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Bomb smuggled into Tehran guesthouse months ago killed Hamas leader
(www.nytimes.com)
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If this is true, why would they release the information about how they did it?
Yes there is some psychological warfare effect that will make hamas people feel scared for a short amount of time, but it will also make them change their security procedures to help prevent this method from working in the future. Their forensics were going to determine that it was a bomb, but they wouldn't have been able to tell that the bomb was planted so far ahead of time.
I'm not convinced this story is true. I'm not saying it's false, but i am saying they had no incentive to tell the truth, and in fact they have incentive to lie so that hamas puts work into securing against the wrong method.
What makes you so confident it's Israeli officials leaking the info? The plot would be pretty easy to unravel after the fact by anyone involved in the investigation
Explain to me how they could easily tell it was a bomb that was placed there 2 months ago. And that it was detonated remotely. And all the other details.
"I don't know" is somewhat different than "I know", you know...
I have no idea what you're trying to say
"Explain to me how" is not a statement that should prove that any point, it's just a pretense for theories and doubt
Probably security camera footage and some logic with when the bomb detonated.
I wouldn't be surprised at all knowing Israel successfully pulled this off because they've done similar things before.
The funny part is that it was probably just a sellout that they bought with some chump change to smuggle the device in, and not some super secret undercover spy.
I think it depends greatly on how the bomb was planted. Suppose, for example, the building was undergoing some renovations and the bomb was hidden inside a wall that had been legitimately opened up as part of the renovations. The debris would show the bomb was in the wall, and they could probably easily pinpoint when during the renovations that wall was worked on.
I work in various levels of "secured" locations and sometimes cut open walls. Most places couldn't tell you what walls I even cut let alone when.