Didn’t age particularly well.
Let’s
suppose this strike had been carried out against a drug cartel rather
than a well-organised gang of hateful Nazi-saluting militants.
It’s highly targeted, yet on other levels it’s also explorative, practically an information gathering exercise.
Most
of the victims would be low level foot soldiers and associated
auxiliary cell-members, but there are bound to be a few surprises, not
just ‘higher-ups’, but individuals who are going about more openly in
‘normative’, not so explicitly murderous society, often exercising a
role which would provide a measure of legitimacy or indeed,
untouchability.
In Mexico, for
example, one can only wonder who might be rubbing their crotches today. As
a bare minimum you’d expect politicians and members of the judiciary to
have entered the ‘net’, perhaps even a priest or two.
Israel
has attempted to demonstrate in Gaza how UNRWA and media outfits like
Al Jazeera provide Hamas with a parallel infrastructure, but there’s
been nothing as definitive and uncontestable as an exploding pager.
The Iranian Ambassador will surely not turn out to be the only crossover case identified this way.
(If anyone wants to establish the basis of sensible government in Lebanon, now might be a goodish moment.)
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