[Cindy]

stepping back in time...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1555011/posts

“Dangerous liaisons: covert ‘love affair’ between Russia and Hezbollah”
AIA ^ | Michel Elbaz
Posted on 01/09/2006 5:20:47 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe

[Cindy]

Note: The following news brief is a quote:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3507089,00.html

Mugniyah’s mother pleased all her sons died in name of Jihad
Published: 02.15.08, 00:41 / Israel News

Hizbullah commander Imad Mugniyah’s mother said Thursday that she is “pleased” that all three of her sons gave their lives for the Jihad way.

In an interview on Hizbullah’s Al-Manar television, Mugniyah’s mother called on Hizbullah Secretary-General Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah not to fear, saying she regrets not having a fourth son to offer Jihad. (Dudi Cohen)

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2000 : (NORTH CAROLINA : ARRESTS OF 18 MEN IN CIG SMUGGLING RING CASE ----SEE CHARLOTTE HEZBOLLAH CELL, IMAD MUGNIYEH aka "THE FATHER", M HAMMOUD, M DHOUK, H H LAQIS) Mugniyah has also sought to extend Hezbollah’s reach to North America. In 2000, federal authorities arrested 18 men in North Carolina for smuggling cigarettes and other financial crimes. The FBI later revealed that the smuggling ring, led by Lebanese immigrant Mohamad Hammoud, had made 7.9 million dollars, profit which was then sent to Hezbollah. Through a series of associates, Hammoud worked for a man named Mohamad Dbouk, a senior Hezbollah asset who helped run Hezbollah’s extensive criminal operations in Canada. Testifying before the U.S. Senate, U.S. Attorney Robert J. Conrad confirmed that [Imad] Mugniyah directly oversees the Canadian operations and, by extension, the American division. This reasoning stems from the fact that Dbouk was in direct contact with Hassan Hilu Laqis, a Hezbollah agent operating out of Lebanon who managed many of the procurement projects in North America. In a fax intercepted by Canadian intelligence, Dbouk assures Laqis that he is doing all he possibly can to help Hezbollah. In addition, Dbouk says he will do “anything”, and “he means anything”, to help the “father”. The Canadian prosecutor involved in the case, Kenneth Bell, stated that the father is in fact a codename for Imad Mugniyah.
------ "Tehran's Terror Master," by Patrick Devenny, Front Page Mag, 5/26/2005 http:/www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18188

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2001 : (PUTIN COMMENTS ON HEZBOLLAH’S IMAD MIGNHIYEH ) Russian President Vladimir Putin has fingered bin Laden, Mugniyeh and Iran for helping to train Chechen rebels who fight against the Russian government. Speaking in Germany just 10 days after the Sept. 11 attacks, Putin said he had given specific information to the United States on Arab fighters in Chechnya whom Mugniyeh had trained. “As a rule, activities of terrorists are very coordinated,” he said. “For example, on one Arab mercenary in Chechnya we found instructions for flying a Boeing [aircraft].” ——— Insight Magazine, Kenneth R. Timmerman, 12/1001; Insight on the News - World Issue date: 12/31/01 SOURCE