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Thousands mourn Hezbollah fighter killed in Israeli attack
Reuters ^ | Jan 19, 2015 | Tom Perry

Posted on 01/19/2015 10:34:13 AM PST by ConservingFreedom

Hezbollah supporters turned out in force on Monday to bury the son of the group's late commander, one of six fighters who died in an Israeli air strike in neighboring Syria that also killed an Iranian general.

The killings raised the possibility of a retaliatory attack, with a senior Iranian official suggesting that Israel would be hit at "the right time and right place". An Israeli defense official said escalation was possible.

Jihad Mughniyeh was buried in Beirut alongside his father Imad Mughniyeh, who was assassinated in Damascus in 2008.

Though it was unclear what role Mughniyeh, who was in his mid-20s, played in Hezbollah, his death represented a symbolic blow to the Shi'ite Islamist group that his father helped to found with Iranian backing in the early 1980s.

It was the biggest Hezbollah funeral since Imad Mughniyeh's own burial, underscoring Jihad's significance to the movement.

Thousands of mourners chanted "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" as Mughniyeh's coffin, draped in Hezbollah's yellow flag, was carried through the streets of Beirut's southern suburbs, an area controlled by the group. [...]

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Shoulda made another air strike against these scumbags.
1 posted on 01/19/2015 10:34:13 AM PST by ConservingFreedom
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To: ConservingFreedom

Rogan and Fat Mikey must be heartbroken.


2 posted on 01/19/2015 10:36:29 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (When the hell do I get MY white privilege? I'm tired of busting my @$$ for a living.)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Yeah, target-rich enviroment..


3 posted on 01/19/2015 10:40:03 AM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: ConservingFreedom
who names a kid..CRUSADER??

why JIHAD????

heeeeeeere's Jihad


4 posted on 01/19/2015 10:44:01 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Yeah, that procession would have made a great place to test napalm, cluster bombs, fuel/air devices and maybe even a small nuke. Oh, well, yet another missed opportunity!


5 posted on 01/19/2015 10:45:40 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Darn!

At first glance I thought it said “thousands more killed”.


6 posted on 01/19/2015 10:45:44 AM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I What am persuaded.)
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To: MeshugeMikey
why JIHAD????

Because his parents were bloodthirsty savages.

7 posted on 01/19/2015 10:46:05 AM PST by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: ConservingFreedom

sort of like a “ghetto” couple naming their kid THUG BOY!!


8 posted on 01/19/2015 10:50:16 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Looks like peace won’t be coming to the middle east any time soon - until the bearded ones become civilized.


9 posted on 01/19/2015 10:55:45 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: ConservingFreedom
Though it was unclear what role Mughniyeh, who was in his mid-20s, played in Hezbollah

I should think his name made it pretty clear. Jihad.

10 posted on 01/19/2015 10:59:55 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
"Fat Mikey" is busy dissing American Sniper to go to an out-of-town funeral/Memorial service/rant-rally.

But think..... A town square jammed with terrorist supporters.....

<click>MOAB, Mr. MOAB please, will passenger MOAB please pick up the white courtesy phone in the lobby please? " <click> <fade in background music, "The Girl from Ipanema" >

11 posted on 01/19/2015 11:06:44 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: ConservingFreedom

It’s all so confused over there. Were the Hezbollah fighters in the battle against ISIS? If they were, or if the Israelis killed civilizns, I’d think this makes the mess even messier.


12 posted on 01/19/2015 11:08:11 AM PST by grania
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To: ConservingFreedom
CANDYGRAM FOR MONGO!


13 posted on 01/19/2015 11:15:07 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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To: skinkinthegrass
It appears that Obie found the time to attend>???


14 posted on 01/19/2015 11:17:13 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: ConservingFreedom

“The killings raised the possibility of a retaliatory attack, with a senior Iranian official suggesting that Israel would be hit at “the right time and right place”...”

Are you sure about this? God, I’m just speechless at how good journalists are these days.


15 posted on 01/19/2015 11:17:30 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: MeshugeMikey; All

yeah, definitely a great target-rich environment.

16 posted on 01/19/2015 11:20:41 AM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: ConservingFreedom

One of the most common names in Palestine for boys...besides Mo-Ham-Head...


17 posted on 01/19/2015 11:35:39 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: ConservingFreedom
Thousands of mourners chanted "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" as Mughniyeh's coffin, draped in Hezbollah's yellow flag, was carried through the streets of Beirut's southern suburbs, an area controlled by the group...

Just think of the thousands of goats left without companionship for that day...

18 posted on 01/19/2015 12:02:00 PM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: ConservingFreedom

Should have nuked those so-called mourners, would have been a win/win


19 posted on 01/19/2015 12:18:38 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Instead of bombing today’s big Hezbollah funeral, Israel’s intelligence agencies are most likely using it to gather more information for its dossiers on still-living high Hezbollah officials so that they can be targeted in the future.

Meanwhile, the international media which was mourning last week with the French victims of Islamic terrorism — ‘’Je suis Charlie’’ — now seem to be mourning with the terrorists of Hezbollah as they cover its funeral.

If the civilized world were truly serious about the threat of Islamic terrorism and the need to destroy it, people everywhere would be replacing their ‘’Je suis Charlie’’ signs with those saying ‘’Mazel Tov, Israel.’’

But of course that’s not happening. Instead, Israel is left to save the world from Islamic terrorism alone — while at the same time world leaders like Obama and the Prime Minister of Britain are working hand in hand to help Iran — Hezbollah’s sponsor — by lobbying our Congress not to reimpose Iranian sanctions.


20 posted on 01/19/2015 12:28:37 PM PST by Bluestocking
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