Mugniyeh

[FC-UK]

Opps, fathers name has been reported as Abu. I have seen both.

Now a picture of the whole faam damnly...

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Don't know which is which, only pictures I have ever seen of the brothers. They have all suffered the same fate.


"Now a picture of the whole faam damnly.."

You're sick

[FC-UK]

But who did it? And whoever did it, did they recently decide to target him for elimination for some reason (?), or was he a target all along and only now could he be gotten to? It would be very impressive if the latter was true.


Mossad CIA with a lot of help from the French Secret Service.

So in essence it is the French secret service who killed him,

There will be many assassinations like this, in Lebanon ( former french colony) and Syria, now that we have a Jewish Zionist bastard as the French President. Who has set plans into motion and directed the resources of french secret service to help by what ever means Mossad

[The 801]

I wish I could take credit for the "whole faam damnly" line, but it's a WWII expression I picked up from my old man. And I have to laugh at you thinking its sick ( and I assume in a good way) from a guy who's handle is FC-UK.
This Mugniyeh thread is not quite over yet.

The next Mughniyah
By Yossi Melman

This week we learned that even one of the world's most wanted super-terrorists is not immune from the inevitable, very human process of burnout. Otherwise, it is hard to fathom how Imad Mughniyah made the mistake that cost him his life.

Mughniyah, who was fittingly known as Hezbollah's military "super chief of staff" up until two years ago, was considered particularly cautious and suspicious. He surrounded himself with rings of bodyguards and didn't trust anyone, not even his most loyal subordinates. He carried many passports, apparently underwent plastic surgery to change his appearance, never traveled the same route twice, and changed safe houses the way other people change their socks.


Above all, he was known for his caution during phone calls. In the Second Lebanon War he was particularly careful to avoid using phones, and exchanged coded commands and instructions through couriers.

What, then, was Mughniyah's mistake? We will probably never know. The intelligence organization responsible for his assassination in Damascus' Tanzim Kafr Susa neighborhood, on Tuesday night, will probably conceal the information that enabled the car bomb to hit its target. The precise intelligence probably was supplemented by a moment of inattention on Mughniyah's part, a weakening of his extremely strict self-discipline.

Mughniyah's assassination is undoubtedly an impressive achievement for the organization responsible. If Israel is in fact behind it, as most governments, commentators and media outlets in the world believe, the achievement will be credited to the Mossad and its head, Meir Dagan, whose term was recently extended for a seventh year.

When Dagan was appointed to his position over five years ago, he was supposed to shake up the organization. Prevailing opinion held that its operational abilities had stagnated somewhat, even if this sentiment was not always justified. Dagan was supposed to renew the special operations, mainly assassinations, after the Mossad's freeze following the failed attempt to kill Hamas leader Khaled Meshal in 1997. This failure forced the organization to avoid such operations for several years.

According to media reports, there have been several failed attempts to assassinate senior Hezbollah and Hamas officials in South Lebanon and Syria since Dagan was appointed. But there also have been several successes, including the assassination of drug dealer and Hezbollah collaborator Ramzi Nahra in 2002, and the September 2004 assassination of Iz a din Sheikh Khalil in Damascus, a senior Hamas military commander who was in charge of the Gaza sector.

Essentially, this prove three years ago that it was possible to operate in the Syrian capital and assassinate a senior terrorist there.

However, based on precedents, and on the assumption that Israel really is responsible for Mughniyah's assassination, it would be a mistake to give all the credit to the Mossad and to ignore the traditional part of other intelligence agencies, like Military Intelligence.

The success in Damascus is the climax of a prolonged and almost Sisyphean intelligence effort. When the pieces of accurate intelligence finally come together, operational planning can get under way. But even the best intelligence in the world needs a bit of luck.

Mughniyah's assassination is a strong and painful blow to the morale of Hezbollah. Its prestige has been harmed and its self-confidence shaken. The organization and its leaders are now seized by confusion, and will be searching for traitors under every rock.

The assassination signals a strong message of deterrence. Everyone assumes Israel is behind it, and now the terrorist leaders of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and even Iran, which nurtured Mughniyah, understand that Israel has the ability to strike at any one of them. But we should have no illusions. Hezbollah is not only a terror organization. It is a political movement with deep roots in Lebanon's Shi'ite community. It has a faction in Parliament, institutions, economic and social arms, and a militia. With all due respect to the importance of Mughniyah, who can be credited with building Hezbollah's military arm, there is no question that the organization will recover from the blow. It may not happen immediately, but it will happen.

In recent years, there were signs that Mughniyah's powers were being decentralized, as he sought to upgrade his status and leave the shadow world in which he lived. He joined the Shura Council, Hezbollah's supreme guiding body. He started growing a beard, in order to look like a cleric. He did all this to show he was worthy, some day, of succeeding Hassan Nasrallah as secretary general of Hezbollah.

Mughniyah's change did not escape Nasrallah. The secretary general began to envy and fear him, and therefore gave some of his powers to others. That is how Mughniyah's subordinates suddenly began becoming prominent - not in public, but in a manner that did not escape the intelligence screens in the West. These subordinates include Fuad Sukur, who heads the operations divisions; Ibrahim Akil, who heads Hezbollah's "Southern Command"; and Talal Hamiyah.

Hamiyah, who is in his forties, is a particularly interesting figure. He was Mughniyah's protege and served as his deputy in the "Jihad" network, a unit for special missions, mainly attacks outside Lebanon. Hamiyah also has been responsible for coordinating recruitment activities, and sending Al-Qaida volunteers to Iraq via Syria. Hamiyah, according to reports from Lebanese sources, went to Iraq quite often and was in contact with the leaders of the Shi'ite militias there, who are fighting the U.S. Army and the coalition forces.

All the candidates lack Mughniyah's authority, charisma and cruelty. However, Mughniyah may not be replaced by one man. Nasrallah, in coordination with Iran, may decide not to give one man too many powers again, and instead delegate them among several commanders.

Meanwhile, reports from Lebanon over the weekend suggested that none of the candidates reported by the Israeli media are being considered as replacements. The Lebanese media reported that Hezbollah already had chosen a successor, but that his name has not been released.

The Israeli defense establishment is assuming that Hezbollah and Iran, which have endless patience and an elephant's memory, will try to take revenge. That won't happen tomorrow. But we can expect them to react. We can reasonably assume they will not go beyond firing Katyushas or infiltrating the northern border in the near future, in fear of violating the United Nations-sponsored cease-fire. However, they could order the bombing of an Israeli embassy abroad, mainly in African or Asian countries; a strike at an El-Al plane; the assassination of a senior Israeli figure; or send terrorists to carry out a major attack in the heart of Israel. If that happens, Israel will begin its old debate, which has no clear and unambiguous answer: Do assassinations weaken the terrorists' will, or strengthen their determination?

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/954797.html

[NYer]

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The next Mughniyah


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[The 801]

And I thought I would never see the day....

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MOURNING Hezbollah members with Imad Mugniyah’s coffin near Beirut after a car bomb killed him in Syria.


Decoding Lebanese Paranoia
Hussein Malla/Associated Press



By ROBERT F. WORTH
Published: February 17, 2008

BEIRUT, Lebanon

AFTER the notorious Hezbollah commander Imad Mugniyah was killed in a mysterious car bombing in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Tuesday, a storm of accusation and counteraccusation quickly arose back here in Lebanon.

Hezbollah, the radical Lebanese Shiite movement, predictably blamed Israel. Some Western-allied political figures blamed Syria, their own favorite nemesis. Still others saw the killing as the first part of a sinister deal between Syria, Israel and the United States, in which Lebanon would be the loser.

It is a familiar ritual in the Middle East, and especially here in divided Lebanon. No one here can point to any real evidence in the death of Mr. Mugniyah, a famously ruthless and elusive figure. No one has taken responsibility for killing him.

But the accusations proliferate. And while they may look to outsiders like plausible explanations, they are often seen here as something different: a kind of road map to the accusers’ social and political identities, pointing to their fears, enemies, friends and, perhaps, their next moves.

“There is a tendency for each group to see these acts of violence as messages, usually aimed at them,” said Oussama Safa, the director of the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies in Beirut. “It has become part of the cultural idiom here.”

And so, too, are the accusations. More than mere rhetoric, they quickly congeal into conflicting versions of history, often with bloody consequences.

For Hezbollah, blaming Israel for the death of one of its commanders was inevitable: fighting the Jewish state was Hezbollah’s founding mission and remains its full-time preoccupation. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the group’s leader, has himself been in hiding since 2006, fearing assassination by Israel. As Sheik Nasrallah angrily reminded the crowd at an emotional funeral for Mr. Mugniyah on Thursday, Israel has killed many Hezbollah leaders in the past, including Sheik Nasrallah’s own predecessor, Sheik Abbas Musawi, in 1992.

But Mr. Mugniyah’s killing took on special overtones, because he was not killed in Lebanon or Israel but in Syria. Sheik Nasrallah accused Israel of going “outside the battleground,” and swore to retaliate. “You crossed the borders,” he said. “Zionists, if you want an open war, let it be an open war anywhere.”

To Sheik Nasrallah’s listeners, that threat contained an implicit evocation of Hezbollah’s own history, and of Mr. Mugniyah’s special role in it. In the 1980s and 1990s, Hezbollah was an insurgent group, using suicide bombings, hijackings, and kidnappings to achieve its goals. Mr. Mugniyah was accused of planning attacks on an Israeli embassy and community center in Argentina in 1992 and 1994.

Since then, the group has narrowed its military role to border struggles with Israel, and has become one of Lebanon’s major political parties. By accusing Israel of violating the rules of their conflict, Sheik Nasrallah seemed to suggest that Hezbollah might return to its own more ruthless past.

He also conveniently ignored the fact that Mr. Mugniyah was killed in Damascus, where the Syrian regime — one of Hezbollah’s key patrons — is thought to exercise tight surveillance and control.

For other Lebanese political figures, that fact was the key to the killing. No sooner had word of Mr. Mugniyah’s death spread on Wednesday than members of the Western-backed March 14 alliance began to suggest that Syria might have been behind it.

This, too, was unsurprising: the March 14 group takes its name from the momentous protests in 2005 that forced Syria to leave Lebanon after decades of occupation. Its leaders have consistently accused Syria in the many bombings and assassinations here in the past three years.

But this time they had something different in mind. Syria was Mr. Mugniyah’s ally, and, in their theory, would not have killed him (or allowed him to be killed) without getting something in return.

“The Syrians gave the Israelis a very big gift with the killing of Mugniyah,” said Samir Franjieh, a member of the March 14 group, which controls the majority in Parliament.

They may have done so, he said, in an effort to avert the threat posed by an international tribunal investigating the recent assassinations in Lebanon, which they fear will implicate Syria’s leadership. Their theory, as framed by Mr. Franjieh, suggests that the Israelis — in gratitude for Syrian help or acquiescence in getting rid of Mr. Mugniyah — would use their influence with the United States and Europe to quash or limit the tribunal.

Walid Jumblatt, another March 14 leader, echoed that thought.

“The Syrians did it, in exchange for Lebanon, or in exchange for the tribunal,” he said. “That’s what I’m afraid of.”

Given the strong support of the United States and Europe for the tribunal, such a sellout seems far-fetched. But the identity of the Lebanese majority is rooted in fear of Syrian designs. Like Hezbollah with Israel, they are quick to invoke history to explain their sense of vulnerability. In 1991, the United States, grateful for Syria’s support in the first Gulf War coalition, gave its tacit approval as the Syrian president Hafez al-Assad crushed his enemies in Lebanon and began a decade and a half of Syrian domination there.

Last November, some Lebanese feared a repeat of that episode after the United States invited Syria to a conference in Annapolis, Md., seeking an Israeli-Palestinian peace. They saw the invitation as the start of a deal to grant the Syrians control over Lebanon in exchange for help in resolving the Palestinian conflict.

In that case, the fears had real consequences. Leaders of the March 14 group made a sudden conciliatory gesture and agreed to accept a presidential candidate who had been favored by the Syrian-backed opposition.

But when Mr. Mugniyah was killed last week, fear was not their only response. Speaking to a vast crowd of supporters gathered in Martyrs’ Square on Thursday, Mr. Jumblatt reveled in the possibility that Syria and Hezbollah — his two major foes — were at each others’ throats.

“Look what happened yesterday,” he told the crowd. Syria and its allies in Hezbollah “are tearing each other apart,” he said. “They are eating each other.”

[The 801]

Or maybe not.

Clancy: Terror mastermind's deception cause for skepticism

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/13/btsc.clancy.mugniyah/

(CNN) -- Imad Mughniyeh was a master of deception. He was also Hezbollah's chief of security and its strategist. His alleged role in bombings and kidnappings earned him a place on the "Most Wanted Terrorists" list of the United States.

He reportedly underwent plastic surgery in Iran to change his appearance. Mughniyeh was often reported to be in Iran or Syria or on a plane between those two countries. Tehran and Damascus always denied any knowledge.

So forgive me if I greet the news of his demise with considerable skepticism. His life's work was deception and it would pain me not to take that into account when reporting his death.

Let me take you back to Beirut, Lebanon, in June of 1985, where I was covering a hostage situation for CNN.

It became the very image of terror. On the runway at Beirut International Airport, a TWA pilot looks down from the cockpit window as a "hijacker" holds a gun to his head. What a remarkable coincidence that the media was there to capture the moment.

But it wasn't what it appeared to be.

The gunman was actually a teenager. He hadn't been one of the four men who hijacked TWA flight 847. He was nothing more than a security guard for a few crewmembers left aboard the jetliner while 40 other hostages had been hauled off to Beirut's southern suburbs.

He just wanted to be on television.

I was permitted to sit down and talk with pilot John Testrake while he was still held hostage. Testrake told me the teenager saw a television news crew approaching and insisted on staging the photo. He became agitated when Testrake refused.

So determined to get his "Kodak moment" as a terrorist, the young man had unloaded the gun and handed it to Testrake to prove it was empty. Testrake told me he only agreed when he feared the young gunman might become unhinged if he didn't get his way.

The so-called "face of terror" photo was really a picture of media manipulation.

A fitting twist because the man who really was behind the spectacular hijacking would become modern terror's master of deception. He was the main actor who never took center stage. There was never even a reliable photo of him.

Later that week, a source brought me the names of three of the hijackers of the TWA flight to the Commodore Hotel in West Beirut. One of those names was Imad Mughniyeh.

Mughniyeh was the suspected mastermind of the simultaneous attacks on U.S. Marines and French paratroopers in October 1983 in which 241 Marines and 58 French troops were killed. The bombings eventually led the U.S. and other peacekeepers to pull out of Lebanon.

In December 1985, there was another simultaneous bomb barrage on the streets of the Kuwaiti capital.

Even watching the Kuwait story develop from Beirut that winter, I can remember hoping the mysteries of the barracks bombing might be about to unravel. One of the attackers left a severed thumb at the scene in Kuwait. Police quickly uncovered his identity and 17 suspects were rolled up and jailed before they could escape.

One of those sentenced to death in the Kuwait case was none other than Imad Mughniyeh's brother-in-law.

According to Lebanese intelligence sources, bombings and kidnappings were a family business. Mughniyeh's strategy was to kidnap Westerners in the war-torn streets of Lebanon in order to force the release of his relatives and allies.

In all, more than 90 hostages from more than 20 nations were taken. Some would be released only to see more kidnapped.

Terry Anderson, the chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press spent nearly seven years in captivity before he became the final American hostage released. Others never made it out. The remains of CIA station chief William Buckley were recovered and it appeared every bone in his body had been broken. Britain's Terry Waite went to Beirut to negotiate the release of the hostages only to be taken hostage himself.

Even after Saddam Hussein's invading troops opened the doors of Kuwait's jails and Mughniyeh's brother-in-law scurried home, the Western hostages continued to be held. Hezbollah, Iran and Syria all denied any involvement. It was only when Iranian clerics called for the release of the Westerners that they finally were freed.

Hezbollah and Syria are now paying tribute to Mughniyeh and hurling blame at Israel for his death in a car bombing. I'm not declaring the story to be false and I'm not about to tell anyone it's the truth. I just keep remembering how much deception Mughniyeh employed in his life's work.

He was a founding member of Lebanon's Hezbollah and thousands of its supporters are expected to turn out in the streets of Beirut to remember him Thursday.

Thursday is February 14. It is the anniversary of the day in 2005 when Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated with a massive car bomb. Hariri's son and political heir, Saad Hariri, blames Syria and its Lebanese backers for the killing.

In what has become an annual ritual, tens of thousands of anti-Syrian protesters are expected to take to the streets in remembrance of Hariri.

Now, with planned demonstrations for Imad Mughniyeh, Syria and Hezbollah have a counterweight that could also become an annual commemoration and even a rivalry with Hariri protesters.

And can you imagine the coincidence that both should fall on the same day?

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/13/btsc.clancy.mugniyah/.

[NYer]

Or maybe not.

Clancy: Terror mastermind's deception cause for skepticism



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[American_Jihad]

Mughniyah Killed by 'Arab Foes' or 'Rivals' :happy_01:
2008-02-18


Amid mushrooming conspiracy theories, Syrian officials have arrested various suspects of Arab nationalities in the killing last Tuesday of Hezbollah's hunted terrorist mastermind Imad Mughniyah, well-informed sources in Damascus told the state-run Al Watan newspaper on Sunday.

Moghniyah was one of Washington's most wanted men for almost 20 years. He did not live in Syria and did not enjoy Syrian protection. He frequently visited the country under various identities from his hideouts in Lebanon and Iran, Al Watan said.

After undergoing plastic surgery, he was able to evade capture, Western intelligence agencies added.

He arrived in Lebanon without the knowledge of the Syrian security services on the same day he was assassinated. Contrary to initial reports, the vehicle he was in did not belong to him, Al Watan said.

Syrian officials over the weekend denied that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on orders from Iran's Supreme Ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had rushed a delegation led by General Ghassem Soleimani, chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) al-Qods Brigades, to Damascus to take charge of the investigation, reported the Israeli online Debkafile.

Soleimani's preliminary report revealed that some of Mughniyah's bodyguards and senior Hezbollah operatives had also been killed in the same car bomb explosion, which is most likely to spawn tensions with Teheran over Syria's reliable protection for Iranian guests and their agents visiting Damascus, the Israeli media observed.

Mughniyah was wanted for masterminding dozens of terrorist attacks over the past two decades against American and Israeli and Western targets including hostage-taking, the bombing of an American naval base in Lebanon killing 200 marines, the hijacking of a TWA plane and the bombing of the Israeli embassy and Jewish community and cultural center in Buenos Aires in the 1990's that killed 100 people.

Western intelligence recognized him as a brilliant and charismatic though cruel and ruthless adversary.

Hezbollah, Syria and Iran have all blamed Israel for the killing and are threatening a very painful reprisal. Israel is seen as a prime suspect, though Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has categorically denied all involvement. Yet Israeli media probe past heads and senior officials of the security agencies as if the Mossad and related intelligence networks may have had a hand in Mughniyah's assassination.

Adding further confusion to the murky waters around the highly secretive probes with theories planted also by Iran, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad, United States intelligence chief Mike McConnell said that internal Hezbollah factions or Syria may be to blame for Mughniyah's killing, while ex-Israeli undercover agents pointed the finger at Lebanese Christian Maronites.

Tensions reportedly emerged in recent years between Mughniyah and his Hezbollah boss Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, who sought to restrain his ambitions for the leadership and started to clip his powers by peeling off his authorities and handing them to his subordinates, including Fuad Sukur, who heads the operations divisions, Ibrahim Akil, who heads Hezbollah's "Southern Command," and Talal Hamiyah, Mughniyah's deputy in the Jihad network heading a special missions unit for recruiting and dispatching al-Qaida volunteers to Iraq via Syria to fight against the US and coalition forces.

Neither person was a front-runner, Lebanese sources said over the weekend. Nasrallah had already chosen an unnamed successor to smother allegations that Hezbollah has been thrown into chaos and disarray by the assassination.

http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=3&no=381818&rel_no=1

[Klaus]

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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. Riedel, who spent over 30 years with the CIA before serving as a senior advisor on South Asian and Middle East affairs under three US presidents, said Israel has already carried out similar operations in Syria.

Currently a senior fellow with the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institute, he says Mugniyah's assassination proves Israel has successfully infiltrated Hizbullah and that even Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah knows he may also be in the crosshairs.

"Israeli intelligence services have motive and they have proven their ability to strike in Damascus in the past. This is a significant operation, whether or not the Israelis want to publicly admit to it. He (Mugniyah) has topped the US and Israel's most-wanted list for a quarter of a century," said Riedel.

The seasoned intelligence official said he believes Mugniyah was not the only name on a possible hit list. "It definitely includes Hassan Nasrallah," he said, "the Mossad is looking for Nasrallah and he knows it, that's why he conducts his operations from underground."

And the Hizbullah leader may have good reason to worry, said Riedel. "He's wondering who tipped off Mugniyah's location. That same individual could also reveal his own whereabouts." When asked if the United States did not also have a stake in seeing the elimination of a man responsible for the deaths of American citizens, among them a senior CIA figure, Riedel said that while it was true Mugniyah was responsible for the murder of William Buckley "and that as far as we're concerned, he was


second only to Osama bin-Laden" – a car bombing was more consistent with the Mossad's modus operandi. "In all honesty over the years we've become busy with many other issues, while ever since the summer of 2006 Hizbullah has returned to the forefront of Israel's concerns. Mugniyah also acted as a go-between with Iranian intelligence and Hamas."

[NYer]

Syria thinks Wally did it. (http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1337)

[The 801]

Wally was one of the old men on the Muppet show who sat in the balcony right?

For your approval:
From the Daily star in Lebanon:

Will the Mughniyeh affair hit the Arabs?
By Michael Young
Daily Star staff
Thursday, February 21, 2008

Syria has vowed to soon release the results of its inquiry into the assassination of Hizbullah official Imad Mughniyeh. However, there is increasing likelihood that the findings, rather than explain what happened, will become a weapon in the regional struggle between Syria, Iran and their Lebanese allies on the one hand, and Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan to a lesser extent, and the March 14 coalition on the other.

In the past week since Mughniyeh's funeral, unidentified sources in Beirut and Damascus have been feverishly spinning media coverage of the killing. The Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar, which is close to Hizbullah, was the first to identify an Arab angle in the Mughniyeh affair, quoting someone as saying that among those arrested by the Syrian authorities were "non-civilian elements of Arab nationality." Syria's daily Al-Watan, which is owned by the powerful cousin of President Bashar Assad, Rami Makhlouf, also cited a source as mentioning an Arab connection.

In the Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai Al-Aam, a source close to Hizbullah was quoted as saying that the Mughniyeh hit was "Palestinian-Israeli," using American technology and financed by an unidentified Gulf Arab official. Another Kuwaiti daily, Al-Siyassa, which is hostile to Damascus, wrote that Mughniyeh had been residing in an apartment building belonging to a business partner of Makhlouf - in effect linking the late Hizbullah official to people at the heart of Syria's political and economic elite.

Perhaps most disturbing for what may lie ahead, however, was a report in Al-Haqiqa, the publication of Nizar Nayouf, a Syrian opposition figure. Nayouf was for years brutalized by Syria's regime, before moving to France. However, most observers of Syrian affairs believe his publication is often used by the Assad regime as a conduit for disinformation, or for sending political messages. According to a Syrian source cited by Al-Haqiqa, the Mughniyeh investigation may accuse "official or semi-official Lebanese parties ... allied with [the government]" of having participated in the Mughniyeh operation. The paper suggested investigators might also identify Walid Jumblatt, or more specifically his alleged security chief, Hisham Nasreddine, as having played a role in the killing.

The "official or semi-official" parties the source refers to is almost certainly the Information Department of the Internal Security Forces - essentially the state security apparatus most loyal to March 14. A key objective of Syria and the opposition in the negotiations over a new government has been to ensure that the Interior Ministry, which oversees the Information Department, is taken out of the hands of the parliamentary majority. If the information in Al-Haqiqa becomes the basis of an official Syrian charge, the aim may be to advance this agenda. As for Jumblatt, no one will seriously believe the Druze leader has the capacity to eliminate so secretive as figure as Mughniyeh. However, if the Syrians do level such an accusation, it may exacerbate tension on the ground between Jumblatt's supporters and Hizbullah, without the latter being able to express doubt in the Syrian conclusions. The party has little margin of maneuver vis-a-vis Damascus, and Iran has reportedly indicated it wants no quarrel with the Assad regime over Mughniyeh. Hizbullah has blamed Israel for the assassination, but its secretary general, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, has also described March 14 as having sided with Israel. If the Syrians play on that theme, Nasrallah may find himself tossed back into the unforgiving alleyways of inter-Lebanese conflict.

The deepening animosity between Syria and Saudi Arabia might mean the Mughniyeh investigation is carried even further to implicate some Arab states. The fear is that Syria would do such a thing to gain leverage and force leading Arab heads to state to attend the Arab League summit scheduled for late March in Damascus, therefore guaranteeing that the event will be a success. The only problem is that the absence of a prior solution in Lebanon will almost certainly mean a failed summit. Assad will probably not bring the Saudis or anyone else to his gathering through intimidation, let alone through a politicized investigation.

Where would Hizbullah stand on this? One message in the Mughniyeh assassination was that while the party was stuck in the viper's nest of Lebanese politics, someone, probably Israel, scored a devastating goal against it. Nasrallah has always tried to keep domestic Lebanese affairs separate from the conflict with Israel, to protect his military autonomy. Whenever the two were somehow mixed, Hizbullah lost ground, most notably after the 2006 summer war, which many Lebanese viewed as unnecessary. That's why Nasrallah cannot find it especially desirable to watch Syria twist the Mughniyeh affair into a new basis for Lebanese strife.

The same holds for Syria's conflict with major Arab states. At a time when Iran is improving its relations with Saudi Arabia and Egypt, there is little real advantage to Hizbullah in seeing Damascus manipulate Mughniyeh's death to score points in its dispute with Riyadh and Cairo. All that would prove, again, is that Hizbullah is cannon fodder for the Assad regime, a reality that has already damaged Hizbullah's reputation inside Lebanon. Nasrallah has always tried to position Hizbullah as an Arab nationalist organization waging a regional struggle in Lebanon and Palestine. Being used as a stick against the Arab states would only lead to its being demoted to the status of sectarian Shiite group threatening Arab interests.

Recent events have shown that Hizbullah, even though many publicists will dutifully underline its independence from Syria and Iran, is in fact mostly a prisoner of Iranian and Syrian priorities. The Mughniyeh investigation will be an opportunity to test this proposition once more. Perhaps this time Hizbullah will manage to avoid becoming another utensil in regional Arab antagonism that is bound to get worse.

Michael Young is opinion editor of THE DAILY STAR.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=5&article_id=89152

[The 801]

Crappy source as far as I am concerned.

Has Hezbollah Been Penetrated?
By: David Bedein, The Bulletin
02/20/2008

Jerusalem - Following the announcement on Sunday by U.S. National Intelligence Director Michael McConnell that Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyeh was killed by Syria or his Hezbollah colleagues, a plethora of Arab analysts said the assassination represented a huge security lapse by both Hezbollah and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard and could be followed by the killing of other Hezbollah leaders. They said that Mr. Mughniyeh, the subject of a $25 million bounty, had been tracked for months by Western and Israeli intelligence services before he was killed in a car bombing last Tuesday in Damascus.

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"Certainly, there is a very big security infiltration in many directions, and it is the duty of the Syrian security apparatuses to clarify what really happened," Ahmed Mosulli, professor of political science at the American University of Beirut, said.

Appearing on a Feb. 13 panel discussion on the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya satellite channel, Mr. Mosulli said the 45-year-old Mr. Mughniyeh, who had just left a reception in Damascus, was not protected by bodyguards. Instead, the Hezbollah operative was said to have moved without escorts to avoid being tracked through his security detail.

"Mughniyeh was not part of Hezbollah, but part of its founders, and consequently his activities were outside this organization," Mr. Mosulli said.

The Arab analysts said that Mr. Mughniyeh was sought by at least four countries - France, Germany, Israel and the United States. They said the search was assisted by Arab victims of attacks attributed to Mr. Mughniyeh, including Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

"Either he was killed by the Israelis and Americans in retaliation for the many operations he carried out against U.S. interests, the U.S. Marines, and the U.S. embassy car in Beirut that was carrying a U.S. official," Mohammed Al Qahtani, a Kuwaiti journalist and analyst, said, "[or] a vehicle that Imad Mughniyeh was booby-trapping for a next attack, probably in Beirut, blew up."

Mr. Qahtani said the most likely scenario was that Mr. Mughniyeh, said to have worked for numerous state sponsors, was the victim of a false flag operation. The Kuwaiti analyst said Mr. Mughniyeh was paid to conduct a major attack in what allowed a hostile intelligence service to kill him.

"Imad Mughniyeh, like Carlos and Sabri Al Banna, alias Abu Nidal, was throughout his life a mercenary and was killed by the party that hired him," Mr. Qahtani said.

Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer and currently a researcher at the Washington-based Brookings Institution, said that "regardless of who killed Mughniyeh, it is a fact that this party was able to infiltrate into the inner circle of the Hezbollah security system. Whoever was able to reach Mughniyeh will be able to reach other senior Hezbollah figures, including [Secretary General] Hassan Nasrallah."


http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=19313665&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=618959&rfi=6

[The 801]

Have you heard the new Mugniyeh song?
Listen for his name, it is in there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaRNlRyon5Q

[The 801]

And in case you missed the funeral

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLIOh-7kZZc&NR=1

[Casey]

LEBANON: This Assassination Could Change the Region
Analysis by Mona Alami

BEIRUT, Feb 21 (IPS) - For many in the Middle East, politics is essentially a matter of converging interests -- and the life and death of Imad Fares Moughnieh is no exception. His assassination in Syria has resonated across the borders of Lebanon, Syria and Iran.

At 10.30 pm on Tuesday, Feb. 12, a powerful blast disrupted the posh residential neighbourhood of Kafr Susseh in Damascus, Syria. Residents witnessed a silver Pajero SUV set ablaze by an explosion, as nondescript charred remains scattered on the road.

Syrian security forces, several headquarters of which are located in the area, quickly intervened, removing the remains and sealing off the area. Few knew at the time who was inside the burning vehicle.

Approximately 12 hours later, Hezbollah, the Lebanese resistance movement, announced that its deputy leader Imad Moughniyeh, to FBI one of the most wanted terrorists, had been killed in the explosion. Israel was immediately accused of the assassination.

Until his demise, Moughniyeh had led a life shrouded in secrecy, constantly moving between Lebanon, Iran, and Syria. "It is interesting to witness the public mourning given to Moughnieh by Hezbollah, which had previously distanced itself from the man," says Amal Saad Ghorayeb, author of 'Hezbollah Politics and Religion'.

Moughnieh, aka 'Hajj Radwan', a Shia born in Teir Dibba in South Lebanon, was initially a member of the Palestinian Fatah movement at the start of the Lebanese civil war. In 1982, the fighter refused to leave Beirut with the PLO, which was forced by Israel to depart. He thus joined the Shia Amal militia headed by Nabih Berri.

Moughnieh is thought to have been behind the establishment of Islamic Jihad, a shadowy pro-Iranian group accused of masterminding the kidnapping and killing of CIA Beirut station chief William Buckley, and the abduction of AP correspondent Terry Anderson. He was later dubbed one of the founding members of Hezbollah, along with Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, current leader of the 'Party of God'.

According to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the first high profile terror stunt attributed to Moughnieh was the 1983 attack on the U.S. embassy in Beirut, leading to the death of 63 people. He was also linked to the twin truck bombings in Beirut the same year targeting French and U.S. army barracks, that killed more than 300.

Moughniyeh, however, is perhaps most known for his involvement in the 1985 hijacking of TWA flight 847 en route from Rome to Athens. The 39 passengers and crew were eventually freed in exchange for 700 Shia prisoners.

Outside Lebanon, he allegedly engineered the 1992 bombings in Argentina, targeting the Israeli embassy, killing 29 people, and a Jewish community centre, which left 85 dead. Moughniyeh was also implicated in the Karine-A affair, an attempt to supply the Palestinian Authority with a shipment of weapons.

In the 1990s, Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, tried unsuccessfully to assassinate him in a southern Beirut bombing. It killed Moughnieh's brother instead.

"All these events have been attributed to Moughnieh but none were ever actually proven," says Saad Gorayeb. "His contribution to Hezbollah and its military resistance in general is significant. It is evident that he played a central role in Hezbollah's command but one nonetheless masked in secrecy."

It is common knowledge that Moughnieh acted as a liaison between Syria, Iran and Hezbollah. Magnus Rantrop, professor at the Swedish National Defence College recently declared to Figaro magazine that the militant was believed by some to be Jawad Nouredine, the secretive member of Shoura al-Karar, Hezbollah's management council.

He is also said to have planned the kidnapping of the two Israeli soldiers, which led to the July 2006 war in Lebanon. "Some also say that he is one of the founders of El Shoura Jihadi, the party's military arm. But again, this is all speculation resulting from the lack of factual information," says Saad-Ghorayeb.

The assassination of Moughnieh in a country known for its impenetrable intelligence apparatuses raises many questions. According to Saad Ghorayeb, Moughnieh, who has managed to thwart U.S. and Israeli intelligence for more than 20 years, probably relied very little on traditional security networks.

"Only a chosen few, whether in Syria or Lebanon, knew his true identity. Syria being the weakest link, the security breach must have occurred high up in Syrian intelligence hierarchy."

On Feb. 14, Shias coalesced around Dahyeh in Beirut for a massive state-like funeral for the slain party member. It was followed by a broadcast speech by Nasrallah. "If the Zionists want war, they shall have it," he threatened. He added that the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel was far from over, and that the blood of Imad Moughnieh would contribute to the demise of the Jewish state.

According to Saad-Ghorayeb, Nasrallah's speech was significant in terms of pointing the blame. "Sayyed Hassan (Nasrallah) accused the factions who supported Israel in the July war -- perhaps hinting at Arab countries -- of collaboration in the Moughnieh killing," says the analyst. "This type of operation could not have been engineered by a single intelligence agency, acting alone, and was perhaps the result of a joint effort between different countries." The place of the assassination are also of considerable importance, says the analyst, especially since Nasrallah hinted that since "Mougnieh's killing took place outside the natural battlefield," so too would Hezbollah's retaliation.

"A Hezbollah leading figure was killed in Damascus, which makes the implications certainly regional. The presence and intervention of Iranian foreign minister Manoucher Mottaki at the Moughnieh funeral also underlines Iranian support to Nasrallah's stance and any action he might undertake in the future," says Saad Ghorayeb. He believes that in the event of a military intervention, the conflict will, this time, most likely be regional.

More speculation continues to fuel conspiracy theories in Beirut. The official Syrian news agency, SANA, reports that Syria denied Iranian claims that the two countries would conduct a joint probe into the assassination of the top Hezbollah commander. This contradicts Iranian deputy foreign minister Ali Reza Sheikh Attar's announcement of a joint investigation earlier.

What motivated Syria's change of heart? Who killed Imad Moughnieh? The answers to these two questions will undoubtedly shape future events in the region. (END/2008)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41295

[Casey]

Imad Mughniyah oversaw founding of the Mahdi Army

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مصدر استخباري عراقي يكشف

A top Iraqi reveals

عماد مغنية أشرف على تأسيس جيش المهدي ونقل كوادره للتدريب في البقاع اللبناني

Imad Mughniyah oversaw founding of the Mahdi Army and the transfer of cadres for training in the Lebanese Bekaa

الملف - بغداد

Portfolio - Baghdad
كشف مسؤول كبير في استخبارات وزارة الدفاع العراقية عن ان عماد مغنية المسؤول العسكري لحزب الله الذي اغتيل بدمشق الاسبوع الماضي كان قد اسهم في دور فعال في تأسيس جيش المهدي.

A senior official in the intelligence and the Iraqi Ministry of Defense that Imad Mughniyah military official of Hezbollah, who was assassinated in Damascus last week had contributed to the effective role in the founding of the Mahdi Army.

وقال المسؤول الذي طلب عدم الكشف عن اسمه في تصريحات صحفية ان أولى خلايا جيش المهدي نقلت من العراق الى لبنان باشراف مغنية بعد اسابيع قليلة من سقوط النظام العراقي السابق .

The official, who asked to remain anonymous told reporters that the first cells of the Mahdi Army transferred from Iraq to Lebanon under the supervision of a singer a few weeks after the fall of the former Iraqi regime.

واضاف ان تلك المجاميع تسترت بصفة وفد نقابي يمثل نقابة العمال وكان من ابرز اعضائه رياض النوري.

He added that those totals veiled in a union delegation representing union workers and was one of the most prominent of its members Riyadh Nouri.

وحسب المسؤول فان اعداد تلك المجاميع كانت 300 عنصر وتلقت التدريبات في منطقة البقاع بلبنان علي جميع انواع الاسلحة وعمليات الخطف والاغتيال والتفخيخ والتلغيم.

According to the official preparation of those totals were 300 component and received training in the Lebanese Beqaa Valley to all types of weapons, kidnappings and assassinations, and Altfajik mining.

وكشف المصدر الاستخباري العراقي الرفيع ان مغنية ادار شبكة لتجنيد مواطنين من السعودية والكويت ايضاً وقال انه تردد علي البصرة وكربلاء بجوازات سفر عراقية وبأسماء متغيرة بين الحين والاخر في اثناء استكمال عمليات التنسيق والتجنيد واختيار الكوادر المنتخبة الصالحة لقيادة مجاميع جيش المهدي والتي تقرر تسفيرها الى البقاع اللبناني حيث التقت هناك بقاسم سليماني المسؤول الاستخباري الايراني المعروف بنشاطه داخل لبنان.

And the Iraqi intelligence source revealed that high-singer managed network to recruit nationals from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait also said that the reluctance of Basra and Karbala Iraqi passports and names changed from time to time during the completion of coordination and recruitment and selection of cadres elected to the leadership of arable totals Mahdi Army, which decides sent to the Lebanese Bekaa where There she met capture Soleimani Iranian intelligence official known activity inside Lebanon.

وقال المصدر ان مغنية دخل الى الكويت مرة واحدة في سعيه لمساعدة منظمة ثأر الله الناشطة في البصرة والتي وصفها المسؤول بأنها احدى واجهات فيلق القدس الايراني.

The source said that the singer came to Kuwait once, in their quest to help the revenge of God active in Basra, which has been described as one official facades Corps Iranian Jerusalem.

وذكر الضايط العراقي اسمي شخصين من منظمة ثأر الله يتعذر احدهما رئيس هذه المنظمة والاخر ضايط عراقي برتبة مقدم ركن من أهالي التنومة في البصرة كان من بين الاسرى العراقيين في اثناء الحرب مع ايران ثم اعادت المخابرات الايرانية تجنيده بعد الحرب في نيسان 2003.

The Iraqi Alzait names of two persons from the revenge of God can not be one of this prestigious organization and the other an Iraqi lieutenant colonel Zait corner of the people in Al Basra was one of the Iraqi prisoners of war during the war with Iran and then re Iranian intelligence recruited after the war in April 2003.

[The 801]

Debka Alert Debka Alert - Standard disclaimer here.

http://www.debka.com/photos/5048.jpg

DEBKAfile exclusive: Last photo of terrorist chief Imad Mughniyeh shortly before his death Feb. 12. Only photo of him conferring with Hizballah’s Hassan Nasrallah.

Hizballah probe claims Israel used Palestinians contacts for Mughniyeh hit

February 23, 2008, 10:39 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKAfile exclusive: Last photo of terrorist chief Imad Mughniyeh shortly before his death Feb. 12. Only photo of him conferring with Hizballah’s Hassan Nasrallah.

DEBKAfile’s intelligence report exclusively the findings of the special inquiry launched by Hizballah to solve the mystery of who killed the master terrorist Imad Mughniyeh and how.

DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources stress that, above all Hizballah was keen to clear itself of suspicion that Mughniyeh was betrayed by an insider planted by Mossad, and this report points at Palestinians who are accused of giving him away.

Their investigators claim that the Israeli Mossad tracked him down through the Palestinian operatives with whom he recently rendezvoused in Beirut and Damascus to coordinate a new wave of terror against Israel.

The Palestinians he met did not know his real identity, they claim. He posed as a senior Iranian intelligence officer called Hajj Radwan, who was based inside the Hizballah command.

This information was leaked to the Mossad networks said to be working under cover in Beirut and Damascus, who then tipped Mossad HQ in Tel Aviv. They too did not immediately identity Mughniyeh, say the Hizballah investigators – until a description was built up of his habits and connections. One of these was Hamas politburo chief Khaled Meshaal. The Israeli agents, it is said, then put two and two together and came up with the dangerous terrorist Israel and the US had been hunting for two and a half decades.

Two pieces of information clinched the fix, says the Hizballah report.

One was the type of terror operations he discussed with his Palestinian colleagues: “Hajj Radwan” laid before Palestinian terror planners mass high-quality attacks inside Israel in conjunction with Iran and Hizballah. They talked about scale, targets, funding, weapons and manpower.

No one but Imad Mughniyeh was believed to have the breadth and skill to put together a complex Palestinian operation of this type and its detailed cooperation with Tehran and Beirut.

The other clincher was the fact that the “Iranian officer” turned up for all his meetings without bodyguards. In this Mughniyeh was unique. No other Middle East terror chief moves without bodyguards, but the Lebanese terror mastermind trusted nothing and no one but total secrecy. For the Mossad, his lone wolf habits were a telltale trademark.

The Shiite group’s investigators went on to claim that when the Mossad realized that Mughniyeh was within their grasp, they ordered two hit teams waiting in West Europe to set out for Damascus and Beirut.

The Hizballah finds support for its conclusion in the resemblance between the alleged Mossad modus operandi for killing Mughniyeh and the way Ali Hassan Daib in 1999, Ali Hussein Salah in 2003 and Ghalb Alawi in 2004, were killed. All three were Hizballah liaison men who collaborated with Palestinian terror groups on joint attacks against Israel.

http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5048

[NYer]

Notice a singular silence from the Syrians?

[The 801]

Another thing that I found interesting is that the Mahdi Army has decided to stand down for 6 months. My understanding was that they were about to rise up against the occupiers, then suddenly Muqtada al-Sadr stands down.

Now if Mugniyeh was the brains behind the Mahdi army, then maybe al-Sadr has lost his rudder, and will need time to regroup before they can rise again.

Just a thought.

[The 801]

Mugniyeh's Widow Accuses Syria For His Assassination []

2/25/2008 10:37:18 PM The widow of former Hizbullah commander Imad Mugniyeh accused Syria of being behind her husband's assassination.

The Hizbullah terror chief was killed in a car bomb attack in Damascus on February 12. Iran, Syria and Islamic terrorist group, Hizbullah have blamed Israel for the assassination but the latter has denied any role in the killing.

"The Syrian traitors assisted in killing my husband," the Italian news agency AKI on Monday quoted her as saying. Mugniyeh's widow asserted that the Syrians' refusal to allow Iranian investigators to probe the assassination proves their involvement in the murder of Mugniyeh in Damascus.

http://www.rttnews.com/sp/breakingnews.asp?item=161

you gotta love this one, they get a quote but forget to get her name.

[The 801]

Well, Well, Well,
Here, it turns out the Muginyeh was the the shits.

I always suspected it, but here is the proof that this thread was not full of it for nothing. The fact that the facts were so wide spread, now explained by the fact that the data really was coming from someone way up the pole. Just think, that if he had acted like a true commander in chief, he would be alive today. Kinda ironic.

Slain Militant Was Organizer in 2006 War

By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI – 1 day ago

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — The last time the world heard from Imad Mughniyeh, he was masterminding terror spectaculars in the 1980s and 1990s — bomb attacks on U.S. and Israeli targets, kidnappings and hijackings.

But for nearly 15 years, no one has known exactly what the Hezbollah commander was doing. The only confirmation of his whereabouts came when he was killed Feb. 12 in a car bombing in Syria.

Now Hezbollah officials and associates are describing a previously unknown role for Mughniyeh: Far from being too busy fleeing enemies, he was a key commander for Hezbollah in its 2006 war with Israel.

He was among the leading military and security strategists — if not the very top himself — of the group and a member of its decision-making committee, according to those who had knowledge of Mughniyeh before he was killed Feb. 12 in Damascus.

"Hezbollah's top architect of that war was Imad Mughniyeh," Anis Naccache, a 57-year-old longtime associate, told The Associated Press. "You can say he was like a staff general (chief of staff)."

In a speech Friday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah credited Mughniyeh with leading the group to two victories — the 2006 war and a Hezbollah guerrilla war in 2000 that led to the withdrawal of Israeli troops from its last positions in southern Lebanon.

In the 1980s, Mughniyeh was notorious in the West. He was accused of plotting suicide bombings of the U.S. Embassy and bases of U.S. and French troops that killed hundreds, as well as the kidnappings of dozens of Westerners in Beirut.

The last attacks he is believed to have directed were suicide bombings in the 1990s against the Israeli Embassy and a Jewish center in Argentina that killed more than 100 people and a bombing in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, that killed 19 Americans.

For years, Hezbollah said almost nothing about him. But after his death, the group has embraced him as a hero — to a degree that surprised some Lebanese who believed Hezbollah would not want to revive memories of its past association with terrorism.

The 2006 war came after Hezbollah fighters captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid. Israel retaliated with a massive bombardment, then ground incursions, in a 34-day war that devastated south Lebanon.

More than 1,000 Lebanese were killed, along with 119 Israeli soldiers and 43 Israeli civilians who died from Hezbollah rocket attacks across the border.

The war ended without Israel winning any of its main objectives — regaining the two soldiers and crushing Hezbollah — and its army chief and other top commanders were forced to resign.

The fighting also held numerous surprises for the Israeli military — particularly the guerrillas' sophisticated rockets and anti-tank weapons and their extensive preparations for battle.

Command and weapons-arsenal bunkers were dug deep into rocky hills around south Lebanon with a network of tunnels linking large storage rooms. Some exits were equipped with cameras and linked to a monitor below to help fighters ambush enemy soldiers.

Mughniyeh was apparently behind those tactics.

Naccache said the general strategy of fighting "a war of shadows" was Mughniyeh's decision. "We were fighting Israel but Israel cannot see any fighter," he said, speaking in English.

A Hezbollah guerrilla who was on the front lines in southern Lebanon during the 2006 fighting told AP that Mughniyeh was his commander. The guerrilla, who would identify himself only by his first name, Hassan, for fear of reprisals, would not elaborate.

Naccache, a Lebanese who once was a fighter for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction and has known Mughniyeh since Mughniyeh was 13, said the two met dozens of times over recent years.

The last time was in Lebanon two months before the 2006 war. During that meeting, Naccache said, Mughniyeh showed him photographs of anti-tank rockets that Hezbollah had recently obtained, the Russian-made Kornet and the RPG-29.

He said Mughniyeh explained to him how the rockets could be used against Merkavas, the massively armored tanks that are vaunted as symbols of Israeli military might.

Naccache said Mughniyeh "had studied the exact millimeters of the thickness of a Merkava and what was the best point from which to hit the Merkava."

"I understood how serious he was in his preparation for the war," Naccache said. Mughniyeh did not tell him where Hezbollah obtained the weapons, he said. Iran is believed to be Hezbollah's main arms supplier, with some coming from Syria.

Naccache, as a Sunni Muslim, is not a member of the Shiite group Hezbollah but is a close supporter of the organization and a longtime associate of Mughniyeh. He taught Mughniyeh when Mughniyeh showed up at age 13 at a Fatah camp south of Beirut and asked to be given guerrilla training.

Naccache served 10 years in prison after trying assassinate Iran's last prime minister under the monarchy, Shapour Bakhtiar, on Iran's behalf in Paris in 1980. A policeman and bystander were killed.

Israeli defense officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, said Mughniyeh was in charge of Hezbollah's overall military effort, serving as something like a defense minister, and influenced war strategy.

Officially, Israel has denied involvement in Mughniyeh's killing. Privately, Israeli defense officials will neither confirm nor deny foreign reports attributing the assassination to Israel.

Israeli officials have made little secret of their satisfaction he is dead. Israeli officials also said Mughniyeh had long been wanted and denied reports that there was ever any tacit agreement with Hezbollah not to go after him.

But the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, acknowledged Mughniyeh's profile was raised by the 2006 war. Israel also believed Mughniyeh was planning a large attack to avenge Israel's airstrike in Syria in September. Israel has said little about that airstrike, which foreign reports have said might have targeted a nuclear installation in Syria.

Hezbollah and Iran have accused Israel in the car-bomb death, and Nasrallah has vowed retaliation.

The question now is how seriously Mughniyeh's loss will affect Hezbollah. The organization is known for absorbing blows such as the loss of major figures.

Naccache said Hezbollah is "very structured and (has) many people with experience. They have the same experience as Hajj Imad, not less."


http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jFv4susic5cPFaxPQyyksfvQxhEAD8V27DL01

[The 801]

Kuwait Summons 1,500 Suspects over Mughniyeh Mourning Rally

Kuwait has summoned more than 1,500 suspects, including Kuwaiti citizens as well as others from various Arab and Islamic nationalities, over a rally to mourn top Hizbullah commander Imad Mughniyeh.

Diplomatic sources in Kuwait said interrogation is underway with some of them.

The summons relate to an investigation into a rally to mourn Mughniyeh who was killed in a car bombing in Damascus Feb.12.

The suspects were summoned for "suspicion of belonging to Hizbullah and for intimidating state security," said one source.

The sources said prominent Shiite Kuwaiti MPs Ahmad Lari and Adnan Abdulsamad will not be debriefed because they enjoy parliamentary immunity.

They said the summons, however, included former Kuwaiti MP Abdel Mohsen Jamal, municipality council member Fadel Sifr, Secretary General of the Social Cultural Society (SCS) Hussein al-Maatouk as well as SCS member Hasan al-Salman. They were prevented from traveling.

Prior to the summons, interrogation was carried out with three other Kuwaiti officials.

"Mughniyeh is a martyr hero who shook the grounds beneath the Zionist enemy (Israel) and America ... His blood will wipe Israel off the map," Abdulsamad told a large crowd that took part in Mughniyeh's mourning.

But Abdulsamad denied that Mughniyeh, who was on America's most wanted list for a series of attacks on Israeli and Western targets in Lebanon in the 1980s, was involved in two plane hijackings and a series of bombings in Kuwait.

"There is no evidence whatsoever to prove that Mughniyeh was either the mastermind or a perpetrator in the hijackings or the bombings," he said.

Although it is widely believed that Mughniyeh was behind the hijackings in Kuwait, the Gulf state has never officially accused him.

A former Egyptian steward with Kuwait Airways has said he recognized Mughniyeh as the hijacker of two Kuwaiti passenger planes in the 1980s.

The planes were seized by militant Shiite groups to demand the release of 17 Shiite activists jailed in Kuwait for carrying out a series of bombings against U.S., French and Kuwaiti targets.

About one-third of Kuwait's native population of one million are Shiites. They have four MPs in the 50-member parliament.(AFP)

http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/0/4FEF408609D532CEC22573FD0041E8E3?OpenDocument

[NYer]

you gotta love this one, they get a quote but forget to get her name.

Uh ... Mrs. Mugsy?

[The 801]

Confessions At a Funeral
By Barry Rubin February 29, 2008

A funny thing happened at the funeral of Imad Mugniyah. Those who had for years been denying any connection with him and his international terrorist activities -- Iran, Syria, and Hizballah -- suddenly admitted that he was one of their favorite people.

At the same time, other critical points came out. Mugniyah's critical position as the link between those three allies, in their conduct of terrorism and subversion, stood out clearly. In addition, Mugniyah's career as an international terrorist, who often operated against Western targets, showed how Hizballah -- along with its backers in Tehran and Damascus -- were second only to al-Qaida in their global operations of violence.

Let's first look at the record of the man who Iran, Syria, and Hizballah were so eager to praise and ready to revenge. Mugniyah, a Lebanese citizen, first worked with the PLO and then with Hizballah, leading the latter group's main terrorist operations. During the 1980s alone, Mugniyah was involved in killing 340 American and French soldiers in a peacekeeping force, 63 civilians in bombing the U.S. embassy in Beirut; kidnappings and sometimes executions of Westerners living in Lebanon; attacks on the U.S. embassy in Kuwait; hijacking an American airliner in which a U.S. citizen was murdered; killing two U.S. officials in Lebanon; and hijacking two Kuwait Airways' planes.

In 1994, he organized the bombing of a Jewish Community Center in Argentina, killing 86 civilians. The official Argentinean investigation concluded Iranian intelligence had hired Mugniyah and his unit for this job.

As a result of his activities, Mughniyah was on the U.S. list of ten most wanted terrorists, with a $25 million reward on his head. Interpol had an extradition warrant against him due to the Argentina attack. But traveling between Lebanon, Iran, and Syria -- protected and often working for the latter two governments -- Mugniyah continued his career of violence up to the day of his death.

With the exception of the September 11 attack, Mugniyah was probably responsible for more terrorist violence and killings than any other individual over the last quarter-century.

How did Iran's rulers respond to his demise? They all praised him. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei called him, "An example for the young generation to follow." Powerful former president and current Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani referred to Mugniyah as a "great figure" whose actions Iran did not consider terrorism. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad eulogized him as, "An outstanding leader from Hizballah," though up to his death that organization denied Mughniyah held such a post.

Hizballah's own leader, Hassan Nasrallah, used his funeral oration to threaten to wipe out Israel, paralleling what many Iranian leaders say. If Iran obtains nuclear weapons that threat becomes most plausible. But Hizballah hopes to achieve the same end through lower-level violence. Nasrallah declared "open war" on Israel and boasted he would launch attacks anywhere in the world, presumably against anyone he deemed to be standing in the way of his destructive dream.

As for Syria, where Mughniyah was repeatedly given help and safe haven, he was being protected in a highly secure area under government control. An Iranian television station reported he was killed near a Syrian intelligence base at a time a major meeting of Palestinian groups was taking place, including Hamas leader Khalad Mishal, who is based in Damascus. Two respected Arab newspapers claimed Mughniyah was the guest of top Syrian leaders and had been meeting with them and Hamas chiefs to plan the kind of bloody deeds he was so good at doing.

Revenge was also threatened by such pro-Mugniyah groups as Hamas, the Muqtada Sadr forces in Iraq, and Fatah's al-Aqsa Brigades. Not all Arabs reacted in this way. In Kuwait, for example, it was pointed out that Mugniyah had been involved in the murder of many Arabs and Muslims, in Kuwait, Lebanon, and Iraq

A Lebanese newspaper backed by Syria and Hizballah noted that Mughniyah's Death was the hardest blow to Hizballah ever. Ironically, however, many in the past had refused to condemn Hizballah as a terrorist organization -- including the EU -- because they said there was insufficient evidence of such involvement.

As one expert on Hizballah, Magnus Ranstorp, retorted, too many had "allowed themselves to be misled" about Hizballah use of international terrorism and its use by Iran and Syria. "And so Hezbollah was allowed to have its cake and eat it too" since it could carry out terrorism without any significant international price or punishment.

When Iran, Syria, and Hizballah embrace such a person as a great hero and role model they are:

- Openly admitting their association with many past acts of terrorism.
- Making clear that they favor murderous attacks deliberately designed to kill civilians.
- Showing their past denials of involvement to be lies.
- Urging people to commit many more such attacks in future, include genocide against Israel and its people.

Now that Hizballah, Iran, and Syria have "taken credit" for Mugniyah's past killings and urged many more in the future, the world should confront the fact that these groups are engaged in a systematic terrorist policy and react accordingly.

http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/12671.htm

[NYer]

Another target rich environment gone to waste ...

[Casey]

Palestinian Intifada Strikes Deep Inside Zionist Entity [2]
Posted by : WorldAnalysis on Mar 07, 2008 - 05:50 PM [ Edit [3] | Delete [4] ]
Middle East & Africa [5]

Source: Agencies, 7-3-08

The Zionist entity is witnessing one of its worst moments after it got an overwhelming strike in its heart, the center of Zionism.

'Israeli' occupation police were placed on a state of alert and upped security measures in Al Quds(Jerusalem) on Friday after the heroic operation in the Jewish religious school. "We brought in a large number of forces for the security of residents," the city's police chief Aharon Franco told military radio the morning after a Palestinian gunman opened fire inside the school. Police was in a "general state of alert" throughout the country, he said.

At least eight 'Israeli' settlers are dead and 35 wounded after an armed man opened fire at Merkaz Harav Yeshiva, a Jewish seminary in the western part of Al Quds.

The attacker entered a library where about 80 religious settlers were gathered at the yeshiva, or religious school, and killed eight on Thursday.
He was reportedly shot dead by a student and a soldier.

The fact that the school is at the heart of the settler movement in the occupied West Bank may have been the reason why it was targeted. Many of its students are on special courses that combine religious study with service in combat units in the 'Israeli' army.

No group has officially claimed responsibility for the attack - the first in Al Quds in more than four years when a martyrdom bomber killed eight people and himself aboard a bus - but Hamas praised the attack as "heroic" and said it would not be the last.

In Beirut, Al-Manar TV Channel announced that those responsible were members of a previously unknown group called "Phalange of Free Men of Galilee - Groups of the Martyr Imad Moghniyeh and Martyrs of Gaza." The claim was made in a tag line running across the bottom of the screen, and no further details were immediately given.

"The responsibility for the massacre lies with the governments of 'Israel', which for years have displayed weakness and exhaustion and have seen to the armament of the enemy," the Yesha Rabbinical Council wrote in a stinging rebuke of the 'Israeli' leadership following the Thursday's deadly attack.

The seminary, located in the Kyriat Moshe neighbourhood, is a well-known centre for Jewish studies linked to those leading the Jewish settler movement in the occupied West Bank.

Micky Rosenfeld, an 'Israeli' police spokesman, said the attacker walked through the seminary's main gate and entered the library.

He carried an assault rifle and pistol, and used both weapons in the attack, spraying dozens of bullets. At least six empty bullet clips were found on the floor, he said.

'Israeli' war officials said the attacker came from east Al Quds, the predominantly Arab section of the city which 'Israel' captured and occupied in the 1967 war.

In contrast to Palestinians in the West Bank, those in Al Quds have 'Israeli' identification cards, allowing them relatively free movement inside 'Israel'.
Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin, reporting from the scene of the attack, said that questions would be raised as to how the assailant passed through the many security checks situated in the area.

