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Israel kills terror chief with headrest bomb
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Uzi Mahnaimi in Tel Aviv, Hala Jaber in Beirut and Jon Swain
The Sunday Times (UK) February 17, 2008

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3382343.ece

NOTHING seemed very remarkable about the short, bearded man who mingled with other guests on Tuesday evening at a reception in Damascus, the Syrian
capital, to mark the 29th anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini's Iranian
revolution.

Yet before the night was over he was dead in the twisted wreckage of his car
and the inevitable assumption was that Mossad, the Israeli foreign
intelligence service, had killed him with an ingeniously planted bomb.
The news spread rapidly that the dead man was Imad Mughniyeh, an elusive
figure known as "the Fox" who had been one of the world's most feared
terrorist masterminds.

Robert Baer, a former CIA agent who spent years on his trail, said Mughniyeh
was "probably the most intelligent, most capable operative we've ever run
across".
As the Israelis rejoiced, Iran and Hezbollah, the militant Shi'ite group,
which together had harnessed Mugniyeh's expertise, mourned his death at a
huge funeral in Beirut, where he established his terrorist network.
Mughniyeh's mother, Um Imad, sat amid a sea of black chadors, a lonely,
sombre figure as mourners held their hero's picture aloft.

"If only I had more boys to carry on in his footsteps," she sighed,
confessing that she did not have any pictures of him, even from his
childhood, as he had taken them away. He was the third of her sons to die in
a car bombing.
With a price of $25m on his head, he was always vigilant. Some say he had
had plastic surgery to alter his face in an effort to elude the Americans
and Israelis who blamed him for plane hijackings and other bloody attacks
which killed hundreds of their citizens in the Middle East and as far away
as South America.

He had grown accustomed to living dangerously and there was no reason he
should have feared for his safety last Tuesday as he sipped fruit juice at
the party at the Iranian cultural centre. Mughniyeh was on fairly good terms
with everybody present - almost all the leaders of the Damascus-based
militant groups were represented.

At 10.35pm he decided to go home. Having exchanged customary kisses with his
host, Hojatoleslam Ahmad Musavi, the newly appointed Iranian ambassador,
Mughniyeh stepped into the night.

Minutes later he was seated in his silver Mitsubishi Pajero in a nearby
street when a deafening blast ripped the car apart and killed him instantly.
According to Israeli intelligence sources, someone had replaced the headrest
of the driver's seat with another containing a small high-explosive charge.
Israel welcomed his death but the prime minister's office denied
responsibility. Hezbollah accused the "Zionist Israelis" of killing its
"brother commander" but believed the explosive had been detonated in another
car by satellite.

One witness said: "I held his head in my hands, kissed him farewell. His
face was burnt but intact and he had received serious injuries to his
abdomen."

Whatever the truth about the bomb, Mughniyeh, 45, died as he had lived -
violently. He was a product of the Lebanese civil war that transfixed
western governments 25 years ago.

Born in a south Lebanon village, the son of a vegetable seller, Mughniyeh
joined Force 17, Yasser Arafat's personal bodyguard, when scarcely out of
his teens. After the Palestine Liberation Organisation was forced to leave
Lebanon in 1982, he stayed behind and joined Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shi'ite
Islamic group that emerged in 1985 as a militant force resisting Israeli
occupation.

He came to the attention of Sheikh Mohammed Fadlallah, Hezbollah's spiritual
leader, and rose quickly up the ranks. He was shaped into a remarkably
effective terrorist as, under the auspices of Iran's Revolutionary Guards,
the organisation grew into one of the deadliest forces fighting Israel and
America.

Western terrorism experts say he was the dynamo behind some of Hezbollah's
most lethal operations. These included the bombing of the American embassy
in Beirut that killed 63 people and the attacks on the US marine and French
paratrooper barracks that left more than 200 dead. It was Mughniyeh's
decision to kidnap Terry Waite, the Church of England envoy, as he tried to
broker the release of other captives.

