The Israeli Mossad agents who were apprehended in Switzerland in February reportedly wanted to assassinate businessmen suspected of helping Hezbollah acquire biological and chemical weapons. A report in the London Times quoted an unidentified Mossad agent who said the Swiss operation was approved by former Mossad leader Danny Yatom in an effort to salvage his reputation, which was sullied after an attempted Mossad assassination of a Hamas leader in Jordan last September.
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