Syria blast killed Moughniyah - Hezbollah [Commander of]

Reuters (excerpt) ^ | February 13, 2007

[HAL9000]

DAMASCUS BLAST ON TUESDAY KILLED SENIOR HEZBOLLAH MILITARY COMMANDER - LEBANESE POLITICAL SOURCE

[Cindy]

blog:

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/02/mugniyah_behind_esta.php

“Mugniyah behind establishment of Mahdi Army”
By BILL ROGGIOFebruary 23, 2008 11:31 PM

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Imad Mugniyah, the senior Hezbollah military commander who was killed in Syria earlier this month, helped form the Mahdi Army, the military wing of the radical Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al Sadr, according to an Iraqi intelligence official. He was described as a “co-founder” of the Mahdi Army, Naharnet reported, based on a translation from the Iraqi daily Al Zaman.

Mugniyah helped form the Mahdi Army after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime in April 2003. He recruited from the Shia communities in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and then sent the recruits to Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley for training. “The 300 fighters were trained on the use of assault rifles, booby-trapping and kidnapping operations,” the unnamed intelligence official told Al Zaman.

Qassem Suleimani, the commander of Qods Force. Click image to view.

Once in Lebanon, the Mahdi Army recruits were sent to bases run by Brigadier General Qassem Suleimani, the commander of Iran’s Qods Force, the foreign special operations branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps. Hezbollah operates numerous bases in the Bekaa Valley, under the supervision of Syrian intelligence.

The links between Hezbollah and the Mahdi Army are not new. Mahdi Army fighters have admitted to training in inside Lebanon with Hezbollah, while Muqtada al Sadr also admitted his forces trained with Hezbollah and mirrored their tactics.

“We have formal links with Hezbollah, we do exchange ideas and discuss the situation facing Shiites in both countries,” Sadr told The Independent in August 2007. “It is natural that we would want to improve ourselves by learning from each other. We copy Hezbollah in the way they fight and their tactics, we teach each other and we are getting better through this.” Sadr also said his fighters trained in Lebanon while the Mahdi Army leadership conferred with Hezbollah over Israel’s plans in the Middle East.

Hezbollah is essentially the Lebanese branch of Iran’s Qods Force. Mugniyah was Hezbollah’s mastermind terrorist and also a senior leader in Qods Force.”

[Cindy]

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hi_210208e.htm

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)
February 24, 2008

“Anti-Semitic statements made by senior Iranian figures represent the killing of terrorist Imad Moughnieh as “proof” of the need to eliminate the State of Israel (using anti-Semitic terminology and calling Israel “a dirty black microbe” and “cancerous parasite”).”

[Cindy]

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/site/html/search.asp?isSearch=yes&isT8=yes&searchText=T91&pid=109&sid=13&preview=
http://www.memri.org/syria.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=syria
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976092/posts

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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1203847465236&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Feb 25, 2008 22:06
Mugniyeh’s widow claims Syria behind his assassination
By JPOST.COM STAFF

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The widow of slain Hizbullah terror chief Imad Mugniyeh claimed that Syria was behind his assassination.

“The Syrian traitors assisted in killing my husband,” the Italian news agency AKI on Monday quoted her as saying.”

[Cindy]

blog:

http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/5695.htm

(”Source: nobles-news.com, February 23, 2008”)
“Syrian Website: Mughniya’s Assassins Will Curse The Day They Were Born”

Posted at: 2008-02-25

[Cindy]

Thanks to Mossad 1967 for pointing to this blog entry.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1963607/posts?page=1125#1125

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Note: The following blog entry is a quote:

http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/5696.htm

Report: Hizbullah Planning Attack On Israel In March

The Kuwaiti daily Al-Watan has quoted a report by top Western sources that, according to reliable intelligence information, Hizbullah has begun planning a large-scale attack on Israel in retaliation for its assassination of senior Hizbullah commander Imad Mughniya.

According to the report, the attack is being planned in coordination with Syria and Iran, and is to take place before the Arab summit next month.

It was also reported that there would be a simultaneous military escalation by Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other Palestinian organizations in Gaza, with the aim of changing the priorities of the leaders of the Arab countries.

Source: Al-Watan, Kuwait, February 25, 2008

Posted at: 2008-02-25

[Just mythoughts]

Is there any actual documentation that Moughniyah is dead?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976092/posts

[Cindy]

You can look through all my updates on this thread if desired.

OPINION:

The family and friends of Mugniyah, Israel, USA, Syria, Iran believe that Mugniyah IS dead.

[Just mythoughts]

The family and friends of Mugniyah, Israel, USA, Syria, Iran believe that Mugniyah IS dead.

