The sophistication of this attack indicates Imad Fayez Mugniyah,
Hezbollah's chief of military operations was directly involved.
Mugniyah has a long history of successful military and terrorist
operations across the globe. Mugniyah has a history of conducting
similar snatch and grab operations against the Israelis. He was
responsible for capturing three Israeli soldiers in Lebanon, and the
abduction of an Israeli colonel in Kuwait in 2000.
Mugniyah began his career in terrorism in the 1970s with ,
the personal bodyguard detachment for Yassar Arafat, and later joined
Hezbollah. His more infamous terror attacks include the April 1983
bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, killing 63; the October 1983
simultaneous truck bombings on the U.S. Marine and French paratrooper
barracks in Beirut, killing 241 Marines and 58 French soldiers; the
hijacking of TWA 847; the kidnappings and murders of U.S. military,
intelligence and diplomatic personnel in Beirut; the bombing of the
Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1992, killing 29 people;
the bombing of an Israeli cultural center in 1994, killing 86 people.
He is suspected of direct involvement in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar
Towers in Saudi Arabia, killing 19 U.S. servicemen.
We owe this guy big time. Maybe the Israelis will take 'care' of the problem for us?
Contributed by Zero Ponsdorf on July 13, 2006 at 08:53 AM in , |