Iran's Arch-Terror Master Wiped Off The Map in Syria

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Iran's Arch-Terror Master Killed in Syria

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

The man who master-minded a string of massive car-bombings against U.S. and

Israeli targets on behalf of Iran's radical Islamic government reportedly

was killed on Tuesday in a car-bomb attack in Damascus.

Imad Mugniyeh, a Lebanese Shiite who went to work for Iran's Revolutionary

Guards Corps shortly after the 1982 Lebanon war, was 46.

"He's gone to the other side," a U.S. official with access to ongoing U.S.

government reporting on the reported assassination told Newsmax.

Before the September 11 attacks, the FBI considered him the most wanted

terrorist in the world, since he was responsible for hundreds of American

deaths in repeated car-bomb attacks against the U.S. embassy in Beirut,

against the U.S. Marines compound in Beirut, and elsewhere.

He was formally identified by U.S. intelligence for his personal involvement

in the kidnapping and torture of CIA Beirut station chief William Buckley in

1984, the murder of USMC Colonel Rich Higgins, and the kidnapping of

Associated Press reporter Terry Anderson.

Interpol issued an international arrest warrant for him last year for his

involvement in the July 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos

Aires, Argentina, that killed 86 people.

As I revealed in Countdown to Crisis: the Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran,

Mugniyeh also was identified in top-secret National Security Agency

intercepts obtained by the 9/11 commission shortly before they released

their final report in July 2004..

The intercepts identified Mugniyeh as traveling on board several Iran Air

flights from Damascus to Tehran between October 2000 and February 2001 that

carried eight to ten of the "muscle" hijackers who would later carry out the

9/11 attacks on America.

In the 9/11 commission report, Mugniyeh is merely identified as a "senior

Hezbollah operative." But sources who reviewed the documents told me there

was no ambiguity whatsoever that Mugniyeh was the person on board the

planes, several of which made a quick stop-over in Beirut where some of the

hijackers came on board.

A former Iranian intelligence officer, now living in exile in Germany, told

me this morning that he recalled Mugniyeh's role in convoying the al Qaeda

hijackers to Iran.

The former Iranian intelligence officer, who knew Mugniyeh personally when

he was in Iran, says the Lebanese terrorist had been dispatched from Tehran

to meet the hijackers, but never got off the plane.

"He was on the airplane as a security officer. I remember that," the former

Iranian intelligence officer told me today.

Mugniyeh burst onto the international scene in 1985, when the FBI found his

fingerprints in the rear toilet of TWA flight 847 that a group of Hezbollah

operatives had hijacked to Beirut.

Mugniyeh and the his fellow hijackers are wanted by the FBI for their

cold-blooded murder of U.S. Navy diver Robbie Stethem, who was traveling

home from an assignment in Greece on board TWA 847.

The terrorists shot Stethem and dumped his body out on the tarmac, in front

of television cameras.

After that attack, Mugniyeh never appeared in public again, and is said to

have undergone multiple plastic surgery operations in Iran to significantly

alter his appearance.

One of his former colleagues in Iran told me three years ago that he now

looks like "Richard Gere with a potbelly."

The photograph that was released by Hezbollah's al-Manar television today

when they announced his death bears little resemblance to the Hollywood

actor. But the bearded man wearing glasses and army fatigues certainly has

grown a pot belly.

For more than two decades, Mugniyeh ran Hezbollah's international terrorist

and security operations.

According to a childhood friend I called this morning in Dearborn, Michigan,

"everyone is crying" over his death.

"There is no doubt. That was Imad," he told me.

In Lebanon, the childhood friend said that Mugniyeh was known as "Haj

Radwan. Nobody says 'Emad' in Lebanon."

Hezbollah suspects that Syria may have played a part in Mugniyeh's killing,

Newsmax has learned from sources close to senior leaders in the terrorist

organization.

"He was killed as he was going to meet Roustam Ghazali, the head of Syrian

military intelligence in Beirut," a Newsmax source in close contact with the

Hezbollah leadership told me this morning.

Ghazali is wanted by the international tribunal investigating the

car-bombing assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri on Feb.

14, 2005. His office is located in a luxury high-rise in the Kfar Soussa

area of Damascus, where Mugniyeh's car was blown up by an explosive charge.

Hezbollah plans to hold a massive public funeral for Mugniyeh tomorrow,

which also is the anniversary of Hariri's death.

The anti-Syrian Cedars Revolution, also known as the March 14 movement,

plans to hold a rival demonstration to commemorate Hariri's assassination at

the same time.

Just yesterday, a key leader of the March 14 movement, Walid Jumblatt,

warned Hezbollah and their backers in Syria and Iran that if they wanted

war, "we are ready."

Jumblatt said that pro-government militias were prepared to disarm

Hezbollah, if that became necessary.

Sources in Beirut tell Newsmax that two days before the car-bombing that

killed Mugniyeh, an 8-man team of U.S. paramilitary officers landed in

civilian clothing at the Beirut airport and was whisked away to the U.S.

embassy compound in the hills overlooking a Christian suburb of Beirut.

