(AP-Washington Post) Julia Frankel - Israel stunned and hobbled Iran when it pulled off an intelligence and military operation years in the making that struck high-level targets with precision. Guided by spies and artificial intelligence, the Israeli military unleashed a nighttime fusillade of warplanes and armed drones smuggled into Iran to quickly incapacitate many of its air defenses and missile systems. "This attack is the culmination of years of work by the Mossad to target Iran's nuclear program," said Sima Shine, former head of research at Israel's spy agency, the Mossad, and now an analyst at the Institute for National Security Studies. An intelligence officer involved with selecting individuals and sites to target said Israel used the latest artificial-intelligence (AI) technology to quickly sift through troves of intelligence.
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