Witnesses said students jumped out the windows of the building to escape during the shooting.

The seminary serves some 400 high school students and young 'Israeli' soldiers, many of whom carry arms.

After the shooting, hundreds of seminary students demonstrated outside the building chanting against Ehud Olmert, 'Israel's' prime minister and many were seen crying.

Al Jazeera's Jacky Rowland said the shooting was a psychological blow to many 'Israelis' as the area is a cultural and ideological centre of Al Quds and people will definitely feel vulnerable that an attack took place in a deeply religious area.

In the streets of Gaza, thousands of Palestinians celebrated, with people firing into the air and sounding their horns.

An 'Israeli' military onslaught in Gaza martyred more than 120 Palestinians in the past week, mostly women and children.

Mark Regev, 'Israel's' government spokesman, told The Associated Press what he called tonight's massacre in Al Quds "a defining moment."

The attack came a day after Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, persuaded Abbas to return to negotiations with 'Israel'.

Abbas had briefly suspended talks to protest against the 'Israeli' military offensive in Gaza.

While not claiming responsibility for the attack, Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for Hamas, said "this heroic attack in Al Quds is a normal response to the crimes of the occupier and its murder of civilians".

Taher al-Nunu, another spokesman, blamed the attack on Ehud Olmert, the 'Israeli' prime minister, and Ehud Barak, the war minister.

"We have warned before about the responsibility of the escalation in Gaza and warned of Palestinian anger," he said.

Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general condemned the attack but the UN Security Council failed to agree on a statement at a contentious emergency meeting. The US and 'Israel' blamed Libya for the failure, saying it wanted to link any condemnation of the shooting to its own resolution pressing for censure of 'Israel' over its deadly land and air assault on the Gaza Strip last week.

Al Jazeera's John Terrett, reporting from the UN, said up to four countries wanted to link the Gaza and Al Quds violence and the meeting broke down when the American delegation left over that.

Dan Gillerman, 'Israel's' ambassador to the UN, then told reporters outside that Libya should not be on the council.

Ibrahim Dabbashi, Libya's envoy, hit back, saying his country did not need a certificate of good conduct from what he said was the 'Israeli' terrorist regime.


http://english.hizbollah.org/essaydetails.php?eid=2923&cid=215

[The 801]

Iranian group puts price on Barak's head


Dudi Cohen
Published: 03.09.08, 21:38 / Israel News

'Islamic Student Justice Seekers' declare financial prizes to be awarded to those who kill Israeli defense minister, Mossad Director Meir Dagan, and Military Intelligence Chief Amos Yadlin

Do Ehud Barak, Meir Dagan and Amos Yadlin need to be worried? In the Iranian capital of Tehran, it was reported that an unprecedented ceremony took place on Sunday in which a price was put on the heads of the top ranking Israeli security officials as revenge for the assassination of Hizbullah arch terrorist Imad Mugniyah last month.

The Iranian news agency IRNA quoted an announcement from a radical organization called the "Islamic Student Justice Seekers" in which the group made clear its reasoning for the move.

"Following the increase in crimes by the Zionist regime in occupied Palestine and in the Gaza Strip, and in wake of the assassination that this regime carried out abroad of senior members of the resistance front, a ceremony will be held today to set a financial prize for the killing of the organizers of these acts."

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According to the organization's announcement, the financial prizes are to be given to those who take out the three most senior members of the Israeli security establishment: Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Mossad Chief Meir Dagan and Head of Military Intelligence Amos Yaron.


"The prizes will be given to those who succeed in killing these three international terrorists in any place in the world," the statement read.

According to the claims made by the Iranian student organization, Dagan, Barak and Yadlin are responsible for much more than merely Palestinian suffering.

The group blamed the trio for the killing of senior Hizbullah military commander Mugniyah, who was killed in a car bomb in Damascus last month. Israel has denied involvement, although Iran and Syria also blamed the act on Israel.


Got an extra kidney?

The Justice Seekers also called for volunteers to donate a kidney in order to offer the money acquired via the act to increase the financial prize.

(Read " We are all talk, no money" - 801)

The organizers claim that a number of civil groups agreed to take part in the ceremony in order to contribute to the amount of money offered for the heads of the Israeli threesome.

The students in the extremist group are connected to another radical organization in Tehran called The Martyrs' Commemoration Headquarters, which organized the establishment of a monument for Imad Mugniyah in the Iranian capital.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3517016,00.html

[The 801]

Iran issues Mugniyah stamp

Hizbullah arch-terrorist Imad Mugniyah becomes immortalized in form of new Iranian stamp issued as 'cultural message of support' from Iran to Lebanon

Iran issued a new state stamp Monday, carrying the image of slain Hizbullah commander Imad Mugniyah, they claim was assassinated by Israel.

Mugniyah was killed in a Damascus explosion on February 12th.

According to the Iranian news agency Fars the stamp will be "a cultural message of support from the Iranian people to the Lebanese nation against the crimes of the Zionist regime."



The stamp was revealed in an official state ceremony, attended by the heads of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Iranian minister of communications, representatives of Hamas, Hizbullah and family members of the Lebanese killed in the Second Lebanon War.

Yehiya Raheem Safawi, the former Revolutionary Guard commander, who is currently the senior military advisor to the Ayatollah Khamenei, said in the ceremony that "Israel must take Hizbullah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah statements seriously."

Following the assassination of Mugniyah, Nasrallah warned of coming attacks on Israeli targets in Israel and around the world.

Safawi reiterated his hope for the "early fall of the Zionist regime," which he called – as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did before him – a "cancerous growth".

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""And this was the only picture we could find of him, I think it makes him look jolly, said Arnca Gonna Retchnpuke, the head of the Iranian postal system" - 801

Safawi further called on all Arab nation to "join the fight" by boycotting all diplomatic and financial ties with Israel.

Meanwhile, Ahmadinejad met Sunday night with Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad Ramadan Abdullah Shallah,

The two reportedly discussed the situation in Gaza Strip, with Ahmadinejad telling Shallah that "resistance is the only way to defeat the Zionists and their patrons."

According to a Sunday night report by the Iranian news agency IRNA, a radical organization called the "Islamic Student Justice Seekers" has put a price on the heads of three of the most senior members of the Israeli security establishment, Ehud Barak, Meir Dagan and Amos Yadlin.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3517301,00.html

[The 801]

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Protesters of Mugniyeh's death can now safely gather around potential car bombs - 801

Protests after senior Shiite cleric arrested

Published Date: March 10, 2008
By B Izzak


KUWAIT: Former MP Abdulmohsen Jamal and an official of the Shiite National Islamic Alliance (NIA) Hassan Al-Salman turned themselves in yesterday to the public prosecution over their role in the mourning rally held for slain Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyah. Later in the day, security forces arrested Sheikh Hussein Al-Maatouq who is the secretary general and the most senior official of the NIA over the same charges. Immediately after his arrest, about 700 Shiites demonstrated outside the headquarters
of the State Security in South Surrah to demand the release of the cleric. Special forces were called in but the protest passed off peacefully as the crowds dispersed.

Jamal was interrogated by the public prosecution from 9.00 am for five hours while Salman was interrogated for more than four hours, their lawyers said. The two men were charged with "being members of 'Hezbollah Kuwait', which is working for the destruction of the basic foundations of the society through illegal means, and which amounts to overthrowing the government". They were also charged of spreading false news that would weaken the country's "foreign position", the lawyers said. The two have denied
the charges.
The public prosecution has so far interrogated seven people. Two of them have been released on hefty bails of KD 5,000 and KD 3,000, while three have been remanded to police custody for the last several days. Those who are in police custody include former MP Nasser Sorkhouh and member of the municipal council Fadhel Safar. Sorkhouh was arrested last Tuesday while Safar turned himself in on Wednesday. Maatouq is a prominent Shiite cleric and is highly respected among his followers.
The lawyers said that the men have not been charged of anything related to the rally to mourn Mughniyah held last month after the former top commander was killed in a car bombing in Damascus. Mughniyah is accused in Kuwait of hijacking the Jabriya passenger plane in 1988, which resulted in the killing of two Kuwaiti civilians.
The lawyers said that the lawsuit against the men was filed by the interior ministry. They said that most of the men faced similar charges in 1980s at the height of the Iraq-Iran war and were tried and cleared. Jamal was an MP for three times with his last term between 1999 and 2003. He did not contest the last elections. Sorkhouh, a science professor at Kuwait University, was an MP in the 1980s.
Lawyers said that the public prosecution was expected to send a letter through the justice minister to the National Assembly asking for lifting the immunity of MPs Adnan Abdulsamad and Ahmad Lari so they could be interrogated for the same charges. Such a request will be discussed in the Assembly after the legal and legislative committee reviews it. A large number of Kuwaiti writers yesterday warned that "oppressive measures" by the security authorities was sliding the country into a sectarian rift and c
alled for wisdom in handling the sensitive case.

http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=Nzg3NzA2ODE1

Where are all the hot Mugniyeh chicks? At there own protest? Now that I gotta see... 801

[The 801]

Syria: Trouble in Damascus
Wednesday, 12 March, 2008 @ 3:19 AM

Beirut - The following intelligence report written by STRATFOR Global Intelligence analysis the internal struggle within the Syrian regime and concludes that Syria’s ruling al Assad family is in deep trouble.

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Asef Shawkat

Syria's ruling al-Assad family is experiencing an internal struggle, as the Feb. 12 assassination of top Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyah in Damascus revealed. Syrian allies Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah seem to have growing suspicions that certain elements of the Syrian regime might have been involved in Mughniyah's death, and Syrian President Bashar al Assad appears to be building a case against his brother-in-law, the director-general of Syrian intelligence, Asef Shawkat (pictured).

Analysis

The Feb. 12 assassination of Hezbollah top commander Imad Mughniyah in Damascus has exposed what appears to be a massive power struggle afflicting Syria's ruling al Assad family. Since the assassination, Stratfor has received reports from a variety of sources that indicate the death of Hezbollah's most seasoned operative might not have been a surprise to certain elements of the Syrian regime. These suspicions appear to be shared by Syria’s allies Hezbollah and Iran.

As Stratfor has discussed previously, even if the Israeli Mossad orchestrated the operation to take out Mughniyah, it likely had an inside source - perhaps in Syria's security apparatus - that facilitated the operation.

And Hezbollah does not appear to be taking any chances. A reliable source revealed to Stratfor that, in the past week, Hezbollah forces apprehended a group of Syrian concierges working in Beirut’s southern suburbs. The concierges were blindfolded, interrogated and released the following morning after they and their families were threatened and told to keep quiet about the incident.

Hezbollah was supposedly seeking to find out if the concierges knew any details about Mughniyah's travel to Damascus the night of Feb. 10 - two days before his assassination. According to the source, Hezbollah is highly suspicious that elements of Syrian intelligence either assisted in or acquiesced to Mughniyah’s liquidation.

The extent of Syrian intelligence’s involvement in the Mughniyah assassination could even reach up to the highest echelons of the al Assad family, with Syrian Director-General of Intelligence Assef Shawkat at the center of the conspiracy. The stability of the Syrian regime rests upon a delicate balance of close-knit clan relations within the al Assad family, the Alawite religious minority and the underlying rule of the Baath party. Any blows to this power structure could spell doom for the government, making it all the more critical for Syrian President Bashar al Assad to adroitly navigate the Byzantine maze of Syrian family politics.

Shawkat became a part of the al Assad clan through a marriage to Bashar's sister, Bushra al Assad. Though Bushra and Shawkat faced heavy resistance from the al Assad family when the two eloped, they have since amassed a great deal of power and influence in the al Assad regime, making them a force to be reckoned with in any major family dispute. In addition to being a prime suspect in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, Shawkat could have had something to do with the Mughniyah assassination, several signs indicate. Shawkat apparently felt threatened by Mughniyah's influence within the Syrian security apparatus and came to blows with his long-time foe, Maher al Assad, the president’s brother and head of the Republican Guard, over the issue.

There is an unverified rumor circulating that, prior to his assassination, Mughniyah had informed the Syrian president of meetings held between Shawkat and a CIA officer in a European city, where the two supposedly discussed a strategy for Shawkat to seize control of the regime.

Al Assad then apparently confronted Bushra about Mughniyah’s allegations, which then prompted Shawkat to organize an operation to take out the Hezbollah commander. Another source claims that Bushra has now moved with her children to Paris and is seeking to relocate to the United Arab Emirates for a long sojourn — a possible indication that the major female power broker of the al Assad clan has lost her bid to spare her husband’s political and intelligence career within the ranks of the Syrian ruling elite.

Though the details of these rumors cannot be verified, there appears to be a case building against Shawkat behind the palace walls in Damascus. Stratfor has already learned of rumors of an impending military reshuffle that could very well remove Shawkat and wash the regime’s hands of the al-Hariri assassination.

But Shawkat is unlikely to go quietly into the night, and any attempt to remove him from the Syrian political scene could further complicate the regime’s already intensely bitter power struggle. Similar rifts emerged in the wake of the al-Hariri assassination when former Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam and former Interior Minister Ghazi Kenaan schemed to topple the regime. The Syrian president managed to wade his way through that crisis rather adeptly, but this current power struggle reaches deep into the al Assad clan. And with Israel signaling that it is readying itself for another showdown with Hezbollah, the clock is ticking for al Assad to get his house in order.

Source: Stratfor Global Intelligence

http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2008/03/syria_trouble_i.php

[The 801]

More on the guy who did it:

Report: Assad's Brother-in-Law Behind Mughniyeh Death

by Gil Ronen

(IsraelNN.com) Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's brother-in-law is suspected of engineering the assassination of Hizbullah's operations officer Imad Mughniyeh, according to a report Saturday in Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Siasa ("Politics"). The news report appeared under the headline "Mughniyeh's elimination breaking the back of Damascus regime."

The suspicions against the man, Colonel Wasef Shweikat, surfaced after his wife, Bashar Assad's sister Bushra, relocated to Paris with her children following the assassination. The move followed a split between Bashar and Bushra, which began when Mughniyeh informed Bashar of a plot against his regime.

The paper said Shweikat met with a senior American intelligence officer in a European country. Mughniyeh got wind of the clandestine meeting and informed Bashar personally about it. This is what caused the rift between Bashar Assad and his sister.

Sister slapped

Bashar slapped his sister in the face in the course of one of their arguments, after he informed her of the suspicions against her husband. Assad told his sister that Shweikat and the American agent met to discuss a possible coup in Syria, in which Shweikat would seize power.

Tension between Mughniyeh and Shweikat was not a new thing, Al-Siasa explained. Mughniyeh had repeatedly attempted to weaken Shweikat's standing in the Syrian power echelon.[/B] This is why Shweikat is a major suspect in the planning of the assassination.

Suspicions against Shweikat have increased since Bashar Assad appointed Hafez Makluf, the Head of General Intelligence, to head the investigation of the assassination. Makluf is considered to be a political rival of Shweikat.

Bushra moving again
Bushra Assad is said to be preparing to move again, from Paris to one of the Gulf emirates.

A month ago, the newspaper reported that none other than Hassan Nasrallah was the man behind the assassination of his operations officer. Nasrallah reportedly refused to allow Syrian investigators to interrogate three of his senior officers, because he feared that a connection would be established between the Mughniyeh assassination and a split between Hizbullah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

Kuwait has been disseminating information which shows Mughniyeh in a bad light, since his assassination. The Gulf state suspects Mughniyeh of involvement in the hijacking of two Kuwaiti airliners in the 1980s. Members of the Kuwaiti parliament who protested and grieved Mughneiyeh's death were put on trial.

Syria 'still wants peace'
A Lebanese newspaper reported Saturday that Syria recently sent Israel a message saying it was still interested in the peace process, but insisting that it must be open and that it must not be carried out "under fire." The phrase "under fire" is understood as relating to the Israeli confrontation with the Arabs in Judea, Samaria and Gaza.

Al-Akbar, which is considered pro-Hizbullah and pro-Syria, reported that Syria relayed the message to Israel through Turkish premier Tayyip Erdogan.

Syria reportedly wants the negotiations to be public, and wants them accompanied by Israeli signals that it is willing to withdraw from all of the "occupied Arab territories," and by negotiations between Israel and Lebanon as well as Israel and the PA.

"Knowledgeable sources" told the paper that Damascus believes the U.S. is not interested in this kind of dialogue between Israel and Syria and that Israel will not engage in it without an American green light.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125570

You gotta love this. Hezbollah is gonna have a real hard problem with this. No Isreal. Just the proxy master Syria. Those who live by the Family Clan, Die by the Family Clan. Stay tuned. 801

[The 801]

Khaddam accuses Assad regime of killing Hezbollah commander
Sunday, 17 February, 2008 @ 3:25 AM

Beirut - Former Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam on Saturday accused the Assad regime of Syria of being behind the killing of top Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh "for Israel's sake."

"The major beneficiary in Mughniyeh's assassination is Israel which succeeded in penetrating a certain security side which, in turn, facilitated this operation" Khaddam said in an interview with the Italian news agency, Aki.

Khaddam said the car bombing that killed Mughnieyh last Tuesday took place in a highly fortified area in Damascus.

"Otherwise, how were the killers able to determine where Mughniyeh was staying and so easily rig a car (with explosives) that led to his liquidation in Damascus Tuesday night?" Khaddam asked.

Khaddam said relations between Tehran and Damascus will certainly be affected by the killing, but added that this would not happen in the short run, but in the long run.

"Mughniyeh is targeted and wanted by Israel and many other countries and he is a high ranking security man. Therefore he is extremely cautious. No one was able to determine where he stayed throughout a quarter of a century," Khaddam went on.

"The big question is how did the killers find out where Imad Mughniyeh was?" Khaddam wondered.

Reports from Damascus say that the scene of the assassination of Mughniyeh was very close to the office of Assef Shawkat , head of Syrian intelligence . Shawkat is the brother-in-law of Syrian president Basher al Assad


Reports from Beirut say Hezbollah has offered to help in the investigation of the assassination along with the Syrians and Iranians , but Syria has refused to allow Hezbollah participation

Reports from Tehran say Mughniyeh was in Damascus at the request of the Iranians to supervise security during the official visit of Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki. Iran according to the reports considered Mughniyeh its own man and considered him the most loyal and trusted member of the Hezbollah organization.

According to intelligence reports, Mughniyah, was considered particularly cautious and suspicious. He surrounded himself with rings of bodyguards and didn't trust anyone, not even his most loyal subordinates. He carried many passports, apparently underwent plastic surgery to change his appearance, never traveled the same route twice, and changed safe houses the way other people change their socks.

Mughniyah was also known for his caution during phone calls. In the 2006 Lebanon War between Hezbollah and Israel he was particularly careful to avoid using phones, and exchanged coded commands and instructions through couriers.

This is why his assassination is a puzzle . Many observers in Lebanon are of the opinion that such a crime could never taken place in Syria without the full knowledge of the Syrian intelligence.


http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2008/02/khaddam_accuses.php

[The 801]

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Iran says to attend Arab summit in Syria

12 hours ago

TEHRAN (AFP) — Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is to attend this month's Arab summit hosted by its top regional ally Syria that is expected to be dominated by the political crisis in Lebanon.

"Mr Mottaki has been invited and he will travel to Damascus," foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini told reporters.

The March 29-30 Damascus summit has been mired in controversy over the crisis in Lebanon amid a standoff between the Syrian-backed opposition and the majority backed by the West and many Arab states.

Iran insists it wants to see a solution in Lebanon acceptable to all religious and ethnic groups but the West accuses Tehran of strongly backing the opposition through the Shiite militant group Hezbollah.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has moved to improve ties with Arab states during the past two years, becoming the first Iranian president to perform the hajj in Saudi Arabia and attend a summit of Arabian peninsula states.

Syria was practically the only Arab state to support Iran during its 1980-1988 war with Iraq and ties have been warm for decades, with the countries' leaders frequently exchanging visits.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hXmNlX9lVaK54jRexIz7Lp9L3_6Q

This should be interesting. Stay tuned.

[The 801]

Damascus Declaration: Syria involved in Mughniyeh's murder
Monday, 17 March, 2008 @ 10:01 PM

Beirut - The General Secretariat of the Damascus Declaration accused Monday the Syrian regime of involvement in the assassination of Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh who was killed last month in Damascus.

A statement issued by the Damascus Declaration headed by former MP Maamun al-Homsi stated: "It is our duty to expose the crimes of the Syrian regime and specifically the killing of Imad Mughniyah and the deception that accompanied this crime."

Mughniyeh was killed on February 12. Hezbollah has accused Israel of being behind this crime, but this was denied by Tel Aviv.

The Damascus Declaration opposition group said all facts point to the Syrian regime involvement on behalf of Israel. It has been over a month since Mughniyehn was assassinated in the most exclusive district in Syria where homes cost an average of one million US dollars and the area is full of Syrian intelligence personnel."

The statement added the "Syrian intelligence removed the car in which Mughniyeh was assassinated and cleaned completely the scene of the murder to remove all the evidence."

Homsi was arrested in 2001. He was released in 2006. Homsi is currently residing in Lebanon.

Mughniyeh's widow, an Iranian national, who was in Damascus at the time her husband was assassinated also accused the Syrian regime of involvement in the murder. She said "This is why the Syrian regime has refused the help of Iran and Hezbollah in the investigation of the murder."

"The Syrian traitors assisted in my husband's murder," said Mughniyeh's widow.

Syria's Foreign Minister stated after the assassination that "only Syria will investigate the murder and it will be a very simple and straight forward investigation and we will find the perpetrators within days."

According to intelligence reports Assef Shawkat, Syria's top intelligence chief and the brother-in-law of Syrian president Bashar al Assad is behind the assassination. Shawkat is married to Basha's sister Bushra. Bushra has left Syria and is now living in Paris.


http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2008/03/damascus_declar.php


Who is Damascus Declaration? Wiki clues us in........


The Beirut-Damascus Declaration was a statement signed by 274 Lebanese and Syrian activists and intellectuals which called on the Syrian regime to correct its relationship with Lebanon and to respect its independence and sovereignty starting with demarcating a common border and establishing diplomatic relations. Since its publication on May 12, 2006, many of the signatories have since been fired from their jobs and have been subject to persecution.


Sounds kinda odd..

[The 801]

The story is not quite finished,
but we are gettting there......

editorial

Imad Mugniyah: A terrorist or a hero?

As Hizbullah marks 40 days since assassination of its top commander, some Arab countries fail to conceal their joy over his death

Roee Nahmias
Published: 03.23.08, 12:46 / Israel News
Imad Mugniyah, Hizbullah's top commander killed about 40 days ago in a car explosion in Damascus, remains a controversial figure in the Arab world even after his death.

In his camp – which includes Hizbullah, Iran and Syria – he is considered a glorious hero, one of a kind. However, among his opponents in the Arab world – Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the anti-Syrian camp in Lebanon – the man is considered a contemptible terrorist.

"We saw the death in their eyes. We also saw the defeat. When we fired the first wave of missiles on Haifa, I told the person standing next to me that Israel had lost the war," Mugniyah was quoted as saying in an article in the al-Akhbar newspaper written by Ibrahim al-Amin, a Lebanese journalist and commentator affiliated with Hizbullah.

Such articles attempted to glorify and praise the mysterious image of the "Shiite fox", as he was called by his opponents.

"Mugniyah has become a legend," explained Diana Mukkaled in her weekly column in the London-based Arabic-language al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper. "His name has not been connected to any picture or known voice. Even his features had disappeared, and it is not even clear whether the only picture related to him is reliable.

"His power was in his disappearance – and that's what his death revealed to us. The assassination proved that Hizbullah is more than just (Secretary-General) Hassan Nasrallah and that there is another person named Imad Mugniyah, who is responsible for the important military and political issues."


'The dog is dead'

Kuwait did not conceal its joy over Mugniyah's death. In 1986, a Kuwaiti aircraft was hijacked on its way from Bangkok to Kuwait. The hijackers directed the plane to Iran and from there to Cyprus. Two of the passengers were executed. The aircraft continued to Algeria, where the hijackers released the passengers and disappeared.

The main suspect behind this operation was none other than Mugniyah, who was believed to have carried out the attack as an act of revenge against Kuwait for supporting Saddam Hussein's Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War.

Since then, Mugniyah has become an unforgettable figure in Kuwait, to say the least. Several of the country's newspapers declared "the death of the dog" – a particularly contemptible nickname in Arabic.

"Kuwait's residents received the news on the assassination of the criminal Imad Mughniya, who has spread destruction and terror, with great joy," one newspaper reported.

"This is the happiest day of my life," said the mother of one of the Kuwaiti victims, whose body was tossed by Mugniyah from the hijacked plane.

Column writer Abdullah al-Hadlak, known for his anti-Iranian and anti-Hizbullah approach, was firmer. "Mugniyah is a defeatist terrorist whose hands are stained with the blood of innocents.

"He was like the other terrorists – Carlos, Abu Nidal, Ismail Haniyeh and Franco. The terrorist Mugniyah was responsible for many crimes also against Kuwait, and was the person who connected between terrorist Hizbulllah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards," he wrote.

But the attacks on Mugniyah were not only malicious joy. Former Kuwaiti Information and Culture Minister Saad bin Teflah did not hesitate to raise "the logical questions following Mugniyah's assassination" in his al-Sharq al-Awsat column.

"The end of Imad Mugniyah was not a surprising end for many who followed this man's path. He executed violence and terror in different ways… Was Imad Mugniyah a hero and a freedom fighter or rather a terrorist who received his punishment?

"Does the termination of a person by Israel mean that he will immediately enter heaven without being punished? Is the fact that Israel killed you enough for people to forget the crimes you committed?"

'A criminal and a terrorist'

"The Israelis view Mugniyah as a terrorist. Is the fact that Israel views you as a terrorist enough to turn you into a hero in our eyes, just like there are those who view bin Laden as a hero because he is hostile to the United States?

"Does the hijacking of an American civilian plane and the killing of one of its passengers give you atonement for the crime you committed when you hijacked a Kuwaiti plane and killed several of its passengers?" Bin Teflah asked in a series of rhetorical questions.

So why do some see Mugniyah as a hero even though he also hurt Arabs? "The logic attempting to turn a terrorist into a legendary hero is the same logic which marketed Saddam Hussein as a hero, despite all the crimes he committed against his people and against humanity," explained one of the commentators.

"Saddam Hussein fired missiles at Israel and remained hostile to it, at least in his statements, until the last day of his life. According to the same logic, he is a national hero despite all the terrible things he did… The era of the exceptional ones is over. Mugniyah is a criminal and a terrorist who terrorized civilians, hijacked planes and killed innocent people, even if he did kill Israeli soldiers after that."

On the other hand, one of the commentators who views Mugniyah as a hero wrote that "this is a cowardly act committed by the Israeli Mossad against the freedom fighter, our hero Mugniyah."

One will not find a lot of love for Israel in this story, but one also won't find love and a consensus in regards to Mugniyah. Such a consensus is important for Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah, particularly if he is planning an attack against Israel.

It appears that the hatred for Mugniyah was so strong that even a powerful assassination in an Arab capital, outside Lebanon, was not enough to create a consensus of revenge.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3522431,00.html

[The 801]

Motion Video of Mugniyeh, found under Haj Radwan, on google. The only motion footage I have ever seen.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2644866887398910295

He was kind of a happy terrorist...

[The 801]

Mughniyeh paid the price of Iran, Syria role in killing Hariri (???)
Monday, 24 March, 2008 @ 11:04 PM

Beirut- A Kuwait Newspaper Al Rai was told by its well informed European sources that the murder of Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyah in Damascus has left an impact on the relations between the Iranian and Syrian leaderships.

The murder has also impacted Syria's relationship with the Lebanon based Hezbollah militant group , a strong ally of Iran.

The sources confirmed the information about the arrest of a member of the Palestinian Hamas organization and an Iraqi on suspicion of involvement in the murder. The investigation revealed that the bomb that killed Mughniyeh was placed in a car that was parked adjacent to his car and not in the headrest of his car as was reported earlier.

The sources also revealed that the car containing the bomb was familiar to people in the Area. This has raised more suspicions by Iran and Hezbollah , about the involvement of the Syrians specially since the area where the crime occurred is one of the most guarded areas of Damascus .

The sources said this is why Hezbollah and Iran were suspicious when Syria accused Israel of being behind the murder.

The sources said " Iran, which considered the Hezbollah commander as equal to or even more important than Hezbollah Secretary general Hassan Nasrallah, has been wondering about the existence of a "missing link" . This missing link according to the sources is the role that the Syrian intelligence played in facilitating the execution of the crime , since it is extremely difficult for the Israeli intelligence to operate in the heavily guarded area without the knowledge of the Syrian intelligence.

The missing link is also creating suspicions by Iran and Hezbollah about Syria's negotiations with Israel and its willingness to use Hezbollah as a bargaining chip to reclaim the Golan Heights.

The sources claim that Iran's suspicions have led to the downgrading of Iran's representation at the Damascus summit. Initially it was widely reported that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will represent Iran at the summit and will sit next to Syrian president Bashar al Assad as the guest of honor, but recent reports indicate that Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will represent Iran instead.

