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So what happens in the situations where Israel intelligence uses US supplied information as a basis for killing an American citizen?
by forgotAgain 13y ago
So what happens in the situations where Israel intelligence uses US supplied information as a basis for killing an American citizen?
- ferdo 13y agoThe Israeli intelligence agent gets a promotion.
- ars 13y agoIs there some reason you expect this to be a likely scenario? Israel is pretty strongly focused on the Arab countries near it who are trying to destroy it. Not too many American citizens in those countries, and almost impossible for one to reach any kind of high position which would make them a target.
- AsymetricCom 13y agoWhat makes you think Mossad isn't operating on US Soil? There is more than enough public evidence showing otherwise.
- ars 13y agoOf course they are, every county has agents working in every other county. That's perfectly normal and expected. The parent was asking about executions though.
- rbanffy 13y ago> The parent was asking about executions though. Plausible deniability plays a role here. Not all executions look like executions.
- samstave 13y agoCorrect, some executions look like free falling buildings collapsing.
- sillysaurus2 13y agoWas this a not-so-subtle reference to 9/11? If so, you should really examine the physics behind the 9/11 attack. The attack itself wasn't anything more than it appeared to be.
- guard-of-terra 13y agoThere surely are american citizens that are Arabs and Israel might want to reach some of them.
- ars 13y agoTo kill them? Seems far fetched to me. They'd want to recruit them - or maybe not, since an American Arab would never be trusted by other Arabs. An American Arab would never be trusted enough to gain any useful information, so would not be of interest to Israel (not to recruit, not to kill).
- guard-of-terra 13y agoYou are assuming that American Arab is going to enter Arab organization as a low-level member. Surely he would not fit, would not be trusted. However, I can easily see American Arabs participating in financing or coordinating Arab organizations. I can see Israel wanting to take action against such people, discovered using American intel.
- jnbiche 13y agoFirst, "Arab organizations"? Like ASWAT, the Palestinian Lesbian Women organization? Or the Arab Table Tennis Federation? Or were were stereotyping Arab organizations to be something else? Secondly, you do realize that many thousands of Arab families have family members -- brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, and cousins -- who are U.S. citizens? You think they suddenly don't trust them? Same goes for lifelong friends who immigrate to different countries. I'm sure this applies to almost all Arabs (and in fact all nationalities) who have family who are U.S. citizens, regardless of whether they are fundamentalist, secularist, pacifist, or ultra-religious.
- nandemo 13y agoWhy can't an Arab American make it? This Egyptian-born Israeli Jew did it. > He is best known for his espionage work in 1961 - 1965 in Syria, where he developed close relationships with the political and military hierarchy and became the Chief Adviser to the Minister of Defense. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Cohen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Cohen
- Jacqued 13y agoThe USA have already drone-killed american citizens who were in Arab countries. It's not far-fetched to imagine Israel could do it too (with more traditional methods)
- Angostura 13y ago> Not too many American citizens in those countries And here I thought the media was full of stories about the potential for U.S citizens to be radicalised and go to join jihadis.