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17 February 2009

NUCLEAR IRAN - TODAY'S "ISLAMIC REPUBLIC"

Blogmaster: Iran is not only a threat to Israel and peace in the Middle East; Iran's Mullahs threaten the stability of the entire world. Everything must be done to destroy this despotic government and allow moderate and Modern Iranians to move their country peaceably into the 21st Century... before Iran becomes a sheet of glass.

Chaos, Crisis & Terror Serves the Islamic Republic

Amil Imani
February 16, 2009

As the Islamic Revolution completed its third decade, it would not be too difficult to realize the reality and the fruits of its mismanagement during its imperial and revolutionary eras. Throughout the three decades of its existence, the Islamic Republic has managed, notably, to produce more hunger, extreme frustration and anger, prostitution at a record pace, drug addiction beyond control, child execution without any regard to the international human rights bylaws. There are many reports regarding cases of child sexual abuse and molestation reaching epidemic proportions. Prosecution and imprisonment of the innocent people and systematic and illegal abuse of detainees and hundreds of gruesome acts have also been reported.

The genocidal Islamists have been doing all they can to completely wipe out the Baha’is in Iran as well as everywhere else in the world that their blood-drenched hand can reach. The Islamic government condones and promotes every measure of oppression
against the Baha'is. The Islamists don’t even spare the dead. They bulldoze and even uproot the trees in Baha’is cemeteries. Harassment of other religious minorities is prevalent and torturing innocent people beyond recognition is part of their modus operandi. They routinely hang dissidents and amputate the limbs of anyone for petty theft. They are responsible for the unmitigated poverty in the oil-rich country, sex slaves in the Persian Gulf region and the raping of children as young as 2 years of age.

The Islamic Republic also has started a nuclear program, not for peaceful purposes, as they claim, but only to prolong their unwanted existence long enough to get their hands on the bomb so that they can feel invincible and continue their control over the armless Iranian people and ultimately export their version of Shi’a Islam and terrorism around the globe.

What is the likelihood that the ruling Mullahs will actually use their new toy? If they remain in power long enough to have it, they are very likely to use it, in one form or another. At the very least, they will use the bomb for blackmail and intimidation in the region. Not even the all-out nuclear exchange can be ruled out. Islam is a religion centered on death with the faithful eyes fixed on the afterlife and its promised eternal pleasures. If the faithful kills, he goes to Allah’s paradise; if he gets killed, he goes to Allah’s paradise. An urgent warning to the people of the world: stop the Islamic Republic nuclear program now, or face eradication from the face of the earth and I am not in any mood to make you laugh.

What does the Islamic Republic do to cover up its crimes against humanity? They immediately create chaos and crisis. In other words, they create smoke and mirrors and push the dust under the rug again as they did when the Islamists took the American diplomats as hostages for 444 days and during Iran and Iraq war and recent Israeli war with Hamas. Ironically, the first victims of the chaos and crises doctrine have always been the Iranian people. They are trying to distract the world from their nuclear intention as they did during the Gaza crisis. They took the attention away from their
nuclear program.

Since its inception, the regime has stigmatized, victimized and murdered people without any due process of law. They particularly go after the writers, poets and artists to harass. The first Islamic Revolutionary Judge,
Sheik Sadegh Khalkhali, an infamous psychopath, did not hesitate to demand the execution of intellectuals such as Ahmad Shamlou, a famous Iranian author who was well-known for his non-adherence to any political party and his non-involvement in any political activity. Khalkhali was responsible for many arbitrary executions. According to Judge Abdolkarim Ardibili, former President of the Supreme Court, many defense lawyers were arrested, imprisoned and in at least one case, executed.

Currently, the regime, on the slightest suspicion will arrest, convict and execute. Few people would deny any longer that Islam and its variants mean, in practice, bloody terrorism, deadly purges, lethal actions, forced ‘hijabs,” show trials and genocide. It is a widespread plague upon humanity. It is disguised as religion and has penetrated our democracies with the aim of replacing civility and liberty with the barbarism of theocracy and Sharia. Islam’s multi-prong attack aims to destroy all that liberty offers.

On September 19, 1981, in an address broadcasted on radio and television, Ayatollah Moussavi, the Revolutionary Procurator General, stated, “to kill the people who stand against this regime and its just Imam (Khomeini) is a prescribed duty according to Islamic laws. If they are captured, our men will not let them eat and sleep for a few months. The trial of these people is in the streets. I also order the city prosecutors to do the same; otherwise they themselves will be punished” reported by Ghiam newspaper, Tehran, June 28, 1981. The flair for hanging has not stopped since then, in fact, it
has immensely increased.

The Mullahs presently ruling Iran are faced with monumental threats. Internally, the great majority of the populace is against their misrule. Labor unions, teachers associations, student groups, religious and ethnic minorities, journalists and many others have suffered and continue to suffer inordinate hardship under the heavy-handed Mullahs and their front men. Externally, they are engaged in brinksmanship with the United States and Israel, while trying to wrestle the mantle of Islamic leadership from the Sunni Saudis and their Wahhabi cabal and President Obama intends to negotiate with these criminals rather than the legitimate owners of the country, the Iranian people. He will also fail miserably as did his four predecessors.

The Islamist apologists call me all kinds of unspeakable names. That's all they can do, since they are unable to hang me from high cranes at public squares as they do so to everyone, even teenagers. These mullahs -- that includes the non-turbaned creatures working as the akhoond's front men and pawns--are agents of destruction and death. They have a ball plundering Iran and are looking forward to their rewards in Allah's paradise for their dastardly acts here on earth. As they see it, it is a win-win proposition for them.
Sadly, huge numbers of Iranians are hoodwinked into supporting these leeches and believing in their pie-in-the-sky promises. It is time for Muslims to wake up and toss this ideology of destruction and death out of office before we all are vanished.

