How Israel Deployed  A.I System To Kill Khamenei — Cyber-security Expert

By Olumuyiwa Olumuyiwa

Professor Oludare Ogunlana, a renowned global security analyst, has highlighted the significance of technology in this modern era, particularly the advent of artificial intelligence which has caused monumental advancements in all walks of life.

Ogunlana made this known in a viral video where he talked about how the Israel and its ally, the U.S,  deployed artificial intelligence to eliminate forrmer Islamic leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and its retinue of aides  and security detail not excluding some members of his family as well.

The US-based cybersecurity guru described the development as “the single most consequential application of artificial intelligence in the history of warfare” underlining the ingenuity of man to achieve his goals in any field of human endeavours on a grand scale in this time and age.

Ogunlana referenced opinions of other cyber security experts in foreign media like NPR, Financial Times etc about how the duo of Israel and the U.S marshalled their array of digital resources, high-tech intelligence and military hardware to pull off Khamenei’s assassination.

While emphasizing that artificial intelligence has become a kind of modern wizardry that could be exploited for both constructive and destructive projects depending on the intention of its users, Ogunlana quoted Omar Ben Jacobs, a cybersecurity reporter for the Israeli newspaper , who  claimed that Israel likely used what he described  as ” a cutting edge data processing of a big data fusion technique.”

According to Ogunlana, the outcome of what Jacobs described was “a penetration of urban surveillance infrastructure at a scale that’s almost incomprehensible” stressing that I

He continued, “Israeli synthesized traffic camera footage with deeply penetrated mobile phone network patterns of life analysis, movement tracking and billions of  additional data to build  a kind of  comprehensive targeting banks. This kind of A.I system could tell Israeli planners not just where Khamenei was  but when his bodyguards part, how his protection detail move, what their routines look like … and when a high-valued meeting was scheduled to take place at his compound.”

To make matters worse for the late supreme leader and his lieutenants, Ogunlana added that, “a separate cyber operation simultaneously disrupted the mobile phone networks in the immediate vicinity of Khomeini’s compound and his security detail could not receive any kind of warning call about the incoming attack”

The global security analyst further noted that  the communication blackout was ” surgical and localized to the moment of attack” while giving a graphic  description of events preceding the airstrikes that killed Khomeini.

Remarking on the development, the cybersecurity professor said what happened in Tehran has ” established new operational baseline for state level conflict that every nation, every military and every intelligence apparatus on the planet now has to reckon.”