this guy is a huge kill. arguably, he’s more dangerous than bin laden, and his history goes back decades
Marine Barracks in ‘83
US Embassy in ‘83
Hostages at the Sheik Abdallah Barracks in Baalbek. According to Bob Baer he was the guy that ran it and personally tortured Bill Buckley to death
TWA 847
Col. Higgins in ‘87
Buenos Aires bombings in ‘92
Khobar Towers in ‘94
He was Iran’s top terrorist operator. So good to write “was”.
This is huge. If Bush had any good communication skills and knew how to use the bully pulpit, which he doesn’t, he’d be trumpeting this to the heavens. McCain should jump on it big time.
The Mossad strikes again and they must be celebrating big time on King Saul Blvd in Tel Aviv.
Olmert is completely clueless but he didn’t screw this one up. I have to think Barak was involved given his history in the raid on Beirut in 1973 and Entebbe.
Hezbollas is the A Team of terrorists and this guy was their Mr. T.
Hopefully Nasrallah is next on the list along with the top leaders of Hamas.
Not bad to get the attack on the joint Syrian-Iranian facility in Spetember and to get Iran’s top terrorist and embarass Assad and Syria all in one fell swoop.
Any other comments you may have as to how this affects the strategic picture over there are welcome
Mugniyeh taught Al Qaeda how to make truck bombs that actually go “BOOM”, (see Aden Hotel attacks for more info) and also taught Al Qaeda their supposed signature technique of mulitple, simultaneaus attacks, during AQ initited consultations in Sudan, circa 1994.
Traditionally, neither Hezbollah nor Hamas respond directly to targeted assassinations. Instead, the provocation adds to the background radiation and is dissipated during larger, more significant general offensives or planned political-military maneuvers.
Operationally, Mugniyeh was probably inert. He knew a lot of people, he had a big rep, he pioneered many terrorist techniques, but he appears to have been in semi-retirement, trotted out for appearances, while generally workiung behind the scenes monitoring and assessing training operations. His techniques are now part of the public domain, and his loss will not significantly reduce terrorist capabilities, since others can take over where he left off.
All that said, I’m thrilled somebody finally punched his ticket and I’ll happily volunteer to water his grave, even if it requires standing in a long waiting line. A victory like this is second only to the violent death of Al Zawahiri, in my opinion.
I COMPLETELY agree. He was also Bin Laden's teacher, and the suspected mastermind of 9/11. See the links in post #33.
Hopefully Nasrallah is next on the list
According to post #82, the news out of Iran says Nasrallah was killed in the same blast. Who knew that it could get better than the death of Mugniyah?
Nice summary ,....thanks...
Based on his targets, it would seem that the U.S. would have more at stake to stop him than Israel. At least I would hope that it was us that did him in.