Did Israel assassinate a Syrian rocket scientist?
Israel has assassinated plenty of Iranian scientists. Looks like Mossad is targeting Syria now.
If at once you don't succeed....Syria on Tuesday accused Israel of assassinating a top Syrian rocket scientist over the weekend, heightening the growing tensions between the two countries as Syrian government troops restore control over areas close to Israel.
Aziz Asbar, a research director at Syria’s Scientific Studies and Research Center, was killed Saturday by an explosive device targeting his car in the town of Masyaf in Syria’s Hama province, according to the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency.
The center has long been linked by intelligence agencies to Syria’s chemical weapons program, and Israeli warplanes are suspected to have targeted the facility on at least two occasions over the past year, in September and July.
Syrian news reports blamed Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency for the killing and said Asbar had survived two previous assassination attempts, also by Israeli agents. According to the al-Watan Daily newspaper, he was killed because of his “important” work on Syrian defense systems.