The sources concluded that Mughniyeh paid the price of the Iranian and Syrian role in killing Hariri. The Syrian regime which has been widely accused of all the assassinations in Lebanon can now tell the International Tribunal, which is expected to try the killers of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , his companions and the other crimes that the person who did all this was Mughniyeh , who is now dead.

" The sources said that the assassination of Mughniyah will allow the Syrian regime to use him as a scapegoat and save the necks of the Syrian leaders "the paper said.

Assef Shawkat according to intelligence reports published earlier was the main suspect in Mughniyeh's murder. Shawkat , who is Bashar's brother-in-law is the head of the Syrian intelligence


http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2008/03/mughniyeh_paid.php

Mugniyeh killed Hariri? That was not really Mugniyeh's style.
Not done with this one yet...

[The 801]

Shawkat may be fired for negligence in Mughniyah murder
Sunday, 6 April, 2008 @ 5:14 AM

Beirut / Damascus- According to Diplomatic sources in Damascus , Bushra al Assad , sister of Syrian president Bashar al Assad has been living in Paris along with her two children since Lebanon's Hezbollah commander was murdered Imad Mughniyah, Hezbollah's military commander was assassinated in an upscale residential section of Damascus on February 12, in a car bomb explosion.

The diplomatic sources are claiming that Assef Shawkat , the brother in law of Assad has decided to send his wife ( Bushra ) and children to Paris in anticipation of being fired from his current position as the Intelligence chief of Syria.

According to intelligence reports Syrian allies Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah seem to have growing suspicions that certain elements of the Syrian regime might have been involved in Mughniyah's death, and Syrian President Bashar al Assad appears to be building a case against his brother-in-law.

Assef is expected to be officially accused of negligence in the case of the assassination of Mughniyah.


The Sources have pointed out that Shawkat has already contacted France as well as some Arab Countries about long term stays for himself and his family .

Shawkat is known to have family problems with president Assad's brother Maher al Assad.

Damascus will announce the results of its investigation of the assassination of Mughniyah on April 6 according to Syrian National New agency based on diplomatic sources.

Hezbollah has accused Israel of carrying out the assassination of Mughniyah and has vowed revenge. Israel has denied any connection to the killing.

Mughniyah 's widow , who is an Iranian national has accused Syria of helping Israel in assassinating her husband. She made the statement in Tehran after returning from Damascus immediately after his death

http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2008/04/shawkat_may_be.php

[The 801]

Apr 6, 2008 9:24 | Updated Apr 6, 2008 16:18
'Head of Mughniyeh probe under arrest'
By JPOST.COM STAFF

Head of Syrian military intelligence Maj.-Gen. Assef Shawkat has been put under heavily-guarded house arrest following the assassination of Hizbullah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh, former Syrian vice president Abdel Halim Khaddam was quoted as saying Sunday.

Khaddam, who was a close ally of former Syrian president Hafez Assad, told the Lebanese newspaper Al-Mustaqbal that the arrest was made after Shawkat claimed the probe he was conducting into Mughniyeh's death showed that the assassins came from Syria.

"Following this revelation, Shawkat was removed from the investigation which was transferred to [Syrian President Bashar Assad's cousin] Hafez Mahlof, who mulled over who to accuse in the assassination," said Khaddam.

Khaddam asserted that Assad therefore used the assassination to bring about the dismissal of Shawkat, his bother-in-law, and the appointment of Mahlof.

Khaddam went on to say that Syria's attempts to put the blame for killing Mughniyeh on Arab intelligence services were "stupid" and "naive."

"The Syrian regime tried to exert pressure on several Arab countries, to blackmail them and force them to participate in the Arab Summit in Damascus," claimed Khaddam.

The former Syrian vice president noted that Mughiyeh managed to hide for 25 years from foreign intelligence agencies, from his associates in Hizbullah and from his neighbors. "During that time, he was subjected to Iranian and Syrian monitoring, so how is it possible that Arab agencies were involved in the assassination?"

On Sunday, Syria is set to announce the results of the probe into Mughniyeh's death.

The Ba'ath Party expelled Khaddam from Syria in 2005 after he blasted Syrian President Bashar Assad's "political blunders" in dealings with Lebanon. He has since been living in exile in Paris.

In 2006, Khaddam announced that he was forming a "government in exile" and predicted the end of Assad's rule by the end of 2006. He also said he believed that Assad ordered the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1207238167308&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull


I kind of follow this, and kind of don'

[The 801]

On Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV, American Activist Franklin Lamb Pays Respects at 'Imad Mughniya's Tomb in Lebanon

During February and March 2008, Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV aired reports on visitors from the U.S. and from Egypt who came to pay their respects at the grave of senior Hizbullah commander 'Imad Mughniya, who was assassinated in February 2008.

One visitor from the U.S. was Franklin Lamb, author, activist, and director of Americans for the Just Peace in the Middle East and who writes on websites including Counterpunch. [1] Lamb, who was described by the Al-Manar TV reporter as "persiste[nt] in his support for the just cause of the Lebanese people's resistance," has demanded that the Bush administration "prove" that Hizbullah is a terrorist organization. [2]

In the Al-Manar segment that aired March 25, 2008, Lamb expressed his support for Hizbullah and said he was "honored to be in this venerable place," and responded to criticism of his visit by U.S. Charge d'Affaires Michele J. Sison by saying that she herself should come to pay her respects.

In another segment, aired February 28, 2008, Egyptian Labor Party Secretary-General Magdi Ahmad Hussein spoke with Mughinya's father,

To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1728.htm.

To view the MEMRI TV page dedicated to Al-Manar TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/subject/en/116.htm.

Franklin Lamb Visit - Aired March 25, 2008

Reporter: "Franklin Lamb, director of Americans for a Just Peace in the Middle East, has chosen the 40th day of the martyrdom of the commander Hajj 'Imad Mughniya to visit his pure tomb and place a flower wreath on it. He then strolled around the garden, asking about each martyr, including the martyr Hadi Nasrallah and his comrades. Then he responded to U.S. charge d'affaires Michele Sison, who had expressed her disgust at Lamb's offer of condolences for Mughniya's martyrdom."

Franklin Lamb (in English): "I don't know her. I heard something about her complaint that I respect the resistance. I'm honored to be here. I believe that many Americans share my belief that the Lebanese resistance is our resistance too. Nobody should ask why I am here. The American ambassador should be asked why she isn't here to offer her apology and her respect to all Lebanese, because 85% of the Israeli weapons come [from the U.S.], in order to be used against the Lebanese resistance and the Lebanese people. I am honored to be in this venerable place, which contains the bodies of the resistance fighters. I believe that American public opinion has recently become familiar with the resistance and its background."

Reporter: "It is well known that Franklin Lamb's wife was killed in the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in the early 1980s, when she happened to be at the embassy as part of her work in support of human rights in Lebanon. Despite this, he maintained his views and persisted in his support for the just cause of the Lebanese people's resistance. Moreover, he considers his wife to be one of the martyrs of the resistance." [...]

Egyptian Party Sec-Gen Visit - Aired February 28, 2008

Reporter: "Since this is a visit of the prince of the convoy of martyrs, the garden is still teeming with visitors, who have been arriving day and night, from all persuasions and from all areas - old and young arrive in order to recite the Fatiha verse over the tomb of the martyr. Since Hajj 'Imad's martyrdom transcends the borders of the homeland, the garden has received visitors from Arab countries. At the invitation of the Institute for International Studies, Egyptian Labor Party Secretary-General Magdi Ahmad Hussein came from Egypt to congratulate the father [of Mughniya] on his sons' martyrdom, and stressed that the martyrs are the models for this nation. The Egyptian delegation and the martyr's father held the following conversation":

Faiz, 'Imad Mughniya’s father: "All three sons are gone, Allah be praised. If I had more sons, I would sacrifice them too. I am willing to sacrifice more. I'm even willing to sacrifice myself. In any form of Jihad, I am willing to sacrifice myself."

Magdi Ahmad Hussein: "He will plead on your behalf in Paradise."

Faiz Mughniya: "Allah be praised."

Magdi Ahmad Hussein: "You will go to Paradise and meet him there. They will plead on your behalf. The nation owes these sons a great deal. In their graves, they have a greater influence than they had in their lives. They give us inspiration. For every child who comes here - this is a school. He learns from this martyr."


http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD188908

[NYer]

... According to a report leaked to the TV channel (Israel Channel 2,) Syria has arrested 10 intelligence officials following the assassination of Hizbullah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1207486215610&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

[The 801]

Newspaper: Israeli drill delays Mugniyah report

London-based Arabic publication reports that Syria, Lebanon delaying publication of report on assassination of Hizbullah commander due to tension generated by Israel’s wide-scale Home Front Command drill

Roee Nahmias
Published: 04.08.08, 11:35 / Israel News

The London based Arabic publication, al-Quds al-Arabi, reported Tuesday that Syria is delaying the publication of its report on the assassination of Hizbullah leader Imad Mugniyah, which was scheduled for Sunday, due to tension and fears generated in both Syria and Lebanon by the wide-scale Home Front Command drill taking place in Israel.

Publication of this report, senior Damascus officials have indicated, could do serious damage to Syria as it would expose the involvement of Arab intelligence officials, as well as that of Syrian, Palestinian and Lebanese personnel in the Mugniyah assassination.


Lebanese sources close to Hizbullah noted that Syrian security personnel have managed to track down the owners of two vehicles involved in the assassination and have managed to identify them.


Syria thus fears that publication of the report at this juncture will lead to retaliation against Arab officials which collaborated with Israel to assassinate Mugniyah, thus giving Israel cause to wage an all-out war against Syria, Hizbullah and perhaps even Iran. Damascus, Syrian officials noted, does not want to give Israel any grounds to wage war against Lebanon or enter into a region-wide conflict, for which - as the current home front drill indicates - Israel is actively preparing

( Now read that again. Does it make any sense? They are afraid that if it is reveled that arabs killed Mugniyeh, that it was cause Isreal to attack. This is the problem with the middle east mentality. It is nonsensical. - 801)

Syrian official: We’re closely monitoring Israeli drill

Fayssal Mekdad, Syria's deputy foreign minister commented on the Israeli drill, and stated Tuesday that “if Syria is the target for this drill, Israel ought to know that Damascus is carefully monitoring its actions, and is also preparing to contend with Israel’s military maneuvers and machinations.”


Syria, noted Mekdad in an interview with Syrian newspaper al-Thawra, is prepared for all contingencies: Be they a return to the negotiating table or armed conflict. “These Israeli maneuvers are a governmental ploy to regain the public’s trust and to demonstrate that the government is implementing the recommendations of the Winograd Commission vis-a-vie the IDF.”


“Arab countries, which are ostensibly the target of this drill,” noted Mekdad, “are also preparing for warfare, and are familiarizing themselves with Israel’s military mechanizations and strategies. If Israel thinks that this drill will persuade Arab nations that they can be defeated in future warfare, it is sadly mistaken.”

Lebanese newspaper, as-Safir, has reported that Israel’s Home Front Command drill, entitled “Turning Point 2”, has caused massive disruption in the Lebanese cellular phone system. Lebanon will protest this blatant Israeli hindrance, security officials stated.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3529048,00.html

[The 801]

(Insert standard Debka Disclaimer here)

Exclusive: Major row in Assad regime delays Sunday publication of Mughniyeh probe findings

April 7, 2008, 11:41 AM (GMT+02:00)
Gen. Asif Shawqat, sacked Syrian military intelligence chief missing


DEBKAfile’s Middle East and intelligence sources report that President Bashar Assad has fallen out with his brother-in-law Gen. Asif Shawqat, sacked him as military intelligence chief and appointed Gen. Aly Younes in his place.

Shawqat has not been seen in the capital for three weeks. Several intelligence officers were reported arrested in Damascus Monday, April 17.

The apparent downfall of Syria’s strongman is seen as symptomatic of a fierce rift in the top level of Syrian government. Our Washington sources report that Assad decided at the last minute to hold back the report promised for Sunday, April 7, on the killing of Hizballah leader Imad Mughniyeh last February, until after April 17, when the US House Intelligence Committee hears the details of Israel’s reported Sept 6, 2007 strike on a nuclear installation Syria was building with North Korean assistance. He will the decide how to play it.

The Bush administration and Jerusalem have agreed on the materials to be revealed there.

Our Washington sources report that the US and Israel are pumping out a welter of reports in advance of potential revelations about Syria’s covert nuclear activities, as well as playing up the rising war tensions with Israel, in a fresh bid to unnerve Assad into cooling his ties with Iran.

These sources report that the US and Israel turned up the heat this week by a claim leaked to Israeli media that Jerusalem had warned Damascus that Israel would hold Syria accountable and make it pay for any Hizballah attack on the Jewish state or against a Jewish or Israeli overseas target.

Sources in Damascus deny receiving any such warning.

Some Middle East sources report that Washington and Jerusalem are trying to turn to their advantage the falling-out between Assad and Shawqat.

The Syrian ruler believes that Israel’s defense exercise against missile attack is also part of that effort. He assured his confidants that it will not work; he will never break off his close alliance with Iran – even if it costs him a military showdown with Israel.

As to the Mughniyeh report, according to intelligence sources, the Syrian findings point the finger for the Hizballah army chief’s death in a secure section of Damascus at Israel, in conjunction with “Arab intelligence services” – specifically the Saudi service.

The last breach with Shawqat occurred when Assad took out of his hands the final wording of the Mughniyeh report and transferred it to Gen. Younes. Some Gulf intelligence sources familiar with Damascus’ inside affairs report that Assad ordered the new intelligence chief to saddle Gen. Shawqat with the guilt of failing to avert the Hizballah leader’s death.

Another bone of contention between the two brothers-in-law was Shawqat’s insistence for some months that if a limited military engagement between Syria and Israel is to be, then better now, when Damascus, Hizballah and Hamas can call the shots, rather than the summer months when the US and Israel will exercise greater control of events.

As for the sacked intelligence chief’s whereabouts, some Gulf sources familiar with the Syrian scene claim he has moved to a military intelligence base in northern Syria to be among loyalist officers and men. His wife, Bashara, Assad’s sister, took herself and her children off to Paris in early March to get away from the quarrels between her husband and brother.

Debka, where else.

[The 801]

You have to eat this crap with a spoon, there is so much of it....

Now it's the Saudis..



Syria: Saudis behind slain Hezbollah commander's death say Iranian sources

Tehran, 8 April (AKI) - Saudi Arabia is believed to be behind the death of a top commander with Lebanon's militant Shia group Hezbollah, Imad Mughniyeh, according to well-informed sources cited in a report on the Iranian news agency Fars,.

Mughniyeh was killed on 12 February in a car bombing in Syria.

Unnamed sources told Fars that Syria's delay in announcing the results of an investigation into Mughniyeh's death "cannot be explained other than by the pressure exercised by some Arab states."

Fars is said to be close to the government of hardline Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The Fars report said that the Syrian commission of inquiry should have already concluded its probe into the killing and the results should have been made public before the recent meeting of the Arab League in the Syrian capital Damascus.

"Pressure by Kuwait convinced the government in Damascus to postpone everything till the day after the [Arab League] meeting ended," said the Fars report.

The news agency goes on to say that the additional delay has come about because of pressure from Riyadh.

One of the sources cited by Fars also pointed the finger at the Saudis and suggested that Riyadh was behind Mughniyeh's death.

"Through a Syrian woman, a Saudi secret service agent who works in Damascus acquired two cars that were used by Israeli secret service agents to kill the commander Haj Imad Mughniyeh," said the Fars report.

According to the Iranian news agency, the people involved in organising the attack which killed the military leader of Hezbollah, were Palestinian, Jordanian and Syrian citizens.

The source cited in Fars also said that it knew the place where the killers had lived in the days leading up to the 12 February car bomb attack.

According to this source, the Palestinians and Jordanians who gathered in Damascus to kill Mughniyeh, lived with their family members in certain apartments in the Kafr Sousa quarter of the city, so as not to raise suspicion.

The Fars report said the former US ambassador to Washington, Banda al-Sultan, ordered the killing of Mughniyeh and that the Saudis did so to avenge the attack against a US military base in Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

A carbomb attack on 25 June 1996 at the Abdul Aziz airbase in Khobar, near Dhahran, killed 19 US soldiers and injured 446 people, including 173 Americans.

The Saudis have always suggested Mughniyeh planned and organised this attack.

Fars also cited an attempt by the governments of Qatar and Kuwait to bring about mediation between Damascus and Riyadh, so that the results of the investigation into Mughniyeh's death are not made public or at least do not contain any reference to Saudi Arabia.

The publication of this information in an Iranian news agency could be interpreted as an attempt by Tehran to neutralise this effort at mediation.

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.2051107264

[The 801]

Syria arrests Saudi in Mughniyeh probe'
By JPOST.COM STAFF


Syria has arrested a Saudi official in connection with the assassination of top Hizbullah commander Imad Mughniyeh, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported Tuesday.

The agency quoted an Iranian source as saying a high-ranking defense official in Saudi Arabia's embassy in Damascus was arrested by Syrian security forces.

The source said Israel masterminded the assassination, but the operation itself was carried out by locals with Syrian, Jordanian and Palestinian citizenships. These men bought or rented apartments near Mughniyeh's place of residence in Damascus and surveyed his activities from there, the source said.

The Saudi official, he said, was connected to a Syrian woman in whose name were registered the two explosives-laden cars used to kill Mughniyeh.

Fars also claimed that the results of the Syrian inquiry should have already been published, and blamed the delay on pressure from Gulf states including Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1207649966110&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

[The 801]

General arrested in Hariri killing says he was asked to get Syrians to find someone to confess
The Associated Press
Published: April 10, 2008

UNITED NATIONS: A Lebanese general under arrest for his alleged involvement in the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister claimed in a letter that a U.N. investigator asked him to tell the Syrian government to find a Syrian to confess to the killing.

In a "memorandum" to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ban Ki-moon obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, Gen. Jamil El Sayed said he and seven other Lebanese were arbitrarily arrested for political reasons and have been held for more than 2 1/2 years without being charged or confronted with any evidence.

El Sayed is one of four pro-Syrian Lebanese generals under arrest in the February 2005 bombing that killed Rafik Hariri and 22 others. The four other Lebanese were not identified in the letter.

The U.N.'s new chief investigator into the assassination said he would not comment on the allegations. A previous investigator has said there were "indications" the generals were involved in the murder.

In the memorandum, El Sayed urged the U.N. chief to "defend justice and international norms by putting an end to this arbitrary and political detention as soon as possible." Otherwise, he said, the credibility of the U.N., the Security Council and the U.N. commission investigating Hariri's assassination "will be jeopardized."

The new chief investigator, Daniel Bellemare, briefed the U.N. Security Council Tuesday on the Hariri investigation and was asked by Russia about the continued detention of the four generals — and later by journalists about El Sayed's allegations. The general sent copies of his memorandum to council members.

"I will not comment on allegations," Bellemare replied.


El Sayed claimed that three months prior to his arrest an investigator from the U.N. commission asked him to transmit a message to Syrian President Bashar Assad "which was meant to persuade him to present to the commission a Syrian victim of a certain caliber, who would confess to the crime and would eventually be found dead."

This would allow for an agreement with Syria similar to the one with Libya in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland in December 1988, he said.

A Libyan intelligence agent and a Libyan airline official were tried for the bombing and the intelligence agent was convicted, though a Scottish judicial commission said last June that new evidence indicates a miscarriage of justice may have occurred.

El Sayed said he told the U.N. investigator that he could not transmit such a message unless he was provided evidence "pointing in the direction of a Syrian involvement in the crime, otherwise the Syrians would consider that he is leading them to a trap."

The general said the investigator replied that the commission did not have such evidence and insisted that if he did not transmit the message for a Syrian to admit to the crime he would be blamed for the assassination.

Syria denies any involvement in the Hariri assassination, but the furor over the attack forced Syrian troops to withdraw from Lebanon after a 29-year presence.

El Sayed said the proposal to talk to Syria's Assad was made before and after his arrest on Aug. 30, 2005. "These facts are documented with evidence and proofs" which he said he gave the commission.

Bellemare said the generals' detention is the result of a decision by Lebanese judicial authorities, "pursuant to Lebanese criminal law." He said he has provided Lebanese authorities "with the evidence that we have" but he refused to disclose any of his discussions with the country's prosecutor general.

The U.N. commission's first chief investigator, German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis who is now a judge, defended the arrest of the four generals in an interview last month with the private Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation television as "legally and fully justified."

"Upon suggestions of my investigators, I recommended to the Lebanese authorities to put these four officers into provisional detention because we had strong indications that they were about to leave the country," Mehlis said. "We had indications that they were actively involved with the murder. So we felt to suggest to put them into provisional detention to have them available."

Yet, Mehlis said, "we always pointed out that until these persons were sentenced by a tribunal, they have to be considered as being innocent."

El Sayed claimed that Mehlis' successor as chief investigator, Belgian prosecutor Serge Brammertz who stepped down in December, reviewed the evidence for his arrest and determined it was "void."

But the general said Brammertz was told by Lebanon's prosecutor general that "political considerations" prevented him from releasing El Sayyed.

Calls for the release of the generals have come from Lebanon's pro-Syrian opposition as well as Shiite and Christian spiritual leaders. But members of the anti-Syrian majority have said they are guilty and deserve death.

The four generals — Sayyed, the General Security chief and probably the most powerful Lebanese under Syrian dominance, the police chief, the army intelligence chief, and the head of the Presidential Guard Brigade — allegedly met to plot the killing of Hariri.

Their arrests, however, were based on testimony of a key witness — Syrian Mohammed Zuheir Siddiq — who was later found to be not credible and was accused of participation in the assassination. He was living in France and an arrest warrant was issued for him, but France refused to hand him over because of Lebanon's death penalty.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Tuesday that Siddiq had disappeared, and Bellemare told reporters, "I don't know where he is."

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/10/news/UN-GEN-UN-Lebanon-Hariri-Probe.php

While not posting here, I have been following this case as closely as possible for a few years now. Just thought this was an interesting coincidence. - 801

[NYer]

An Israeli-Saudi Operation? (http://www2.nysun.com/article/74456)

The latest intriguing clue is a report by RTTNews, a financial wire, picking up a report from Iran's semi-official Fars news agency. The Iranian organ reported that "a high-ranking defense official in Saudi Arabia's embassy in Damascus" had been arrested by Syrian authorities in connection with the assassination. It quoted a source as saying that Israel had masterminded the operation.

[The 801]

the whole thing,

An Israeli-Saudi Operation?

New York Sun Editorial
April 10, 2008

The killing in February at Damascus of Hezbollah terror master Imad Mughniyeh was a big story at the time, but the question of who was behind the assassination has yet to be authoritatively answered. The latest intriguing clue is a report by RTTNews, a financial wire, picking up a report from Iran's semi-official Fars news agency. The Iranian organ reported that "a high-ranking defense official in Saudi Arabia's embassy in Damascus" had been arrested by Syrian authorities in connection with the assassination. It quoted a source as saying that Israel had masterminded the operation.

Well, plenty of people, including Americans, wanted Mughniyeh dead, and the world is a better place without him. But if indeed a Saudi defense official played a role in the assassination, with or without Israeli involvement, it would have been the kingdom's finest hour.

The Sunni Saudis are petrified of growing Iranian, Shiite influence in the Persian Gulf and in Iraq, which shares a long border with Saudi Arabia. Mughniyeh was an Iranian weapon, and his assassination was a setback for the terror masters in Tehran. Anything from the Iranian press should be taken with a shaker-full of salt, and the Saudis have their own terror ties to Al Qaeda and their own flaws when it comes to religious freedom and human rights. But the Saudi animus toward Iran is an opportunity for America and its allies to harness. If this was done in the Mughniyeh assassination, it is something to note.

[The 801]

Were Syrian officers involved in Mugniyah killing?

Lebanese magazine: Two Syrian officers executed over involvement in assassination

Roee Nahmias
Published: 04.12.08, 22:11 / Israel News

Hizbullah's top military commander Imad Mugniyah, mysteriously killed in a blast two months ago, has been the subject of lively discussion in the Arab press in recent days.

Lebanon's Al-Shiraa magazine reported Saturday that two weeks ago Syrian intelligence broke into the houses of two Syrian officers in Damascus and executed them with shots to the head, apparently due to their involvement in Mugniyah's assasination.

The officers' families were reportedly warned not to inform anyone of what had happened.

The story came in the wake of a barrage of recent reports involving the Head of Syrian Military Intelligence, Assaf Shawkat. Former Syrian Vice President, Abdul Halim Khaddam claimed that Shawkat, President Bashar al-Assad's brother-in-law, was placed under house arrest after revealing information about the circumstances of Mugniyah's death.

Other reports claimed that Shawkat's wife fled the country along with Assad's sister in order to seek political asylum in France or one of the Arab countries. French officials denied the country's involvement in the issue.

Al-Shiraa further reported that intelligence officers this week opened fire on a military vehicle driven by an officer who was reportedly in league with Shawkat. The officer was not injured.

On Sunday Syria was scheduled to release for publication the conclusions of the investigation into Mugniyah's death, but officials said the statement was delayed due to the large-scale home front drill that took place in Israel. The officials did not provide a new date for the report's release.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3530818,00.html

Sorry for all this back and forth follow up. Just trying to get the end of the story right. - 801

[The 801]

Delay in Mughniyeh probe results 'has irritated Iran'

Compiled by Daily Star staff
Saturday, April 12, 2008

The probe into the assassination of top Hizbullah commander Imad Mughniyeh has put Syria in a precarious position as the inquiry failed to reach tangible results two months after the February 12 killing, Kuwaiti daily Al-Qabas quoted Arab intelligence sources as saying Friday.

The sources added that the Syrian postponement of the publication of the result of the investigation "has irritated Iran."

The discontent extends to some Hizbullah leaders as well, the sources said.

The sources said that Iran suspected possible Syrian involvement in the Mughniyeh assassination, especially after Damascus refrained from providing answers to Iranian questions around Kfar Soussa, the Syrian neighborhood where the assassination took place.

Al-Qabas quoted the sources as saying "concern among the Iranian side is that Mughniyeh was assassinated after a secret meeting between the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Hizbullah, which only the Syrian intelligence had knowledge of."

Iran's semi-official Fars news agency said in a report carried Wednesday that Saudi Arabia is believed to be behind the assassination of Mughniyeh.

The report, carried by the Italian news agency Aki, said Fars quoted unidentified sources as saying Syria's delay in announcing the results of the probe into Mughniyeh's killing "cannot be explained other than by pressure exerted by some Arab states."

Fars, which is close to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said the Syrian commission of inquiry was supposed to have concluded its investigation and the results should have been made public before the Arab League summit in Damascus March 29-30.

"Pressure by Kuwait convinced the government in Damascus to postpone everything until after the meetings in Damascus," Fars said.

Meanwhile, Lebanese daily Al-Balad quoted an unidentified high-ranking French diplomatic source in Paris as saying Israel has suggested ending its occupation of the Shebaa Farms in return for the release of the two Israeli soldiers captured by Hizbullah in a cross-border operation on July 12, 2006.

The Al-Nabaa Iranian news agency said the French source refused to give further details on the swap deal.

The same French source ruled out the possibility of the outbreak of war in Lebanon or between Israel and Hizbullah, despite the fact that "Hizbullah is stocking its military arsenal with sophisticated missiles."

On Friday, Israeli daily Maariv said that the Israeli government has sent a message to Syria that Tel Aviv will hold Damascus responsible for any Hizbullah attack against it in revenge for the assassination of its top military commander.

Maariv quoted Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak as saying Israel is still the most powerful state within a 1,500 kilometer radius.

"Yet it is in our interests to end the conflicts with our neighbors," he said. "We are ready to discuss peace with Syria, but it is the one who is not ready yet."

He also mentioned tension on the northern border with Lebanon. "Hizbullah has Syria as an ally and now has twice as many missiles as it did before the 2006 July war," Barak added. - The Daily Star, with agencies


http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=90929

[The 801]

Hizbullah says kidnapped Mugniyah's body

Senior group official reveals Lebanese MPs identified assassinated commander's body and took it to Beirut following order from Nasrallah

Roee Nahmias
Published: 04.14.08, 13:55 / Israel News

Two months after the Damascus explosion which killed top Hizbullah commander Imad Mugniyah, a senior organization member has revealed that Lebanese parliament members removed the body from Syria to Lebanon, following an order from Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.


According to the group member, only after the body arrived in the Beirut, Nasrallah informed Syrian President Bashar Assad that Mugniyah was assassinated in the Syrian capital.

In an interview with the Syrian newspaper al-Hakikah, quoted by Iran's Fars News Agency, the senior Hizbullah man recounted the Damascus assassination.


"Mugniyah was one of the first people to leave the Iranian cultural center in Damascus' Kfar Suseh neighborhood. He was there with a group of Hizbullah parliament members. After the blast occurred, several members of the same group took to the street to see what happened.


"One of the parliament members realized at once that Mugniyah was killed in the explosion. He immediately called Nasrallah and informed him of the incident. The Hizbullah leader demanded that the body be taken to Beirut immediately without the Syrian intelligence spotting it – and that's what happened."


The senior member added, "They put Mugniyah's body in one of the parliament members' car and it was immediately taken to Lebanon without anyone in Syria, apart from the regular police perhaps, seeing it."


The Hizbullah man went on to say that after Mugniyah's body had already reached Lebanon, Nasrallah called Syrian President Bashar Assad and informed him of the assassination.


