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War on Terror

No. 2 Hizb'allah murderer gets his


By Stan Goodenough
February 13, 2008

He is believed to have planned the mass killings of hundreds of Americans and Jews, masterminding hijackings, "suicide" bombings and kidnappings as he wreaked terror for the glory of Allah from Beirut to Buenos Aires.

Fox News described him as "more dangerous than Osama bin Laden."

Knowing that Israel was determined to find him, and that US intelligence services were also keen to track him down, he hid behind plastic surgery operations and deep inside pro-terrorist countries, possibly believing that he would get away with his butchery after all.

But his god was unable to keep him from justice, and in a late night mysterious blast in Damascus Tuesday, Imad Mugniyah's life was brought to an end, ushering him into the presence of His Maker.

In a brief announcement of Mugniyah's demise Hizb'allah - the Lebanese terrorist group whose name means Party of Allah - expressed its "pride" in the fact that a "great jihadist" had succeeded in "joining the martyrs ... at the hands of the Zionist Israelis."

According to experts in Islamic studies, the Muslims' religion decrees that there is no greater prize to be sought than "martyrdom" achieved while waging jihad against Jews and Christians - "the sons of pigs and monkeys."

Among Mugniyah's "achievements" are reportedly the masterminding of:

The April 18, 1983 bombing of the US Marine headquarters in Beirut that killed 63 people and wounded 120.

The October 23, 1983 bombings of the US Marine barracks and French multinational force headquarters in Beirut, killing a combined total of 299 people and wounding 75.

The June 14, 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 en route from Athens to Rome, which was forced to land in Beirut and during which a US Navy diver was killed.

The March 17, 1992 bombing attack against the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires that killed 30 people and wounded 200.

The July 18, 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people and wounded 300.

The kidnapping on the border with Lebanon of Israeli soldiers Benny Avraham, Adi Avitan, Omar Souad, and apparently also of Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser.

Israel's government refused to comment on Mugiyah's execution. But with Hizb'allah publicly charging that Israeli agents had taken him out, Israel is now bracing for a response.

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