Another notorious act attributed to him was the hijacking of a TWA flight
when an American passenger, a US navy diver, was shot and his body thrown
onto the runway.

In the 1990s Israel made him a priority target for his involvement in two
attacks in Buenos Aires - the 1992 Israeli embassy bombing, which killed 29,
and a 1994 suicide bomb attack on a Jewish community centre, in which 85
died. Then he went to ground. The FBI placed him on its most-wanted list but
had to use a 20-year-old photograph for its reward posters.

Despite these difficulties, the CIA came close to capturing him. The
Israelis were also hot on his trail. "We tried to knock him down several
times in the late 1980s," revealed David Barkay, a former major in unit 504
of Israeli military intelligence who was in charge of Mughniyeh's file.
"We accumulated intelligence on him, but the closer we got, the less
information we gleaned - no weak points, no women, money, drugs - nothing."
Mughniyeh lost two brothers, Jihad and Fuad, in car bomb explosions in
Beirut. In 2000 he was targeted by an Israeli sniper in southern Lebanon.
But in Meir Dagan, who became head of Mossad in 2002, he faced a committed
opponent under whose leadership the organisation built a strong record in
assassinating Israel's enemies.

Israel fought a bitter 34-day war against Hezbollah in 2006 to eradicate it
in southern Lebanon. It believes that Mughniyeh was instrumental in
rebuilding the group after the war, rearming it with Iranian-made Fateh 110
rockets which are capable of hitting Tel Aviv and which it fears could be
equipped with chemical weapons.

Informed Israeli sources said that at the time of his death Mughniyeh was
working for the Syrians on a terrorist attack against Israeli targets. This
was to avenge Israel's airstrike on what was believed to be a secret nuclear
site in Syria last year.

Since Mughniyeh's death, Israeli embassies and Jewish institutions around
the world have been on high alert. "I've no doubt the Syrians and Iranians
will retaliate," said Barkay.

Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's general secretary, warned in a fiery oration
at Mughniyeh's funeral that Israel had committed a "major stupid mistake".
It was now "open war", he said.

In Lebanon, a close friend of Mughniyeh was certain that he would be avenged
by Hezbollah in an attack that, ironically, he had prepared himself before
his death. "Most likely the retaliation when it comes will be one that had
been planned and masterminded by Imad himself," said Anis Al-Nackash, a
Lebanese expert on Hezbollah.

He said Mughniyeh had prepared a variety of "spectacular" attacks to be
executed by Hezbollah if one of its top leaders was assassinated. These were
now being dusted off and updated.

On the day Mughniyeh was buried, Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister,
summoned Dagan from his cottage in Galilee to Jerusalem.
"It was a one-on-one meeting," said a source. But it is believed that Dagan
was complimented by his boss and told that he would stay as head of Mossad
until the end of 2009.

Time will tell whether, as Israel fervently hopes, Mughniyeh's death has
gravely weakened his organisation or if the effect has merely been to harden
Hezbollah's resolve.

Taken out
The Israeli security service, Mossad, is thought to have killed six other
militants abroad since Meir Dagan became director in August 2002:
December 2002 Ramzi Nahara, Israeli agent who defected to Hezbollah and
planned attacks against Israel. Dagan knew him personally. Killed in Lebanon
by car bomb

March 2003 Abu Mohammed Al-Masri, Al-Qaeda member building cell to target
Israeli border with Lebanon. Killed by car bomb in Lebanon
August 2003 Ali Hussein Saleh, Hezbollah explosives expert. Killed by car
bomb in Beirut

July 2004 Ghaleb Awali, Hezbollah official with links to activists in Gaza
Strip. Killed by car bomb in Beirut

September 2004 Izz el-Deen al-Sheikh Khalil, Hamas official liaising between
headquarters in Syria and members in Gaza and West Bank. Killed by car bomb
in Damascus

May 2006 Mahmoud Majzoub, Islamic Jihad official liaising with Hezbollah.
Killed by car bomb blast in Lebanon

Imad Mougniyeh - Death of a Terrorist

Blogmaster Comment: If Israel did not do it, we should have. Yasher Koach to those responsible!