"Assad immediately asked Nasrallah not to announce the murder, but was told by the latter, 'We do not hide our shahids (martyrs) regardless of their role or rank. We are proud of them.'


"One of the explanations for Assad's request was Syria's embarrassment after it failed to protect a person who led a 33-day war against Israel but was killed so easily in the Syrian capital."


'Mugniyah worked on drawing lessons'

The Hizbullah member was also asked about the impact of Mugniyah's assassination on the organization.

"It's true that Mugniyah's death was considered one of the greatest losses in the ranks of the 'resistance'… and that the loss caused great grief among Hizbullah and its public. But Hizbullah is not one person, but rather institutions in the full sense of the word."

Addressing Mugniyah's role in Hizbullah, the organization member said that "before his death, the shahid worked with his colleagues on drawing theoretical and practical lessons from the recent war."

The Hizbullah member took advantage of the interview to threaten Israel. "In the next war, we will run the battle for the first time since 1948 inside Palestine. They will be more surprised than ever before, as they will see our fighters fighting them not only in Lebanon, as they did till now, but also inside their homes and settlements.

"The next war, if it breaks out, will be an offensive war on our part. This doesn’t mean we will initiate the war, but that every war they launch in the future will become what the organized armies in the world refer to as a counteroffensive on our part. They will see our fighters behind their lines, not just in front of them."

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3531598,00.html

[The 801]

Gotta love the english translation of Mugniyehs funeral.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=C2SALI-DKOk&feature=related

[The 801]

Inside the Ring

By Bill Gertz
May 2, 2008

Mughniyah hit

Many theories are circulating inside U.S. intelligence agencies on who killed notorious Hezbollah terrorist Imad Mughniyah, who was blown up in a car bomb attack in Damascus Feb. 12.

One theory popular in the Middle East is that the hit was an Israeli intelligence operation. An Israeli hit is considered possible but unlikely since even though Israel's Mossad has a long arm, the bombing took place in the Syrian capital, considered a very difficult intelligence operating area.

A prime suspect is Syria itself, specifically Syrian intelligence agents who would have known Mughniyah's personal security measures and travel. Syria's government is investigating the killing and recent reports from the region state Damascus is blaming Saudi Arabian agents for the killing, a charge Riyadh has denied.

Iran also is suspected. Despite its decades-long backing of Mughniyah, Tehran, this theory goes, was not happy with Mughniyah and wanted him out of the way. Even Hezbollah is a suspect, based on stories of growing factionalism inside the Iranian-backed Lebanese terror group. Still another theory is that the killing was the work of Lebanon's security service, in retaliation for the terrorist killings of Lebanese officials.

Asked who killed Mughniyah, Mark Kimmitt, deputy assistant defense secretary for the Middle East, said in a brief interview recently that he knows at least 15 theories on the death of Mugniyah, who has been blamed for killing more Americans than any other terrorist, not counting al Qaeda.

"And all 15 could be wrong," said Mr. Kimmitt, a retired Army one-star general, adding: "Whoever did it, the world is a better place without him."

http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080502/NATION04/235824757/0/METRO

[Kamikaze]

Could there be another possibility, which is that he was never killed at all, but his death was faked for reasons such as security?

[The 801]

Point well taken. I thought about that. It would explain a bunch of things:
Lack of action by Iran
Lack of action by Hezbollah
Low press coverage of who killed him

On the other hand:
Why go public with him at that time. I fail to see the strategic benifit, ( short of disappearing him)
He was disappeared, except for here, for all intents and purposes.
A major summit with all major arab nations was held not ten days later. (maybe he was to be a major topic of concern)

So therefore:
I think he was killed by a confluence of actors, because he was an impediment for advancing the real needs of his "masters". The guy had become a liability. He was a dangerous, not to be reasoned with, individual with lots of power, who knew where the bodies were buried. He had forced Hezbollah into the last war with Israel, against the wishes of Iran. (Remember they blamed Nassrallah? - But Mugniyeh was sub rosa in charge)

I believe that is it possible that many arab leaders decided that it was either going to be him, or they could wait for him to get them, or their governments. He had become a wild dog, that had to be eliminated.

[The 801]

Still a bit of Mugniyeh news to squeeze out:
The Iranian Party Line presented here:

Blah Blah Blah.....

[Asharq Al-Awsat] How exactly did you help Hezbollah to establish this television channel?

[Akhtari] We helped them financially and encouraged them. We helped them politically, regionally, and internationally in various ways.

[Asharq Al-Awsat] Former Syrian Vice President Abdul-Halim Khaddam said that a dispute erupted between Syria on one side and Iran and Hezbollah on the other when the TWA airliner was hijacked. He said that the Syrian regime did not favor hijacking a plane or taking hostages. Is this true?

[Akhtari] It is certainly not true because Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah had nothing to do with this incident. This incident happened before Hezbollah was founded and developed into a specific organization. There was no specific and strong group called Hezbollah at that time. Even I was not thereat that point. The brothers in the IRGC were not there either. Additionally the Islamic Republic was consistently and publicly objecting to terrorist ideas such as hijacking planes and taking hostages. Hezbollah had nothing to do with the issue. The same applies to the Islamic Republic and Syria. They had nothing to do with the issue. The incident was carried out by certain persons or unknown groups at the time that had a motive. The newspapers and magazines published a lot of reports about this subject and it transpired that there very small unknown groups in Lebanon. Some groups were supported by anti-peace and anti-Hezbollah circles, which were trying to distort the reputation of Hezbollah and the Islamic Republic. They carried out some terrorist acts in order to accuse Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah. As a matter of principle and conviction, it never occurred to the Islamic Republic to carry out terrorist acts or support them. There were circles at that time that liked to make accusations against Syria and Iran. This man [Khaddam] now supports these accusations. If the accusations are true, this man was a senior official at that time and therefore responsible for the terrorist acts.

[Asharq Al-Awsat] You say that Hezbollah was not involved in the hijacking. However, the picture of Imad Mughniyeh, who was in charge of military operations in Hezbollah, was taken showing him standing next to one of the hostages taken in the TWA hijacking in 1985. Is this not proof that Hezbollah was involved in hijacking the plane?

[Akhtari] This charge lacks supporting evidence. The martyr Mughniyeh had no connection at all with this issue. "The hijacking of TWA flight 847 was claimed by a group that called itself the "Oppressed in the World Organization."

[Note: The CIA says that this group was connected to Hezbollah. The operation took place on Friday 14 June 1985 and the hijacked plane was scheduled to fly from Athens to Rome with 153 passengers onboard. The operation lasted for two weeks, during which an American passenger was killed. The plane took off at 10:10 and shortly after the flight began two persons ordered the captain to change course to the Middle East. They were armed with pistols that they succeeded in smuggling through airport security. The plane stopped for several hours at Beirut Airport, where 19 passengers were released in exchange for refueling the plane. The second stop was at Algiers Airport where 20 more passengers were released. The plane then returned to Beirut. This time the hijackers killed an American passenger who was formerly a US Navy diver and threw his body on the tarmac.

At Beirut Airport more gunmen joined the hijackers. On 15June the plane then flew another time to Algiers, where 65 passengers were released and then the plane returned to Beirut again. The hijackers demanded the release of Lebanese prisoners held in Israel and that an international denunciation of Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon after the 1982 invasion of Lebanon should be issued. They also demanded an international denunciation of the US role in Lebanon. Imad Mughniyeh, Hassan Izzaldin, Ali Atwah, and Muhammad Ali Hammadi were accused of the hijacking. According to US intelligence, these persons were members of Hezbollah. Greek intelligence personnel succeeded in capturing Ali Atwah before he could get on the plane. He was released in exchange for eight Greek passengers who were on the plane. On17 June 1985, Nabih Birri, leader of the Lebanese Resistance Brigades (Amal Movement), made a successful mediation effort and secured the release of 40 passengers. Thirty-nine passengers continued to be held until 30 June 1985 when they were released and flown to Germany.]

[Asharq Al-Awsat] After Imad Mughniyeh was assassinated in Damascus, Iran announced the formation of a joint investigating committee, but Syria denied that. Please clarify this confusion.

[Akhtari] To begin with, there was no Syrian-Iranian investigating committee.

[Asharq Al-Awsat] However, one of the assistants of Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki announced through the Iranian news agency, IRNA, the formation of a joint investigating.

[Akhtari] I did not hear this announcement. Anyway, practically I do not see that we need to form a joint committee. Perhaps the Islamic Republic announced that we were prepared to help if we were asked to do so. We trust Syria, and the brothers in Syria began investigating the issue. It is their concern more than ours because Mughniyeh was their guest in Damascus and, of course, because of the close relations between Hezbollah and Syria, Syria has a special interest in this issue. It is in the collective interest of Amal, Hezbollah, and Syria to follow up this issue with the utmost seriousness. I am certain that Syrian President Dr Bashar al-Assad gave instructions to this effect. We have no doubts about this matter.

[Asharq Al-Awsat] Many things have been said about Mughniyeh. Personally, how would you describe him? Does his assassination in Damascus in this way mean that Syrian security was penetrated?

[Akhtari] I cannot talk about this subject. This is a security matter in which various parties may have been involved, and I do not have any evidence or anything clear to make a comment on this issue. However, I knew the man from the start. He was a loyal and religiously committed man. He was active in Hezbollah and was a strong and courageous man. He played an effective role in the resistance and in confronting the occupation.

[Asharq Al-Awsat] Is there a specific date when Syria will announce the results of the investigation into Mughniyeh assassination?

[Akhtari] Ever since I returned from Damascus to Tehran, I have not discussed this issue and I have no information about it.


http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=12848


OK, folks, this looks like the open source bottom line. Nothing is being done, and this is none of your beeswax, its a security matter. Looks like this was a major embarrassment to all involved. Do not expect a resolution.

Sad, ain't it?

[NYer]

He's Dead, Jim. (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2288193735729035569&q=&hl=en)

[The 801]

Syria squashes coup attempt, German newspaper says

Berlin - A coup plot against Syrian President Bashar al- Assad was quietly crushed without the world noticing, the German newspaper Die Welt was set to report Saturday, quoting German and "foreign" intelligence sources. It said Syria's military intelligence chief, Assef Shaukat, had plotted to seize power while Assad was hosting an Arab League meeting in Damascus in February. Shaukat, who is an in-law to the president, and 100 intelligence officers had been arrested.

Die Welt said Assad had been tipped off by Imad Mughniyah, a senior member of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah organization in Lebanon. Mughniyah was killed a few days later in a bomb blast on February 12 in Damascus.

The sources said it was possible that associates of Shaukat had assassinated him in revenge. Releasing the story Friday in advance of going to print, Die Welt said some of the plotters were allegedly linked to violent Islamist groups.

Die Welt said the Syrian embassy in Berlin had rejected the coup story as utterly untrue. Without naming a source, the newspaper said German diplomats were aware of the coup story but had not been able to confirm it as fact

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/210656,syria-squashes-coup-attempt-german-newspaper-says.html

[The 801]

Report: Hizbullah chief assassinated after warning Syria's Assad of coup plot
LONDON — Syrian President Bashar Assad reportedly blocked a coup planned by his brother-in-law who has disappeared from public view.

The German daily Die Welt reported that Assad foiled a coup by his brother-in-law, Assaf Chawkat, in February 2008. The newspaper said Chawkat, then Syrian intelligence chief, attempted to overthrow Assad in cooperation with the opposition Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaida.

Assad was said to have been informed of the coup plans by Hizbullah operational chief Imad Mughniyeh. Days later, the newspaper said, Mughniyeh was assassinated by Chawkat's agents in Damascus.



"The seizure of power was planned to take place during the meeting of the Arab League at the end of March in Damascus," Die Welt said on Saturday.

Since the coup attempt, Die Welt said, Assad deposed Chawkat and placed him under house arrest. Chawkat, who at one point, was endorsed by exiled Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam, has not been seen in public since.

"More than 100 secret service officers, who worked for Chakwat, are in detention," Die Welt said.

Still, Chawkat, appointed intelligence chief in 2005, would probably not be prosecuted for the coup attempt. Die Welt said Assad did not want to harm his sister, Bushra, married to Chawkat. Syria has denied the newspaper report.

"Bushra was sent abroad — first to France and then the United Arab Emirates," Die Welt said.


http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2008/me_syria0222_06_08.asp

[The 801]

Israel Admits Killing Mughniyeh

WASHINGTON, June 24--Israel admitted the occupying regime's Mossad spy agency was behind the assassination of Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh in a terrorist blast in the Syrian capital last February.

DEBKAfile website, which is close to the regime's intelligence body, in a report published on Tuesday said Mossad director Meir Dagan personally planned the assassination at orders by Zionist prime minister Ehud Olmert.

"Dagan, a hands-on spymaster, demonstrated his skill earlier in the operation to eliminate one of the longest-running and most dangerous enemies of Israel and America, the head of Hezbollah's special security apparatus, Imad Mughniyeh," DEBKAfile said.

Dagan, whose term behind his desk at Mossad was extended for another year by Olmert, has a bloody history of assassinating top-notch Hezbollah commanders during his tenure.

Martyr Mughniyeh, the most prominent commander of the Lebanese resistance movement, was the target of a myriad of assassination attempts by the Israeli regime.

He was killed late February 12 in car bomb blast while he was driving in Kfra Soussa neighborhood, Damascus.

Zionist officials at the time denied having any role in the assassination.

Mughniyeh lost two brothers, Jihad and Fuad, in car bomb explosions in Beirut. Reports at the time suggested Imad had been the target of both blasts.

Since Mughniyeh's martyrdom, the regime's embassies and institutions around the world have been on high alert fearing reprisals by Hezbollah supporters.

The resistance movement's leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah warned in a fiery oration at Mughniyeh's funeral that the Israeli regime had committed a "major stupid mistake". It was now "open war", Nasrallah said.

http://www.alalam.ir/english/en-NewsPage.asp?newsid=032030120080624165351

OH so Debka says it is so...... they forgot the disclaimer..801

.........Dagan, a hands-on spymaster, demonstrated this skill earlier in the operation to eliminate one of the longest-running and most dangerous enemies of Israel and America, the head of Hizballah’s special security apparatus, Imad Mughniyeh, in Damascus on February 12. It followed similar methods in the preceding two years - usually explosives planted under a driver’s seat or headrests of vehicles driven by Hizballah, Hamas and Jihad Islami operatives. Neither Hizballah nor Syrian intelligence has been able to prevent these liquidations or catch the hit-teams.......

http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1355

Well....
That's That.

801

[NYer]

Mugniyeh's killer revealed. (http://www.nelsonguirado.com/media/users/nguirado/chuckuzi.gif)

[Vancouver]

According to the pro-Qaida anti-Saud group alhramain.net, the person in the photo is Imad Mugniyeh.

[Casey]

'Only a matter of time before we avenge Mugniyah's death'

Day after cabinet approves prisoner swap deal with Hizbullah, Lebanese journalist affiliated with organization says promise to retaliate assassination of top commander has not been forgotten

Roee Nahmias

It is only a matter of time before Hizbullah avenges the assassination of its top commander Imad Mugniyah, a Lebanese commentator affiliated with the organization warned Monday in his editorial in the al-Akhbar newspaper.

In an article published several hours after the Israeli government approved the prisoner exchange deal with Hizbullah, the commentaro, Ibrahim al-Amin, wrote that his organization was waiting for a good opportunity to carry out its response to the assassination.

"The resistance's decision to punish those who planned, decided on and implemented the assassination operation against the resistance's military commander, the shahid Imad Mugniyah, has yet to be fully implemented," he said.

According to al-Amin, nothing will interfere with Hizbullah's plan to retaliate the painful blow.

"We may see many things happening in response and as part of the punishment, but there is one big event that has to happen, without anyone in Lebanon or Israel waiting for an announcement on the matter (on the part of Hizbullah).

"This punishment will be similar in its extent to the crime, and any delay will be caused due to technical, and perhaps political, reasons. But this does not mean that all this will interfere with the decision to carry it out," he added.

Hizbullah has already marked its next goal in the ongoing conflict with Israel, on the backdrop of the "Israeli infiltrations" into Lebanon's sovereign territory in the sea, in the air and on the land, and particularly the Air Force sorties in Lebanon's sky.

Al-Amin claimed that Hizbullah plans to make it clear to Israel that it cannot continue with these actions.

"Israel's ongoing and intensive violations of the Lebanese sovereignty on the land, in the sea and in the air have not ceased, and a period of two years appears to be enough got UNIFIL forces (to stop this). But they have failed in halting and limiting this, and international representatives have even presented Israel's excuses that it needs these sorties in order to meet its security needs in southern Lebanon.

"Therefore, the resistance must start informing Israel that these ongoing violations will carry a heavy price, and cause the international community to deal with this matter in a different manner. It's only a matter of time," he explained.

http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3562112,00.html

[Casey]

Hizbullah builds 'triumphal arch' on eve of prisoner exchange

Pictures of Samir Kuntar, Hassan Nasrallah and Imad Mugniyah adorn roads leading to Sidon; al-Manar television network celebrates 'divine victory'. Return of Israeli family's murderer to launch 'party of the decade' in Lebanon
Roee Nahmias

The government is expected Tuesday to ratify Israel's prisoner exchange deal with Hizbullah, which will commence at 9 am Wednesday.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who returned from Paris on Monday night, announced before taking off that the report delivered by Hizbullah on the fate of missing Israel Defense Forces navigator Ron Arad was "insufficient". In the meantime, the preparations for the victory celebrations on the other side of the border are underway.

Hizbullah members set up a "triumphal arch" near the Rosh Hanikra (Naquora) crossing, where the exchange is scheduled to take place – Hizbullah fighters and terrorists' bodies in return for kidnapped IDF soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser.

The yellow arch, which bears the pictures of assassinated Hizbullah commander Imad Mugniyah, has been erected in several places in southern Lebanon.

Israel fears that after the deal is implemented, Hizbullah will attempt to carry out its promise to avenge the death of Mugniyah, who was responsible for a series of terror attacks in the region and worldwide. But the Shiite organization will not settle for the arch. Hizbullah flags and victory photos have been hung along the Lebanese coastal highway connecting between Naquora and Sidon.

Lebanese media have reported that the celebrations will be held in three places – in Naquora, upon receiving the bodies of some 200 terrorists to be handed over by Israel; in Beirut's international airport, where five Lebanese prisoners – including terrorist Samir Kuntar – will arrive via helicopter; and in Beirut's Dahiya quarter, which will host a mass rally including a speech by Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.


Nasrallah's 'Arc de Triumph' (Photo: AFP)

Hizbullah's leaders are counting the minutes until the deal is implemented and have already sent many of the group's members to southern Lebanon to work on the logistic preparations for the "popular" celebrations expected to be held in Lebanon.

Lebanon is expected to hold a state ceremony at the Beirut airport, which will be attended by heads of the government and senior politicians.

Hizbullah's al-Manar network has begun celebrating with militant, festive video clips, marking "the 33 days of victory" (referring to the Second Lebanon War). The clips feature Nasrallah's speech immediately after the two IDF soldiers were kidnapped, in which he declares that the two will be released in exchange for Kuntar and the other prisoners, and remarks made by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at the start of the war.

Through these clips, Hizbullah seeks to show that it won the war by keeping its word, as opposed to the Israeli side.

Al-Manar's website has also begun celebrating the deal. At the beginning of its reports on the preparations in Lebanon, the website reminds its readers that "in these very days in 2006, the 'resistance' crushed the arrogance and aggressiveness of the occupation, and these days it completes its victory and returns the brave prisoners to Lebanon."

Roni Sofer contributed to this report

http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3568270,00.html

[NYer]

What's next? A John Wayne Gacy Arch over Chicago's Lake Shore Drive? Or perhaps, Osama Bin Laden Mini-Golf?

[The 801]

NYer,
Its the perfect place to celebrate a guy who bashed a 4 year olds head in with a rock.
Disgusting.
Remember, that Hezbollah always triumphs through deceit.

Lebanon: Kuntar attends ceremony at Mugniyah's grave

Detainees released by Israel in framework of prisoner exchange take part in military ceremony at gravesite of assassinated Hizbullah commander. Former member of Kuntar's terror cell: We will return to Palestine one day

Roee Nahmias
Published: 07.17.08, 13:00 / Israel News

The five Lebanese prisoners freed by Israel in the framework of the exchange deal with Hizbullah, including Samir Kuntar, took part in a military ceremony held at the burial site of Imad Mugniyah, a top commander of the Shiite group who was assassinated in Damascus a few months ago.
Hero's Welcome for Terrorist
Deputy FM Whbee: Beirut celebrations shameful / Roee Nahmias
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The five wore Hizbullah military uniforms and kissed Mugniyah's family members. The father of the slain commander congratulated Kuntar on his release. The terrorist, who was imprisoned in Israel for nearly 30 years after being convicted of killing four Israelis during a cross-border raid on Nahariya, said in response "we owe this victory to you and Imad.


"We swear in the name of the almighty Allah and in the name of your pure blood that we will continue in this path and never give up until we reach the place that was given to you by God," Kuntar said, referring to what is dubbed by Islamic militants as a "martyr's death".


Meanwhile, Hizbullah is carrying on with the process of identifying the bodies of the 199 Lebanese and Palestinian gunmen returned by Israel Wednesday.

Ahmad el-Abras, who was part of the terror cell that carried out the deadly attack in Nahariya, relayed a message to Kuntar during an interview with Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV. "I'm filled with pride. We will return to Palestine one day, despite what everyone else believes," he said.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3569581,00.html

[rectar]

http://www.almanar.com.lb/NewsSite/WebsiteImages/PicturesFolder/569223ad-f0d5-4a16-ac75-fe32cfbd11e8_top.jpg (javascript:void(0))
Samir Kintar, Hussein Suleiman, Mohammad Srour, Maher Kourani and Khodor Zaidan visited on Thursday the tomb of Hezbollah military leader martyr Imad Mughniyeh in Beirut's southern suburb on their second day of release, pledging to follow his footsteps.

[rectar]

http://www.almanar.com.lb/NewsSite/WebsiteImages/PicturesFolder/6fcc0d9a-8ef9-4428-ac28-20d0434027c1_top.JPG (javascript:void(0))
Israel buried the remains of its two soldiers Thursday and with them, it is also trying to bury its harsh defeat a day after “Operation Al-Redwan” was completed to mark another distinguished victory for Lebanon and its resistance.

[rectar]

http://www.almanar.com.lb/NewsSite/WebsiteImages/PicturesFolder/fb133837-7a12-4b68-bc08-8385f309e3d8_top.jpg (javascript:void(0))
أسهبت وسائل إعلام العدو في متابعة خطاب أمين عام حزب الله السيد حسن نصرالله وعملية الرضوان لتسلم مرة أخرى بالسطوة الإعلامية للسيد نصر الله.
فكعادتها لم تفوت وسائل الإعلام الإسرائيلية خطاب الأمين العام لحزب الله أثناء استقبال سمير القنطار ورفاقه فنقلته مباشرة مرفقة بالشرح والتحليل للرسائل التي وجهها السيد حسن نصر الله من خلال خطابه ومن خلال مراسم استقبال المحررين ورفات الشهداء العائدين، وركزت على ما وصفته الحرب النفسية التي برع فيها الأمين العام ضد المجتمع الإسرائيلي، ومؤكدة على الدور المحوري الذي بات يلعبه على مستوى الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي.

[The 801]

Did you ever notice, when you see pictures of people in Lebanon, the only fat people are leaders, and the released prisoners from isreal?

[The 801]

Monday, February 18, 2008
Ranstorp on Hezbollah Experts

Magnus Ranstorp joins the discussion over at the MESH blog on the issue of how Hezbollah experts, as I showed here, kept on regurgitating the official line fed to them by Hezbollah, denying their relationship with Imad Mughniyeh and minimizing the organization's involvement in global terrorism.

Ranstorp's verdict is quite devastating:


Less understandable are the many academics who allowed themselves to be misled about Hezbollah’s clandestine wing and its use by Iran and, at times, Syria. Some of them were blinded by going “native,” or they never really got close enough to Hezbollah to grasp the centrality of the clandestine wing and the crucial role of Mughniyah, the Hamadi clan and others. They preferred to believe that Hezbollah could not possibly harbor a secret structure involved in terrorism, when its above-the-board operations—social, political and military—were so effective and (according to some) so noble and legitimate. And so Hezbollah was allowed to have its cake and eat it too.

Hezbollah’s present embrace of Mughniyah as a great commander and hero has vindicated experts such as myself, who were right to underscore Mughniyah’s significance. We were not surprised to see Nasrallah standing over Mughniyah’s coffin and vowing vengeance. The same cannot be said for Amal Saad-Ghorayeb and others, who downplayed or altogether ignored the most senior Hezbollah commander.


You'll note that I did not include Ranstorp in my survey of Hezbollah scholarship. There's a reason for that. Unlike the others, his book did not waffle on Mughniyeh's command status in Hezbollah. For instance, discussing Hezbollah's Special Security Apparatus, Ranstorp wrote:


The restructuring of the movement in 1989 with the addition of an [sic] new organ, The Executive Shura (Majlis al-Shura al-Karar) which ranks after the main Majlis al-Shura as the second highest leadership authority, and Politbureau (Maktab al-Siyassi), a supervisory organ which coordinates the work of the various committees under the Jihad al-Bina' (Holy Reconstruction Organ).
...
[Hizb'allah] has continued to maintain strict operational secrecy in the field of military and security affairs.

Special Security Apparatus

Within the military committee on Hizb'allah's main Majlis al-Shura and in the three regional areas, there exists a separate body, the so-called Special Security Apparatus (SSA), responsible for intelligence and security matters. In turn, the Hizb'allah's security apparatus is divided into three subgroups: the central security apparatus, the preventative security apparatus and an overseas security apparatus. The central security apparatus is further divided into two groups responsible for either East or West Beirut. While Sheikh al-Musawi was the overall head of Hizb'allah SSA until late 1985 and thereafter headed by Sheikh Wafic Safa, the central security apparatus is headed by Imad Mughniya and Abd al-Hadi Hamadi and was chiefly responsible for Hizb'allah's hostage-taking activity of foreigners. On the operational level, it was mainly family members from both the Mughniya and Hamadi clans that were involved in the hostage-takings which ensured loyalty to the senior commanders and secrecy surrounding the operations. Apart from Mugniya and Hamadi, other senior members of the national central security apparatus were Sheikh Hussein Ghabris, who acted as Mughniya's deputy, Sheikh Hussein Khalil, who was the main liaison between Hizb'allah's security and intelligence, Nabil Kaouk, head of the SSA in southern Lebanon, Hamze Zakaria, Muhammad Ali Mikdad, and Hassan Izzeldine, who was responsible for Hizb'allah's international relations and was most notably closely involved in the 1985 TWA-847 and 1988 KU422 hijacking as well as the negotiations concerning the Western hostages. This division of Hizb'allah's SSA has also been effective in the infiltration of its own members within rival movements and in the elimination of military and political opponents in Lebanon, most notably revealed by the Amal movement's dismissal of a number of leading members after discovering their dual allegiance to Hizb'allah in 1988. Hizb'allah's national preventative security apparatus was headed by Salah Nun and Muhammad Hammud and was in charge of the personal security of prominent Hizb'allah clergymen. The functions of Hizb'allah's central security apparatus and the overseas security apparatus, in charge of special operations abroad, overlapped as Hussein Khalil, Ibrahim Aqil, Imad Mughniya, Muhammad Haydar, Kharib Nasser and Abd al-Hamadi, were the senior commanders of the Hizb'allah operations in Europe. Waid Ramadan acted as the chief coordinator of Hizb'allah with Iran concerning these European operations. During the frequent absence of Mughniya from Lebanon, the influence of his de facto deputy, Ali Karekeh, increased within the SSA. (pp. 68-69)


During the summer 2006 war, I translated parts of a Le Figaro interview with Ranstorp about Hezbollah's decision-making and organizational structure. He had the following to say about Mughniyeh at the time:


Imad Mughniyeh, who was responsible for the kidnapping of Westerners in Lebanon during the 80s, plays an equally very important role. He shuttles between Tehran and Beirut, through the Damascus airport, before using the military routes of the Bekaa valley. Mughniyeh, who is always tracked by the Americans, never passes through the Beirut airport. He is tied directly to Nasrallah, who himself has old personal ties with the Iranian directors. Through Mughniyeh, Hezbollah and Iran have been involved in the Palestinian intifada since 2000. Mughniyeh is notably in charge of recruiting foreigners for reconnaissance operations in Israel or elsewhere. In Beirut, the representative of Hamas, Ussama Hamdan is also an essential pawn in the Iranian involvement in Palestine; he was previously the representative of Hamas in Tehran.


Most of the names Ranstorp listed in his book are still recognizable active senior Hezbollah commanders today (Khalil, Kaouk, Safa, and Hassan Khalil, whom he mentions in the Le Figaro interview as the "liaison with military intelligence [i.e. Asef Shawkat] in Damascus," etc.). Some have speculated that Mughniyeh's successor might be none other than the above-mentioned Ibrahim Aqil.

When asked by Le Figaro about Hezbollah's ultimate goal in Lebanon, Ranstorp explained that it was "to provide itself with a platform that would permit it to continue the armed struggle against Israel. Its agenda surpasses the Lebanese framework, and is dictated by Iran."