Centuries ago, a group of newly converted Muslim savages from the Arabian Peninsula, ravaged my mother country, the present Iran, a cradle of civilization, the land of
Cyrus the Great— the first author of the Human Rights Charter—. The upstanding Iranian people who lived by the Great Zoroaster’s triad of Goodly Thoughts, Goodly Speech, and Goodly Deeds stood no chance against the Muslim beasts who had been promised by Muhammad: if you kill, or you get killed, either way you will be admitted to Allah’s gloriously lush paradise for eternity in compensation. This pie-in-the-sky paradise of Allah, Muhammad intimated, includes among other things, rivers of milk and honey as well as 72 virgins for every male.

The invasion of my country was only the start of the tenacious scourge of Islam. Slaughtering people by hundreds of thousands at the time left the remainder of the Iranians little choice but to convert to the creed of this cult of violence. Choiceless millions converted to Islam and a few hundred thousand brave souls circled the wagon, so to speak, and held firm to their creed of light—the Zoroastrian faith. For centuries, the Zoroastrians paid heavily in all manner of ways under the rule of the converted Muslims; many were forced to leave for other lands such as India, while others were driven out of their habitats to marginal parts of the land.

Yet, all along, many Iranians revered the religion of their ancestors and resented the Arab-imposed creed. Nonetheless, the virus of Islam had taken deep roots. As a result, a compromise evolved. The overwhelming majority of the Iranians, who had become some sort of generic Muslims, parted company with the original line of Sunni-Caliphate and adopted Shiism. The tragic history of Shiism appealed to the Iranians who felt great affinity, consciously or unconsciously, with the tragic suffering of the Imamate line at the hand of the mainstream Sunni Muslims.

Switching allegiance from one sect of the cult of death to another did little more than provide a venting opportunity to the victimized Iranians. They could not find it in themselves to get rid of the Islamic virus while it offered them a degree of relief, enabling them to vilify the mainstream Sunnis for inflicting them with the Islamic disease in the first place.

Fourteen hundred years of suffering is far too long for any people, although the Jews hold the record for that misfortune. The Jews have at long last returned to their homeland even though they are still encircled by the vicious Arab Islamists who would like nothing better than to drown every last one of them in the sea, similar to the way the Islamists forced our Zoroastrian people out of the country or the remaining few to the edges of the inhospitable desert.

With the passage of time, blaming the historical foreign invaders for our sorry plight failed as explanation. Re-playing the long-ago tragic drama of the Imams’ sufferings did little more than supply a superficial psychological relief. Real new enemy-making was in order to keep the victimization mentality alive and prevent the people from self-examination and finding the true culprit for their misery.

Sadly, the victimization mentality seems to have become an irreversible disease of our people, the Iranians. We have become a nation of easy answers. We ascribe blame liberally and do very little deep soul-searching. It is heartwarming to see that new flowers are blossoming in Iran. The new generation in Iran wants to distance itself from the Islamic butchers and embrace the ancient creed of Zoroasterism or other religions. They are beginning to feel and accept the fact that blaming others hasn’t done much to address our problems, just creating straw men to knock down.

Most Iranians, whose voices are not allowed to be heard in the West, have strongly condemned the blatant innumerable comments by the selected buffoon, the President Ahmadinejad calling for the
destruction of the only democratic nation in the middle east, the State of Israel. The Islamic Republic of Iran’s President’s repeated threat to wipe out Israel from the map is ignored by some as an empty rhetoric of an unhinged fanatic. Yet, Ahmadinejad’s threats are far from the baseless saber-rattling of a zealot.

Ahmadinejad’s government has recently ordered the comprehensive gathering of data regarding the Baha’is and all their activities. This order is deeply troubling, since it is almost a replica of what another fascist, Hitler, did before launching the genocide of six million Jews and some four million other “undesirables”. Ahmadinejad is an Islamofascist whose aim is to have a practice run on the Iranian Baha’is before embarking on destroying the Jews and other “undesirables,” following in the footsteps of the German fuehrer.

Political correctness is the normal tongue of politicians. However, what is coming from the Islamic regime in Iran is an aculeate tongue from a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. Ahmadinejad, the ultra-conservative President of the Islamic Republic, after all, is a known former hostage taker, an assassin, and he has eliminated all his opponents and proven his loyalty to the Ayatollah Khamenei. Perhaps that is why Ayatollah Khamenei has selected him to his post. Ahmadinejad served in the ranks of the Revolutionary Guards during the 1980-1988 war with Iraq. He has also appointed fellow Revolutionary Guards’ members to the most key positions in his cabinet.

Inside the Revolutionary Guards, there exists an elite group called "Qods (Jerusalem) Force". Its mission is military operations (including terrorism) far beyond the boundaries of Iran. At the time, Ahmadinejad was a senior commander in the
Quds Force. According to Al Sharq Al-Awsat, elements of the Qods Force have led operations against coalition forces in Iraq; other sources even contend that the Qods Force provided logistical help to the Zarqawi network of terror in the past.

During the recent Israeli war with terrorist Hamas, the Islamic Republic went through a panic mode again. They could not stand and watch the loss of one of their investments in the Israelis’ backyard, the Hamas terrorist group. What do they do, they create chaos and crises. They declared cyber war on Israel. They instigated a false crisis to bring the Arab world into the conflict and threatened them with retribution if they did not act. They offered a 2 million dollar bounty for President of Egypt, Husni Mobarak for not helping the Palestinians in the Gaza. They claimed
70,000 Iranian Basijis volunteered to carry out suicide bombings in Israel.

