Results for “Operation Litany”

… his grasp of the details of what we were proposing to do and the obvious risks. All Israelis were aware of this. I the operation failed, or if we decided in the end not to attempt it, it would be Rabin who would bear the responsibility and get the blame. Even under the best of...

… especially our closest relatives the nonhuman primates. When it is seen, the most common context is competition, not cooperation. Like lethal killing, then, punishment in animals tends to be restricted to a narrow context. Like lethal killing, punishment in animals is psychologi...

… diplomacy, including pressures and inducements, to get the parties to move toward compromises. This could be done in cooperation with other powers, the United Nations and regional players, but U.S. power had to be on display for it to work. There was some reason to believe at t...

…ork. Motta was a bit more hesitant. He suggested we couldn’t know for sure until we’d finished testing key parts of the operation. But for Rabin, it seemed to me Dan’s was the key voice. So he told us that he was approving it. In principle. He said he still needed answers to two...

… we had hoisted ourselves in, we headed out at first by paddle, then under engine power, to the missile boat. The whole operation had taken about a half an hour, only 10 minutes on Rue Verdun. I radioed Manno on the way to the missile boat. A half-dozen words: the agreed code ph...

Dan began the next morning’s briefing with a stage-by-stage review of how the operation would unfold. But just as he was getting to the detail of the motorcade attack, I felt a young sayeret officer tap me on the shoulder. Kuti had phoned to say I was to go see him at the kirya....

…nty-first century, the CIA had to establish why its new opposition, the SVR, was laying the foundation for an espionage operation. What were its priorities in the resumption of the intelligence war? Its inside man in the SVR, Poteyev, provided it with a tremendous advantage in th...

…e, at the direction of Golda herself, who was co-ordinating it. Nor that a special Mossad team was at the center of the operation. Yet from news reports of a series of attacks on suspected leaders of Black September, I, and most Israelis, assumed we were determined to convey a me...

…from our real mission, which meant we could return in a few months and have another attempt. After all, the part of the operation that had been causing the most concern in the Airya — our ability to get deep inside Egypt undetected — had succeeded. We were nearly three hours behi...

…closing in on baseball’s all-time career hits record.” (As of 2009, Black’s surgery count had risen to “more than 5,000 operations for resection of brain tumors”.) In 1997, Time magazine featured Black on the cover of a special edition called “Heroes of Medicine”. The accompanyin...

…nvolve appeals to Islamic solidarity and attempts to weaken popular support for adversary governments through influence operations and attacks aimed at civilians. In such a broad and protracted contest, the United States might not enjoy a favorable balance of advantages. It is by...

…scussion of whether we actually would, or should, target Saddam. I asked Misha, and then Yitzhak, only whether such an operation might seriously be considered by the government. If not, I said, we’d drop it. Both replied that we should go ahead with the planning and preparation...

…al $3,000 during the busy season, and - Sonny Panjabi, jewelry store owner $2,000 during the slow season, when hours of operation are cut back, he said. ' . "We were almost closing down. There was no way we could swvive. We are extremely grateful for the abatement. It will be a b...

… however, the majority fled north. In south Lebanon, this meant that our jets and artillery had much greater freedom of operation against Hizbollah, which had now lost its human shields. In Beirut, a government suddenly overwhelmed with the need to provide shelter for the large n...

…Lebanese proxy, Hizballah. That leaves the Islamic Republic itself with a failure rate hovering near 100% abroad and an operational tempo — nine overseas plots uncovered in nine months — that carries a whiff of desperation. A Tehran government long branded by U.S. officials as th...