SYRIA
Live By the Sword
One of Syria’s most important rocket scientists was killed by a car bomb believed to have been planted by Israel’s Mossad spy agency on Saturday.
Aziz Asbar led a top-secret weapons-development unit called Sector 4, the New York Times reported. Before his death, he was reportedly in charge of rebuilding an underground weapons factory to replace one destroyed by Israel last year.
The Times cited a senior official from an unspecified Middle Eastern intelligence agency as saying this was the fourth time in three years that Israel has assassinated a foreign weapons expert. The official said Mossad had been tracking Asbar for some time before the weekend strike.
Along with heading Sector 4, Asbar was working on a solid-fuel plant for missiles and rockets, Israeli intelligence believes.
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman dismissed claims by the Syrian and Lebanese news media that Israel was behind the blast. However, Jerusalem won’t be shedding any tears over Asbar’s death, considering it attacked and destroyed a weapons factory where he was a senior manager in September.
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