Ironically, a Persian reformist newspaper (Roozonline) accused Ahmadinejad’s government of using the Palestinian problem 'as weapon' against reformist bodies after he shut down a newspaper accused of
reporting misinformation about Palestinian fighters in Gaza. An Iranian newspaper (Kargozaran), which defended Israel for protecting its citizens against the barrage of mortar attacks by Hamas terrorists, was also banned for portraying the Palestinian resistance as terrorists who cause the deaths of children and civilians by taking up positions in kindergartens and hospitals.

All this acrobatic propaganda by the Islamists in Iran were symbolic and did nothing to help the Hamas thugs, but only caused more anguish and death on the Iranian part. The Islamic Republic has been living on a chaos and crises doctrine for 30 years. Without it, it would have disappeared long ago.

Since coming to power 30 years ago, the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khomeini set the stage for absolute power through creating chaos and crisis. Chaos and crises have emerged as the new policy of the Islamic Republic. Khomeini was able to get the support of the poor and the bazaar merchants opposed to the shah, peasants, riffraff and uneducated mobs who called themselves students.

At the beginning of the revolution, while Iranian people were getting ready to obliterate Khomeini and his Islamic gang of terrorists, the American hostage crisis and 444 days captivity took place. This was a much-needed crisis for Khomeini and his gang to suppress the Iranian people’s aspirations for greater freedom, while challenging the “Great Satan”, which helped to solidify their position among the poor and most Muslim countries.

This chaos and crises escalated for eight more years as the Iraqis launched a surprise attack on Iran. As President select Ahmadinejad himself stated, this war was a blessing from God. This crucial eight-year war with Iraq allowed the Islamic Republic to take shape while continuing fabrications, lies, harassment, arrests, murders and intimidation of the Iranian people. If Saddam had not attacked Iran, more than likely, the Islamic regime would have been collapsed at its early stages. After all, people did not revolt so that they could have a tyrannical Islamic cult to rule over them.

After the war, the Islamic Republic continued its brutal purges, killing anyone perceived as opponent. The tyrannical and brutal regime imposed and forced millions of Iranians to run away from their homeland. The war left behind hundreds of thousands of Iranians dead or homeless. Now, the Islamic Republic needed another reason for chaos and crises to continue its mission of creating an Islamic nation. What better choice other than diverting the attention to the most detested nation in the heart of the Arab world, the State of Israel which has been involved in a conflict with the Palestinians for half a century!

When the revolution went sour and its children grew up, the Khomeini’s dream of making Iran a pure form of an Islamic nation collapsed. It simply backfired on the Islamists. The crown jewel of Islam simply did not fit the Persians. It never did and it never will. The vast majority of the population had already written them off, but the regime refuses to leave peacefully. Again, anytime they were on the verge of extinction, they created new or renewed chaos and crises.

In exile in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf, Khomeini published a collection of essays called - an Islamic government - (Velayat-e faqhi). This book had gone completely unnoticed by the general population. Ayatollah Khomeini was a harsh and brutal tyrant. His mission was to purge pre-Islamic vestiges and to create a true Islamic nation, something his heir Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his loyal disciple President Ahmadinejad have been dreaming about it.

With the selection of Mohammad Khatami, (the darling of the West), in August 1997 as the Islamic president, the world and especially the European countries immediately turned to appeasement policy, ignoring all the warning signs by the Iranian patriots and opposition groups. This alone gave the Islamic regime eight more precious years to secretly research and develop their Islamic bomb. The regime has emptied out the wealth of the nation in a hurry to develop the most devastating bomb, the nuclear bomb and the missiles to deliver them.

Ironically, history is bound to repeat itself. Once again, the West is looking forward to have (their darling) Khatami back as a “moderate” Islamic Republic president and prolong more time to develop its nuclear ambition. We must not forget that it was during this smiling Mullah’s Presidency, the rule of law was flaunted blatantly from day one. Thousands of dissident students, intellectuals and journalists were systematically arrested, imprisoned and tortured for the sole crime of speaking up against the repressive rule of the mullahs. Many are still languishing in prisons, some have died, and some have simply vanished with no records of what happened to them. Are you listening? Do you care?

During this turbaned fascist’s watch, many students’ lives were extinguished for daring to express their opposition to the stone-age regime. Shamelessly, during the July 9, 1999 students’ demonstration, for instance, this man called the Tehran University students “A bunch of hooligans,” while his storm-trooper hooligans, with police support, brutally attacked students in their dormitories throwing some students out of the windows of the dorm’s third floor. Later, he is welcomed at Harvard University to lecture its “hooligans” and faculty on practicing tolerance.

Prisoners of conscience were routinely tortured to extract confessions about the crimes they did not commit. Some of the victims were permanently incapacitated while others died under the brutal torture. Women prisoners were often subjected to even greater indignities than men by being raped before being executed, under the cover of marriage. A prison mullah performed the forced marriage ceremony to make it conform to the Islamic ethos.

Support for terrorism constituted a high priority. It extended not only to the neighboring countries, but also as far away as Latin America. Hezbollah in Lebanon was nurtured with funds, weapons and training. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad were assisted in numerous ways, and a professional army of Shiite Iraqis was trained and armed to be used in the present Iraqi theatre. Separately, Muqtada al-Sadr and his militia thugs—the Mahdi Army—is directly funded, armed and controlled by the present Islamic regime, a gift of the smiling Mullah to his successor—the rabid Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

In his devious attempt to lull the world into a false sense of security, the smiling Mullah floated the notion of “Dialogue of Civilization,” to appear as a man of reason who is willing to reconcile the differences between and among various civilizations through dialogue. This clever ploy was exposed as nothing more than an Islamofascist propaganda tool. In actuality, his side’s dialogue proved to be a diatribe against civilization.

