Mossad behind Syrian scientist’s assassination: Intelligence official

Zionist entity’s Mossad spy agency was behind a car bomb blast that killed a Syrian scientist over the weekend, several media reports have suggested.

A senior official from a Middle Eastern intelligence agency told The New York Times on Monday that Mossad had a hand in the assassination of Aziz Azbar, the head of the Syrian Scientific Research and Studies Center in the city of Masyaf.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said his agency had been informed of the operation, and that Mossad had been tracking Azbar for a long time.

In a similar report, Syria’s al-Watan newspaper also suggested that Israel’s Mossad was behind the targeted killing.

The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah - which has been helping the Syrian army in its ground operations against terrorists - also pointed the finger at Mossad in the killing of the Syrian scientist, according to the Beirut-based al-Akhbar newspaper.

The report said the assassination was part of Israel’s campaign of aggression aimed at preventing Syria from rehabilitating its defense capabilities when the crisis in the Arab country comes to an end -- with an emphasis on preventing the development of precision weapons.

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