“The Most Significant Intelligence Accomplishment In The War On Terror”
The remains of the car Mughniyeh was travelling in
Let’s face it. Al Qaeda’s number one military mastermind has been turned to dust in Pakistan, Adam Gadahn’s pig-faced blowhard psycho-bravdo has been replaced by his cowering in some dark corner or a deep and hidden grave, and one of the two great pillars of Hizbollah has been ripped out from under the Iranian/Syrian/Lebanese organization, and everyone who’s everyone in Hamas is hiding under a table in advance of Israel’s avowed assassination campaign. Little Brotha Dadullah of the Taliban’s leadership has just been critically wounded, captured, and fighting for his life. This is the kind of consequential momentum that reduces Hussein’s poltical momentun to the tawdry Elmer Gantry snake oil salesman story that it is. The wind is at the sails of the anti-Islam alliance, and there’s no telling how fast the flagship of it’s warfleet is going to sail into the port of success.
Terrorist mastermind Imad Mughniyeh has been blown up by a car bomb in Syria.
Agents from Mossad, Israel’s secret service, were believed to be behind his death in the capital Damascus.
One of the world’s most wanted and feared terrorists, Mughniyeh, 45, was a leader of the radical pro-Iranian Hezbollah.
Master Terrorist: Mughniyeh, seen with colleagues, is believed to have been killed by Mossad
The group immediately accused Mossad of his assassination.
He orchestrated the kidnap in Beirut of Terry Waite and other British hostages in the Eighties.
Terry Waite
For more than 25 years Mughniyeh, an expert at disguise with a £13million U.S. bounty on his head, had stayed a step ahead of American and Israeli agents while overseeing a catalogue of terrorist attacks.
He was dubbed the “Master Terrorist” and the “Osama Bin Laden of the Eighties”.
A Lebanese Shia on the TWA plane at Beirut in 1985. Mugnhiyeh was believed to be behind the hijacking
Until the 9/11 suicide attacks in New York, he was responsible for the deaths of more Westerners than any other terrorist leader.
Yossi Melman, an expert on Israeli intelligence, said: “If Israel is behind this act, it can be seen as the most significant intelligence accomplishment in the war on terror.”
The U.S. applauded the killing. “The world is a better place without this man in it. He was a coldblooded killer, a mass-murderer and a terrorist responsible for countless innocent lives lost,” said a State Department spokesman.
“One way or another he was brought to justice.”
Mughniyah is said to have masterminded suicide bombings, hijackings, executions and kidnappings.
e had sat down with some of the Middle East’s most feared power brokers, most recently Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, it is said.
A short, stocky man with piercing green eyes and a squeaky voice, Mughniyeh had plastic surgery and changed his appearance often to flit between Lebanon, Iran and Syria.
Kidnapped: Terry Waite was held in the 80s
From hideouts in Syria and Iran, he is believed to have worked for more than a decade with Al Qaeda.
He is suspected of overseeing the supply by Tehran of materials used to blow up British servicemen in Iraq.
As commander of Islamic Jihad, a shadowy pro-Iranian group which emerged in Lebanon in the early Eighties, it was his manipulation of the seizure of Westerners in Beirut that made him the world’s most wanted man.
Three Britons – Waite, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s special envoy, journalist John McCarthy and former Battle of Britain pilot Jackie Mann were all released after years in captivity – but several hostages were executed.
Hezbollah formally announced Mughniyeh’s death yesterday.
He was blown up by a bomb in his Mitsubishi car on Tuesday evening.
“After a life full of jihad, sacrifices and accomplishments Haj Imad Mughniyeh died a martyr at the hands of the Israeli Zionists,” Hezbollah said in a statement.
Israel denied it had carried out the bombing, but Mossad was widely thought to be responsible.
He was also a prime target of the Americans.
The office of Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said in a statement, it was looking into reports of Mughniyeh’s death.
Israel “rejects the attempt by terror groups to attribute to it any involvement in this incident”, it added.
The blast is the first major attack against a leader of Hezbollah since a 1992 helicopter strike that killed the group’s secretary-general Sheik Abbas Mussawi in Lebanon.
It could dramatically heighten tensions between Israel and the Shiite militant group, as well as its Iranian and Syrian backers.
Marines moving their dead from their bombed Beirut barracks
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