"...to the Iranian people, I say tonight: As you stand for your own liberty, America stands with you." — President Bush, in the State of the Union Address

For 8 years, President Bush promised the Iranian people that America would support them in their struggle for freedom, but did he? The Iranian people stood up firmly only to be hanged by the Islamic Republic executioners. Can President Obama outdo President Bush’s rhetoric, or does he really believe in his motto “Change -- Yes We Can?”

It would be wise and expedient for the community of nations and the newly elected President of the United States to show solidarity with the Iranian people and to implement maximum pressure against the illegitimate body of government calling itself the Islamic Republic of Iran to listen to the will of its citizens. The Islamic Republic hijackers must be forced to bow to the will of the Iranian people or there must be some sort of consequences.

There must not be, however, any compromise, any negotiation or any deals with the Islamists in Iran before making sure that the Iranian people are part of the equation. The era of mass politics, propaganda, nebulous sloganeering and magical solutions are over. It’s a do or die scenario for the Iranian people or perhaps for the people of the world. The Iranian people want nothing less than a complete regime change through the democratic process of a free
referendum. We believe it is the surest, safest and the fastest way to achieve a democratic Iran and end the world’s nightmare of nuclear holocaust that is currently facing us all.
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13 February 2009

The U.S. Policy of Placating Terrorists

Why U.S. Policy Leans Too Close to Terrorist Appeasement

"A well-organized plan to infiltrate and influence U.S. policymakers at the highest levels has been operating on American soil for well over a decade." And the Muslim Brotherhood is involved -- who else?

Clare M. Lopez of the Intelligence Summit explains in Human Events: "Why U.S. Policy Leans Too Close to Terrorist Appeasement,"

Under the Bush administration we had no Iran policy. Now, our policy leans too close to appeasement. How did it get this way?

America’s foreign policy toward Iran did not reach this level of malleability overnight or by accident. A well-organized plan to infiltrate and influence U.S. policymakers at the highest levels has been operating on American soil for well over a decade. Conceived in Tehran under the direct authority of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the plan set out to create a network of top U.S. academics, diplomats, journalists, NGOs, and think tanks that would advocate a policy of appeasement towards Iran. Iran’s top strategic objective has always been to buy time for its nuclear weapons program, which now is well along in developing the three critical components: enriched uranium, warhead weaponization, and a credible missile delivery system.

Beginning in the late 1990s, a de facto alliance between Muslim Brotherhood fronts in the U.S. (such as CAIR -- the Council on Islamic American Relations) and frank Tehran regime advocates like the American-Iranian Council (AIC) openly began to promote public support for a U.S. foreign policy based on the favored positions of the Islamic Republic. In 2002, a new pro-Iran group was formed by a young Swedish-Iranian immigrant named Trita Parsi. That group, the National Iranian-American Council (NIAC) quickly established itself as the nexus of a growing network of individuals and organizations that openly lobby for a U.S. policy of acquiescence, diplomacy, incentives, and negotiations with the Tehran regime -- while strongly opposing coercive diplomacy, sanctions, or threat of military action. Part and parcel of this advocacy on behalf of Tehran is a pattern of antipathy towards Israel that minimizes its security concerns and dismisses its legitimate defense needs.

Under Parsi, who is closely connected to the Tehran regime, the NIAC network has expanded to include a growing number of new groups. Some of them -- such as The Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) -- are NIAC clones. CASMII was founded in December 2005 to oppose all forms of pressure on Iran. Others, such as the Center for a New American Security (CNAS, founded in February 2007) play the role of useful idiots. CNAS had Dr. Susan Rice, the Obama administration’s appointee as Ambassador to the UN, on its Board of Directors.

Dr. Vali Nasr, who has been named senior advisor to U.S. Afghanistan/Pakistan envoy Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, was one of the authors of a September 2008 CNAS publication called Iran: Assessing U.S. Strategic Options. Nasr’s chapter, "The Implications of Military Confrontation with Iran," urged the U.S. to take the military option for dealing with Iran off the table and instead focus on how best to accommodate Tehran’s rising power in the Middle East region. The Campaign for a New American Policy on Iran (CNAPI) launched its pro-Iran activities with a cross-country event called The Folly of Attacking Iran Tour, which crisscrossed the U.S. in February and March 2008.

The American Foreign Policy Project (AFPP) was founded in December 2008 with an “experts list” that reads like a remix of other CAIR and NIAC affiliates, including former Ambassadors Thomas Pickering, James Dobbins, and William Miller plus well-known academic figures such as Professors Gary G. Sick of Columbia University and Juan R. Cole of the University of Michigan. These groups’ interlocking Boards of Advisors, Directors, and Experts include many other nationally-known figures from public policy and international business arenas, including some big oil companies.

All are associated in one way or another with Trita Parsi and NIAC and all advocate a policy of accommodation with Iran.

The Iranian regime makes no attempt to disguise its links to this network. NIAC, for instance, was openly mentioned in the 7 December 2007 issue of the government-controlled Aftab News, where the NIAC network was called the regime’s “Iran lobby in the U.S.” In March 2007, the Fars News daily described NIAC as ‘a non-profit’ organization with headquarters in Washington, D.C. that was established to counter the influence of AIPAC [the American-Israeli Political Action Committee, a legal lobby group] and to enlist the support of Iranian expatriates living in the U.S. in order to ‘penetrate U.S. politics.’