He also made sure to remind of the organization's terrorist "global reach": "Don't forget that it also maintains a terrorist capacity abroad."

http://beirut2bayside.blogspot.com/2008/02/ranstorp-on-hezbollah-experts.html

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Can I not let this thread go...
Not as long as there are some blanks to fill in... Sorry...

(Insert Standard DEBKA disclaimer here)

The assassinated Syrian general was in charge of securing the al Kibar reactor

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

August 3, 2008, 6:08 PM (GMT+02:00)

DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources report that Gen. Muhammad Suleiman, whom a sniper shot dead in the Syrian port town of Tartus early Saturday, Aug. 2, was a shadowy figure who acted for Bashar Assad in the regime’s four most sensitive and confidential spheres:

1. He was the president’s liaison man with the North Korean government. On his frequent trips to Pyongyang, Gen. Suleiman organized the consignment of components for the plutonium reactor in northern Syria, which Israeli demolished last September, and the security of the North Korean scientists and technicians who accompanied them.

2. Muhammad Suleiman was also the president’s private channel of communication with Iranian military and intelligence chiefs; in this capacity, he most probably facilitated the Syrian-Iranian-North Korean connection. The Syrian reactor was designed to produce nuclear fuel for the Iranian program and radioactive weapons for Syria.

3. The late general also acted as the president’s contact man with Hizballah’s leaders. He worked directly with Imad Mughniyeh, head of Hizballah’s security apparatus, who was killed in Damascus last February.

4. His key function was the management of Assad’s personal interaction with the Syrian chief of staff, generals and heads of military intelligence. There was no state secret from the powerful general. He was to have accompanied the Syrian president on his state visit to Tehran Saturday; instead he was laid to rest in his home village of Driekesh in the north.

Damascus has done its utmost to keep the general’s death under wraps, but word has spread and theories abound: Speculation ranges from an outside hand, or a jealous rival to an internal element who felt the concentration of so much power in one hand was a threat to the regime.


http://www.debka.com/index1.php

That link won't do it, will it?
This story is just getting deeper. There is something else going on here that is not fully realized. How about this for a theory: He knew about the pending coup against Assad, and was disposed of for that?

How about payback for Mugniyeh, Hezbollah loves a Honeypot setup, that's how they got Buckly.

How about He was the nexus of the Syrian nuke deal, and had to go because he knew too much. Cheeze, a zillions reason this could have happened.


But lets face it: A sniper. Please list all the things that that could mean. Planning, Known location, Tracked movements, securing a nest, exit strategy,
safe houses, secure communications, it goes on and on. This was a nasty, well planned and high level event.

[The 801]

Blog:
Not Facts.

It’s official: Gen. Mohammed Suleiman is dead. Now comes the hard part…
Wed, 2008-08-06 19:45 — chief

Syria’s confirmation of Brigadier General Mohammed Sulieman’s death today
has fueled the fire of speculation as to what it all might mean.

It is nearly impossible to determine who is responsible for Sulieman’s reported assassination by sniper fire at his villa along the Syrian coast. In the absence of hard facts (often a cornerstone of reporting in Syria), research and media outfits focused on Syria are spinning different theories based on their reading of the current Syrian political context and snippets known of Sulieman’s background. I’m starting to form my own theory as well, based on my trip last week to Damascus, which was abuzz of talk of indirect peace talks with Israel and Bashar's shake-up of the country’s security chiefs.

One line of speculation comes from the “Debka File” – an information source close to former members of Israel’s intelligence service – which claimed that Sulieman was Bashar’s liaison with North Korea, Iran, and Hezbollah, and had been questioned by the IAEA’s Olli Heinonen on his recent visit to Syria. While the report did not say why Sulieman might have been killed, it claimed the assassination was not related to the 2005 assassination of Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al Hariri.

Another comes from Saudi-owned media, most notably the London-based Arabic daily Asharq al Awsat. It reported on August 3 that Souliman was President Assad’s “right hand in the armed forces and he knows everything… He has all the files; security, financial and [army] reform" files. It added that Sulieman was summoned for questioning by UN investigator Detlev Mehlis’ first investigation into Hariri’s murder. I didn’t find his name among the six Syrians Mehlis questioned in Vienna in 2005, so perhaps this is why this fact dropped out of the newspaper’s story the following day. This report warned Syria watchers to wait for a few days to see what shakes out.

The third line of speculation, and the one that seems to make the most sense based on my trip to Damascus last week, attributes the assassination to an internal power struggle closely linked to the regional crossroads Syria now finds itself (it’s best summed up by Nicholas Blanford’s piece today in the Times). It explains the assassination as payback for Bashar by Assef Shawkat, Syria's Military Intelligence chief and Bashar's brother-in-law, following the Feb 13. assassination of Hezbollah operative Imad Mughniyyah by a car bomb near the headquarters of Syria's security agencies. Following the assassination, there were reports that Bashar stripped Shawkat of his powers and placed him under house arrest.

I don't usually give much credence to such rumors (after all, how could you verify them?). But what I did find interesting was how Mughniyyah’s assassination functioned in Western policy circles this spring. The assassination was a major bit of evidence used by US, European and Israeli policy wonks to prove that Syria is not comfortable with its “one-sided” relationship with Iran and ready to “deal.” There have been lots of "real" signs this spring that Syria was distancing itself from Iran, as I outlined in my op-ed piece last week. This has been “confirmed” by a number of intellectuals close to the regime as well, most notably Samir Al-Taqi and Sami Moubayad (both of whom were part of the “unofficial” Syrian delegation to Washington).

I've still skeptical of Syria’s willingness to break away from Iran, and even more its ability to do so. But my trip to Damascus last week opened my mind to the possibility. When I asked my contacts why Assad would change his security chiefs now, most said it was clear that Syria was soon approaching a crossroads in its regional relations. Indirect negotiations with Israel is something you can probably sell to Tehran as a “tactic” to buy time for Iran’s nuclear program. But direct negotiations with Israel is something else. It would be hard for Damascus to reconcile those talks while its signing military and security agreements with Tehran - especially with the folks benefiting most from those agreements.

http://news.beiruter.com/node/69475

Syrian general's killing severs Hezbollah links


(Gerard Cerles/AFP/Getty Images)

Bashar al-Assad’s regime is considering moving into the arms of the West as peace talks with Israel, using Turkish mediation, continue
Nicholas Blanford and James Hider

The mysterious killing last week of a top Syrian general and key aide to Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, has sparked intense speculation about internal feuding within the regime’s intelligence apparatus.

Syria is at a critical juncture as it pursues indirect peace talks with Israel and a closer relationship with the West, while attempting to maintain its long-standing regional alliances with Iran and the militant Shia Hezbollah of Lebanon.

General Mohammed Suleiman, one of Mr Assad’s closest confidantes, was shot dead on Friday at his chalet in the prestigious Rimal al-Zahabieh, Arabic for “Golden Sands”, seafront resort, 9 miles north of Tartous on the Mediterranean coast. A sniper, apparently located out at sea, shot him in the head, neck and stomach and he was pronounced dead at a hospital in Tartous.

Assassinations of leading regime figures are rare in Syria, and the Syrian authorities have scrambled to prevent news of the incident from leaking. Adding to the whirlwind of speculation is that General Suleiman was an Alawite, the same religious sect to which the Assad family belongs and which forms the backbone of the nominally secular regime in Damascus.
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Mr Assad, who is said to be deeply upset by the murder, continued with his schedule over the weekend, travelling to Tehran for talks with his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

General Suleiman’s relationship with Mr Assad stems from the mid-1990s when the latter abandoned his ophthalmology studies in London and returned to Damascus from London on the death of his elder brother Basil in 1994, who was being groomed to succeed their father, Hafez al-Assad, as head of state.

Nicknamed “the imported general” because of his fair complexion and foreign looks, General Suleiman was chief military aide to Mr Assad in the late 1990s with additional important posts overseeing weapons research and development and army recruitment among others.

After Mr Assad became president in 2000, General Suleiman ran his intelligence affairs, and is reported to have handled the transfer of weapons from Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The link with Hezbollah could be connected to General Suleiman’s assassination, according to a well-placed Syrian source. The source told The Times that General Suleiman’s murder could be retribution for the sacking of top intelligence officers following the assassination in February of Imad Mughniyeh, Hezbollah’s military commander who died in a car bomb explosion in a Damascus suburb.

According to the source, the heads of several Syrian intelligence agencies were quietly replaced or had their powers stripped from them after the assassination. “The demoted intelligence chiefs may have met and decided on revenge,” the source said.

Whether General Suleiman was killed by a clique of disaffected intelligence officials or not, there is no shortage of alternative theories for his death.

Israel, which is holding its first indirect peace talks with Syria in almost a decade, has not commented on the assassination. It has demanded Syria cut its close ties with the Jewish state’s main enemy Iran, while Syria is demanding the return of the Golan Heights, captured in the Six Day War in 1967.

Meir Javendanfar, a specialist in Iranian intelligence, said the general was the liaison officer between the Syrian regime and Hezbollah, and noted that his Iranian counterpart, General Ali al-Asgari, had defected to the United States last year, severing key links between the Lebanese organisation and its backers.

“The assassination of Suleiman, Mughniyeh and the defection of General Ali al-Asgari sends a very strong message first and foremost to Hezbollah, and then to its allies in Iran and Syria that their activities and relations with Hezbollah in Lebanon are being watched,” he said. “It also says that the ranks of their intelligence organisations have most probably been infiltrated, and that a renewed conflict initiated by them would not be in their best interest, at least militarily.”

Another theory was aired by Sheikh Abdullah al-Raghib al-Hamed, a Syrian opposition leader, who told the Israeli news website Ynet that the assassination had been ordered from the very top of the Syrian regime as part of a cover up to hide its own implication in the 2005 Beirut bomb attack that killed Rafik Hariri, a former Lebanese prime minister and an opponent of Syria. Syria was widely blamed for the murder, and outrage sparked by the explosion forced Syria to withdraw troops that had been stationed in Lebanon since 1976.

"The area in which he was killed is surrounded by sensitive military facilities belonging to the Syrian army's intelligence, and it is very well secured,” said Mr al-Hamed, of the Syrian Democratic Coalition. “The fact that a sniper shot him is more evidence that the regime did it. The regime's goal is to get rid of anyone who could arrive at an international court and incriminate Assad.”


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4464253.ece

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Hizbullah opens war exhibition in Nabatiyeh
By Mohammed Zaatari
Daily Star staff
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

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Hizbullah opens war exhibition in Nabatiyeh

NABATIEH: Hizbullah invited journalists on Tuesday to tour a new exhibition, "Al-Imad: The Leader of the Two Victories," set up by the party in the southern region of Nabatieh to mark the second anniversary of the summer 2006 war with Israel. The exhibition was dubbed after Imad Mughniyeh, a senior Hizbullah commander who was assassinated in Damascus in February in a killing the party has blamed on Israel. The Jewish state denies involvement.

The exhibition will be opened to the public on Friday.

The items on display reflect aspects of Mughniyeh's personality, such as "the destroyer of the myth of the undefeatable [Israeli] army," and displays some of his personal belongings, including objects from his office, his weapons and the clothes in which he was killed, said a Hizbullah statement.

"And for the first time, the exhibition will include weapons used by the resistance while facing the Israeli enemy," the statement added. "It will also display war material and ammunition in different artistic ways."

According to the statement, the 50-day exhibition shows the "destroyed image of the collapsed [Israeli] army and the state of fear in which it is living."

"In addition, the exhibition will present a panorama of the resistance's two victories and its most important achievements and will be closed with an audio-visual dramatic work that reflects the importance of martyrdom and sacrifice in the life of Mughniyeh and his brothers," the statement added.

The project was set up in three weeks with the participation of 290 people from the Islamic resistance and its Media Activities Unit in particular.

To enter the exhibition hall, visitors pass under a giant green hat, similar to the one Mughniyeh used to wear, then cross the "bridge of victory."

Supervisor Akeel Hoteit said the exhibition is divided into four sections. "The Cemetery of the Invaders is the division displaying some of Israel's destroyed military vehicles and weapons that had been gathered by Hizbullah, during the July-August 2006 war," Hoteit told journalists. "The second section is called The Time of Victories. It includes murals that highlight the victory and steadfastness of our people, resistance and army."

"Victory Makers is a special section to honor Mughniyeh, the resistance and other martyrs, where some of their personal belongings are displayed.

"And the exhibition's fourth division is a media center, where documentaries that discuss the meaning of martyrdom and sacrifice are screened," he said.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=95017

Sorry I am going to miss that.

[Casey]

Counter Terror Bureau warns of Hizbullah kidnapping attempts abroad

http://www.wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1317301#post1317301



The Counter Terrorism Bureau issued a rare travel advisory on Wednesday warning of possible attempts by Hizbullah to kidnap Israelis abroad, apparently as revenge for the assassination of the Shiite group's senior commander Imad Mugniyah in Damascus earlier this year.

Israel has obtained intelligence on possible methods Hizbullah may employ during the kidnapping attempts, but has no concrete information where the kidnapping attempts are likely to occur.

[The 801]

LEBANON: Hezbollah exhibition glorifies military commander

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/22/img_0193_2.jpg

From a giant representation of the olive-green cap he wore in the battlefield, to his personal assault rifle, his comb and the mat he prayed on, an exhibition commemorating the second anniversary of Hezbollah's latest war with Israel centered on the group's slain military commander, Imad Mughniyah.

Displaying charred remains of captured Israeli gear and equipment along with some of Mughniyah's personal belongings, the exhibition seeks to glorify the man and what the Lebanese Shiite militant group regards as his greatest achievement, the "divine victory" of the summer 2006 war.

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Before his obscure assassination last February in Damascus, Mughniyah was among the most wanted figures on U.S. and Israeli lists of terrorists for allegedly masterminding a series of bloody attacks in different parts of the world in the 1980s and 1990s. In Lebanon, he was a mysterious man always on the run and rarely mentioned in the media. Before his death, his physical appearance was only known to few people.

"When one of us dies as a martyr, everything he owned becomes sanctified," said Imad Awada, the director of the exhibition, which is set in a large car park in the southern town of Nabatieh. "His clothes, his prayer rug, his rifle are turned into holy objects, " he added.

The recently inaugurated exhibition, somewhere between kitsch and symbolism, has already attracted about 40,000 Lebanese visitors and tourists, according to the organizers.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/22/img_0232_2.jpg

As they enter the exhibition space, visitors are immersed in the ambiance of Hezbollah's battle with Israel with a light show and thundering recorded sounds of explosions, gunfire and military commanders giving orders to open fire.

The visit starts at the "victory bridge," which bears sides lined with gold-painted artillery shells, and moves into the "square of defeat," where a large "cemetery" with Hebrew inscriptions symbolizes the "downfall" of the Israeli army. All around are displayed samples of military objects left by the Israelis during recent and earlier confrontations with Hezbollah, including helmets with bullet holes, soldier boots, uniforms, ammunition and even tuna cans and other food reserves.

On one side, a coffin holds a fake skeleton dressed in an Israeli military uniform and is supposed to be a parody of what Hezbollah says is Israel's claim of having an undefeatable army.

On another side, lies an Israeli Merkava tank with smoke and fire-like lights erupting from it every once and a while. The shell of an Israeli military chopper allegedly shot down during the war is hanging.

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A large poster bearing a photo of Mughniyah reads, "the blood of the martyr Imad Mughniyah will get them out of existence if god wills."

Through a tunnel representing a gun's barrel, visitors move into the so-called idyllic space of the "resistance" and its "martyrs." There, are displayed the clothes Mughniyah was supposedly wearing when he was assassinated: a raincoat, a scarf, black pants and shoes, with shrapnel-produced holes and faint blood stains.

Mughniyah's desk, leather bag, Koran and other personal objects are exhibited.

To access the last part of the exhibition, visitors descend into a makeshift military hideout lined with sand bags and are led to a dimly lit hall saturated with a fake smell of flowers. Thousands of artificial flowers surround a representation of Mughniyah's dead body as "his soul ascends to heaven", says Ali, one of the tour guides. Video clips lauding the "glories" of Mughniyah are projected at the center of a golden-painted window.

At the exit, a souvenir shop sells posters of Mughniyah as well as mugs and lighters bearing his photo and that of Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah.

"Here, I feel proud of all the sacrifices and achievements of Hezbollah," said Ali Khalil, a 35-year-old businessman. "The likes of Mughniyah make us live in dignity. We didn't know him before this because he was not working for his own glory but for that of the whole nation."

-- Raed Rafei in Nabatieh, Southern Lebanon

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/08/lebanon-hezbo-1.html

Man, that is fantastic. The only thing missing is an automatronic Mugniyeh torturing a Buckley dummy. I am still hunting for pictures of this event.
801

PS Does anyone have an idea where I could get one of those souvenir MUGniyehs?

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c'mon down to the rectory 801 !

[The 801]

There appears to be a string of assassinations going on, Post Mugniyeh

Senior Hizbullah man dies in 'unclear circumstances'

Qatari newspaper says senior Hizbullah figure killed in southern Lebanon Monday; organization confirms report that senior member died, but insists it was 'under normal circumstances during work, not assassination'

Roee Nahmias
Published: 08.26.08, 19:47 / Israel News

Hizbullah man dies under mysterious cirmustances: A senior Hizbullah figure, Haj Jamil Salah, was killed Monday in south Lebanon under "unclear circumstances," Qatari newspaper al-Arab reported.

Hizbullah sources confirmed Salah's death but said he was killed "under normal circumstances during work, and not as result of an assassination." No additional details were provided regarding the incident

Several Hizbullah leaders have been assassinated in recent years, including military commander Imad Mughniyah, who was killed in Damascus in February when a bomb exploded in his car.

Some Arab officials have blamed Israel for his death and vowed to avenge the killing.

Ghaleb Awwali, Hizbullah's envoy to the Palestinian factions, was also assassinated in southern Lebanon in 1998.

In yet another prominent assassination, former Hizbullah leader Abbas Mousawi was killed by Israel in 1992.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3588133,00.html

Some background on this guy...
(Original Link to the Independent is no longer open, this is a copy on another site)



The Independent
The mystery of Mr Lebanon’s murder

Thursday March 17th, 2005, by Robert Fisk
After the assassination of Rafik Hariri, his vehicles were taken from the scene on the orders of a former aide. And now, reports Robert Fisk, many believe the missing cars may hold the key to the killing

Now here’s a strange story from Beirut. Strange, because it is one of fear and suspicion about Rafik Hariri’s murder on 14 February; stranger still because - although almost everyone in Beirut knows the story -much of it has not been published in Lebanon.

It involves a man called Ali Salah Haj and Hariri himself - and the mysterious decision to move the most vital evidence of his murder from the scene of the crime. Some say it is all a mistake, the result of inexperience or ignorance. Others believe it holds the key to how the former billionaire prime minister was murdered in a bombing that cost the lives of 18 other innocents.

It all begins in the late 1990s when Hariri was prime minister. He lived in a palace of pre-stressed concrete in the Beirut suburb of Qoreitem and travelled everywhere with a government-supplied team of escorts from Lebanon’s Internal Security Force.

Of the 40 men regularly on his team, Hariri regularly drove with one of its senior officers, a man he liked, the heavily mustachioed Ali Haj. "Things were quite normal," one of Hariri’s closest associates now says, "until Sheikh Rafik found that the Syrians seemed to know everything he was saying in his car. People thought he must be bugged or that there was a tap on his phone. And after a while, he decided that Ali Haj might be telling the Syrians what he was saying."

In a land such as Lebanon - where everyone listens to everyone else (Hariri had his own security informants) - that had to be investigated.

"So he told Ali Haj something very specific that the Syrians wouldn’t like," the family associate says. "And, within minutes of meeting a Syrian official that day, the very same matter was raised with him. That day, Sheikh Rafik asked another security man to ride with him. Ali Haj was relegated to another car."

Within a short time, Ali Haj was reassigned - to a Lebanese intelligence post in the Bekaa valley where he dealt regularly with Brigadier General Rustum Ghazale, the head of Syrian military intelligence in Lebanon.

Now we flash forward to 14 February 2005. Hariri’s armoured motorcade, struck by a bomb of around 600kg, lies blazing in the narrow road beside the St George Hotel on the Beirut Corniche. The vehicles, pitted with shrapnel holes, perhaps bearing traces of the explosives, formed a pattern which showed how the bomb scattered the cars - as well as the order in which the convoy was travelling.

But within hours - although every other burning car was left intact beside the highway - Hariri’s vehicles had disappeared. The decision was taken by the man who is now head of the Syrian-controlled Lebanese Internal Security Force, a certain Brigadier General Ali Salah Haj.

He ordered that the wreckage should be removed from the scene of the crime - and this, remember, was the location of the murder of the most important figure in the history of independent Lebanon - and taken away on trucks to the Lebanese Charles Helou army barracks. Where they remain to this day.

Ali Haj was among the many thousands of mourners who later came to pay their respects to the Hariri family. Witnesses later recorded he was given a frosty reception. Ghenna Hariri, the young daughter of Hariri’s sister Bahiya, a Lebanese MP in the southern city of Sidon, greeted him with the words: "Your place is not here." When he offered his hand to Hariri’s widow Nazek - who now wears her late husband’s wedding ring on a chain round her neck - she touched her chest modestly rather than take Ali Haj’s hand.

In a country where everyone believes in the "moamara" - the Plot - it is essential not to point the finger. No one has yet discovered who set off the bomb that killed Hariri. But there are a number of remarkable elements about the Lebanese investigation.

The first is that, a month after Hariri’s murder, it has still given no information about it. Furthermore, the bombing took place in a part of Beirut - site of a recent Francophone conference, close to the Phoenicia Hotel where many foreign dignitaries stay and within half a mile of parliament - the most heavily guarded area of Lebanon.

For the killers to have avoided the attention of the ISF, the army, the traffic cops and a host of other security organisations as they prepared their bomb was a truly extraordinary achievement. And for anyone to have ordered the removal of the principle evidence from the scene of the crime was an even more unlikely denouement.

One of those working on the Lebanese security investigation has admitted there have been "many mistakes made", suggesting Ali Haj’s decision to move the Hariri convoy cars came about because of his conflicting loyalties - he had been one of Hariri’s own bodyguards but was now a senior security officer - rather than any desire to cover up the evidence.

He also said the police are convinced the killer was a suicide bomber, possibly an al-Qa’ida operative who targeted Hariri because of his links with the Saudi royal family. Hariri held Saudi citizenship. Hariri’s supporters are increasingly convinced the bomb was hidden under the roadway, down a drain or a telephone cable duct.

It’s easy to see how each theory suits their respective creators. An al-Qa’ida murder clears the Lebanese and Syrian security authorities of blame.

The bomb-under-the-road story suggests the Lebanese military security institutions must have been breathtakingly careless in failing to notice the planning and planting of the bomb.

The Lebanese and the Syrians believe in the al-Qa’ida plot - even they are blaming the Israelis as a poor second - but the political opposition is increasingly fingering Syria for, at the least, incompetence, carelessness, even criminal negligence.

Hence Hariri’s supporters - even many thousands of those demanding the truth about Hariri’s death - are demanding the resignation of seven principal figures, all deeply in the pro-Syrian Lebanese justice or intelligence services. They include General Ali Haj. The remainder are: Adnan Adoum, the minister of justice and prosecutor general; Jamil Sayed, the head of Lebanese General Security; Mustapha Hamdan, head of the Lebanese Republican Guard; Raymond Azar, the head of the"mukhabarat" intelligence service; Edgar Mansour, the head of "national security", and Ghassan Tfayleh, the head of the security service’s "listening department", the "Amn el-Tanassot".

The authorities have refused to accept the list, claiming all are honourable men performing their duties with patriotism and devotion.

Needless to say, there’s an old Arab argument which runs in parallel with any ordinary policeman’s first question: in whose interest was it to commit the crime? Ask the Syrians, and they say they would never commit such an act, not least because the calumny which the accusations have since brought upon Damascus have caused such political disadvantage to Syria’s young president, Bachar al-Assad - who has himself condemned the killing as a "heinous crime."

Syria’s political friends in Lebanon - some of them Bachar’s acquaintances - have been pointing out, accurately, that the American neo-conservative project for the Middle East originally drawn up by Messers Perle, Feith, Wurmser and others, called not only for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein but for diverting of Syria’s attention "by using Lebanese opposition elements to destabilise Syrian control of Lebanon."

How better to destabilise Syria in Lebanon than by killing Hariri?

Those million Lebanese who demanded Syria’s withdrawal, the resignation of the Lebanese president and the truth about Hariri’s murder on Monday do not recognise themselves in this scenario. They also demanded to know who killed ex-President Rene Mouawad, the Grand Mufti Khaled and the Druze leader Kamal Jumblatt.

It is worth pointing out that the Christians among the demonstrators did not call for the truth about the murder of prime minister Rashid Karami and National Liberal leader Danny Chamoun - because wartime Christian militiamen rather than the Syrians are widely regarded as their murderers.

The imminent return from self-imposed French exile of the messianic ex-General Michel Aoun - who led a hopeless "war of independence" against the Syrians in 1989 which cost thousand of innocent lives - is a clear sign that the opposition here could find themselves gravely embarrassed.

Most, in fairness, do not personally blame President Bachar al-Assad of Syria for Hariri’s murder. They were insulted by his speech in the Syrian parliament last Saturday but are well aware that far more ruthless men exist in Syria - and outside Syria’s borders - to whom Hariri’s fate could be assigned, or even self-assigned.

Many opposition leaders, including Walid Jumblatt - it was his father Kamal who was murdered - hope desperately Bachar was not involved. But it remains the case the Lebanese security officers who were appointed to guard Lebanon on Syria’s behalf have established a wretched reputation.

Why, for example, were three more bodies discovered at the site of the Hariri mass murder in the two weeks that followed the bombing?

Ali Haj could immediately take the vital evidence from the scene of the crime - something which no police force in the world would do - on the grounds that he needed to "protect" it. But how come his investigation failed to spot three corpses at the scene?

When the Zahle MP and former Syrian ally, Mohsen Dalloul, announced this week that the Lebanese authorities "knew" who had assassinated Hariri - who was the unofficial leader of the Lebanese opposition to Syria until his death - those same authorities were as silent as the proverbial grave.

Maybe they are listening to the million Lebanese who demanded the truth. Or maybe they are just following the usual trade of all security services, silently listening to their telephone lines. I say this because just three days ago, Ghassan Tfayleh, the head of the Lebanese eavesdropping department, put a tap on my home telephone in Beirut. Well, there’s only one response to that: call any time.

http://www.selvesandothers.org/article9249.html

Lastly, another report:


Hizbullah Bunker Specialist Killed In Mysterious Fall
Middle-East

Haj Jamil Salah, 51, a top Hizbullah operative who was in charge of the construction of underground bunkers in south Lebanese villages fell to his death on Monday while standing on the rooftop of a building in the village of Yaroun, close to the Israeli border. He was reportedly discussing with his men how far inside Israeli territory the rockets installed at the launch pads in the village could reach, when he fell .The Qatari newspaper al-Arab reported that Salah died in a mysterious manner.


Salah was responsible for the construction of vast networks of deep underground tunnels leading to reinforced concrete bunkers located in over 150 villages south of the Litani River, an area that Hizbullah is supposedly barred from operating in. The bunkers are built underneath houses in the villages, their reinforced rooms are large enough to hold personnel as well as stockpiles of missiles and vast supplies of food.

While the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 called for the disarming of the Hizbullah and barred it from operating in southern Lebanon, reality on the ground shows a different story. UNIFIL chooses to turn a blind eye and the Lebanese Army appears to be incapable of confronting Hizbullah operatives. It is for this very reason that Israel continues its air force forays over southern Lebanon.08/27/08

http://www.infolive.tv/en/infolive.tv-28253-israelnews-hizbullah-bunker-specialist-killed-mysterious-fall

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Ahead of holidays, warnings against trips to Sinai, Thailand

Counter Terrorism Bureau releases bi-annual travel advisory warnings, says Hizbullah trying to target Israelis abroad as retaliation for Mugniyah assassination

Roni Sofer Published: 09.04.08, 17:37 / Israel News

The Counter Terrorism Bureau issued its bi-annual travel advisory Thursday regarding imminent threats on Israelis the world over.

Security officials emphasized that these warnings are not new but have decided to reiterate the specific dangers apparent in the Sinai Peninsula and pertaining to kidnappings in general.

“In light of the specific present circumstances,” the CTB has requested to emphasize the travel advisories.

“Hizbullah has repeatedly blamed Israel for the assassination of their operative Imad Mugniyah, which amplifies the terror threats…thus the CTB has intensified its current travel advisors on kidnappings of Israelis abroad, especially businesspeople and more specifically, those with in contact with Arab or Muslim businesspeople. “


The Counter Terrorism Bureau suggested that Israelis abroad should:



• Be aware of any irregular phenomenon.


• Refrain from visiting or residing in Arab/Muslim countries and others included in the advisory.

• Refuse every invitation or unexpected offer and refrain from receiving unexpected gifts or free recreational activity from suspicious or unknown people.

• Refuse invitations to unexpected encounters especially in remote places and only travel with reliable escorts.

• Refrain from allowing suspicious or unexpected visitors from entering hotel rooms or apartment buildings

• If stay abroad is extended, break patterns by switching hotels from time to time and altering habitual driving patterns, restaurants and forms of entertainment.

