Good morning! Today, we talk about an operation to tackle alleged Hezbollah activities in Brazil. And the approval of the tax reform in the Senate.
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A Brazil-Mossad joint venture?
Brazil’s Federal Police on Wednesday arrested two men with suspected links to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. The arrests were part of an operation to “interrupt the preparation of terrorist acts and obtain evidence of the possible recruitment of Brazilians to carry out extremist acts in the country.”
Why it matters. Iranian-funded Hezbollah terrorists are believed to have carried out the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, one of the largest acts of terrorism in Latin America.
Cooperation. True to form, the Federal Police did not disclose many details of the operation — including the names of the suspects, their intended targets, or their affiliations. But the Israeli government had more to say.
- The Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence service, worked with Brazilian security services and other international agencies to foil a planned attack by Hezbollah against Jewish and Israeli...