Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Real Life Spies: good and bad

Two interesting articles appeared in today's news, both about spying. The first news item says that Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terrorist organization based in Lebanon, has recently discovered that an Israeli Mossad agent was secretly pretending to be Hezbollah Chief Nasrallah's close aid, rising to the elite branches of Hezbollah. But really, this man was an Israeli spy finding out information about Hezbollah and passing it back to Israel! He is credited with stopping Hezbollah from doing several attacks against Israel. What dangers do you think this brave Israeli spy faced

The second news item says that Israel's Mossad alerted Peruvian police that a Lebanese Hezbollah agent, Mohammad Hamdar (age 29) was living in Peru, married to a Peruvian woman, and planning on carrying out attacks in Lima. Locate Peru on a map and find the capital Lima. Mohammad has a Sierra Leone passport (find on map). When police raided his apartment after receiving the tip from Israel, they found explosives, chemicals for use in bombs, and information on his computer with photos of important places in Lima. Why? What types of places? The places were the airport, banks, police stations, government buildings, hotels, etc. During interrogation, Mohammad admitted he was a Hezbollah member, hired in Beirut, given a fake identity, told to marry his Peruvian girlfriend and live in Peru.

There are three different spies in these articles. Can you name them all (two Israelis, 1 Hezbollah agent). Would you want to be a spy? Why or why not? 

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