"We obviously can't comment on that," a U.S. government official said.

Hezbollah sources warned that they would retaliate for Mugniyeh's killing.

"Very soon, they we release information on who killed him," a source close

to the Hezbollah leadership told me.

"And after that, watch out. This is a very very big loss for Hezbollah. They

will strike back, and it could be anywhere in the world."

"Patriot Games" <Patriot@America.com> wrote in message

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> http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/Iran_terrorist_Mugniyeh/2008/02/13/72415.html

>

> Iran's Arch-Terror Master Killed in Syria

>

> Wednesday, February 13, 2008

>

Although educated in the most debilitating forms of asymmetrical warfare

people like him will always lose out because to put it bluntly they are as

thick as pigshit.

There aim is to keep the people that they wish to rule in the same level of

Islamic 6th century mindset as themselves.

So it is a good thing that he is dead and its quite funny the way he died.

"Before the Sept. 11th attacks, the FBI considered him the most wanted

terrorist in the world."

See a problem there?

"Patriot Games" <Patriot@America.com> wrote in message

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>

http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/Iran_terrorist_Mugniyeh/2008/02/13/72415.html

>

> Iran's Arch-Terror Master Killed in Syria

>

> Wednesday, February 13, 2008

>

> The man who master-minded a string of massive car-bombings against U.S.

and

> Israeli targets on behalf of Iran's radical Islamic government reportedly

> was killed on Tuesday in a car-bomb attack in Damascus.

>

> Imad Mugniyeh, a Lebanese Shiite who went to work for Iran's Revolutionary

> Guards Corps shortly after the 1982 Lebanon war, was 46.

>

> "He's gone to the other side," a U.S. official with access to ongoing U.S.

> government reporting on the reported assassination told Newsmax.

>

> Before the September 11 attacks, the FBI considered him the most wanted

> terrorist in the world, since he was responsible for hundreds of American

> deaths in repeated car-bomb attacks against the U.S. embassy in Beirut,

> against the U.S. Marines compound in Beirut, and elsewhere.

>

> He was formally identified by U.S. intelligence for his personal

involvement

> in the kidnapping and torture of CIA Beirut station chief William Buckley

in

> 1984, the murder of USMC Colonel Rich Higgins, and the kidnapping of

> Associated Press reporter Terry Anderson.

>

> Interpol issued an international arrest warrant for him last year for his

> involvement in the July 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos

> Aires, Argentina, that killed 86 people.

>

> As I revealed in Countdown to Crisis: the Coming Nuclear Showdown with

Iran,

> Mugniyeh also was identified in top-secret National Security Agency

> intercepts obtained by the 9/11 commission shortly before they released

> their final report in July 2004..

>

> The intercepts identified Mugniyeh as traveling on board several Iran Air

> flights from Damascus to Tehran between October 2000 and February 2001

that

> carried eight to ten of the "muscle" hijackers who would later carry out

the

> 9/11 attacks on America.

>

> In the 9/11 commission report, Mugniyeh is merely identified as a "senior

> Hezbollah operative." But sources who reviewed the documents told me there

> was no ambiguity whatsoever that Mugniyeh was the person on board the

> planes, several of which made a quick stop-over in Beirut where some of

the

> hijackers came on board.

>

> A former Iranian intelligence officer, now living in exile in Germany,

told

> me this morning that he recalled Mugniyeh's role in convoying the al Qaeda

> hijackers to Iran.

>

> The former Iranian intelligence officer, who knew Mugniyeh personally when

> he was in Iran, says the Lebanese terrorist had been dispatched from

Tehran

> to meet the hijackers, but never got off the plane.

>

> "He was on the airplane as a security officer. I remember that," the

former

> Iranian intelligence officer told me today.

>

> Mugniyeh burst onto the international scene in 1985, when the FBI found

his

> fingerprints in the rear toilet of TWA flight 847 that a group of

Hezbollah

> operatives had hijacked to Beirut.

>

> Mugniyeh and the his fellow hijackers are wanted by the FBI for their

> cold-blooded murder of U.S. Navy diver Robbie Stethem, who was traveling

> home from an assignment in Greece on board TWA 847.

>

> The terrorists shot Stethem and dumped his body out on the tarmac, in

front

> of television cameras.

>

> After that attack, Mugniyeh never appeared in public again, and is said to

> have undergone multiple plastic surgery operations in Iran to

significantly

> alter his appearance.

>

> One of his former colleagues in Iran told me three years ago that he now

> looks like "Richard Gere with a potbelly."

>

> The photograph that was released by Hezbollah's al-Manar television today

> when they announced his death bears little resemblance to the Hollywood

> actor. But the bearded man wearing glasses and army fatigues certainly has

> grown a pot belly.

>

> For more than two decades, Mugniyeh ran Hezbollah's international

terrorist

> and security operations.

>

> According to a childhood friend I called this morning in Dearborn,

Michigan,

> "everyone is crying" over his death.

>

> "There is no doubt. That was Imad," he told me.

