Iran's Cyberwarfare Commander Assassinated

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57605795-83/irans-cyberwarfare-czar-is-allegedly-assassinated/

by ytNumbers • 13 years ago

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samstave• 13 years ago

Mossad + NSA == certain death.

devx• 13 years ago

I for one can't wait for this reveal:

http://rt.com/usa/nsa-assassination-leaks-greenwald-514/

jessaustin5• 13 years ago

I predict that the chucklehead faction on HN will be torn between two responses: "these are lies" and "this isn't news these programs have been in place forever everybody knows about it".

krapp• 13 years ago

Meanwhile the libertarians and liberals will fight over "this is just the inevitable consequence of the monopoly on violence that the state represents" and "clearly this means the government must have killed Aaron Swartz and Steve Jobs and that it's only a matter of time before the murder-squads come after you."

ianstallings2• 13 years ago

That statement really pisses me off. I'm a conservative. Am I going to say that? Predict me, since you're so good at it. What's coming next from me?

Edit: The OP changed their post. It said "conservative" not chucklehead.

pekk4• 13 years ago

Some things are lies, some are unverifiable, and other things have been in place forever and were either known or easily guessable.

Since these are three disjoint classes of things, this is not self-contradictory.

JackFr6• 13 years ago

It's a matter of record of record that President Obama has targeted and killed American citizens without trial or warrant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki

It would not surprise me if there were more.

canttestthis• 13 years ago

I would like examples of Obama authorizing the assassination of journalists/activists/etc., and not someone who's been called the "bin Laden of the Internet". Its much easier to be outraged about extrajudicial killings when the target isn't linked to Al Qaeda.

jessaustin5• 13 years ago

More informative source from which this is cribbed:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/10...

guelo• 13 years ago

Israel is a dangerous rogue state.

edit: for spelling.

mikeyouse• 13 years ago

    Israel is a dangerous rouge state.

Slightly red-pinkish?

cmwelsh• 13 years ago

Israel should cut down on the makeup.

dragonwriter• 13 years ago

Israel is a dangerous rouge state.

rouge (noun): a red powder or cream used as a cosmetic for coloring the cheeks or lips

rouge (noun): (in Canadian football) a single point awarded when the receiving team fails to run a kick out of its own end zone.

JackFr6• 13 years ago

Canadian football is crazy.

foobarqux• 13 years ago

Second most irritating misspelling after "loose".

3am• 13 years ago

Wow, super trenchant analysis. They don't even know if it was Mossad, but glad you could chime in. And nice job ignoring the regional context. Because you know, who keeps Hezbollah afloat in Lebanon, and is helping to destabilize their northern (Syria vis a vis the Revolutionary Guard helping out Hezbollah fighters aligned with the Assad govt) and southern (Egypt vis a via aid for the Muslim brotherhood) borders?

Not a Zionist, and not claiming the US or Israel is 'good', but your post _sucks_.

znowi• 13 years ago

Yes. Israel's tactics is generally to incite conflict, pull in the west countries (mainly the US), thus solving their geopolitical goals.

You can in fact trace the birth of modern terrorism right back to establishment of the Israeli state in the Middle East.

The moment the US stops supporting Israel will mark the end of War on Terror.

tptacek2• 13 years ago

It's like a C-SPAN call-in show here.

gadders2• 13 years ago

Yeah, and all the Islamofascists in the neighbouring states will call all the Jews that live there. Hooray!

patrickaljord• 13 years ago

Top thread comment is a blank anti-Israel comment with no arguments. Congrats guys, you've officially turned HN into a mix of r/politics and r/worldnews.

tptacek2• 13 years ago

Zionist scum.

gadders2• 13 years ago

Israel is a liberal democracy surrounded by countries that want to eliminate it from the map and kill all the Jews within its borders.

afarrell2• 13 years ago

When you play the game of drones, you win... or you die.

redcircle2• 13 years ago

If this was state sponsored, is it a crime or an act of war?

ihsw• 13 years ago

Does it matter? They have no recourse.

nathanm412• 13 years ago

It could be grounds for either. Whether an act is grounds for war doesn't necessarily mean that the country is in a position to strike back. If Israel did this, Iran probably couldn't afford to strike back militarily without incurring the full wrath of Israel's military. They'd also have to be extremely lucky to not have the US get involved as well.

fiatmoney• 13 years ago

An "act of war" is anything a state decides to go to war over. Given that these assassinations have been going on for several years, evidently not.

redcircle2• 13 years ago

Then perhaps there is a third category: an act of terror.

pekk4• 13 years ago

Is Iran's intervention in Syria a crime or an act of war?

mladenkovacevic3• 13 years ago

You know I read about this story this morning, and it actually contained Mojtaba Ahmadi's official title which I can't remember right now but it certainly wasn't "cyberwarfare czar". That makes him sound like some fuckin' cocaine-fueled warlord demanding ransoms out of a cave, and not a government official.

pekk4• 13 years ago

Government officials in the US are often called czars. It's not an item of propaganda, it's just an informal way of talking in English.

mladenkovacevic3• 13 years ago

Oh ok. Yeah calling him a czar makes him sound super independent and unpredictable.

Then again in Canada we have the ombudsmen.

revelation• 13 years ago

You will be delighted to know theres a "drug czar" in the US. It sounded weird to me, too.

blah32497• 13 years ago

I think the idea behind the "czar" title is that the official has more authority to change the underlying organization and it lets the government pretend it's not a giant bureaucracy.

rplacd• 13 years ago

And just in time, too, for a good chance at rapprochement - the Salafists and Israel's conservative faction may see face-to-face on foreign policy for once.

swamp40• 13 years ago

said to be found with two bullet wounds near his heart.

Certainly sounds like Mossad. Fum, Fum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM4h4TsEDqE

bandy• 13 years ago

And we know that he wasn't taken out by another faction within Iran because…? I'm reminded of the purges that Stalin was so fond of.

Iran's Cyberwarfare Commander Assassinated

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