Mossad Behind Assassination of Syrian Scientist Aziz Asber: New York Times

WASHINGTON, (ST)-The Israeli intelligence agency “Mossad” is involved in the assassination of the Syrian scientist Aziz Asber, the Director of the Scientific Research Center in the Syrian city of Masyaf in Hama province on Saturday, by an explosive device, according to the US “New York Times” newspaper.

The newspaper quoted a senior official at an intelligence agency in the Middle East, whose identity was not revealed, as saying that “the Mossad is the party which placed the explosives inside the car of the Syrian scientists”. The official added, as cited by the newspaper, that “this is at least the fourth time over the past three years Israel assassinates an engineer specialized in weapons in a foreign territory.”

 The New York Times said that the Israeli entity’s Prime Minister is the only official who is authorized to agree and give permission for the “Mossad” to implement assassination acts.   

The assassination of Dr. Isber came to carry on the crimes of the Israeli and US enemies, who have targeted the Syrian Scientific Research Center multiple times through launching direct aggression due to its role as a leading scientific institution in Syria, and to again confirm the involvement of Israel and Syria’s enemies directly or indirectly in the serial assassination of Syrian scientific talents.

According to SANA, the assassination of the Syrian scientific talents began in 2012 when terrorists, called by the West as “rebels”, targeted scientist Nabil Zogheib along with his family and young inventor Issa Abboud as well as many doctors, journalists, engineers and experts across Syria.

Back in the 1980s, the Israeli enemy, hand in glove with the Muslim Brotherhood which today constitutes the backbone of al-Qaeda and Jabhat al-Nusra, assassinated many scientific figures, including Dr. Muhammad al-Fadhel, the doctors Shehadeh Khalil and Ibrahim Naama.

Hamda Mustafa