Posted on 02/18/2008 2:31:48 AM PST by maquiladora
"It won't be long before the conceited Zionists realize that Imad Mughniyah's blood is extremely costly, and it makes history and brings about a new victory," Hezbollah's head of the southern Lebanon region, Sheikh Nabil Kauk, said Sunday at a memorial service for the arch-terrorist who was killed in a car explosion in Damascus last week.
auk, who spoke in Mughniyah's home village, Tayr Debba, in south Lebanon, added that Israel was "standing on one leg of fear and trepidation, having become the hostage of its own act of stupidity."
Kauk spoke at a ceremony attended by the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, Hezbollah senior officials and representatives from the Amal terrorist group, Fatah and representatives from the Lebanese army.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak also said Sunday that he anticipated Hezbollah would try to retaliate for the assassination, possibly with help from Syria and Iran. But he added that "it will take a long time before a worthy replacement is found to take Mughinyah's place."
Meanwhile, foreign media published details about the attack. The Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai reported that the hit was perpetrated by security personnel of "an Arab state that shares a border with Syria," using American technology.
The report said Mughniyah was killed by a blast from an explosive charge that contained 3,000 metal fragments, as he was passing near the car that carried the bomb.
The funding for the assassination, according to Al-Rai, came from one of the Gulf states. The final decision to carry out the attack came from Jerusalem, the paper claimed. Israel's Channel 2 said the assassination involved interested parties from Lebanon.
According to "informed Israel sources" cited by London's Sunday Times, it was Israel's Mossad spy agency that carried out the car bombing that killed Mughniyah.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
On the contrary, experience has shown that when Israel pursues a policy of taking out the heads of terror organizations, attacks against it decline. Basically it’s okay to send little Hamed or Achmed out to blow himself up, but the big boys don’t have much of an appetite for martyrdom.
“...but the big boys don’t have much of an appetite for martyrdom.”
That’s a fact.
A Claymore will ruin your day, and if anyone needed it that was him.
I'm afraid thats certainly not true when it comes to Hezbollah leaders who have been killed.
Consider history :
On Feb. 16, 1992 Israel killed Hezbollah leader Sheik Abbas Musawi. Hezbollah took revenge in several forms :
* 5 days of deadly rocket attacks against northern Israel.
* On March 7, Ehud Sadan, chief of security at the Israeli Embassy in Ankara killed by a Hezbollah car bomb.
* Ten days after that, Hezbollah men blew up the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29 people and wounding more than 220.
* Two years later, in July of 1994, a suicide bomber struck at the offices of a Jewish community organization in Buenos Aires, killing 85.
The idea that Hezbollah will not try and retaliate against Mugniyah's killing is bizarre.
“it will take a long time before a worthy replacement is found to take Mughinyah’s place.”
The Israelis are between the “proverbial rock and the hard place” there will be no peace with some of their neighbors.
There is no doubt that he needed to be taken out, but we need to be braced for what will follow.
According to "informed Israel sources" cited by London's Sunday Times, it was Israel's Mossad spy agency that carried out the car bombing that killed Mughniyah.
I'll bet there's a lot more collaboration between these supposed "enemies" than most of us realize.
The operative word is “decline.” The death penalty, for example, doesn’t obviate murder. It makes would-be murderers more circumspect, and hence lowers the murder rate.
I don’t know about the rest of you folks, but I really get tired of listing to these fools shoot their mouths off, talk big and bad but never deliver. They always bite off more than they can chew. Amen.
Didn’t they have a string of “leaders” they took out a couple of years ago? I remember they would replace one and the next one wasn’t very long on the job. Seems like it was about the time of Yassin. Hope they keep it up.
“Basically it’s okay to send little Hamed or Achmed out to blow himself up, but the big boys don’t have much of an appetite for martyrdom.”
Funny how that works.
but we need to be braced for what will follow.
No doubt the nest has been stirred up.
Every second we are reading these things the Iranians are spinning gas in their sub-basements getting ready to make this come true. We had better react to that if we know what is good for us. That’s the kind of “change” I want nothing to do with.
Imad Mughniyeh, RIH: His Relatives and Operatives’ Relatives Thrive in Dearbornistan
FISA, anyone?
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Funny, I never noticed that about Israel before; I have noticed 3, 4, or 5 Arab Armies (each by itself, larger than the whole IDF) running in terror with their "tails between their legs" like the dogs they are on at least 3 or 4 occasions during the past 60 years or so.
So much for "Inshallah"...
Yes, but it was Mugniyah who was behind or carried out the acts you have listed.
If Hezbollah can’t replace him quickly. they will have a lot of trouble retaliating.
“I don’t know about the rest of you folks, but I really get tired of listing to these fools shoot their mouths off, talk big and bad but never deliver. They always bite off more than they can chew. Amen.”
Hezbollah is not AQ. they do a lot more than just run their mouths. I suspect we will be hearing from them shortly. And if we don’t, it will only be b/c their masters in Iran and Syria have tightened the leash for some reason
Bin Laden, knowing that the Northern Alliance was a big threat on his flank, his murdered the much beloved General Moussad.
Could it be that the Mossad-CIA took out this guy to severely cripple the command structure of Hizbullah, on Israel's flank, prior to a pre-emptive stike on Iran?
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