Maneuvering behind Washington, D.C. policymaking scenes to exert influence on U.S. decision makers is pretty standard for a host of legitimate interest groups, including many foreign countries. Concern is indicated, however, when the guiding influence behind such maneuvering emanates from the top levels of a regime like Iran’s that holds top spot on the Department of State’s state sponsors of terror list, makes no secret of its hatred and enmity for the U.S. and our ally Israel, and acts in myriad ways to support those who have assassinated, held, kidnapped, killed, and tortured American civilians and military over a 30-year period. The expanding influence of this pro-Iran lobby on U.S. foreign policy attests to a determined and sophisticated operation that serves only the interests of regime implacably hostile to America’s own national security interests.
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31 December 2008

NOT TO QUESTION ISRAEL'S RESOLVE

By FrontPage MagazineFrontPageMagazine.com Tuesday, December 30, 2008

THOSE WHO QUESTIONED THE RESOLVE OF THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT TO FIGHT HAMAS CAN TAKE HEART from at least one sign: early this morning, the Olmert government denied an international collection of far-leftists - including former Congresswoman
Cynthia McKinney, radicals who support suicide bombers, multiple Al Jazeera "journalists," and a former Guantanamo Bay detainee - the opportunity to deliver supplies to the terrorist stronghold of Gaza.

Interference Denied

A group calling itself "Free Gaza" set sail from Cyprus Monday evening on boat dubbed the "SS DIGNITY," a 66-foot yacht carrying 3.5 tons of Cypriot-donated medical supplies and 16 radical activists, including recent Green Party presidential candidate McKinney. In the wee hours of this morning, Israelis diverted the boat en route to Gaza. Reuters reports that the activists claim the yacht "was rammed and shot at," though Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry, denies any shooting took place. He adds that the DIGNITY failed to respond to Israeli radio contact, provoking the confrontation. If true, this would be an exceedingly odd move, since the group recounted how, after the group identified itself by radio during a similar trip to Gaza this November, the Israelis responded, "Have a nice day."

At present, it is unclear where the DIGNITY has docked. Elize Ernshire, who was onboard the ship, told Al-Jazeera, "We are heading towards Lebanon as the boat is not in a fit state to return to Larnaca [Cyprus]"; however, Palmor said "the Israeli ship escorted the aid boat back to Cypriot territorial waters." Whatever its destination, for once a left-wing organization has failed in its plan to give aid and comfort to the terrorist enemy.

Who is Free Gaza?

Free Gaza is a coalition of groups, including notable members such as the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), and the Israel Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), but one assisted by an international cast of radicals, some themselves Jewish. One of Free Gaza's prime organizers, Jeff Halper, clarified the views of many when he called for the end of Israel as a Jewish state. "A Jewish state has proven politically, and in the end, morally, untenable," he insisted. Halper led FG in its virgin voyage this August, boasting, somewhat prematurely, that he "broke the [Israeli] siege." For this, Nation magazine hailed Halper this September, predicting, "his Nobel stock has likely risen dramatically if you're a betting person." (Sadly, this is probably true.) After the August trip, Halper confessed, "This trip wasn't humanitarian; it was political"; a $300,000 piece of street theater. The group donated only a few boxes of hearing aids. Nonetheless, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh welcomed the trip's political aspect, meeting with most of the entourage and granting Halper honorary Palestinian citizenship, complete with passport. Haniyeh hoped the trip would inspire his Muslim brothers to take more substantive action. "We hope it will be the beginning of Arab moves to break the blockade," he said.

Israelis agonized over the initial decision to let FG come to port in Gaza, dreading international opinion if it intercepted the boat. Ultimately, one Israeli official described the floating protestors as "professional anarchists and pro-Hamas activists" whom they wished to deny publicity. Olmert made the decision after consultation with Ehud Barak - the men now making war policy against Gaza. The SS DIGNITY has visited Gaza six times since then, delivering "mail (that hasn't been though Israeli hands)" - and thus may contain sensitive military information or terrorist communiques - and carrying away Palestinian "students" as return cargo.

The activists' tone has hardly mellowed. After a November landing, FG accused Israel of "Chemical Warfare on Palestinian Fishermen." In a press conference in the Cypriot port of Larnaca just before it departed Monday night, the group referred to Operation Cast Lead as an Israeli "blitzkrieg." And Ernshire pledged forebodingly before the hoisting the sail, "We will do our best to send in the DIGNITY as often as we can over the next few weeks, bringing in physicians and medical supplies."

As in previous leftist missions to help the enemy, there is no question of whom Free Gaza wishes to benefit. While setting the number of dead at just over 200, Palestinian television on Sunday admitted at least 180 had been "policemen" - agents of Hamas. Moreover, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit announced Sunday that Hamas was denying wounded civilians the right to leave Gaza for medical treatment, indicating what all but the most credulous already knew: the well-being of Palestian non-terrorists is not Hamas' top priority. Who could the medical supplies be intended to help, if not Hamas footsoldiers and their confederates?