As part of the, “partial travel advisory,” the CTB noted that there are countries like Thailand, the Philippines, Turkey and Uzbekistan which are considered “a potential terror threat.”

Thus, it is suggested to take special precautionary measures while residing in these countries.

Moreover, travelers must act in accordance with the behavioral norms published by the bureau.

The warning in Thailand is connected to the political crisis which has paralyzed the country in the last week.

The area of southern Thailand, south of the line of latitude between Krabi and Thammarat and until the Malaysian border, is considered under “high concrete threat.”

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3592274,00.html

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The light shines on Damascus


Martin Chulov, Middle East correspondent | September 06, 2008

BASHAR al-Assad, Syria's President, had not long returned from spending up at a Moscow arms fair when he hosted French leader Nicolas Sarkozy this week, catapulting his quest for relevance to heights that have staggered friend and foe.

Sarkozy was the first Western-aligned heavyweight politician to visit Damascus in the past three years and one of only a handful to have made the journey since the turn of the century. As he flew back to Paris, Syrians were already hailing the end of their isolation.

Now the next stage of the Syrian resurgence is fast taking shape. Syria's interests and those of its key allies, Iran and the radical party Hezbollah, appear to be converging on many fronts and lining up with Russian agendas. One senior figure in the Assad regime confirms to Inquirer that the fallout from Russia's brief war with Georgia has emboldened Damascus to capitalise on recent gains in Lebanon and setbacks for the US in Afghanistan, where the Taliban is regrouping, and in the Palestinian territories, where peace talks are failing to match up to the Bush White House's expectations.

In short, Moscow is challenging the US take on the post-Cold War and post-9/11 world order. And Syria, despite slightly differing motives, wants to ride sidecar.

"Russia is on the front foot with the Americans after the experience in Georgia and it is fair to think that others who have not prospered at the hands of the outgoing (George W. Bush) administration are also looking to press home an advantage," the Syrian official says.

In the main market place of Damascus's old city, the nuances of regional politics and strategies are lost on few. This week's events were debated vigorously around news stands selling state-run papers and the odd out-of-town Arab title. Under pain of imprisonment, few Syrians would dare to offer anything other than praise for their leader. Most think Assad has successfully sweated out his enemies and is about to lead them to better times.

Change has been a dirty word in Syria, which for 30 years was - and in many ways still is - a paranoid, totalitarian state where political opposition was ruthlessly repressed and conformity to state policies demanded.

However, there are signs that Assad has moved away from the uncompromising ways of his father, former president Hafez al-Assad, and is paying far more attention to the mood on the street, at least in the capital.

Automatic teller machines are everywhere, customer feedback forms are on display in government offices, police no longer use giant sticks to whip order into hordes crossing the road and public works projects seem to be moving along steadily.

Reforms have not been so dramatic on foreign policy. By making only slight changes to policy positions that have cemented him as a pariah in the eyes of the US and its allies since the September 11 attacks, the Syrian leader is enjoying a revival that has delivered what many critics believe he has long coveted: a conductor's role in Middle Eastern affairs.

Syria repeatedly has been accused of playing a leading hand in many of the regional trouble spots that have tied down US and Israeli interests. Allegations that Syria allowed foreigners into its border areas to fuel the jihadist insurgency in neighbouring Iraq have rankled with Washington for the past five years. So has Damascus's ongoing role in Lebanon, where a new power-sharing Government has delivered veto power to the Hezbollah-led Opposition and, by proxy, its two key patrons, Iran and Syria.

South of the border in Israel, Assad's open backing of Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank has been another source of displeasure. Add to that his abiding ties to Tehran and there seems little reason to believe things will change.

Western policy towards Syria for the past three years has been almost unanimously one of isolation. The US will not talk to Damascus, which it has black-listed as a state sponsor of terrorism. Recently a US State Department spokesman reaffirmed that unless the Assad regime decides "to play a positive role, stay out of the internal affairs of Lebanon, stop supporting terrorists and be a productive player on the world scene, it will continue to isolate itself".

Israel has sung from an identical song sheet, claiming that all its foes - Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad - are rooted in Damascus. The position is starkly at odds with the decision by the outgoing Government of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to sit down with Syria for another crack at peace talks. The latest round of talks was postponed by Syria during the week, ostensibly because of the ongoing political torpor in Israel and the resignation of the Jewish state's chief negotiator.

The Israeli decision to break bread in April was a tectonic shift away from the policy of isolating terrorists and their backers and instead trying to rehabilitate them. The policy reversal has been vigorously opposed by the Israeli Right and by Washington, both of which insist it has validated Syrian policies in return for nothing.

Writing last week in The Jerusalem Post, Uzi Dayan and Jonathan Spyer, from the Centre for Global Research in International Affairs, said: "We have taken an active role in ending the isolation of the hostile regime in Damascus.

"The price Syria has paid for this assistance has been minimal. There is no direct negotiation taking place in Turkey. Rather, Turkish representatives engage in delivering messages between the delegations.

"In return for receiving messages in an Istanbul hotel, the Assad regime has broken out of the isolation that enveloped it following its suspected involvement in the killing of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005."

As Sarkozy sat down publicly with Assad, the latter seemed comfortable on the international stage. Regarding the tricky indirect peace talks with Israel, Assad said the brokered talks had not matured enough to warrant the two countries' leaders sitting together to work out a deal. Despite good intentions on both sides, he added, crucial issues remained deadlocked.

Sarkozy also rejects the isolationist track.

"I prefer another route," he said before arriving in Damascus. "More risky, it is true, but more promising: open dialogue leading to tangible progress."

Syria has sat at the centre of Arab affairs throughout the ages, a fact never lost on the political dynasty of the Assad family, led by strongman Hafez al-Assad until his death inmid-2000.

Bashar al-Assad was bolstered recently by Lebanon's new President, Michel Suleiman, who released a statement calling for more international lawmakers to make pilgrimages. "The international community must open up to Syria, following the example set by France, because Syria plays a fundamental role at the regional level," Suleiman said in the wake of Syria's decision to open an embassy in Lebanon, notionally recognising its unstable neighbour's sovereignty for the first time.

Suleiman was Damascus's choice as president and had been widely expected to add his voice to calls for an end to Syrian isolation. There are widespread fears in Israel and elsewhere in the Arab world that Syria will use official cover to regain the influence in Lebanon it lost in the wake of the Hariri slaying.

Already Hezbollah effectively calls the shots in the Lebanese Government, a fact that has led to pointed warnings from Israel aimed at deterring Hezbollah from carrying out its threat to avenge the assassination in February of its military commander, Imad Mughniyeh.

"The moment the Lebanese Government confers legitimacy on Hezbollah, it must understand that the entire Lebanese state will be a target in the same way that all of Israel is a target for Hezbollah," says Israeli Environment Minister Gideon Ezra, echoing warnings given by Olmert earlier in August.

Israel believes Hezbollah is close to finalising a plan to avenge Mughniyeh's death with an attack against Israeli interests in a fragile state, possibly in North Africa. Its barbs have been tailored to warn the militant group that, as part of the Government, its actions have a bigger knock-on effect. "It will be very interesting indeed to see what their next move is," a senior Israeli military intelligence official says. "If they take their lead from the Syrians, things will get very ugly, very quickly."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24299941-15084,00.html

[The 801]

Iran appoints successor to Mughniyeh
By YAAKOV KATZ

Eight months after he was assassinated in a meticulously-planned car bombing in Damascus, Hizbullah arch-terrorist Imad Mughniyeh has been succeeded by a senior Iranian intelligence official, an Italian newspaper reported Thursday, indicating an Iranian determination to consolidate its control over the Lebanese group.

According to the report in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Hizbullah's new chief military commander is Muhammad Riza Zahdi, aka Hassan Mahdawi, who in the late 1980s served in the Iranian Embassy in Beirut.

According to the report, Zahdi will be in charge of coordinating weapons smuggling to Hizbullah from Syria as well as the construction of military positions in southern Lebanon. The paper said that the appointment was part of an Iranian plan to restructure Hizbullah in the wake of the Second Lebanon War.

Mughniyeh, who had been one of the world's most wanted men for decades, met his demise last February. Since his assassination, Hizbullah had entrusted his duties - including international operations as well as relations with Iran and Syria - to a council of several officials.

In September, The Jerusalem Post reported how Iran was solidifying its control over Hizbullah and had instituted a number of structural changes to the group under which Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah no longer enjoyed exclusive command over the military wing.

According to Israeli officials, following the Second Lebanon War Iran decided to step up its involvement in Hizbullah's decision-making process and instituted changes to the guerrilla group's hierarchy under which Nasrallah now has to get Iranian permission prior to certain operations.

"There is a real Iranian command now over Hizbullah," a top IDF officer said at the time. "This doesn't mean that Nasrallah is a puppet, but it does mean that whenever he pops his head out of his bunker he sees an Iranian official standing over him."

Reports of Iranian discontent with Nasrallah began to surface following the 2006 war, which Teheran reportedly was not interested in seeing erupt at that time.

Several reports in the Arab press claimed that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had ousted Nasrallah from his post as Hizbullah secretary-general and replaced him with the Naim Qassem, Hizbullah's second in command. Iran has denied the reports.

Iran's consolidation of its control over Hizbullah is seen as an attempt to gain the ability to fully direct its military forces in the event of a conflict in the Middle East. If Iran is attacked by the US or Israel, it may now be able to order Hizbullah to retaliate on its behalf. In the past, the IDF's Military Intelligence has speculated on what Nasrallah would do in such a scenario and had even raised the possibility that Hizbullah wouldn't necessarily attack Israel.

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BalvaSister - Sakinaben Akbarbhai Molapiya2007189Alihusain V. BalvaFather - Vajirbhai Jivabhai Balva1977190Alihusain V. BalvaFriend - Late Abulkashim Rajmohmed Charolia31-Jan-2008191Ali Nasir MirzaUncle - Asif Ali Mirza27-Jan-2008192Musarrat NazaralyBrother-in-Law - Shabbir Rupani.23-Nov-1992193Syed Manzoor AbbasCousin - Syed Iqbal Haider Zaidi s/o Syed Nawab Hassan ZaidiDec-2007194ShahnazFriends - Kaniz Fizza ,ShahanshahiNA195ShahnazFriend - Afzal Hussain Shah ,Zubaida BibiNA196ShahnazIn-laws - Nasar Abbas, Qumer SultanaNA197ShahnazFather - Syed Mohammad Rizvi26 Safar 1988198Hasan Ali.ZBrother - Saqhi Abbas10-Feb-2007199FatmaMother - Mehrunnisa binte Nazarali and Abdullah M. Hussain7-Aug200Syed Abbas Ali ZaidiFather - Syed Samin Ali Zaidi16-Oct-2007201Mohsin AliDaughter - Shahen Bibi07-Dec-2004202Zaigham AbassGrand Father - Mahr Qadir Buksh01-Dec-1996203Aasia HassanFather and Mother - Sheikh Saeed-ul- Hassan and Nasim Akhtar Hassan12-03-07 /12-02-06205Samar SulemanFather - Yacoob Ali Sheikh s/o Ayub Ali Sheikh16-03206Samar SulemanMother - Tasneem Fatima Sheikh11-03-1996207Nazim Hussain ShiraziGrand Father - Mulazim HussainNA208Sohail NasirFather - Syed Nasir Ali12-Feb-2000209Ali AzmiGrand Father - Noor Muhhammad Azmi25-Dec-1995210Samia TaqdeesGrandad - Mohammad Zaman19-Dec-2007211Ali Raza ZaidiFather - Syed Abid Hussain Zaidi10-Apr-2001212Ali Raza ZaidiUncle - Syed Rashid Hussain Zaidi01-Mar-1998213Ali Raza ZaidiFather - Syed Abid Hussain Zaidi10-Apr-2001214SaleemFather - Riaz-ul-Haq1990215ZohaGrand Mother(dadi) - Qudsia Sultana14-Mar-2005216HibaGrand Mother (Nani) - Fatima Sultan14-Oct-1999217Ghulam ShabbirCousin - Liaqat Abbass30-Jan-2005218Ghulam ShabbirMother - Mumtaz Fatima24-Dec-2000219TalibBrother - Mohammad Shafi14-Feb-1948220Mohamedhusein SomjiParents - Fatmabai & Gulamhusein Fazal Somji21st Ramadhan221Saleem AkhtarMother/Brother - Zil-e-Hunain and Mrs Akhtar Ali19-Apr-07 & 4-Apr-80222Syed Ali Baqar NaqviFather - Syed Ali Haider Naqvi1991223Hassan AliSister-in-Law - Sana Ali11-May-2007224Ghulam Mustafa SyedSister - Syeda Riffat Sajida13-Sep-2006225Aliya SyedMamoo - Syed Saqlain Abid3-Dec-1996226Uswah Abidi(Sooby)Mother - Wasim Bano Binte Syed Imtiaz Hussain Abidi03-Jan-2008227Syed Hyder HasanFather - Syed Qaiser Agha s/o Syed Sikander Agha22-Feb-2000228Syed Muhmmad Mian s/o Syed Awaiz AliFather - Syed Ashraf Ali Zaidi05-May-1999229Syeda Kaneez Fatima d/o Syed Ikram HussainMother - Ashraf Ali Zaidi05-Feb-1990230Syed Muhmmad MianFather - Syed Ashraf Ali05-May-1999231Syeda Kaneez FatimaMother - Syed Ashraf Ali05-Feb-1990232Syed Abbas RazviMother - Marhooma Masroor Fatima Razvi21-Sep-2006233Sameer HasanGreat Grandson - Kulsoom d/o Abul Hasan1992234Ameer HasanGreat Grandson - Alhaj Abdullah s/o Imam Ali1983235Hassan AliBhabhi - Sana Ali11-May-2007236Annie FatimaPaternal Grandfather - Syed Buniyad Hussain Ibne Syed Ahmed Hussain03-Dec-1970237Annie FatimaMaternal Grandfather - Syed Muzzafar Ahsan Ibne Syed Khursheed Ahsan05-Aug-2002238Ghulam MustafaSister - Syeda Riffat Sajida Naqvi13-Sep-2006239Syed Naeem Abbas NaqviFather - Syed Ghulam Akbar Shah Naqvi11-Apr-1972240Naseem AbbasMother - Mother of Naseem Abbas18-Oct-2005241Nasir ZaidiFather - Syed Ahmed Abbas Zaidi s/o Mazhar Abbas Zaidi19-Apr-2006242Bilal H. KazmiSister - Benazir Bhutto27-Dec-2007243Riyaz SopariwalaAunt - Farida05-Jul-2002244Syed Ali KomialGrand Father - Syed Hassan Askari Gardezi28-Nov-2007245Aun AliMother-in-Law - Fatima BaiNA246Aun AliFather-in-Law - Jumma BhaiNA247Bushra Haider RizviBrother-in-Law - Syed Ameer Hamza Rizvi27-Sep-2004248Samia TaqdeesGrand Father - Mohammad Zaman19-Dec-2007249Uswah AbidiDaughter - Syed Shaukat Hussain Abidi21-Oct-2001250Syed Abul Qasim s/o Syed Muhammad TahirFather - Syed Abu Talib Rizvi08-Nov-2006251Dr. Syed GaniFather / Mother - Syed Gh. Ahmad and Begum Gh Ahmad1922252Sk Akhlaquz ZamanBrother - Sk Mohammad Sadaf Gouhar11-Jun-2004253Sk Akhlaquz ZamanMother - Meherun Nisa01-Oct-1997254Raza HasanFather - Wazir Hasan s/o Syed Raza12-Dec-1984255Raza HasanMother - S. Sultanat Jehan Naqvi D/O S. Ahmed Hussain Shah Naqvi24-May-1972256Khursheed Ahmed ButtMother - Anees Fatema s/o Mohammed Hussain24-Mar-1985257Khursheed Ahmed ButtMother - Sayeeda Begum s/o Muzaffar Hussain17-May-1999258Khursheed Ahmed ButtFather - Basheer Ahmed Butt s/o Sabir Butt08-Jan-2004259Syed Hamid HussainFather - Syed Walayat HussainN/A260Syed Sajjad Haider ShahFather - Syed Irshad Ali Zaidi s/o Syed Wajid Ali Shah23-Sep-1980261Shagufta ZaidiFather - Syed Anwar Hussain Zaidi29-Dec-2001262Syed Tauqir NaqviNephew - Syed Shahzad Naqvi31-Mar-2003263Syed Shoaib Ahmed ZaidiFather - Syed Shafiq Ahmed Zaidi1-Jun-1995264Hasan RizviGrand Father - Iqbal Husain Rizvi son of Sharafat Ali12-Apr-1997265Shahnawaz Raja ArbabFather - Asmatullah Arbab28-Nov-1998266Hyder NawabFather - Syed Mohammed Nawab1-May267Zeba HelmandGrand Daughter - Nafizgol Helmand15-Aug-2007268Ameer aliGrand Mother - Kazim unisa begum10-Jan-1995269MurtuzaGrand Mother - Rehmatbai binte hasanali & All Marhomeen9-Aug-2000270MurtuzaGrand Father - Abdulali Rehmatullah & All Marhomeen1-Nov-1971271Syed Ali Mohd RizviGrand Father - Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi31-Jan-1989272Syed Iqtidar Haider NaqviFather-in-Law - Shaheed09-Oct-2001273Syed Iqtidar Haider NaqviGrand Son - Syed Jalal ShahNA274Mohammad RafiqFriend - Badsah Chowdry26-Oct-2007275Faraz AkbaniSon - Abubakar Akbani19-Nov-1990276Rizwan MukhtarFather - Mukhtar Ahmed02-Feb-2004277SaberaFather - Rajab Ali13-Aug-2006 278M. Mohsin S.Father - Hasan Ali19-Feb-1985279Nadeem IqbalMother - Umm-e-Nadeem15-Oct-2007280Bushra Haider Rizvi.Brother-in-Law - Syed Raza Mehdi Rizvi/Syed Zakir Hussain Rizvi27-Sep-2004281Mustafa RehmtullaUncle/Aunti - Mr and Mrs Hassanali Ali Meghji05-Nov-2005282Mustafa RehmtullaMother in Law - Gulbanu H Noormohamed/Gulbanu Visanji Gangji11-Jul-2004283Mustafa RehmtullaFather-in-Law - Hussein Noormohamed25-May-1985284Mustafa RehmtullaSister - Leila Jaffer Visram/Leila G Rehmtulla17-Apr-1999285Rupp familyFamily member - Ahmad bin Abdullah - Fabio Giorgio Umberto Rupp13-Sep-1995286HumeraMother - Safia Yousaf d/o Mohammad KhanNA287Syed Murtuza Hasan MossaviGrand Father - Syed Hasan01-May-1954288Moohsin AliFather - Hasanali19-Feb-1985289Saba FatimaGrand Mother - Fathy BibiNA290Sana FatimaGrand Father - Sultan JafriNA291Sana FatimaGrand Father - Khan MuhammadSep-1997292Rajab AliFather - Sabeera14-Aug-2006293Hasan Ali DalahaFather - Haji Mohsin Alisuhail19-Feb-1985294Syed Iqtidar HaiderGrand Son - Syed Jalal Hussain ShahNA295Syed Iqtidar HaiderFather-in-Law - Syed Gul Imam Shah09-Oct-2001296Dr.Ajmal Hussain HamdaniMat. Grandmother - Mrs. Haji.Dilawar HussainNA297Dr.Ajmal Hussain HamdaniMat. Grandfather - Haji.Dilawar HussainNA298Dr.Ajmal Hussain HamdaniGrand Father - Mr.Illahi Buksh Hamdani1970299Dr.Ajmal Hussain HamdaniGrand Mother - Mrs.Illahi Buksh Hamdani1990300Mrs. Dr.Ajmal Hussain HamdaniFriend - Mrs.Kausar28-Sep-2007301Syed Shahid HussainFather - Saira13-Apr-l2005302Dr.Ajmal Hussain HamdaniUncle - Riaz hussain Hamdani s/o Illahi buksh HamdaniNA303Mr and Mrs Kamal HussainGrand Father/Mother - Mr and Mrs Kamal Hussain1987 to 1996304Fatema M LadhaMother - Rubabbai Alibhai29-Dec-1999305Fatema M. LadhaFather - Mohammedhussein Alibhai26-Nov-2002306Syed Taqi Hyder RizviNephew - Syed Hamid Husnain Rizvi1929307Aga Irfan AliAunty - Marzia Banu binte Mirza Mohammad Nawaz10-Mar-2006308Aga Irfan AliGrand Gather - Aga Abdul Sattar alias Miraga ibne Aga Gulam Ali24-Dec-2000309Dr.Ajmal Hussain HamdaniFather - Iqbal Hussain Hamdani20-Nov-1991310Zafar IqbalFather - Ishtiaq Hussain s/o Yousuf Hussain12 Muharram 1969311Imtiyaz HuseinGrand Mother - Hajjin Hajra Bi10-Sep-1938312Syed Ali Ashhar JaffariFather - Syed Ali Asghar Jaffari03-Apr-1986313Syed Ali Ashhar JaffariMother - Razia Jaffari10-Feb-2000314Sana FatimaFather - Muhammad Feroz31-Dec-2003315Jaffar Hussain MohammedaliSon - Hussain Mohammedali Abdursaul28-Mar-2006316MehwishMother - Perveen Hassan14-May-2006317Rozmin BandaliMother - Rubabbai28-Dec-1999318Syed Hussain Raza ZaidiFather - Syed Askari Raza Zaidi (Late) s/o Syed Ayub Ali Zaidi1981319Farhat JafriBrother - Ghulamus Saqlain Jafri16-Dec-1998320Farhat JafriMother - Mahmooda Bano29-Mar-2002321Farhat JafriFather - Syed Aley Sibtain Jafri05-Feb-1993322Samia TaqdeesAunty - Saida Bibi25-Jun-2007323Bushra Haider Rizvi.Grand Father - Syed Ameer Hamza Rizvi10-Oct-1985324Bushra Haider Rizvi.Brother-in-Law - Syed Raza Mehdi Rizvi/Syed Zakir Hussain Rizvi27-Sep-2004325Shanaz FatimaFather - Hafeez Hussain14 Rajab 2006326Shanaz FatimaMother - Zubeda Begaum14 rabi-al-awal 2002327ZeeshanGrand Father - Mohammad Bux Mangi28-May-1998328Afsheen JafriUncle - Ameen Shah5-Apr-2003329Afsheen JafriGrand Father - Baqar Hussain9-Apr-1997330Afsheen JafriGrand Father - S Ali Akber Jafri18-Nov-1960331Sajid Hussain JafriGrand Mother - Bhagan Bibi23-Nov-1977332Sajid Hussain JafriGrand Mother - Jaan Muhammad05-Mar-1975333Sajid Hussain JafriFriend - Shaheed Malik Ibrar Hussain Adv.3-May-2000334Sajid Hussain JafriSister - Sajida Ishrat30-Dec-1985335Sajid Hussain JafriBrother - Ali Raza Jafri26-Oct-2005336Sajid Hussain JafriFather - Muhammad Bashir Jafri13-Jun-2001337Hamza JamalMumani - Nousheen Hasan24-Sep-2007338Syed Sajjad Haider NaqviFather - 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Kashif SultanGrand Father - Syed Ruknuddin Haider Zaidi04-Apr-2004479Syed Zohaib Hassan NaqviMamoo - Syed Asad Ali Naqvi6-Feb-2007480Maddan bhai's familyAunti - Atiya w/o Qasim9-Apr-2007481Humaira MemonMother - Shahnaz Memon28-Jan-2007482Hasnain GardeziMother - Syeda Shireen21-Mar-1983483HabibaMamoo - Sultan Ali Bawa25-Feb-2007484Mustafa RehmtullaBrother - Imtiyaz Ghulamali Rehmtulla29-Jan-2007485TabuSister - Sana Sadat1 May 2006486S.Abbas Ali s/o S.Shamim HaiderSister - Faiza6-Dec-2001487Syed Hashim JafriMother - Syeda Mutahira Jafri21-Feb-1977488Syed Hashim JafriFather - Syed Abul Qasim Jafri15-Mar-1965 489Syed Zohaib HassanNaqviBrother and Mamu - Syed Asad Ali Naqvi (Ladoo Gee)6-Feb-2007490Gulamabbas A H GanjiParents - Marhum Ali Hussein and Marhuma Zainab Binte Fazal HassanRabiul Awwal491Neelma ShikohGrand Father - Sayyed Mahmood Jaffri28-Apr-1971492Neelma ShikohGrand Mother - Kaiser Begum09-Jan-1968493Neelma ShikohGrand Mother - Najakatara Begum06-Dec-1985494RazaGrand Father - Ali Nawaz Mangi20-May-1988495Syed Ali Raza ShahGrand Father - Syed Anwar Shah Kazmi10-Feb-2005496Neelma ShikohGrand Father - Hyder Nawab01-Jan-1973497Neelma ShikohBrother - Nasir Shikoh17-Feb-2001498Neelma ShikohFather - Baadshah Nawab13-Sep-1993499ShainaAunty - Naseem Sajjad28-Feb-2007500Shehzad RazaGrand Parents - Mohammad Ali Mullah / Sugra BaiN/A501Shehzad RazaGrand Mother - NanimahN/A502Abbas PatelGrand Mother - Zainab Patel26-Jan-1995503Abbas PatelGrand Father - Hussainali Jafferali Patel15-Aug-1989504Syed Taban AkhtarBrother - Syed Zeeshan Akhtar06-Sep-1994505Syed Taban AkhtarFather - Syed Hussain Akhtar18-Apr-2002506Saba NaqviMamoo - Anjum Fatmi (Aley Ahmad)25-Jan-2007507Jawad HaiderFather - Allama Syed Zeeshan Haider Jawadi t.s.15-Apr-2000508MoonaSister - Nadia Haider binte Ansar Haider1986509Anzar HasanMother - Syeda Nasira Khatoon Jafri23-Jun-2005510Syed FerozFather - Syed Abdul Hussain Madani20-Jan-2007511Akil HusainFather - Muzaffar Husain ibne Raja Mohammed Momin03-Nov-2001512Syed Kamran Ali RizviGrand Father - Syed Mazahir Hussain Rizvi21-Jun-2006513Ali AsgharFather - Muhammad Ali s/o Akber Ali29-Jan-2005514Jamshed HamidiCousin - Jawad Nisar s/o Nisar Ahmed2004515Jamshed HamidiCousin - Abdul Sattar1996516Datu Ramon bin Datu Jamasali IIBrother - Ferdinand S. Jamasali15-Dec-1966517Datu Ramon bin Datu Jamasali IIGrand Mother - Princess Norma Piandao bint Datu Jamasali15-Jul-1972518Syed Wasim Asghar KazmiGrand Father - Syed Naasir Raza Zaidi13-Aug-2000519Maulana Syed Mohammad Jafar KharazmiBrother-in-Law - Shaheed Dr Mohammad Ali Naqvi7-Mar-1995520Khadim Raza AbdiFather - Aziz Ul Hasan (Dubai) (RUA) s/o Iftikhar Hussain Abdi03-Nov-1995521Shifa AimanBrother - Mohammad Ali Safi27-Jan-2007522Imtiaz AhmedUncle - Abrar Hussain2001523Syed Ahmed AliN/A - Azadar Hussain , Nasir Hussain12-Feb-1989524ZainabFather - Pyarali Bharwani10-Oct-1982525Maryam HussainGrand Mother - Fathima BibiN/A526Maryam HussainGrand Father - Juma AliN/A527Maryam HussainGreat Grand Father - Habib UllahN/A528Maryam HussainGrand Uncle - Qambar AliN/A529Maryam HussainGrand Uncle - Sultan AliN/A530Maryam HussainGrand Uncle - Haider AliN/A531Maryam HussainGrand Aunti - Fizza BibiN/A532Nasreen KhanFather - Nawabzada Ali Yeawer Khan of Pirthimpassa15-Oct-2003 533Maryam HussainGrand Uncle - Boastan AliN/A534Maryam HussainUncle - Ali HussainN/A535Maryam HussainGrand Mother - Wazeer BaygumN/A536Maryam HussainUncle - Ghulam HussainN/A537Maryam HussainGrand Mother - Gul ShahN/A538Maryam HussainGrand Father - Noor AliN/A539Sajjad HaiderParents - Jan Bibi, Ghulam AliN/A540Khadim Raza AbdiFather - Sayed Aziz Ul Hasan Abidi (Mualana Dubai Wala)03-Nov-1999541Syed Nasir AbbasMaternal Uncle - Syed Shafiq Hussain28-Jan-2006542Syed Nasir AbbasFather - Syed Shafqat Hussain04-Dec-1987543Farheen BatoolMamoo - Asad Ali Naqvi(Ladoo Gee)6-Feb-2007544Naeem ul Hassan NaqviBrother - Asad Ali06-Feb-2007545MoonaGrand Father - Syed Shahid Hussain2005546Sharjeel HussainSister - Syeda Sidratul Muntaha Hussain18-Oct-2006547Syed Zaheer Uddin MusaviCousin - Syed Natiq Hussain KazmiDec 2006548Syed Munawar RazaBrother - Syed Kausar Raza25 Rajab549Syed Munawar RazaChacha - Syed Qayam HusainRamzan-ul-Mubarak550Syed Munawar RazaPhuppa - Syed Nizam Askari1991551SaimaDoctor - Nazar Hassain SheraziJuly 2002552Syed Anwar HusanGrand Mother - Iftikhar FatimaRamzan553Syed Anwar HusainGrand Father - Syed Zawar Husain3-Ramzan554Syed Ali HassanGrand Mother - Syed Hadi Hussain1980555Syed Ali HassanGrand Father - Syed Mehdi Hussain14-Jan-1990556Syed Ali Haider ZaidiGrand Father - Ali Haider1995557Mustafa AliGrand Father - Ahmed Ali MirzaN/A558Zohaib Hassan NaqviMamoo - Syed Asad Ali Naqvi06-Feb-2007559Zohaib Hassan NaqviBrother - Syed Asad Ali Naqvi06-Feb-2007560Nawab HaiderGrand Father - Hamid Hasan s/o Jaffar Husein19-Dec-1994561Syeda Irem SyedMother - Syeda Abida Naqvi14-May-1999562Riaz Hussain ChaudhryMother - Shamim Akhtar22-Apr-2006563Riaz Hussain ChaudhryParents - Najeeb ali, Shamim akhtar11/04/1985564ZainabUncle - Masood Ahmed Ali Naqvi, Masood30/6/2005, 5/5/2006565Sajjad HaiderNani - Ghulam AliUnknown566Sajjad HaiderUncle - Qurban AliUnknown567Sajjad HaiderGrand Mother - Jan BibiUnknown568Mubeshir Ali KazmiFather - Khalil AhmadMay-2003569Mrs Butool AbbasFather-in-Law - Dr S S Moonis2005570Mrs Butool AbbasSister - S Parveen NazarDec-2005571Mrs Butool AbbasSister - S Shamim NazarJuly-1999572Mrs Butool AbbasFather - Syed Nazar HussainOct 1999573K.ZaidiMother - Hajrah Begam2-Jan-1998574K.ZaidiFather - Syed Khurshid Haider Rizvi30-Sep-1993575Tasneem Z. RizviFather - Syed Kalb-e-Hasnain Rizvi10-Sep-1992576Syed Taqi Hyder RizviSister - Irum22-Mar-1983577Syed Taqi Hyder RizviGrand Mother - Syeda Shamim Bano30-Nov-1981578Syed Taqi Hyder RizviBrother - Syed Ali Hyder Rizvi18-Oct-2002579Syed Taqi Hyder RizviGrand Father - Syed Iftikhar Hussain Rizvi21-Dec-1966580Syed Taqi Hyder RizviGrand Father - Syed Ghulam Hussain Rizvi12-Jun-1969581Insia HusainiFather - Syed Ali Zaidi17-Sep-2005582Syed Taqi Hyder RizviBrother - Syed Taqi Hyder Rizvi18-Oct-2002583Shabbar BandaliGrand Mother - Nurbanu Bandali26-Aug-1993584Shabbar BandaliGrand Father - Rajabali Bandali15-Dec-1990585Shabbar BandaliGrand Father - Mohammed-Hussain Alibhai26-Nov-2003586Shabbar BandaliGrand Mother - Rubab Alibhai29-Dec-1993587Nomi AliFather - Ali Muhammad S/O Nabi Bux26-Dec-2006588S. RizviNephew - Iqbal Hussain s/s s. karamat hussainNA589S. RizviGrand Son - Saiyed Karamat Hussain1971590S. RizviGrand Son - Ilm-un-Nisa w/o s. karamat hussain1980591S. RizviNephew - Sanjeeda Jafri1990592S. RizviNephew - Shama d/o S. Karamat Hussain2002593S. RizviNephew - Khair-un-Nisa d/o S. Karamat HussainJan 2007594S. RizviGrand Son - S. Ali Muqaddas Rizvi1966595Sajjad HaiderUncle - HamayoonNA596Sajjad HaiderGrand Father - Najaf AliNA597Farhat FatimaFather - Syed Masrur-ul-Hasnain19-Feb-1985598Sameer AhmedFather - Mumtaz Ahmed (Marhoom)04-Feb-1994599AsimMother - Saleha Begum20-Sep-1995