Imad Mougniyeh - Death of a Terrorist

13.02. 2008 http://www.zionism-israel.com/log/archives/00000492.html
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Note - portions of this are plagiarized from my article at Israel News: Death of a terrorist: Top Hezbullah terrorist Imad Mughniyeh killed in Damascus blast


Death of a "militant!"

According to Wikipedia,
Imad Fayez Mugniyah (also spelt Moughnieh) (... born December 7, 1962, killed Feb 12, 2008 was a senior member of the Hezbollah militant organization. He is alternatively described as the head of its security section, a senior intelligence official and as a founder of the organization.
So it seems that Mr. Mughnieh was a "militant" - like sufragettes and the Salvation Army. Moughniyeh believed in blowing people up and kidnapping them - that was his religion and his ideology.
Imad Mughniyeh (pronounced Mourrniyeh, spelled Moughnieh, Mugnieh...) was one of the worst "militants" (as Wikipedia calls them) to walk the face of the earth. He was responsible for involuntarilty shortening the lifespans of numerous people, including Jews in Argentina and US marines and embassy personnel in Lebanon. Israelis believe he was responsible, under the direction of Iran, for the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers that ignited the Second Lebanon war. He was perhaps involved in some way in the murder of Rafiq Hariri and other internal Lebanese political efforts.
Israeli covert operations teams have refrained from hurting Moughnieh because of his esulivesness and the fear that Hezbollah teams based in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, and elsewhere in Argentina, or Hezbollah in Lebanon, would take revenge as they took revenge for the killing of another senior Hezbollah terrorist (sorry - MILITANT) when they hit the Jewish center in Argentina.
Moughnieh has a distinguished record as a terrorist (ooops - MILITANT) He is known to have been the mastermind behind the attacks against Jewish centers in Buenos Aires in1994, as well as the kidnapping of a TWA airplane in Lebanon in 1985 and the abduction of westerners in the country during the 1980s. Moughnieh was also most likely the man behind the bombing at the American embassy in Beirut in and the attack against the Marine headquarters in Lebanon in 1983, which killed over 200 Americans, as well as kidnappings of Americans in the 80s, and more recently, the kidnapping of the Israeli soldiers that ignited the Lebanese war. He had a rich career as a "militant." The earlier "militant" activities were apparently directed by Ali Akbar Mohstashemi Pour, who was Iranian ambassador to Syria in the 80s.
Today Moughniyeh has died, or perhaps it was yesterday. It appears that someone has decided to send Moughnieh to his reward. His career was terminated in a car bomb blast, a characteristic tool of Syrian army intelligence, though others have used it. Israeli PM Ehud Olmert denied involvement in the killing of Moughiyeh. It is unlikely to have been Israel, though Hezbollah automatically blamed Israel of course. It is stretches the imagination to believe that Israel has covert operations abilities of that kind in Damascus, under the watchful eyes of the Syrian Mukhabarat (secret police) and Syrian army intelligence. If they did, they would focus on other more urgent targets such as Khaled Meshal who heads the Hamas, or Ramadan Shelah who heads the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Another report about the demise of Moughniyeh is here.
Is Israel really trying to send a message, or did the Syrian Army Intelligence decide that Moughnieh had outlived his usefulness? Perhaps he knew too much about the murder of Rafiq Hariri?
Terror groupies and humanitarians who mourn this "militant" should understant precisely who he was. From Ronen Bergman's book, "Point of No Return", 2007, pages 159 ff. in Hebrew:
