Posted on 02/13/2008 12:52:19 AM PST by HAL9000
BTTT thank you for this.
Ping
You’re very welcome cgk.
I’ll hang out here to put up some archived stuff for awhile.
PING
Now it looks even more like a turf war.
UPDATE:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3506203,00.html
“Hizbullah announces Imad Mugniyah killed”
SNIPPET: “Senior Hizbullah military leader believed to be the mastermind behind attacks against Jewish center in Buenos Aires in 1994 and US military barracks in Beirut in 1983 killed in mysterious blast in Damascus. Hizbullah blames Israel”
News agencies
Published: 02.13.08, 11:00 / Israel News
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Israel declined to comment on Mugniyah’s death.
“We have released no statement on this matter,” said Mark Regev, spokesman for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, after Hizbullah accused Israel of being behind Tuesday’s attack.
Mugniyah is believed by Israel to have been involved in planning the 1992 bombing of Israel’s embassy in Argentina in which 29 people were killed and the blast at a Buenos Aires Jewish center two years later that killed 95.
The Hizbullah commander was also involved in numerous terror attacks on Israel’s border with Lebanon, including the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers Benny Avraham, Adi Avitan and Omar Souad, and apparently also the abduction of Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser.”
It could be, or it could have been a work accident.
Whatever, if he’s confirmed dead — that is very good news.
Whatever is right! “He’s dead Jim.”
Absolutely.
More Details - UPDATE:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202742146147&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Feb 13, 2008 11:42 | Updated Feb 13, 2008 11:52
“’Mugnhiyeh was co-founder of Hizbullah’”
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Born in the Lebanese city of Tyre in 1962, Mughniyeh did not attract attention until 1976, when he joined Force 17 as a sniper targeting Christians on the Green Line dividing West and East Beirut.
Mugniyah has since been implicated in numerous terrorist attacks against the US, France and Israel in which hundreds of people were killed. These include three in 1983: the bombings of the US Embassy in Beirut and barracks housing US Marines and French paratroopers who were part of the Multinational Force in Lebanon.
He has also been linked to the Karine A weapons ship that Arafat tried to use to smuggle arms into the Gaza Strip in 2001.
On October 10, 2001 Mughniyeh appeared on the FBI’s first “Top 22 Most Wanted Terrorists” list. A reward of $25 million was offered for information leading to his capture.”
BIG DITTO.
“Mughniyeh was killed in a car bombing in Damascus late Tuesday night.”
If he was in the car, that makes him Abu Bin Akar in my book.
That’s another way of putting it.
Thank you James.
Imad, the shia terrorist mastermind, was a major player. This is a big defeat for the islamists. It is the equivalent of the Southern forces losing Stonewall Jackson. Mugniyah was a brilliant strategist and a tactical genius. This is a severe blow to our enemies.
THANK YOU IDF!!!!!!!!!!
stepping back in time...
WorldNetDaily.com: "AHMADINEJAD RECRUITS HEZBOLLAH TERROR CHIEF 'When the Iranians decide to hit the West in its soft belly, Imad will be the 1 to act'" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Mugniyah and the Iranian president met with leaders of Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and Hamas in Damascus in what has been called a "terror summit" because of the number of groups that have carried out attacks on Israel and Israelis over the years.") (April 23, 2006) (Read More...)
NYSUN.com: "A MOST-WANTED TERRORIST IS SPOTTED IN SYRIA" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "One of the American government's most wanted terrorists visited Syria late last week with Iran's President Ahmadinejad, according to a former Reagan administration national security official and Iran watchers on Capitol Hill.")(January 25, 2006) (Read More...) (NOTE: This url may expire.)
INTELLIGENCE-SUMMIT.blogspot.com (AKI): Beirut - "LEBANON: HEZBOLLAH'S PIONEERING 'MEDIA WARRIORS'" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Although registered as a political party in Lebanon, Hezbollah, which receives backing from Iran and Syria, maintains a militia which controls most of southern Lebanon. A UN Security Council Resolution has called on all militias in Lebanon to disband.") (April 5, 2006) (Read More...)
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSL127723220080212
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded in a residential area of the Syrian capital on Tuesday, killing one man and injuring two, witnesses said.
“We saw security officers hauling the body away,” one of the witnesses said.
Security officials at the scene refused to comment.
Witnesses saw a mangled white car being towed away by police who cordoned off the area, which houses an Iranian school, a police station and a main Syrian intelligence office.
No further details were immediately available but the witnesses and a Palestinian source in neighboring Lebanon said the blast was caused by a bomb planted inside the vehicle.
A few more details...
http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/getstory?openform&E6F4B4CD79812C48C22573EE00340648
“Hizbullah’s Imad Mughniyeh Killed, Israel Blamed”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “American intelligence officials have described Mughniyeh as Hizbullah’s operations chief and was believed to have moved between Lebanon, Syria and Iran in disguise.
His last public appearance was believed to be at the funeral of his brother Fouad, who was killed on Dec. 12, 1994, when a booby-trapped car blew up in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Syrian security forces on Tuesday quickly sealed off the area of the blast and removed the destroyed Mitsubishi Pajero, which had its driver’s seat and the rear seat blown away by the force of the explosion.
Witnesses in Damascus said that a passerby was killed as security forces removed the body, but Syrian authorities would not give details.
Iran’s English-language satellite station Press TV said an Iranian school and a Syrian intelligence office were in the same area of Kafar Soussa where the explosion occurred.
Mughniyeh’s assassination was the first major attack against a leader of Hizbullah since the 1992 helicopter strike that killed the party’s secretary-general Sheikh Abbas Moussawi in southern Lebanon.(AP-AFP-Naharnet)”
Beirut, 13 Feb 08, 11:32
Occupational hazards BTTT!
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