End Of Days News
Officers were killed in a mysterious
twin-car bomb explosion Friday, Jan. 25 at Syrian regional intelligence
headquarters in Quneitra on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights. Some
of the fatalities were Syrian, but Western intelligence sources
disclosed to debkafile
that most were high-ranking Iranian Al Qods Brigades and Hizballah
officers. The blasts sent tensions shooting up on the Israeli and
Jordanian borders with Syria. Israeli, Jordanian and US Special Forces
posted in the kingdom went on high alert. Heavy Syrian reinforcements
were seen streaming toward the two borders.
Syrian regime sources said the explosive devices were attached to the
intelligence command building’s outer walls. But the Western
sources report that two large bomb cars were lying in wait on both sides
of the road leading to the Syrian HQ and were detonated as the two-car
convoy of Iranian and Hizballah officers drove by. There were no
survivors.
Those sources also refute reports that the al-Qaeda linked Jabhat
al-Nusrah fighting with the Syrian rebels claimed responsibility for the
attack. This was a rare occasion when no Syrian opposition group issued
any statement at all, they said. The speed with which Syrian army
helicopters flew in to remove the casualties indicated their high rank.
In the view of a Jordanian military source, this attack by an unknown
hand has delayed Bashar Assad’s advanced preparations for an all-out
armored offensive to finally crush the revolt against his regime. His
first targets were to have been the rebel-held villages along the
Israeli and Jordanian borders.
The Syrian ruler was working to a plan of operations his generals had drawn up with Iranian Al Qods Brigades strategists.
Saturday, Ali Akbar Velayati, an aide to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, warned that Iran would consider any attack on Syria an attack
on itself: "Syria has a very basic and key role in the region for
promoting firm policies of resistance [against Israel]... For this
reason an attack on Syria would be considered an attack on Iran and
Iran's allies."
Meanwhile in Iran itself, the Fordo underground uranium enrichment
plant was again reported targeted for sabotage, according to an
unconfirmed report published by Reza Kahlil, who is described as a
former Iranian Revolutionary Guards officer who worked under cover as a
double agent for the CIA until he escaped to the United States.
Kahlil reported that at 11:30 a.m., Monday, Jan. 21, the day before
Israel’s general elections, a large explosion occurred 100 meters deep
inside the underground plant, trapping 240 nuclear staff in the third
centrifuge chamber. Among them, he said, were Iranian and Ukrainian
technicians.
There was no information about casualties or the extent of damage to
the 2,700 centrifuges which have been turning out 20-percent enriched
uranium.
Khalil cited his source as Hamidreza Zakeri, a former Iranian
Intelligence Ministry agent, who said the regime believes the blast was
sabotage and the explosives could have reached the area disguised by the
CIA as equipment imported for the site or defective machinery.
None of the information about an explosion at Fordo has been verified either by US officials or regime sources in Tehran.
Thursday, Jan. 24, Israel’s Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz and
Military Intelligence Director Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi ceremonially
promoted Col. G., commander of the elite Sayeret Matkal, to the rank of
major general in recognition of his unit’s “outstanding covert
operations.”
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