>

> In Lebanon, the childhood friend said that Mugniyeh was known as "Haj

> Radwan. Nobody says 'Emad' in Lebanon."

>

> Hezbollah suspects that Syria may have played a part in Mugniyeh's

killing,

> Newsmax has learned from sources close to senior leaders in the terrorist

> organization.

>

> "He was killed as he was going to meet Roustam Ghazali, the head of Syrian

> military intelligence in Beirut," a Newsmax source in close contact with

the

> Hezbollah leadership told me this morning.

>

> Ghazali is wanted by the international tribunal investigating the

> car-bombing assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri on Feb.

> 14, 2005. His office is located in a luxury high-rise in the Kfar Soussa

> area of Damascus, where Mugniyeh's car was blown up by an explosive

charge.

>

> Hezbollah plans to hold a massive public funeral for Mugniyeh tomorrow,

> which also is the anniversary of Hariri's death.

>

> The anti-Syrian Cedars Revolution, also known as the March 14 movement,

> plans to hold a rival demonstration to commemorate Hariri's assassination

at

> the same time.

>

> Just yesterday, a key leader of the March 14 movement, Walid Jumblatt,

> warned Hezbollah and their backers in Syria and Iran that if they wanted

> war, "we are ready."

>

> Jumblatt said that pro-government militias were prepared to disarm

> Hezbollah, if that became necessary.

>

> Sources in Beirut tell Newsmax that two days before the car-bombing that

> killed Mugniyeh, an 8-man team of U.S. paramilitary officers landed in

> civilian clothing at the Beirut airport and was whisked away to the U.S.

> embassy compound in the hills overlooking a Christian suburb of Beirut.

>

> "We obviously can't comment on that," a U.S. government official said.

>

> Hezbollah sources warned that they would retaliate for Mugniyeh's killing.

> "Very soon, they we release information on who killed him," a source close

> to the Hezbollah leadership told me.

>

> "And after that, watch out. This is a very very big loss for Hezbollah.

They

> will strike back, and it could be anywhere in the world."

>

>

>

"Lee" <me@localhost> wrote in message

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> "Patriot Games" <Patriot@America.com> wrote in message

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>> http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/Iran_terrorist_Mugniyeh/2008/02/13/72415.html

>> Iran's Arch-Terror Master Killed in Syria

>> Wednesday, February 13, 2008

> Although educated in the most debilitating forms of asymmetrical warfare

> people like him will always lose out because to put it bluntly they are as

> thick as pigshit.

> There aim is to keep the people that they wish to rule in the same level

> of Islamic 6th century mindset as themselves.

> So it is a good thing that he is dead and its quite funny the way he died.

Excellent FUNNY!

"robw" <noddy093@comcast.net> wrote in message

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> "Before the Sept. 11th attacks, the FBI considered him the most wanted

> terrorist in the world."

>

> See a problem there?

Not now the bastard is in bits, prior to his demise the number of people he

had tortured, murdered or blown up is a bit of a problem though also their

relations and the traumatised and mutilated survivors if any.

What a twat, the people of the world are certainly better off without him.

That was nice, but it didn't answer my question.

"Lee" <me@localhost> wrote in message

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>

> "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net> wrote in message

> news:xf6dnU1z0O8iGinanZ2dnUVZ_jydnZ2d@comcast.com...

> > "Before the Sept. 11th attacks, the FBI considered him the most wanted

> > terrorist in the world."

> >

> > See a problem there?

>

>

> Not now the bastard is in bits, prior to his demise the number of people

he

> had tortured, murdered or blown up is a bit of a problem though also their

> relations and the traumatised and mutilated survivors if any.

> What a twat, the people of the world are certainly better off without him.

>

>

> Not now the bastard is in bits, prior to his demise the number of

> people he had tortured, murdered or blown up is a bit of a problem

> though also their relations and the traumatised and mutilated

> survivors if any. What a twat, the people of the world are

> certainly better off without him.

What part of the torture, murder, blowing people up problem does not

apply to the Bush regime even more than to some arab?

"robw" <noddy093@comcast.net> wrote in message

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> That was nice, but it didn't answer my question.

OK stop top posting as it confuses the issue.

My view is that the man was a terrorist, that means his role in life was to

frighten people into believing his world view. Now I would wish to head

shoot him.

Now explain your point and I will attempt to reply in an orderly manner if

you wish.

"Bert Byfield" <bertbyfield@nospam.not> wrote in message

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>> Not now the bastard is in bits, prior to his demise the number of

>> people he had tortured, murdered or blown up is a bit of a problem

>> though also their relations and the traumatised and mutilated

>> survivors if any. What a twat, the people of the world are

>> certainly better off without him.

>

> What part of the torture, murder, blowing people up problem does not

> apply to the Bush regime even more than to some arab?

>

>

>

>

The Daniel Pearl et al part. Some Arabs is a derogatory term and should not

be used to accompany liberal views. Some Arabs are decent human beings and

warriors and should not be grouped with terrorist scumbags.