Justice Served: Killing Mughniyah
by Robert Baer

There are two ways to look at today’s assassination of Hizballah’s most notorious terrorist, Imad Fa’iz Mughniyah. In this country it will be one of rendering justice, one less terrorist, a turn on the war in terror.

There was an outstanding American arrest warrant for Mughniyah, for the murder of a Navy diver in 1985. The diver was a passenger on TWA 847, which was diverted to Beirut. Mughniyah personally ordered the diver’s murder. And, unlike other cases where Mughniyah’s role was shadowy, there is solid evidence for his presence in the hijacking; his fingerprints were found on the airplane.

Mughniyah also was the mastermind of several other savage hijackings and the taking of Western hostages, including a former colleague, CIA station chief Bill Buckley. All of these attacks were carried out at the behest of Iran.

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http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2008/02/targeted-killing-of-imad-mugniyeh.html

Mr.,

I smell some prior knowledge just like when stocks were sold short prior to 9-11.

The conflict will spread out and they will make sure of.

Ha’aretz’s Yossi Melman:

The big and more important question arising from the killing in Damascus is not whether Hezbollah will respond, but how and when.

There is no doubt Hezbollah and its Iranian masters, who had excellent relations with Mughniyah, have long memories and will demand revenge. It will not necessarily come immediately in a reflex action. …The more reasonable and likeliest possibility is that Hezbollah, with Iranian approval, will try to make a revenge attack against Israel overseas, in particular against an embassy.

In this case it seems they will look for areas that are Israel’s “soft underbelly” such as the Israeli Embassy in Jordan, Egypt or certain African capitals – where it will be easier for them to act surreptitiously.

Some interesting opinons here:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/

In both cases they didn’t want us there to see their crimes.

Even now when people (not me) advocated a US force or UN forces to move in Israel objects.

I agree with you regarding Reagan.

I do believe he hijacked that plane but he’s done far less than Sharon and Bush.
They killed him now and won’t admit so they can play the victim if someone retaliates.
They also killed Harai and won’t admit it.
But when something does happen, ask yourself who is really doing it.

Former CIA official: Mossad behind Mugniyah killing

Evidence in Damascus car bombing points to Israel, says Bruce Riedel, former advisor to three US presidents on Middle Eastern affairs. ‘This proves Israel has (infiltrated)Hizbullah,’ he notes, adding that Nasrallah has genuine reason for concern
Yitzhak Benhorin

WASHINGTON – While Israel has formally refuted allegations it was involved in the assassination of Hizbullah ‘operations officer’ Imad Mugniyah in Damascus on Tuesday, former CIA official Bruce Riedel says all signs seem to indicate the Mossad was behind the killing.

http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3506535,00.html

Those earlier days, the networks they operated in were smaller, so it’s true assets doubled up. The ability to determine who he worked with, as Shirin notes, conflicts with the stance of animosity between the main elements thought to support terror in strategic forms. The tendency to tag the “Al-Qaeda number three” tag on anyone killed can always be considered an item as well.

It’s possible he was victim to a counteroperative from the rivalry of factions in Lebanon as well. That’s how I’d try to report, in ways similar to cointelpro terms. You’d have to examine the M.O. and match a forensic evaluation to that.

The more overlying item seems to be his ability to have patterned a resistance model that Osama would later apply vs. both superpowers in Afghanistan. He doesn’t have to have worked with him all that time, one could have simply copied the other after studying his approach.

This must have been why the oil market spiked up two bucks a barrel in late trading. My opinion near the bell time earlier today was that this was the result of our having tried to increase pressure on Syria in the wake of that.OPEC is sending the USA a reminder.

The bombing on the heels of Burns’ State departure has heightened concerns of this thing spreading out. Syria already has major pressure for and from war refugees.

And heaven help us all when the U.S. receives all the payback due to it!

That’s the trouble with payback. The more payback you’ve earned, the bigger bitch your payback is gonna be.

Oh yes, and don’t forget how many times they have insisted that Iran was “sheltering Al Qa`eda”, or “in league with the Taliban” (a particularly ludicrous suggestion), and had Zarqawi, Muqtada Sadr, Iran, and `Izzat Ad Douri all working closely together to defeat “the forces of democracy in Iraq”.

A ‘Wall of Assumptions’

US policy toward the bombing was skewed from the beginning by a Clinton Administration strategy of isolating Iran, adopted in 1993 as part of an understanding with Israel on peace negotiations with the Palestinians. On the very day of the crime, before anything could have been known about who was responsible, Secretary of State Warren Christopher blamed “those who want to stop the peace process in the Middle East”–an obvious reference to Iran.

William Brencick, then chief of the political section at the US Embassy in Buenos Aires and the primary Embassy contact for the investigation, recalled in an interview with me last June that a “wall of assumptions” guided the US approach to the case. The primary assumptions, Brencick said, were that the explosion was a suicide bombing and that use of a suicide bomb was prima facie evidence of involvement by Hezbollah–and therefore Iran.

But the suicide-bomber thesis quickly encountered serious problems. In the wake of the explosion, the Menem government asked the United States to send a team to assist in the investigation, and two days after the bombing, experts from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms arrived in Buenos Aires along with three FBI agents. According to an interview the head of the team, ATF explosives expert Charles Hunter, gave to a team of independent investigators headed by US journalist Joe Goldman and Argentine investigative journalist Jorge Lanata, as soon as the team arrived the federal police put forward a thesis that a white Renault Trafic van had carried the bomb that destroyed the AMIA.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/74331/

I suspect that you are aware of the USS Liberty incident during Johnson’s term, so far that is the only unrevenged attack on an american military ship. It will remain unrevenged until after the rapture.
Reagan’s removal of american forces in lebanon was the only time in our whole middle eastern clusterscrew history, that an american president actually calculated if doing something was good for america. I give him credit for getting the US ass our of there as quickly as he did.

CK,

I can’t remembere the exact quote but this is basically what the Mossad said when they didn’t warn us that our Marine barracks was going to be bombed.