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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Wretched Excess on February 13, 2008, 09:37:59 AM
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Top Hezbollah Commader Killed in Syria
U.S. Target Accused of Masterminding Suicide Bombings, Hijackings
BEIRUT, Feb. 13 -- Imad Mughniyeh, a senior but shadowy Hezbollah commander accused by the United States and Israel of masterminding suicide bombings, hijackings and hostage-takings that spanned 25 years, was killed by a car bomb in the Syrian capital of Damascus, the Shiite Muslim group and other officials said Wednesday.
Hezbollah accused Israel of carrying out the attack on Mughniyeh, a charge that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office denied. In the past, Israeli officials have rarely confirmed or denied their involvement in assassinations abroad.
The elusiveness of Mughniyeh, long a target of U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies , rivaled only that of Osama bin Laden and stretched over many more years. Until Sept. 11, 2001, the attacks for which the United States blamed him represented some of the deadliest strikes against Americans, at home or abroad. Along with bin Laden, he was included on the list of 22 "most wanted terrorists" released by President Bush a month after the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Although Hezbollah has always denied a role, the United States accused him of orchestrating two bombings of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut -- in 1983 and 1984 -- killing 72 people. Among the victims was Robert Ames, then the CIA's top Middle East expert. Even more devastating were the suicide truck bombings organized against U.S. Marines and French paratroopers in Beirut in October 1983. Together, those attacks killed 300 people.
Israel accused Mughniyeh, 45, of masterminding the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires that killed 87 people and of a role in a 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in the Argentine capital that killed 28. He was wanted by the authorities there.
"With pride and honor, we announce the martyrdom of a great resistance leader who joined the procession of martyrs in the Islamic resistance," said a statement read on al-Manar, Hezbollah's television station, and published on its Web site. "The martyr, may his soul rest in peace, has been a target of the Zionists for more than 20 years."
Story (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021300494.html?hpid=topnews)
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was killed by a car bomb
The lucky devil escaped waterboarding. That's the important thing.
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One more down.
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One more down.
If I wasn't afraid it would screw up the ordinance, if I was the one loading the missiles onto the drones I would spray them in pig oil.
Maybe we need to start a rumor that we are doing just that.
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The Israelis know how to reach out to someone.
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it was the jooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooossssssssssssssssss
:-)
one more waste of a zygote down.
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if it hadnt been for talk radio yesterday, i would have never known about this.. and its HUGE..
granted, who injected those idiots in the ass with human growth hormone seems far more important to our political leaders.. :whatever:
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if it hadnt been for talk radio yesterday, i would have never known about this.. and its HUGE..
granted, who injected those idiots in the ass with human growth hormone seems far more important to our political leaders.. :whatever:
....but...but...but he was a "suspected" terrorist and really wan't a big deal..(tin foil DU mode). At least that's how Newsweek reported it. The NY Slimes even ran photos of this scumbag's "grieving" relatives.
:censored: :banghead:
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I read or heard somewhere today that the bomb was under his seat in the car. Inside job. Let the conspiracies begin, and look for an Israeli Embassy to get bombed.
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Ron Paul could have saved him!
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Ya know something, gang? I don't think it was the Israelis.
Let's remember which countries have felt the sting of Mughniyeh--among others, the US, Argentina, Iarael . . . and France.
The French are pissed at Syria and Hezbollah for muddling in Lebanon, where the French still have significant interests and contacts. They also have an extensive intel apparatus still in the Middle East.
I think the French did it. And, good on them.
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Ya know something, gang? I don't think it was the Israelis.
Let's remember which countries have felt the sting of Mughniyeh--among others, the US, Argentina, Iarael . . . and France.
The French are pissed at Syria and Hezbollah for muddling in Lebanon, where the French still have significant interests and contacts. They also have an extensive intel apparatus still in the Middle East.
I think the French did it. And, good on them.
Could have easily been a rival faction in Hezbollah or a rival gang.
Fact is: we don't know; I'm just enjoying the warm glow.