelis were tapping them — for low-tech pagers. Sometime earlier, however, those beepers had been covertly transformed into miniature bombs that exploded suddenly and simultaneously, incapacitating or killing those Hezbollah operatives.
Few civilians — even those standing near the terrorists — were harmed. Many just looked on in astonishment.
Precision Israeli airstrikes followed, eliminating more than a dozen Hezbollah leaders. Two had been on America’s “most wanted” list with multimillion-dollar bounties on their heads for truck bombings that killed more than 300 diplomats and military personnel serving on a peace mission in Beirut in 1983.
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