"In another time and another place and with a different childhood. Imad Moughiyeh would have set up a start up," smiles "The Major." "We are talking about one of the most creative and brilliant minds I have encountered. A man of deep understanding, excellent technical grasp and leadership abilities. Unfortunately, the mix of personal and geopolitical circumstances led him to channel these excellent talents to the path of destruction and blood and to turn him into a very dangerous enemy." During a part of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s Major David Barrkai ("The Major" as Lebanese call him), who later became a senior partner in a start up, headed the the large northern base of Unit 504, the Israel Army Intelligence (AMAN) base that operated agents of AMAN, and he was in charge, inter alia, of the Moughniyeh file. Many in Israel and the world have since been involved in understanding the image of the man called "the Iranian Carlos," the most serious competitor of Osama Bin Laden for the title of most dangerous terrorist in the world. Numberless hours were spent by Barkai and his men on Moughnieh. That was, and remains, a fascinating battle of the minds, extremely sly and cruel. Despite localized victories in data collection and terror prevention by Barkai and his colleagues, Moughnieh won the war. He is still out there, working and kicking, and Israel and the United States have been unable to stop his inspired and bloody activities. On the 12 of July 2006 he began a war in the Middle East, when he stood behind the kidnapping of Israeli reserve soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev. Moughnieh wis a stealth bomber. At any given time Israel had several conflicting reports about his whereabouts and activities. In London, a person connected to British intelligence admitted embarrassment, over the fact that despite the great interest that the United Kingdom has in "Mr Moughnieh," they have no idea where he is and what exactly he is planning. "The use of the terror weapon against Israel is rare and informed by consciousness of the severe political damage that could be done to Iran if its involvement is exposed," according to a secret intelligence report of the AMAN research division. "Therefore Iran generally refrains from carrying out direct terror attacks, and its involvement in carrying out these attacks is expressed in a roundabout way." That "roundabout way," according to the intelligence report, passes through Imad Moughnieh. Imad Moughnieh was born on the 12 of July 1962 in the village of Tir Daba in South Lebanon, 15 KM from Tyre.... At the end of the 70s, after dropping out of high school, Moughnieh joined the Fatah and underwent a series of trainings in guerrilla warfare. Later he joined Unit 17, the Fatah security unit, and was among the bodyguards of Salah Khalef (Abu Iyyad). In that period he conducted a totally secular lifestyle. In 1982, when the PLO was planning to evacuate Beirut, Moughniyeh and many other Shi'a, including his brothers Fuad and Jihad, to stay in Lebanon. They joined the Al Dawah organization, one of many little groups that were somewhat later sucked in to the Hezbollah. In 1983, during a wave of suicide bombings against American, French and Israeli targets that was planned by Moughnieh, he found time to marry his cousin, Saada Badr A-din. Their daughter, Fatima, was born on August 2, 1984, and their son, Mustapha, was born on January 7, 1987. As opposed to other young Hezbollah leaders like Abbas Mousawi, Subhi Toufeili or Hassan Nassrallah, Moughnieh was not a religious authority or a man with political influence. He was always though of as the operations man, the single mind behind the daring exploits of the organization. At the beginning of its road, the young organization was very much in need of the terror leadership of this man.
Ami Isseroff
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Ahmadinejad - Israel's Days Are Numbered

