Nasrallah File Was Not Important Enough for Military Intelligence
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A request to begin amassing a file on Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah following the IDF withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000 was turned down.
At the time, a colonel in military intelligence requested to begin building a file on the Hizbullah leader but he was turned down, told that the objective was too insignificant to justify the resources involved in monitoring Nasrallah’s activities.
Such a file would have permitted a strike against Nasrallah at a later date, providing the intelligence community with data regarding his habits and movements, as well as his closest confidants.
According to a report in the daily Ma’ariv, army intelligence was instructed to focus on monitoring events in the PA (Palestinian Authority) and studying its leaders, coinciding with the outbreak of the “Second Intifada”. The decision was made to abandon efforts to monitor Nasrallah’s activities.
Commentary;
Perhaps, more government energy was expended keeping files on Jews than on Islamic terrorists? MB