It takes three days for Israeli Mossad agents working in Lebanon to locate Atwan. No one back at headquarters is surprised to be told he’s spending time with known leaders of Hezbollah.
The fifth week that Atwan is in Lebanon, one of the agents learns from one of his informants that Atwan is talking about a joint attack of Hezbollah and Hamas on Israel. His plan is simple: have Hezbollah strike along the whole northern border of Israel and Hamas strike along the whole Gaza strip simultaneously. According to his source, no date had yet been set as to when this is to take place.
Wattenberg doesn’t even hang up the phone after receiving this information. Cradling the receiver on his shoulder, he breaks the connection and immediately puts a call through to the prime minister. When he gets him on the phone, he quickly tells him what his agent has just reported.
“Do you believe this information to be true, Ariel?”
“Yes, Yaakov, I do. This information plus the amount of time that Atwan is spending with each group lends credence to what we’ve found out.”
“What do you plan to do, Ariel?”
“Well, our choices are that we can do nothing and just continue to monitor both groups to see if we can learn more without their realizing we know anything.”
“That’s just one choice,” Yaakov says. “What’s another choice?”
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