I have tried to keep up with the updates... I have yet to read that there has been without doubt verification that the person who died was really this person. Now his wife goes to Iran because she thinks Syria had a role in her husband's death. Seeeeems a bit strange given all the finger pointing to Israel, for this women to now be publicly out of Iran blaming Syria.

[Cindy]

She’s not the first to blame Syria.

[Cindy]

See post no. 346.

[Cindy]

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3511323,00.html

“Iran ordered to pay $33 million to family of Israeli terror victim”

SNIPPET: “US federal court rules Iran responsible for 1992 truck bombing at Israeli embassy in Argentina; orders country to compensate family of US-born Israeli diplomat David Ben-Rafael killed in blast”

Associated Press
Published: 02.26.08, 08:31 / Israel News

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “US District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle said Iran was responsible for the truck bombing at the Israeli Embassy in Argentina. The blast killed 29 people, including David Ben-Rafael, who was born in the United States before immigrating to Israel.

Hizbullah accepted responsibility for the bombing and the US has held Iran responsible for helping finance and organizing the group’s activities.”

[Cindy]

Previously...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3506203,00.html

“Arch-terrorist Imad Mugniyah killed in blast”

SNIPPET: “Senior Hizbullah military leader believed to be the mastermind behind attacks against Jewish center in Buenos Aires in 1994 and US military barracks in Beirut in 1983 killed in mysterious blast in Damascus. Hizbullah blames Israel for assassination, Israel denies involvement”

News agencies
Latest Update: 02.13.08, 13:58 / Israel News

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976924/posts

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3511857,00.html

“Syria: ‘Important results’ in Mugniyah murder probe”

SNIPPET: “Damascus plans to wait with publication of findings of investigation into Hizbullah commander’s assassination until after Arab League meeting next week. Sources say probe points to involvement of Arab country in killing”

Roee Nahmias
Published: 02.27.08, 09:27 / Israel News

[Cindy]

Iranian propaganda:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1963607/posts?page=1232#1232
Post no. 1232

[Cindy]

Thanks to Ali Veritas for the ping to this thread and a look at a little more propaganda:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977275/posts

“Arab Paper: Arab Nations Conspired With Mossad To Assassinate Mughniyeh”
Nasdaq ^ | February 27, 2008
Posted on 02/27/2008 1:04:48 PM PST by Shermy

[Cindy]

Thanks to Oorang for this post.

Note: The following post snippet is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963607/posts?page=1270#1270

Slain Militant Was Organizer in 2006 War
2/27/08
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The last time the world heard from Imad Mughniyeh, he was masterminding terror spectaculars in the 1980s and 1990s — bomb attacks on U.S. and Israeli targets, kidnappings and hijackings. But for nearly 15 years, no one has known exactly what the Hezbollah commander was doing. The only confirmation of his whereabouts came when he was killed Feb. 12 in a car bombing in Syria.

Now Hezbollah officials and associates are describing a previously unknown role for Mughniyeh: Far from being too busy fleeing enemies, he was a key commander for Hezbollah in its 2006 war with Israel. He was among the leading military and security strategists — if not the very top himself — of the group and a member of its decision-making committee, according to those who had knowledge of Mughniyeh before he was killed Feb. 12 in Damascus.

“Hezbollah’s top architect of that war was Imad Mughniyeh,” Anis Naccache, a 57-year-old longtime associate, told The Associated Press. “You can say he was like a staff general (chief of staff).” In a speech Friday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah credited Mughniyeh with leading the group to two victories — the 2006 war and a Hezbollah guerrilla war in 2000 that led to the withdrawal of Israeli troops from its last positions in southern Lebanon.

Excerpted

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jFv4susic5cPFaxPQyyksfvQxhEAD8V27DL01

1,270 posted on 02/27/2008 9:09:43 PM PST by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)

[Cindy]

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hi_210208e.htm

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)
February 24, 2008

“Anti-Semitic statements made by senior Iranian figures represent the killing of terrorist Imad Moughnieh as “proof” of the need to eliminate the State of Israel (using anti-Semitic terminology and calling Israel “a dirty black microbe” and “cancerous parasite”).”

[Cindy]

A little Friday afternoon propaganda:

www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=wa3ad7
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqDYS4Z1xEQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2SALI-DKOk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFrATo9B1yw

[Cindy]

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/site/html/search.asp?isSearch=yes&isT8=yes&searchText=T104&pid=167&sid=13&preview=
Topic: Hezbollah

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/site/html/search.asp?isSearch=yes&isT8=yes&searchText=T91&pid=109&sid=13&preview=
Topic: Syria

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/site/html/search.asp?isSearch=yes&isT8=yes&searchText=T103&pid=161&sid=13&preview=
Topic: Lebanon