Posted on 02/16/2013 6:56:51 AM PST by InvisibleChurch
On the fifth anniversary of the assassination of Imad Mughniyah, a.k.a. “The Iranian Jackal,” much new information about the hunt for the terrorist most wanted by Mossad and the FBI has emerged. It’s a story of high-tech surveillance and old-fashioned espionage, and it’s just starting to be truly told now.
Imad Mughniyah was 20 years old when he made his debut on the international terrorist scene in 1983, with a series of spectacular and deadly bombings aimed at Western forces in Lebanon. The 1983 Beirut suicide bombings included those on April 18 at the U.S. Embassy (63 killed); on Oct. 23 at the U.S. Marine barracks (241 killed); and on Oct. 23 at the French paratrooper barracks (58 killed). A litany of bombings, hijackings, kidnappings and assassinations followed, with an ever-increasing body count. A list of the attacks he is believed to have been involved in, directly or in a leadership capacity, reads like an index of late-20th-century terrorism: Car bombings of the Israeli embassy and the Jewish cultural center in Argentina (124 killed) in the early 1990s; the World Trade Center bombing of 1993 (6 killed); the Khobar Towers suicide bombing in Saudi Arabia in 1996 (19 killed); the U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 (223 killed); the 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Aden, Yemen (17 killed).
And perhaps even the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.
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may he burn in hell
I’m always content to read a story with a happy ending. Thousands, perhaps millions of his type remain to be abolished as the years press on....them, before us.
Good read.
Lots of hard intel work + horny terrorist + lots of preparation = dead terrorist
it’s always the dames, isn’t it? the beatles, bill clinton, mark sanford, don marsh .... the list goes on and on
Wish we’d have sent a MOAB Valentine in ‘08.
That was a missed opportunity!
(2nd pic in the story)
That casket looks kind of short.
I missed celebrating his death in 2008. My son is now with the 1/8 Marines.
I guess it was the Israelis who convinced Reagan to not avenge our Marines.
Thanks for posting this.
The killing of Imad, aka “Hajj,” was a huge deal (a BFD, as Biden would say) and Hezbollah and Iran have been frustrated so far in “properly” avenging his death against the Israelis, i.e. a huge bloodbath...and not for want of trying!
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