Ahmadinejad Says Israel's Destruction Is Imminent!

UN Chief 'Shocked' At Iran's Call For Israel's Destruction

UNITED NATIONS (AP)--Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was "shocked and dismayed" at a report that Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the world would witness the destruction of Israel soon, the United Nations said Thursday.

The official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Sunday that the hard-line president, who has made anti-Israeli comments in the past, referred twice to Israel's impending destruction.

"The secretary-general points out that the state of Israel is a full and longstanding member of the United Nations with the same rights and obligations as every other member," U.N. deputy spokeswoman Marie Okabe said in a statement.

"He reminds that under the United Nations Charter, all members have undertaken to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state," Okabe said.

IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying last summer's war between Israel and Hezbollah showed for the first time that the "hegemony of the occupier regime ( Israel) had collapsed, and the Lebanese nation pushed the button to begin counting the days until the destruction of the Zionist regime."

"God willing, in the near future we will witness the destruction of the corrupt occupier regime," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying during ceremonies marking the 18th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who is known as the father of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Ahmadinejad and his regime must be attacked and destroyed as soon as possible. If the United States won't stand up to the Iranian Hitler, then Israel must strike first. An attack on Iran will necessitate Israels preemptive strike against the Syrian military build-up on our Northern border. It is doubtful that any other Arab countries will involve themselves on the side of Syria or Iran. The longer we wait, the stronger our enemies become and inaction will be measured in Israeli lives. Blogmaster

Pollard Situation Heating Up on Both Sides - U.S. AMBASSADOR AN IDIOT!

U.S. AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL SHOULD BE RECALLED
AND FIRED! B'nai Elim Blogmaster

Jones Video Adds Fuel to Pollard Fire

12 Sivan 5767, 29 May 07 10:52

by Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) With the publication of a video of US Ambassador to Israel Richard Jones' remarks against Jonathan Pollard, calls increase for a retraction and correction - and for clemency for Pollard.

The Justice for Jonathan Pollard (J4JP) organization has circulated a video link at which Ambassador Richard Jones can be seen and heard making his infamous remarks about Pollard. Speaking last week at a Bar Ilan University conference on US-Israeli relations, Jones said twice that Pollard committed treason against the United States. He added bitingly that "it came out clearly in the trial that Jonathan Pollard took money" and that he "sold out" his country.

While J4JP easily and quickly rebutted these claims, other accusations by Jones were less widely publicized. He implied that the American people were punishing Israel itself when he said, "I know he was doing this [spying] for a friend [Israel - ed.], but that's what makes this even more emotional for Americans - that a friend would cooperate in aiding and abetting someone who is committing treason against his own country."

Jones's final biting comment, coming in the context of the above remark, was the most explosive of all: "The fact that he wasn't executed is the mercy that Jonathan Pollard will receive." The double implication that Pollard deserved to be put to death, even though he was convicted on only one count of passing classified information to a friendly nation, and that he would never be freed, had Pollard supporters up in arms and demanding an apology.

The pressure was apparently strong enough to elicit an apology within a matter of hours. Jones said his remarks were "misinformed and misleading," and "did not reflect my personal views nor those of the Bush Administration."

Apology not Accepted by All
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations welcomed the apology the next day. Though it reiterated its call for Pollard's quick release, the organization said, “We accept Ambassador Jones’ explanation and retraction and believe that it puts this matter to rest."

Other groups, however, were less willing to bury the issue. Rabbi Pesach Lerner, Executive Vice President of the National Council of Young Israel, wrote, "I believe the case cannot be closed. The apology, as is, is still missing a correction of Jones' comments. His facts were wrong [and] he needs to admit that... We must demand a full retraction, correction and perhaps an official inquiry into the sources of his information, the source of his directive to respond with such lies, etc."

Click here to hear Rabbi Lerner speaking with IsraelNationalRadio's Alex Traiman.

J4JP noted that though Jones apologized for daring to say that the US had shown mercy in not executing Jonathan - who never faced anything near a death penalty - he "did not apologize for falsely accusing him of treason or of having taken money. These false charges are soundly contradicted by Jonathan's indictment and by his sentencing transcript, and most important of all by Israel's formal recognition of him as her agent."

Some in the Israeli press, too, were unhappy with the apology - and with Israel's lukewarm response. Two major Israeli dailies, Yediot Acharonot and Haaretz, ran strikingly similar editorials saying that if Israel were "self-respecting" [Haaretz] or "well administered" [Yediot], it would have summoned Jones to the Foreign Ministry and demanded a clarification of his statements.

"It's difficult to accept or understand the American lust for revenge when it comes to Pollard," wrote Yossi Melman of Haaretz. "There's something irrational about it. Jones's remarks were rude and bereft of diplomatic tact, reflecting this American pathology that aspires to keep Pollard from ever being pardoned. Even though Jones has apologized, he deserves to be denounced. By essentially ignoring his comments, Israel is adding insult to the injury it has already done Pollard."

