Hezbollah believed killed by car bomb..in Syria

DuH2 · #1 (**permalink**) 02-13-2008, 06:50 PM

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U.S. Official: World 'Better Place' With Death of Hezbollah Figure
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
DAMASCUS, Syria — One of the world's most wanted and elusive terrorists, Imad Mughniyeh, was killed by a car bomb in Syria nearly 15 years after dropping almost entirely from sight. The one-time Hezbollah security chief was implicated in attacks that killed hundreds of Americans in Lebanon in the 1980s, a string of brutal kidnappings and bombings of Jewish sites in Argentina.

The Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah and its top ally Iran accused Israel in the assassination, a charge denied by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office.

The United States welcomed the death of Mughniyeh, who was indicted in the U.S. over the 1985 hijacking of a TWA airliner in which a U.S. Navy diver was killed. The FBI had put a $5 million bounty on Mughniyeh.

"The world is a better place without this man in it," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack. "One way or the other he was brought to justice."

FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said the agency was waiting for confirmation of Mughniyeh's death and its circumstances. "If this information proves true, it would be considered good news in the ongoing fight against terrorism," he said.

Mughniyeh's death was the latest in a series of blows to major terror figures in recent weeks. Abu Laith al-Libi, a senior al-Qaida leader, was killed in late January by a missile fired by a U.S. drone in western Pakistan. This week, Pakistani security forces critically wounded and captured Mansour Dadullah, a top Taliban figure, in a firefight also near the Afghan border.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330525,00.html

usgrant7 · #2 (**permalink**) 02-13-2008, 06:56 PM

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Originally Posted by DuH2

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330525,00.html

A small crowd of admirers quietly slips out of the room and reflects on what they just accomplished. Then considers that $25m pay check and how they will spend it.

One says to another.

"Who's next on the list?"

concheet · #3 (**permalink**) 02-13-2008, 07:05 PM

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Israel, which has been blamed for numerous past assassinations of militant leaders in Arab countries but does not claim responsibility, distanced itself from his killing. "Israel rejects the attempt by terror groups to attribute to it any involvement in this incident. We have nothing further to add," Olmert's office said in a statement.

Mughniyeh, born on Dec. 7, 1962, in the south Lebanon village of Tair Debba, joined the nascent Hezbollah in the early 1980s and formed a militant cell known as Islamic Jihad, or Islamic Holy War, said to be Hezbollah's strike arm though the group denies any link to it.

He is accused of masterminding the first major suicide bombing to target Americans: the April 1983 car bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut that killed 63 people, including 17 Americans. He is also blamed for a more devastating attack that came six months later, when suicide attackers detonated truck bombs at the barracks of French and U.S. peacekeeping forces in Beirut, killing 59 French paratroopers and 241 American Marines.

He was indicted in the United States for the 1985 hijacking of TWA flight 847, during which Shiite militants shot Navy diver Robert Stethem, who was a passenger on the plane, and dumped his body on the tarmac of Beirut airport. The hijacking produced one of the most iconic images of pre-9/11 terrorism, a photo of the jet's pilot leaning out the cockpit window with a gunman waving a pistol in front of his face.

In the 1980s Mughniyeh was also believed to have directed a string of kidnappings of Americans and other foreigners in Lebanon, including the Associated Press's chief Mideast correspondent Terry Anderson — who was held for six years until his release in 1991 — and CIA station chief William Buckley, who was tortured by his captors and killed in 1985.

"I can't say I'm either surprised or sad (by his death). He was not a good man. Certainly, the primary actor in my kidnapping and many others," Anderson told AP on Wednesday. "To hear that his career has finally ended is a good thing and it's appropriate that he goes up in a car bomb."

Too bad he wasn't got sooner. Doubtless it was a 'work accident.'

A hijacker threatens Captain John Testrake
as he leans from the cockpit of TWA Flight 847,
Beirut airport, Jun.1985

Herkdriver · #4 (**permalink**) 02-14-2008, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by DuH2

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330525,00.html

Matthew 26:52

All who draw the sword will die by the sword.

DuH2 · #5 (**permalink**) 02-14-2008, 05:04 PM

Hezbollah is threatening Revenge on Israel for it..maybe even War.(Israel afaik went on alert)

Going to be interesting if/when Hezbollah starts lobbing rockets into Israel from the same position they did it last year
..after the UN "disarmed them and made them leave the area" of course

Blame Kofi Annan?..wouldn't suprise me.

DuH2 · #6 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 12:46 AM

skeptic-f · #7 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 04:53 AM

The only people with the resources and the need to carry out the bombing in Syria is Mossad (Israel's spy agency). They were fully justified in removing the scuzzball, but why lie about their involvement? The only reason I can think of is that they would be accused of being terrorists themselves, but that's rather strained logic when the people you are killing are definitely terrorists themselves.

In my opinion, they should have said "Yeah, we killed him because he deserved it for all his terrorist acts. In fact, we intend to do the same to anybody else like him that we can get to, so watch what you do, *insert perjorative here* s". That part of the world isn't going to like them anyway, so a little healthy fear may be all the Israelis can generate there.

concheet · #8 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by skeptic-f

The only people with the resources and the need to carry out the bombing in Syria is Mossad (Israel's spy agency). They were fully justified in removing the scuzzball, but why lie about their involvement? The only reason I can think of is that they would be accused of being terrorists themselves, but that's rather strained logic when the people you are killing are definitely terrorists themselves.

In my opinion, they should have said "Yeah, we killed him because he deserved it for all his terrorist acts. In fact, we intend to do the same to anybody else like him that we can get to, so watch what you do, *insert perjorative here* s". That part of the world isn't going to like them anyway, so a little healthy fear may be all the Israelis can generate there.

Maybe the Americans killed him. I imagine the CIA has killed one or two such terrorists in their day. The Israelis will usually admit their involvement or leave it as an open question. They seldom deny if in fact they actually did something.

SenaxFlatulus · #9 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 11:59 PM

He, like many to follow, will not live a long life to die of old age.

DuH2 · #10 (**permalink**) 02-17-2008, 12:23 AM

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