Cynthia McKinney's Jihad

It's easy to see why such a trip would interest former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Monday that McKinney "sees the voyage as a humanitarian mission, said her father, former Georgia state Rep. Billy McKinney." McKinney's father may also see it as a chance for revenge. The senior McKinney forecast his daughter's 2002 Democratic primary defeat on election eve, starkly asserting, "Jews have bought everybody. Jews. J-E-W-S." Cynthia had a long history of spouting rhetoric Jewish groups regarded as tinged with anti-Semitism. She agreed with the gist of Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal's comments demonizing Israel and solicited his $10 million. She intimated President Bush had advance knowlege of the 9/11 attacks, which contributed to her defeat in 2002. She returned to her old seat triumphant in the 2004 election and has since signed on as a 9/11 Truther, as well as a major supporter of Cindy Sheehan. In 2006, she struck a Capitol Hill police officer and blamed him for racial profiling, an incident that led to her ouster again that fall. Having failed twice to be re-elected in a gerrymandered black Democratic district, she tried her hand at capturing the highest office in the free world, running as the Green Party's presidential candidate this fall and racking up 153,639 votes, which landed her in sixth place, just ahead of Alan Keyes.

Other notable members of the Unholy Alliance joined McKinney on the interrupted boat ride, including:

Sami al-Hajj, an Al Jazeera reporter and a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay. Nicholas Kristof lionized al-Hajj in the New York Times, innocuously dismissing Commander Jeffrey Gordon's
statement, "There is a significant amount of information, both unclassified and classified, which supports continued detention of Sami al-Hajj by U.S. forces." A four-page government statement written on July 8, 2005, and now declassified, accuses al-Hajj of delivering money to the "charity" Al-Haramayn $473,000 "at least eight" visits to Azerbaijan; he was denied entry on a final attempted entry in January of 2000. This "charity" then funneled the money to Chechen jihadists. Al-Hajj's lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, admits one or two such visits. Similarly, Smith admits his client met with Osama bin Laden's "Deputy in Sudan," al-Qaeda founder Mamdouh Mahmoud Salim, who was implicated in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tazania and later received 32 years in prison for stabbing a Manhattan prison guard in the eye. Smith simply claims al-Hajj made the trips and met Salim on behalf of his employer and did not know why this was being done. However, Osama bin Laden closed his May 23, 2006, audio message by calling on Allah to free all Guantanamo Bay detainees - mentioning al-Hajj by name. Bin Laden is not the only monster to appreciate al-Hajj's work; Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez jotted him a message: the phrase "Venceremos!" - the motto of the Cuban revolution. Al-Hajj has told the world he was tortured during his stay in Guantanamo Bay and witnessed horrific scenes of Quran desecration and physical and mental abuse. Held in Gitmo from December 2001 until this May, he spent his last year in detention on a hunger strike, during which time the authorities force-fed him, refusing to let him starve to death. Among the reasons the government cited for his release were the observations that he "consistently led prayer in the cellblocks and has been seen teaching English and the Koran to other detainees." Among the tortures al-Hajj reported at Gitmo were such indignities as the following: "We were forced to salute when the American anthem played. They humiliated the prisoners by forcing them to cover their bodies with the American and Israeli flags." He also averred these budding American Mengeles "offered me millions of dollars, American citizenship for me and my family in addition to a car and a villa with full protection. But I refused because I'm a journalist and it is not my job to spy" on al-Jazeera. So lax was his captivity that, in addition to meeting with a lawyer more than half-a-dozen times, and being interviewed by the Red Cross, he had a poem entitled “Humiliated in the Shackles” published in the 2007 book Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak. Perhaps taking a page from Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, al-Hajj stated guards denied him his medication for rheumatism, but his captivity was probably more restful than his return to Sudan. Upon his release, he was rushed from his hospital bed to an outdoor event in Khartoum to denounce the U.S. government. According to Al-Jazeera, "the United States placed some conditions on al-Hajj's release, including one that prevents him from any political activity." One wonders if that covers this morning's aborted voyage.

Renee Bowyer of Australia, who justified the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers in an article she penned for Alex Cockburn's CounterPunch website. The kidnappings were, she stressed, "an act directed specifically against a military target and it was against the military regime which has caused so much bloodshed in Gaza and so much of it here in the West Bank as well." She added, "For a few brief hours the people of Palestine were grateful." Bowyer teaches 7th graders English at The Friends School in Ramallah, though her writing evidences little comprehension of grammar and usage.

Caoimhe Butterly, a 6'1" Irishwoman and daughter of a UN economist "was brought up in a culture of liberation theology." She opposed sanctions against the Taliban after 9/11, hunkered down inside Yasser Arafat's besieged compound, spent a year standing between tanks and Palestinian "fighters," and worked with Zapista anarchists in Mexico. Her name appeared on a statement by the Pitstop Ploughshares group, which broke into Ireland's Shannon Airport and "disabled" a U.S. plane bound for Iraq, though she was never charged with participating in the action.

Darlene Wallach, a Jewish member of ISM. She once voiced her support for terrorists such as Hamas in the most offensive terms of moral equivalence: "I don't see how Israel is any different to [sic.] Nazism during World War II...There is nothing that the Palestinians do that in any regard I can condemn. I cannot condemn suicide bombings."

Karl Penhaul, "a video correspondent for CNN, based out of Bogotá, Colombia" who was formerly with Reuters. In July, after Colombian soldiers staged a bloodless rescue of 15 hostages, including a former presidential candidate, held by the Marxist narcoterrorist revolutionary group FARC for more than six years. Pennhaul reported the event - as a Colombian war crime. One of the soliders wore a Red Cross insignia, he wrote; "Such a use of the Red Cross emblem could constitute a "war crime" under the Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law and could endanger humanitarian workers in the future."

Othman Abu Falah of Jordan is another Al-Jazeera reporter, who hoped to "remain in Gaza to report on the ongoing military onslaught." (The DIGNITY carried no fewer than three Al-Jazeera "journalists" on this tour.)

