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Awesomely intriguing story from yesterday that I didn't get a chance to post...apparently, in the city of Port Sudan (in...Sudan) a mysterious plane just flew on in and bombed a car with two men in it. Why is this intriguing? Well, it may seem obvious, but you have to ask yourself what kind of a plane can drop a bomb on a car? What kind of a plane can do that undetected? Um, duh, a fighter plane with precision-guided missiles. So did some drug gang or organized crime element acquire a fighter plane? Doubtful. This was the doing of a nation and clearly a very important mission given the risk of airspace violation, etc and so forth. Naturally, the first candidate to come to mind is Israel. Who has a need to hunt down bad guys that oftentimes hide out in lawless and/or corrupt nations? Israel. Who has the capability to fly in, deposit a munition precisely on a bad dude's melon, and get out of dodge lickety split? Israel. So if it is all so obvious, why is it intriguing? Because something covert is going on. It's spy stuff which is awesome by definition. And Sudan is a newcomer to the "getting bombed" club, so it brings in new possibilities and angles to the world-wide great game of covert warfare - a new front or at least something slightly juicier than your typical Gaza-based Hamas operative's whacking. Sudan's atypical profile along with its corrupt regime along with its geographic placement might even suggest that we have something related to a larger threat to Israel going on here. I'm thinking Raid on the Sun type intrigue. Could Israel have dispatched some folks who were somehow cogs in Iran's nuclear weapons development? Let's review: Corrupt regime basically owned by the Chinese who act as a protector of Iran, shipping port on the Red Sea, threats swirling to open the floodgates at the Egyptian/Gaza border... Nah, probably totally innocent. UPDATE: Stratfor says it was just a senior Hamas military commander. Run of the mill, nothing funky.