Imad Moghniyeh assassinated!

[Venom]

was he that important?

[Shuyu3i]

Originally Posted by Venom

was he that important?

YES he was in charge of security and one of the top HA men. The question is if it is mossad how did they penetrate into syria's territory without their knowledge?
STOP the TFEH and start analysing the situation guys.

[Abufijli]

Originally Posted by Venom

was he that important?

He was always a man in the shadows so the truth about what he did is not yet known. Put it this way, if he was not very high up in the chain of HA Manar would not be playing Quran and stopping its normal programming.

[ecce homo]

Hezbollah's Moughniyah killed in Syria blast
By Laila Bassam and Nadim Ladki

BEIRUT, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Hezbollah military commander Imad Moughniyah was killed by a car bomb in Damascus on Tuesday, the Lebanese group said, announcing the death of the man believed to be behind Western hostage taking in Lebanon in the 1980s.

Hezbollah, which is backed by Syria and Iran, accused Israel of killing Moughniyah, thought to be in his late 40s.

"After a life full of jihad, sacrifices and accomplishments ... Haj Imad Moughniyah ... died a martyr at the hands of the Israeli Zionists," said Hezbollah, which fought a 34-day war in 2006 with the Jewish state.

Islamic Jihad, a shadowy pro-Iranian group widely believed linked to Hezbollah, kidnapped several Western hostages, including Americans, in Beirut in the mid 1980s.

The group, at the time thought to be commanded by Moughniyah, killed a few of its captives and exchanged others for U.S. weapons to Iran in what was later known as the Iran-Contra scandal.

Among the victims of Islamic Jihad was the CIA's station chief.

The group was also linked to suicide bomb attacks against the U.S. embassy and Marine headquarters in Lebanon in the 1980s.

Moughniyah's brother was killed in a similar attack in Beirut in 1994. Reports at the time suggested Imad was the real target. Moughniyah had spent much of the 1990s in Iran making only few visits to Beirut.

Some reports suggested he was in charge of Hezbollah's operations abroad and link him to attacks on Israeli targets in Latin America in the 1990s.

(Writing by Tom Perry; Editing by Samia Nakhoul)

[Mr Aoun]

The same people that killed him, are the same people that have been carrying out the assassination in Lebanon. The sophistication is obvious.

[lebanon_first]

Originally Posted by Venom

was he that important?

On Al jazeera they said that the Israelis condemn him of the 1983 US marines attack, the french troops attack,
And they said he was the chief of the military operations in HA and he was the one responsible for the 12th of july kidnapping (+ 8 dead Israeli soldiers) of 2006.

[Venom]

"حزب الله" يشيع عماد مغنية غداً

tomorrow?!!! allah yestor hal yom.....a funeral and a festival on valentines day.....

[Shuyu3i]

Originally Posted by Mr Aoun

The same people that killed him, are the same people that have been carrying out the assassination in Lebanon. The sophistication is obvious.

Agreed. Now there two questions:

1) If it was the US/Israel how did they penetrate into syria's terroritory?
2) If it was syria then it was a free gift to the US

[Mr Aoun]

They did this just b4 Hariri's assassination day. They're trying to sow the seeds of discord for war. The opposition MUST be vigilant.

[Abufijli]

Originally Posted by Shuyu3i

Agreed. Now there two questions:

1) If it was the US/Israel how did they penetrate into syria's terroritory?
2) If it was syria then it was a free gift to the US

1) Syrian territory is not Dahiye, it is easy for the Mossad to penetrate it, I am sure they have many operatives in there.

2) There are no free gifts, it could be part of some deal, who knows....