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Israel wants to assassinate terror leaders worldwide

The Excerpt

USA TODAY

News, Daily News

4.11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

USA TODAY Domestic Security Correspondent Josh Meyer explains Israel's global assassination campaign, and what it might mean for the region.

The White House was in the dark for days about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's hospitalization.

Lawmakers announce a funding agreement that could help avoid a government shutdown.

USA TODAY Health Breaking News Reporter Eduardo Cuevas looks at new research around ibogaine and combat veterans' PTSD.

The Golden Globes ramped up film award season.


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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Monday January 8th, 2024. This is the

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excerpt. Today we look at Israel's vowed campaign to kill terror leaders worldwide.

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Plus lawmakers have reached a funding agreement to try and avoid a government shutdown.

0:31.0

And how Ibegan appears to help combat veterans for PTSD.

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Yesterday marked three months and Hamas militants in Israel killed some 1,200 people and took 240 hostages.

0:44.6

In the months since, Israel has slammed Gaza

0:46.8

with air and ground strikes,

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killing at least 22,000 people

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while displacing the vast majority of Gaza's 2.3 million person. people while Israel last

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3 million person population.

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Meanwhile Israel last week promised a repeat of the so-called

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Wrath of God campaign launched in the 1970s.

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I spoke with USA Today, Domestic Security correspondent

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Josh Meyer about what the current campaign may entail.

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Josh, thanks for making the time.

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Always Taylor.

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So Josh, I want to just get a little bit of history here at the top.

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What was Israel's so-called Wrath of God campaign in the 1970s?

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So Wrath of God was a campaign that Masad, the Israeli Intelligence Agency launched after Palestinian

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terrorists killed 11 Israeli Olympic athletes and coaches during the Munich Olympics in 1972.

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