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Israeli spying equipment has been found hidden in artificial rocks on an uninhabited island opposite the Syrian port of Tartus, where it was being used to monitor Russian naval movements.
Three large espionage devices were discovered by fishermen on the tiny Ant Island near a naval base regarded by Moscow as an important strategic asset in the Mediterranean.
They were mounted in fake rocks designed to blend in with surrounding boulders.
According to Al-Manar, a pro-Syrian television station in neighbouring Lebanon, the rocks could track and film Russian warship movements and instantly transmit pictures back to Israel by satellite.
Syrias state-run television showed a camera, a satellite dish and other objects including batteries and cables secreted among several imitation rocks.
They are understood to have been installed by divers from Flotilla 13, Israels elite naval commando unit. They approached the island from one of the countrys German-built Dolphin class submarines, which are armed with nuclear cruise missiles.
The commandos immediate problem was not so much being spotted by the Syrians as the risk of detection by friendly patrols from the US Sixth Fleet and a British monitoring station in Cyprus that keeps a close watch on the Syrian coastline.
The commandos had apparently visited the island earlier to obtain samples so the colour and shape of local rocks could be matched and the right position for the monitoring station established.
Under cover of darkness the frogmen ferried the equipment on two inflatable dinghies equipped with silent outboard motors to Ant Island where they spent several hours installing it, disguising it and ensuring that the satellite links were operational.
They had been given a tight time window to be back on the submarine before local fishermen returned to port.......... read more Israel’s fake rocks spy on Russian naval movements | The News Informer
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