Chief Rabbi Metzger Takes up the Cause in the US
Israel's Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, currently on a short visit to the New York Jewish communities of Jamaica Estates and Great Neck, is making the most of the recent developments to ask American Jewry to redouble their efforts to work for Pollard's release. The rabbi said today that after he visited Pollard in prison over two years ago, he wrote a letter to US President Bush asking for clemency - and had it signed by every living past and present Israeli chief rabbi.

"I planned to give it by hand to the President," Rabbi Metzger said, "but we received a message that it would be better not to bring it because the subject was too [sensitive] - and so I gave it to the US Ambassador, and he promised that he would give it to the President, but as of now, I have not yet received an answer... We have only two ways to act: Jews all over the world must put a lot of pressure on President Bush as his term draws to a close, and we must pray to G-d that He will save Jonathan's life and rescue him."

Pollard's wife Esther, speaking on the Knesset television channel last week, said that Prime Minister Olmert could capitalize on the situation and make up for past government inaction by raising the matter quietly with President Bush and asking for the release of Pollard as an Israeli agent.

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ISRAEL - AMERICA'S SECRET EMEMY

Pollard's Unforgivable Sin

12 Sivan 5767, 29 May 07 10:16

by Ted Belman

(IsraelNN.com) Jonathan Pollard - sentenced to life in a US federal penitentiary - committed an unforgivable sin. He unmasked US foreign policy.

In a recent post on the American Ambassador to Israel saying that the US was merciful in not executing Pollard, there was a link to a post by Robert Olive and a rebuttal. The rebuttal quoted from a court filing that described the damage Pollard caused to the US. It is very instructive:

"Mr. Pollard's unauthorized disclosures have threatened the US [sic] relations with numerous Middle East Arab allies, many of whom question the extent to which Mr. Pollard's disclosures of classified information have skewed the balance of power in the Middle East."

This is unbelievable; yet, it is believable.

In other words, the US didn't want anyone to know the true relationship between the US and its Arab allies. It suggests that the public face it puts on these relationships have nothing to do with reality. This is a matter of utmost importance to both the US and the Arabs. It also suggests that the US knew of Arab plans that were detrimental to Israel and the US was not willing to tell Israel about them.

"Moreover, because Mr. Pollard provided the Israelis virtually any classified document requested by Mr. Pollard's co-conspirators, the US has been deprived of the quid pro quo routinely received during authorized and official intelligence exchanges with Israel, and Israel has received information classified at a level far in excess of that ever contemplated by the National Security Council. The obvious result of Mr. Pollard's largess is that US bargaining leverage with the Israeli government in any further intelligence exchanges has been undermined."

The fact that the US, as a result of Pollard's actions, had fewer bargaining chips is of minor importance. Israel shares most of its intelligence without a specific quid pro quo. But this sentence supports the argument that the US has many secrets that it does not share with Israel. Why does the US keep Israel, ostensibly a friend and ally, in the dark? The US has no need for "bargaining leverage," but it does have a need to not share with Israel the many things it does which are not in Israel's favour.

Thus, Pollard unmasked US policy. This, the US cannot forgive Pollard for.

"In short, Mr. Pollard's activities have adversely affected US relations with both its Middle East Arab allies and the government of Israel."

This sums it up. Pollard made Israel stronger because Israel had a clearer understanding of the true US-Arab relationship, and Arab intentions and plans.

The way I see it, the magnitude of Pollard's sentence reflects the magnitude of the American secrets. One must conclude that the US was duplicitous. It worked to shrink Israel while posturing as its friend.

So, in effect, Pollard was spying for an enemy, Israel, rather than for a friend. His life sentence proves it. I wonder if the US is being so hard-nosed about it in order to please the Saudis?

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