This lineup of leftists does not differ from former FG crewmen. Past Free Gaza voyagers include:

Huwaida Arraf, the founder of the International Solidarity Movement.

Mustafa Barghouti, a former Palestinian Authority presidential candidate. In October, Barghouti told reporters, "We will not leave Gaza, we will not abandon Gaza and it is approved today that the Palestinian resistance groups are mightier than the Israeli occupation and those who support it." He has ties to such "resistance groups." His cousin, Marwan Barghouti, founded the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.

Lauren Booth, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's sister-in-law, visited in August, at which time she called Gaza a "concentration camp" and a "humanitarian crisis on the scale of Darfur."

Clare Short, the former UK Secretary of State for International Development Clare Short sailed the Cypriot seas in November. Short once warned Israel may cause the "end of the human race" and called for a boycott of Israel as long as its "apartheid wall" stands. She affirmed, "the Palestinian people are entitled to resist occupation" and likened Iraqi murderers to American revolutionaries. She also declared, "that U.S. backing for Israeli policies of expansion...and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world."

Mairead Corrigan Maguire, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who toured Gaza in October. She used her trip as an opportunity to call for the UN to expel Israel. Maguire has long been attracted to Gaza. The Peace Prize honoree participated in a stone-throwing protest against Israeli police near the Security Fence in the village of Bilin; in turn, Maguire was hit with a rubber bullet and inhaled tear gas.

Yvonne Ridley, the British journalist and onetime captive of the Taliban, who converted to Islam in 2003 and stood for election in the UK as a member of George Galloway's RESPECT Party. In 2006, she wrote, "Now, more than ever, we need the Muslim equivalent of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, or Hugo Chavez." She has encouraged British Muslims not to cooperate with police.

The participation of McKinney, Ridley, and the other assorted leftists and Islamic fundamentalists in the Free Gaza sortie but maintains a continuing tradition of radicals attempting to offer material support to terrorists and their supporters.

The Unholy Alliance, Ad Infinitum

In the heyday of the "antiwar" movement, radicals like Tom Hayden made pilgrimages to North Vietnam to witness the foundation of a "rice roots democracy." Later, U.S. Senators Chris Dodd and Robert Torricelli wrote "Dear Commandate" letters to Nicaraguan Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega, while others traveled to Cuba.

One such errant acolyte, Medea Benjamin, led the charge to solidify an alliance with Islamist terrorists and other murderers of U.S. soldiers. In December 2004, Code Pink activists delivered $600,000 in cash and supplies to "the other side" in Fallujah, a stronghold of Iraqi "insurgents." As David Horowitz and Ben Johnson mention in their book Party of Defeat, the trip was made possible by a letter signed by California Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman.

In early 2006, Benjamin, Sheehan, and Obama campaign bundler and former Jerry Brown campaign manager Jodie Evans flew to Caracas to meet with Hugo Chavez.

Eight months later, in August 2006, Code Pink returned to Iraq with a new motley crew of left-wingers - including Cindy Sheehan, Tom Hayden, and Evans - in order "to meet directly with Iraqi parliamentarians working on a peace plan." In addition to the fact that such a trip may be illegal, violating the prohibition for private citizens to conduct their own foreign policy, the Iraqis they met with consisted primarily of leaders who supported violent jihad against American soldiers.

In November, Benjamin, Evans, and Col. Ann Wright made another trip, this time to Tehran for more "citizen diplomacy," complete with descriptions of "how much more open Iran is than I had thought...People in Iraq were afraid to speak out against Saddam, people in Iran aren't.

" Iranian "Help" is on the Way to Gaza

The Associated Press reports Iran may now be headed to Gaza - or may have been before the grounding of the SS DIGNITY. AP reports:

Monday, the Iranian Red Crescent sent a ship carrying 2,000 tons of food to Palestinians living in Gaza to be delivered via Egypt. An Iranian military plane also landed at Cairo International Airport carrying 24 tons of food and medicine destined for Gaza.

The head of Iran's Red Crescent, Masoud Khatami, said three more ships were waiting to be loaded with humanitarian aid, and Iranian hospitals were ready to receive injured Gazans, according to the official Iran news agency, IRNA.

Food, supplies, and well-meaning Persians may not account for all the cargo. Professor Raymond Tanter, president of the Iran Policy Committee, told The Jerusalem Post
the Iranian Red Crescent "humanitarian" ship is a Trojan horse designed to smuggle Iranian intelligence agents and members of the al-Quds Force into Gaza.

With the right coordination, a ship full of leftists and pro-jihadists could work just as well.

Through its swift action this morning, the Israeli government decreased the chance that Iran, Saudi Arabia, or any other Muslim nation will attempt to "break the siege" and join forces with the only group that hates democratic Israel as much as they do: the international Left.
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26 December 2008

*** THE REALITY - AGGRESSION AGAINST ISRAEL ***

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December 24-25, 2008:



Rockets Impact in Ashkelon

- All Israeli towns within a 30-kilometer radius of the Gaza Strip are linked to a rocket early warning system.

- Among the newly-connected towns and cities are Ofakim and Netivot. - Ashdod, with its center just outside the 30-kilometer mark, is expected to be connected to the system within the next 24 hours.

- Hamas legislator Mushir al-Masri: "Hamas will hit not only Sderot, but also what lies beyond Sderot."

-Iz al-Din al-Qassam: "Thousands of additional Israelis will soon be within the range of our rockets if Israel continues with its aggression." The residents of the south will stay in the bomb shelters for a long time...threats of an [Israeli] military offensive don't scare us because we are more prepared than ever."

- The defense establishment prepares for a military op against Hamas targets in Gaza.

