Report: Attempt on Barak's life foiled in Singapore
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Kuwait's Al-Jarida newspaper reported Thursday that Israel was able to prevent an assassination attempt on Defense Minister Ehud Barak, during his visit to Singapore this week.
According to the report, the Mossad – collaborating with local authorities – was able to stop the assassins, who planned on targeting Barak during his visit to the Singapore Air Show.
The newspaper based its report on information from "high ranking Israeli defense officials."
Al-Jarida went on to quote the sources as saying that prior to Barak's visit, the Israeli intelligence agency contacts Singapore authorities and gave them "highly classified information suggesting a cell comprising of Iranian and Hezbollah operatives were planning to assassinate the Israeli defense minister."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4190665,00.html
edit - it's a little odd that this is showing up first in a Kuwaiti paper but the fact that three suspects have been detained lends credence to the story IMO.
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