Posted on 08/23/2008 8:45:28 PM PDT by forkinsocket
From a giant representation of the olive-green cap he wore in the battlefield, to his personal assault rifle, his comb and the mat he prayed on, an exhibition commemorating the second anniversary of Hezbollah's latest war with Israel centered on the group's slain military commander, Imad Mughniyah.
Displaying charred remains of captured Israeli gear and equipment along with some of Mughniyah's personal belongings, the exhibition seeks to glorify the man and what the Lebanese Shiite militant group regards as his greatest achievement, the "divine victory" of the summer 2006 war.
Before his obscure assassination last February in Damascus, Mughniyah was among the most wanted figures on U.S. and Israeli lists of terrorists for allegedly masterminding a series of bloody attacks in different parts of the world in the 1980s and 1990s. In Lebanon, he was a mysterious man always on the run and rarely mentioned in the media. Before his death, his physical appearance was only known to few people.
"When one of us dies as a martyr, everything he owned becomes sanctified," said Imad Awada, the director of the exhibition, which is set in a large car park in the southern town of Nabatieh. "His clothes, his prayer rug, his rifle are turned into holy objects, " he added.
The recently inaugurated exhibition, somewhere between kitsch and symbolism, has already attracted about 40,000 Lebanese visitors and tourists, according to the organizers.
As they enter the exhibition space, visitors are immersed in the ambiance of Hezbollah's battle with Israel with a light show and thundering recorded sounds of explosions, gunfire and military commanders giving orders to open fire.
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Zeph 2:7-9
Jer 49:1-2
Gen 12:3
Gen 13:14-17
Josh 11:23
This land that they are squatting on belongs to someone else and HE's going to take it back.
Psalm 83:1-8
There must be literally tons of holy rifles lying around.
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