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Posted on 02/16/2008 11:19:33 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
NOTHING seemed very remarkable about the short, bearded man who mingled with other guests on Tuesday evening at a reception in Damascus, the Syrian capital, to mark the 29th anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iranian revolution.
Yet before the night was over he was dead in the twisted wreckage of his car and the inevitable assumption was that Mossad, the Israeli foreign intelligence service, had killed him with an ingeniously planted bomb.
The news spread rapidly that the dead man was Imad Mughniyeh, an elusive figure known as “the Fox” who had been one of the world’s most feared terrorist masterminds.
Robert Baer, a former CIA agent who spent years on his trail, said Mughniyeh was “probably the most intelligent, most capable operative we’ve ever run across”.
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Minutes later he was seated in his silver Mitsubishi Pajero in a nearby street when a deafening blast ripped the car apart and killed him instantly.
According to Israeli intelligence sources, someone had replaced the headrest of the driver’s seat with another containing a small high-explosive charge. Israel welcomed his death but the prime minister’s office denied responsibility. Hezbollah accused the “Zionist Israelis” of killing its “brother commander” but believed the explosive had been detonated in another car by satellite.
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If you two can look at the pics at #68 and tell me it’s the exact same scene, then you are a housewives who couldn’t tell a duck from a hen.
Pathetic.
Know the lion by his claw:
This kind of device, a bomb placed in an innocuous object close to the target’s head, is almost a Mossad trademark.
If this had been some sort of inter-terrorist squabble, the bombers would have put a massive charge in a nearby vehicle and detonated it without caring how many others were killed.
Israel has to deny this publicly for various reasons but they want the terrorists to know.
Allah = Satan = Muhammad = Satan
And the X-rated paradise the Koran promises to Jihadists is actually a burning lake of fire. Muhammad is tormented there due to his mass murders and other unspeakable sins and Mugniyah will join him
Is there a difference? Between a duck and a hen I mean.
:-)
BTW - let’s assume you are right, where does it lead you? (Except that you’ll never serve a hen à l’orange.)
Now, I’ll really have to go - but I’ll check in later.
Naw, ‘round here we blacken our hens - accidentally, when we forget we’re BBQing ‘em as we’re swirling up margaritas - you hide and watch, girl.
POP goes the weasel...
“This kind of device, a bomb placed in an innocuous object close to the target’s head, is almost a Mossad trademark.”
Boy, and after I spent all that money on my plastic surgery, someone comes along and rearranges my face. Last time I’ll do that....
It lloks like he was concerned about global warming and the spiraling price of oil.
That was the first thing I thought of and I do believe you are right in your assumption, especially with the way the Mossad handled the 1972 Munich Olympics Black September group.
Those circle thingies are fog or may be steam from the blast. It appears that the pictures were taken near the same time.
I still believe the Syrians did it..They had opportunity and motive (wresting control back from Iran. Plus, car bombs are their specialty.
“The smoke and dirty lense just make the scene hard to examine.”
The circles are halo refletions from condensed moisture in the air. On the ones that are more or less in focus you can see a concentric circular structure. Its what you get with automatic digital cameras at night with moisture in the air.
Israel kills terror chief with pigskin headrest bomb.
Could've got the whole crew. And in a war, what would be wrong with attacking tens of thousands of Hezballah creeps chanting Death to America? America should bring them death from the skies. That would make them think twice about taking on the Great Satan.
America is still not at war with these creeps or we'd kill 'em.
Same car.
Come straight up from the front tire, center, to top of hoodline, then back for a short distance, maybe 6 inches.
You see the beginning of a triangular dent that starts there. This is a reaction to the explosive force driving the dashboard/firewall forward and crumpling the front fender as it did so. Visible in both images once you know where to look.
Numerous other points of agreement too.
The apparant “different car” problem stems mostly from the angle and flash. In the side on image, the flash reflects back off the plastic wheel well skirt, making it appear to be a metal flange, though if you look close at high magnification, you can see the texture and color are different than the bodywork above.
In the image from 10 o’clock, with the red car in the lower left corner, the wheel well skirt is angled off of the flash and comes through very dark, almost difficult to see. The key tg component recognition there is the pair of specular highlights immediately above the wheel. The most visible is the orange one on the actual bodywork, which is almost certainly a reflection of a mercury vapor street light.
Below and just to the rear of it is a smaller and much less intense reflection off the plastic wheel skirt, defining its location. Once you find it, it’s easy to see it, and then realize that the VW-like appearance of the other image is a product of that fender flare being highlighted from the flash.
I can’t rule out a headrest bomb, but I’d stake twenty years of structural analysis on a massive charge in the trunk or under the rear seat. Whoever was in the front seat got folded over and...creased. Looks like the front seat headrest has disappeared. Back seat occupamt turned largely to mist, or an even finer particulate.
If a headrest explosive detonated, enough to mange the back end of the vehicle that way, it would drive the side greenhouse struts downward, bending the unit body dead center, which you just don’t see here. Instead, everything seems to have been displaced outward from one point, consistent with blast velocities originating in or near the trunk or behind/below the rear seat.
It makes you wonder how the bomb was emplaced. While the car was parked on the street? At a garage or dealership or car rental ? Pretty slick operation .
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