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Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-shared-iranian-general-soleimani-022214283.html
Israel Shared Iranian General Soleimani's Cell Phones with U.S. Intelligence before Drone Strike
(Yahoo News) Paul Best - Israel shared three cell phone numbers used by Qasem Soleimani with U.S. intelligence in the hours before American drones unleashed Hellfire missiles on the Iranian general in Baghdad on Jan. 2, 2020, Yahoo News reported Saturday. The State Department says Soleimani was responsible for hundreds of U.S. troop deaths as head of the Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force. "In the six hours before Soleimani boarded his flight from Damascus, the Iranian general switched cellphones three times, according to a U.S. military official," the report said. "In Tel Aviv, U.S. Joint Special Operations Command liaisons worked with their Israeli counterparts to help track Soleimani's cellphone patterns. The Israelis, who had access to Soleimani's numbers, passed them off to the Americans, who traced Soleimani and his current phone to Baghdad." Prior to Soleimani's death, Israeli intelligence shared intelligence with the CIA about an Iranian who was leaving the country to pick up cell phones for Iranian leaders. U.S. intelligence was then able to plant bugged cell phones for the courier to buy, according to the report.