- An IAF strike kills a Hamas terrorist in the southern Gaza Strip.

- Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip fire a barrage of projectiles at the western Negev.

- At least 100 projectiles are launched at southern Israel. One of them damages a house in Kibbutz Sha'ar Hanegev.

- A number of rockets hit Netivot.

- Two Grad-type missiles impact in Ashkelon.

- The defense establishment has ordered Gaza border crossings to remain closed in response to the attacks.

(Amos Harel, Barak Ravid and Avi Issacharoff, "Rocket Barrage Pounds Negev, Burdening Efforts to Renew Truce with Gaza," Ha'aretz, December 24, 2008; Avi Issacharoff and Barak Ravid, "Cabinet Approves Gaza Op After 80 Missiles Hit Israel," Ha'aretz, December 25, 2008).
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December 22, 2008:

IDF Criticizes Current Reality


IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen Gabi Ashkenazi tells Army Radio that the current reality is unacceptable.

"It's impossible to accept a reality where Gaza-belt residents are getting wounded. Hamas is responsible for this, and we will deal with them. The IDF is prepared for every possible operation that could be required in the Gaza Strip. I present the different options to the political echelons, and we'll do what we're ordered to do.

Hamas is always trying to improve the range and quality of its missiles. [Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) head Yuval Diskin's comments on Sunday] didn't tell us anything we didn't already know. We're regularly keeping track of the type and quality of Hamas's weapons."

Diskin had told the cabinet that terror group now fielded weapons with the ability to reach "Kiryat Gat, Ashdod and the outskirts of Beersheba." ("Ashkenazi: Current Reality Unacceptable," Jerusalem Post, December 22, 2008).

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December 20, 2008:








Southern Israel Under Fire

- Palestinian terrorists in northern Gaza fire four rockets at Sderot. - One rocket impacts near a local factory, while another projectile lands in close proximity to a kibbutz in the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council. - At least 14 Qassams and 26 mortars are fired at the western Negev region. - A barrage of mortar shells and one rocket strikes a kibbutz in the Shaar HaNegev Regional Council, damaging a youth center. - An additional 12 mortar shells are fired in close proximity to the Gaza Strip perimeter fence near the Eshkol Regional Council. (Ilana Curiel, "Four Qassams Fired Towards Sderot; No Injuries," YnetNews, December 20, 2008).

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December 19, 2008:


Western Negev Shelled

- Hamas officials in Gaza and Beirut announce that the so-called "truce" has lapsed. - Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip fire three Qassam rockets at the western Negev. - Two of the rockets impact in open fields in the Eshkol region, while the third slams into the Sha'ar Hanegev area. - Palestinian terrorists in Gaza fire at farmers near Kibbutz Nir Oz, in the Eshkol region. - Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for the attacks. (Yaakov Katz and Khaled Abu Toameh, "3 Kassams Hit South, Gunmen Fire at Farmers as Truce Ends," Jerusalem Post, December 19, 2008).
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December 18, 2008:



IDF Targets Pal Artillery Cells

-"In response to the continuous rocket fire from the Gaza Strip upon Israeli territory, IDF forces carried out four aerial strikes against terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours. The first strike, Wednesday (Dec. 17) morning, targeted a loaded rocket launcher in northern Gaza. The second target, that afternoon, was a Qassam rocket launching squad also in northern Gaza. This squad was prepped to launch a Qassam rocket at Israel. Wednesday night, IAF fighter jets and helicopters struck two terrorist infrastructure sites in the Gaza Strip. The first site was an arsenal in Jebalya RC in northern Gaza. The second site was a rocket and explosives production facility in the city of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. The targets were successfully struck and the aircraft returned to their bases unharmed." ("IAF Strikes Four Terrorist Sites in the Gaza Strip," IDF Spokesperson's Office, December 18, 2008).
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December 17, 2008:





Russia: MIG's to Lebanon

Russia has reportedly agreed to supply Lebanon with 10 MiG-29 fighter jets. According to Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr, the fighter deliveries will provide a fresh impetus for military cooperation between the two countries. The planes will apparently be sold at a "hefty discount." (Yoav Stern, "Russia to Supply Lebanon with 10 MiG-29 Fighter Jets," Ha'aretz, December 17, 2008; ).

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December 16, 2008:



Iran Claims UAV Development

-Iran claims that it has manufactured a new generation of "spy drones" capable of providing almost real time access to aerial intelligence. Head of the Aerospace Faculty at Iran's Amir Kabir University of Technology Mahmoud Mani: "Iran's domestically-manufactured micro unmanned aerial vehicle would be used in research projects." Meanwhile, a senior Iranian military officer notes that the government is expected to upgrade its missile production division in an effort to boost the country's defense capabilities. Head of the Aerospace Organization in the Defense Ministry, Brigadier General Mehdi Farahi: "The reforms are intended to promote efficiency and help fulfill the requirements of the country's Armed Forces." ("Iran Succeeds in Building Micro Drones (UAV's)," FarsNews, December 16, 2008; "Iran Succeeds in Building Micro Drones UAV's," FarsNews, December 16, 2008).
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December 16, 2008:




Islamic Jihad Commander Killed

IDF forces kill senior Islamic Jihad commander Jihad Nwada in Jenin. Nwada, who attempted to escape, was killed during an exchange of fire. According to security forces, Nwada belonged to a cell that planning to execute a terror attack in the near future. ("IDF Kills Senior Islamic Jihad Terrorist in Jenin Arrest Op," Jerusalem Post, December 16, 2008).
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18 February 2008

ANNOTHER MOSSAD INNOVATIVE DEVICE

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

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