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.
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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)
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”).”