U.S. Blogger: Siddiqin Blast Caused by Booby-trapped Trojan Horse Drone
American Jewish blogger Richard Silverstein has claimed that Israel was behind the explosion that rattled the Hizbullah stronghold of Siddiqin in southern Lebanon on Wednesday.
Media reports have said that the explosion went off in a Hizbullah arms depot but the Lebanese army attributed the blast to a mine or cluster bomb.
“IDF Military Intelligence (Aman) has out foxed Hizbullah by deliberately crash-landing a booby-trapped Trojan Horse drone in southern Lebanon,” Silverstein wrote, attributing the information to an Israeli official with considerable military experience.
“For over a year, Hizbullah has been attempting to discover how to jam the ground signals commanding the drone so as to disable them in flight,” the writer said.
“When it discovered the downed craft, its operatives must’ve crowed that they’d finally discovered the key to success,” Silverstein wrote.
“This bit of hubris is how Aman drew Hizbullah into its net. Its soldiers dutifully collected the imagined intelligence trophy and brought it to a large weapons depot it controlled in the area. Once inside the arms cache, Aman detonated the drone causing a massive explosion,” he added.
Israel’s Channel 10 News reported that Silverstein has described himself as the Israeli Julian Assange, after the Australian founder of WikiLeaks.
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