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600Zohaib HassanGrand Father - S.Anwar Hussain Naqvi1975601Zohaib HassanGrand Mother - Zakkia Khatoon binte Mehdi Hassan14-Oct-1994602Syed Alamdar Raza ZaidiMother - Syeda Shakila Khatoon D/o Syed Sadiq Hussain Zaidi16-Jan-2007603Zakir HussainGrand Mother - Mohammad Taqi Datoo Thaver05-Mar-1982 604Mazahir Hussain RamjiFather - Rustam Ali RamjiNA605Alya NaqviGrand Mother - Zubaida Shah21-Apr-2006606Sayed Yasir Husnain ZaidiGrand Parents - Nafees Ahmed, Mohamadi Bagum,Ssadiq Husain1-Mar-1992607MahiraGrand Daughter - Akber Ali SangjiNA608Sayed Altaf HUssainFather & Mother - Sayed Fida Hussain Shah27-Jul-2004609Nazhat ShahFather - Sayed Safdar Hussain Shah25-May-2000610Syed Kamran ShahAunt - Syeda Azra Hassan03-Mar-2006611Zohaib Ahmed AbroGrand Father - Ghulam Haider Abro1996612Syed Shahzad AliFather - Syed Mumtaz Hussain Shah18-Oct-2006613Sumbul FatimaGrand Father - Sultan Ali Ladiwala29-Jul-2006614Humza ShahUncle - Syed Zamir Hussain Shah21-Dec-2006615Muhammad Hassan SiddiquiGrand Father - 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Sabira Begum binte Khursheed Hasan24-Jun-2005633Agha Saadat AliUncle - Syed Mohammad Alim S/o Syed Mohammad Hadi26-Oct-2004634Sobia SaadatUncle - Ali Imam20-Dec-2006635Humaira MemonSister - Khadijah Tazarvi26-Nov-2006636KhairunnissaBrother - Gulamabbass Bijani1-Oct-1977637KhairunnissaMother - Zainab Banu Biajni17-Jul-2000638KhairunnissaFather - Rajabalit Wali Bijani20-Aug-1977639Syed Ahsan Irtiza RizviFather - Syed Irtiza Hussain Rizvi26-Sep-2006640MIRZA BASITH ALI BAIGFather - Shamsunnisa BegumNA641Gul HassanFather & Mother - Gul Muhammad & Mrs Gul Muhammad2000 & 2006642Zehra RizviGrand Daughter - Habi-bun-Nisa bint-e- Ikram Hussain2-Dec-2006643Husain AfsarBrother - Bashir Afsar Naqvi22 -Dec-2003644S.M.Shahanshah RazaMother - Sayeda Khatoon d/o Syed Zahoor Hussain17-Apr-1989645Syeda Khatoon. d/o Syed Zahoor HussainMother - Syeda Khatoon d/o Syed Zahoor Hussain17-Apr-1989646Qamar Sibtain NaqviFather - Zillay Sibtain Naqvi14-May -2002647Samana Sajjad AliFather - Syed Sajjad Ali03-Nov-2006648Mohammad RafiqueFriend's Father - Karim Sayyed11-Oct-2005649Aljasir LeeMother - Hja Jordana bnt Jamasali-Rabulan14-Apr-2000650Aljasir LeeFather - Bonsuan Lee25-Oct-1974651Jamshed HamidiFather - Haji Abdul Hamid28-Jun-1998652Mohammad Rafique ShaikhGrand Father - Mohammad Hussian12-Mar-1985653FatimaMother - Farah bint-e-Mohammad Husein18-Oct-2003654Maliha HassanFather - Syed Hamid Ali Safvi19-Dec-1998655Samia TaqdeesUncle - Khadam HussainNA656Zareen FatimaHusband's Khaloo - Syed Sajjad Ali4-Nov-2006657Samia TaqdeesUncle - Abdul rashidN.A.658Samia TaqdeesGrand Father - Ghulam nabiN.A.659Syed Ali HusseinFather - Syed Sajjad Ali Ibne Syed Mahmood Ali3-Nov-2006660Syed Abul Hassan BilgramiUncle (Khaloo) - Syed Sajjad Ali4-Nov-2006661Mustafa RehmtullaSister-in-Law - Fatma Husein Ali MeghjiN.A.662Mustafa RehmtullaMother - Sherbanoo Ali Meghji27-Jan-1986663Mustafa RehmtullaFather - Ghulamali Rehmtulla15-Feb-1978664S.Abbas RizviUncle - Syed Shabbar Ali Ibne Syed Mushtaq Ali31-Oct-2006665Syed Haider RizviShia Leader - Allama Arif Hussain Al Hussaini (Shaheed)NA666Syed Haider RizviShia Leader - 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PirwaniNana, Nani & Dada - Ghulam Raza, Shireen Suleman, Abdul RazaMuharram922Shumaila BatoolAunt - Taqo Haider10-01-2006923Ziya RizviMother - Begum Syeda Tahira17-Jul-2005924Syed Sajjad AliCosin Sister - Qumar Unissa BegumN.A925Aziz AkhtarMother - Syeda Aziz Amina D/o Late Syed Aziz Hasan Rudaulwi26-Nov-1998926Aziz AkhtarMother - Aziz Amina D/o Late Aziz Hasan10/01/1938927Fiza Safdar SheikhFather - Sheikh Muhammad Safdar23 May 2005928SalmanRazaGrand papa - SamsaamHussain s/o Inaam Hussain1981929SalmanRazaDearest Sister - Farhana d/o SultanAli24 december 1979930SalmanRazaDearest aunty - Yasmeen d/o MohammedAli1985931SalmanRazaDearest Aunty - Daulatbanu w/o GhulamRaza7 Dhul-Haj 2006 932SalmanRazaGrand Mother - Noorbanubai d/o Hassanali24 Moharram1987933SalmanRazaGrand Father - Fidahussain s/o Aladin1968934SalmanRazaGrand Mother - Ameenabai d/o Hassanaliaugust 1978935SalmanRazaGrand Father - MohammadAli Peerbhai7 august 1975936SalmanRazaFather - SultanAli18 november2002937Syeda Rubab ZahraGrand Father - Syed Ishfaq Hussain ZaidiNA938Syeda Rubab ZahraChacha - Syed Saeed Haider Zaidi03-June-2005939Mustaneer HaiderGrand Father - Ijaz Hussain18-12-1989940NaziaFather-in-Law - Syed Muhammad Shafi Ahmed ZaidiN/A941Syed Muhammad Fida HusainFather - Syed Muhammad Shafi Ahmed Zaidi1997942Manzoor Ahmad ShahFather - Ghulam Rasool Shah09-12-1999943Inyait Ali ShahFather - Sibisha12-Apr-1992944Hussain G. IsmailMother - Rukaiya17-11-2004945Zakia TahirFather - Tahir Hassan25/10/95946Zulfiqar.Ali from parachinar(pak)Father - Hussain Ghulam09-12-1994947S.Tatheer Fatima NaqviBrother - Syed Danish Abbas Naqvi21/rajjab/1990948S.Tatheer Fatima NaqviFather - Syed Shehzada Mohammad naseem naqvi01/01/1987949Syed Ali SheerazFathers Cousin - Syed Tahir Hussain s/o Syed Abid Hussain19/02/1975950Syed Ali SheerazFathers Grand Mother - Kaneez Kubra d/o Abdullah21/05/1967951Syed Ali SheerazGrand Mother - Ummat-ul-Batool d/o Futeh Hussain01/06/1962952JavidFather/Mother - Mirza Basith Ali Baig and Shamsunnisa Bebum1999953Irum ZahraGrand Mother - Sughra Bibi25/10/2003954Irum ZahraGrand Father - Syed Manzoor Hussain Bukhari13/01/95955Shehzad GullGrand Mother/Father - Khawaja Rahim & Nisa BegumN.A956Oubeida Abdulmatin al-Hussain al-MahdiSon - Father7/01/1978957Oubeida Abdulmatin al-Hussain al-MahdiSon - Mother7/04/1994958Syed Mohd AzeemGrand Father - Syed Abid Hussain11/08/1984959Syed Sajjad AliPhopoo - Hameeda BegumN.A960Syed Sajjad AliPhopoo - 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Quid pro quo? (http://debka.com/headline.php?hid=5661)

[The 801]

I saw that.
I didn't post because I need a better source then Debka.

But it would be odd for them to post such a thing, I do admit.

[SMOKEY]

Verrrrrrry interrrrrrrrrrrresting

[The 801]

Debka Alert : "Insert standard disclaimer here"

Lebanon reportedly unmasks “Mossad” network spying also on Syria

DEBKAfile Special Report

November 1, 2008, 11:29 AM (GMT+02:00)
Mughniyeh's bombed car in Damascus

Mughniyeh's bombed car in Damascus

The Lebanese arm confirms media report Saturday, Nov. 1, that the head of a suspected Mossad spy ring was picked up at his home in the Lebanese Beqaa Valley W. Lebanon, with several family members, after lengthy surveillance in Lebanon and Syria He is not named in the report. They ring is said to have operated since 1980.

According to the report, a search of their Mitsubishi Pajero turned up a long-angle camera for detailed photography of facial features and vehicle number plates. His neighbors reported they had seen his car parked main highways between Shtaura in the Beqaa Valley and the Lebanese-Syrian border terminal at Massena. They said he had been staking out Lebanese, Syrian, and Palestinian movements. In recent months, he allegedly focused on Hizballah forces and leaders.

A state of the art communications gear was found in the suspected ringleader’s home.

Among his activities, the “agent” is suspected of keeping watch on sensitive parts of Damascus and of mapping the high-end Kfar Sousa district where Hizballah’s military chief, Imad Mughniyeh, was killed last February.

Lebanese and Syrian investigators are digging for a direct connection between the alleged Mossad spy ring and the assassination of Mughniyeh and other persons in the two countries.

Debka
But Here also...

Report: Lebanon uncovers espionage ring working for Israel

A-Safir: Man arrested on suspicion of employing network of agents working with Israeli intelligence to map out sensitive locations in Lebanon, Syria – including Damascus neighborhood in which Hizbullah leader Mugniyah was killed

Roee Nahmias
Published: 11.01.08, 11:32 / Israel News

The Lebanese army has uncovered an espionage ring operated by Israel for many years, the country's a-Safir daily news reported. The report said it was the second such ring discovered in two years. The other alleged spy network was exposed in 2006.

the Second Lebanon War, in an attempt to expose agents collaborating with Israeli intelligence in different areas of the country. The information led to the arrest of the main suspect in the case, A.G.

The alleged spy is a resident of one of the country's western Beqaa Valley villages. Since the '80s he has been known for his political relations with various Palestinian organizations, which allowed him diplomatic freedom of movement within Lebanon. According to the allegations, he has been collaborating with Israel since that time.

A.G's home was searched, and witnesses reported that security officials broke into his apartment and confiscated his vehicle. Security forces reported after searching the car that a highly advanced camera able to photograph minute details was found within.

Witnesses said the man had been in contact with a number of agents, and that his missions included driving through roadways connecting Lebanon with Syria, occasionally stopping to photograph sensitive areas.

Sources familiar with the case told the paper that one of the man's family members has also been detained, and admitted to collaborating with Israeli intelligence agents. He said he had been charged with a number of reconnaissance tasks including roadways, convoys, and military bases.

During the interrogation the main suspect admitted to have enlisted a number of agents and documents confiscated from his home testify to his involvement in the ring, as well as his use of high-tech means to keep in touch with Israeli operators, the report added.


Sources said the network has been operating for over 20 years, and was responsible for mapping out the Beqaa Valley, including Syrian military bases and Palestinian sites. Recently, a-Safir reported, the spies have been pursuing Hizbullah operatives and outposts.

The ring was said to have operated in Syria as well, where it is suspected to have mapped out areas in Damascus such as Kfar Sousa, the secure neighborhood in which Hizbullah leader Imad Mugniyah was killed in February by a car bomb.

Investigators are currently attempting to link the espionage ring to Mugniyah's murder, as well as to divine its function in the transfer of information to Israel, the report said.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3615993,00.html

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He is not named in the report.

The Lebanese daily Al Akhbar revealed the suspect's name as Ali Jarrah (http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1225199636945)


The report also claimed that Jarrah's brother, Yusuf, was arrested on suspicion that he had assisted his brother.

The Daily Star quoted a security source as saying that the two were related to Ziad Jarrah, a Lebanese man who was among the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a Pennsylvania field on September 11, 2001.

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Army Arrests Two People Linked to Israeli Espionage Network

The Lebanese army said Saturday it has arrested two people in the Bekaa Valley linked to an Israeli espionage network.

A Lebanese army communiqué said that the intelligence bureau, which made the arrests, also confiscated sophisticated cameras and radio sets.
It said the detainees have confessed to "collecting information about (political) party centers and monitoring the movements of the party leaders for the sake of the enemy."

The daily As-Safir earlier reported that the Lebanese army had discovered a cell working for the Israeli Mossad spy agency and arrested the network's leader and his relative.

Quoting judicial and security sources, As-Safir said the two men confessed to the army's intelligence service that they were collaborating with the Mossad.

It said the army arrested the cell's leader in the Western Bekaa valley after closely watching his moves in Lebanon and between Lebanon and Syria during security developments in the Bekaa which led many to believe that the suspect was kidnapped.

But later it was revealed that the man was in the custody of the army's intelligence.

While the judicial and security sources refused to give details, citizens of the town in which the arrest took place told As Safir that security forces raided his home and confiscated his four-wheel Mitsubishi Pajero which had a camera capable of taking clear pictures of faces and license plates.

The eyewitnesses told As Safir that the man is the head of the network. They said he didn't have any particular job and he used to sometimes park his vehicle on the international highway between the Bekaa town of Chtaura and the Masnaa border crossing.

Sources close to the investigation said the suspect was recruited by the Mossad in the 1980s. He has also recruited several people and documents seized from his house and vehicle proved his use of high-tech equipment to monitor or contact the Israelis.

The same sources said security forces have also arrested the man's relative who confessed to monitoring the moves of personalities, convoys and observing sensitive sites particularly in the central Bekaa.

The newspaper said the network has been entrusted in the past 20 years with monitoring several security spots, including Lebanese and Syrian army outposts and Palestinian bases in the Bekaa. However, the cell has in the past few years concentrated on observing Hizbullah posts, members and convoys.

Investigation also revealed that the cell has been monitoring sensitive security areas in Damascus, including the area of Kfar Sousa where Hizbullah commander Imad Mughniyeh was killed in a car bombing last February.

Investigators are reportedly trying to find a link between the network and the assassination of Mughniyeh and other personalities whether in Lebanon or Syria.

The ongoing probe is also focusing on the role the network played during the Israeli offensive on the country in July-August 2006.

Many people have previously been arrested in Lebanon on suspicion of spying for Israel.

In June 2006, the Lebanese army captured Mahmoud Rafeh, a 59-year-old Lebanese citizen and retired police officer, for a car bombing that killed Mahmoud Majzoub, a senior Islamic Jihad official, and his brother in front of their home in the southern city of Sidon.

The army had said that Rafeh was a member of a terrorist network allegedly working for the Israeli Mossad.

He later confessed to his role in killing the Majzoub brothers, and to other operations -- including bombings that killed two Hizbullah officials in 1999 and 2003 and the 2002 killing of Jihad Jibril, the son of Ahmed Jibril, leader of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC).

Rafeh's associate, Hussein Khattab, was able to escape and it was said that the Mossad helped him enter into the Palestinian territories during the July war.

In 2004, a Tunisian woman of Palestinian origin and four accomplices were indicted on charges of plotting with Israel to assassinate Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/Lebanon/307F91223EBF3656C22574F40019895E?OpenDocument

[Casey]

???

Mossad Spy Surveyed Kfar Sousa Ahead of Mughniyeh Murder, Report

The Mossad spy network leader arrested by Lebanese authorities has reportedly surveyed the Kfar Sousa neighborhood in Damascus a few months before Hizbullah Commander Imad Mughniyeh was assassinated by a car bomb last February.

The daily As-Safir, which carried the report on Monday, identified the spy leader as Ali Jarrah. It said the other suspect arrested was his brother, Youssef.

As-Safir said investigation with Ali Jarrah revealed that the Israeli Mossad secret agency had tasked him with surveying the Damascus neighborhood of Kfar Sousa a few months before Mughniyeh's killing.

It said a question mark is raised in this regard: Did Jarrah know why the survey was conducted? Or was he ordered to just monitor the area? And did he play a role in the summer 2006 war between Israel and Hizbullah?

The Lebanese army on Saturday said it has arrested two people in the Bekaa Valley linked to an Israeli espionage network.

A senior Palestinian official in the Bekaa told As Safir that Ali Jarrah has, since he quit Fatah-Uprising and joined Ahmed Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command, obtained a special military pass that allowed him to enter the Syrian-Lebanese border without being searched.

This pass was automatically renewed for many years up to his recent arrest.

The Palestinian source added that Jarrah moved freely in Damascus and frequently visited the homes of Palestinian officials and Palestinian centers.

During the July 2006 Hizbullah-Israeli war, Jarrah was seen with a video camera moving at some sensitive areas that included relief centers known to be connected to parties supporting Hizbullah, As Safir reported.

"Was he pinpointing security targets at the Bekaa?" the daily wondered.

The investigation is attempting to uncover whether the video camera fixed inside his four-wheel drive was satellite-connected to Israel, as was his ever working GPS system in his vehicle.

As-Safir wondered whether the arrest of this network will ultimately lead to uncovering other networks in the country.

Meanwhile, security sources connected to the investigation told the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat that the investigation is confidential.

The sources stressed that the suspect has confessed to working for the Mossad, that he has monitored certain political party centers and the movements of certain party leaders for Israel.

They said that Jarrah, who is in his fifties, was earlier arrested in Damascus by elements of Syrian State Security, a branch of Syrian Intelligence and charged with being a member of the Fatah-Intifada, or Uprising, a group headed by Abu Moussa.

In Syria, Jarrah was questioned for days concerning his relationship to Abu Khaled al-Emleh, who was earlier fired by Abu-Moussa following escape of Fatah al-Islam leader Shaker Abssi who is wanted in Lebanon for his role in the 2007 fighting at the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp.

Emleh was accused then of helping Abssi in facilitating his control over some of the Fatah-Intifada centers at the camp. Emleh was put under house arrest.

Sources added that a high-level political figure from the Bekaa intervened with the Syrians to release Jarrah who was charged by the Syrians of having links to Emleh since 20 years.

Jarrah was subject to intensive interrogation by Syrian authorities in Damascus that went beyond his connection to Emleh to include his said connection to tens of Fatah-Intifada members. They said that Syrian authorities later released him.

Jarrah later returned to his hometown of al-Marj in the western Bekaa and continued with his normal life up to his disappearance a month ago while on his way from the Bekaa to Beirut.

Sources in his hometown refused to comment on news that a certain political party had placed Jarrah under their intense watch and later arrested him under suspicion of spying for Israel. Meanwhile, Jarrah's family sought the help of Lebanese police to locate him.

Sources following the investigation revealed that the political party that had arrested Jarrah soon delivered him to Lebanese Army Intelligence.

Residents of al-Marj stated that an army unit last Oct. 25 raided his home, confiscated his four wheel drive vehicle and arrested his brother. Residents said that the army also searched his uncle's home without taking any further action.



Beirut, 03 Nov 08, 09:13

http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/Lebanon/1423E914D530B151C22574F60028D161?OpenDocument

[Casey]

and more ???

Members of Israeli spy ring 'related to 9/11 hijacker'
'Lebanon is an open theater for espionage'
By Andrew Wander
Daily Star staff
Monday, November 03, 2008

BEIRUT: Two men arrested for running an Israeli spy ring in the Bekaa Valley are relatives of a suicide hijacker who piloted a plane in the September 11, 2001, attacks, a security source told The Daily Star on Sunday. The Lebanese Army announced on Saturday that it had arrested two people suspected of involvement with a spy network that gathered information for Israel's intelligence services.

The army said that the men had been arrested on Friday, but the source said that they were actually captured two weeks ago and the discovery of the arrests by the media prompted the army to announce their capture.

The army said the men had admitted "gathering information on political party offices and monitoring the movements of party figures for the enemy."

The statement added that the men had been found with "communications devices and other sophisticated equipment," which they used to gather information and transmit it to Mossad agents.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the source said the men are relatives of Ziad Jarrah, the Lebanese who helped commandeer United Airlines Flight 93 before it crashed into a Pennsylvania field on September 11, 2001, killing everyone on board. Jarrah's family is from the town of Al-Marej in the Bekaa Valley, where the arrests took place.

The Jarrah family have repeatedly denied that Ziad was part of the September 11 plot, claiming he was instead a innocent passenger on the plane, but an official investigation concluded that he was a senior member of the hijacking team who had undergone flight training in order to carry out the attacks.

Residents of Al-Marej told As-Safir newspaper that the men were arrested when security forces raided a home in the town and seized equipment from a car. The newspaper said investigators had found documents which prove that the men had been in contact with Israeli intelligence agents. Investigators said that the men had passed information about the location of Lebanese and Syrian army outposts to the Israelis.

One of the two men arrested, identified only by his initials "A.D.J.," is believed to have been the head of the spy ring. Security sources told The Daily Star that the man was a member of the Palestinian militant group Fatah al-Intifadah, which is known to be active along the Syrian border.

The other man who was arrested is said to be a relative of "A.D.J." and was allegedly involved in conducting reconnaissance work for Mossad in the Bekaa Valley.


Investigators said that the spy ring had been active in the area since the late 1980s.

Retired General Elias Hanna told The Daily Star that Lebanon provided the perfect environment for spies to operate. "Lebanon is an open theater for espionage and counter-espionage," he said. "It has all the elements that are needed in international and regional conflict."

But he said that if the group had been operating since the 1980s it would be surprising. "That's 20 years," he said. "That's a long period of time."

The timing of the arrests was also surprising, he said, given that senior officials in the Lebanese Army had recently been replaced, disrupting the continuity needed for counter-espionage operations.

"You have to work on these cases for a long period of time. It requires information and long periods of monitoring," Hanna said.

"The previous period was chaotic in Lebanon, so I don't know how the arrests happened," he added.

He said the group were probably trying to gather information about Hizbullah, but would not have been able to infiltrate the group. "Hizbullah is an intelligence-proof entity," he said. "It operates with a very high level of secrecy. If you cannot get inside it, you study its environment. This is what we are seeing."

Investigators say the men were tasked with monitoring the movements of senior political figures in the Bekaa region, which lies on the main route between Beirut and Damascus.

Officials are also investigating a theory that the group provided intelligence to the Israelis that may have helped them plan the killing of the senior Hizbullah military commander Imad Mughniyeh in Damascus in February.

Hizbullah's leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, has accused Israel of being behind the car bomb that killed Mughniyeh and has pledged that the Shiite group will take revenge for his death.

An Israeli government spokesman refused to comment on the arrests.

"Every couple of weeks there is someone, somewhere accusing the Mossad of something. As a rule, we don't comment on all these accusations," the spokesman said on Sunday.

Meanwhile, the Lebanese Army denied the validity of media reports that linked two men seen crossing the Lebanese-Israeli border on Sunday with the case. In a statement issued on Sunday, the army said that the reports were "confused."

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=97339#

[Casey]

Khamenei Fatwa Allowed Nasrallah to Keep his Position as Hizbullah Leader

Hizbullah's General Conference ended speculations regarding keeping its Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in his current position, following a Fatwa (religious decree) by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei allowing him to maintain his top post.

The Kuwaiti daily al-Rai said that the conference is mulling naming senior Hizbullah commander Mustapha Shehadeh to succeed the late military leader Imad Mughniyeh, who was assassinated in Damascus last February.

Hizbullah's internal system does not allow the extension of Nasrallah's current term. The party's secretary-general, under the system, can only be elected for two, not more, consecutive terms. Khamenei's Fatwa, however, came in his favor.

Al-Rai said that circles within Hizbullah displayed their disappointment regarding news by an Iranian daily naming Nasrallah's expected successor, Hashem Safieddine who heads the party's Shura Council.

The paper said Safieddine, who is Nasrallah's maternal cousin, is far removed from the spotlight, describing him as an individual occupied with "managing" the party's wide and complex executive "government."

Safieddine is being treated by Hizbullah as the party's expected successor to Nasrallah in case of any emergency, according to al-Rai.

It said Hizbullah began its conference a few weeks ago, and will end its work soon. The conference, which is held every four years, is expected to produce a new vision concerning changes on the political and military levels.



Beirut, 01 Nov 08, 14:19

http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/0/B2CE40DF3F47EE22C22574F40042FDF8?OpenDocument

[The 801]

MMM,
Speculations anyone?
This is a rather tortured situation. The gentlemen arrested for spying for Mossad where related to a 9/11 high jacker? The information they collected led to the death of Mugniyeh? The same Mugniyeh who helped facilitate 9/11?

Wild guess:
Mossad located these guys because they knew Mugniyeh too, or at least what he looked like, and when he traveled. Mugniyeh met them and recruited the one cousin. The Mossad figured this out. Mossad located, recruited and paid them. The family has no scruples, or they were blackmailed into it. ( Bekka is a big drug growing region, and Mugniyeh is involved in the growing and smuggling of drugs into Israel, so maybe they were involved, or caught by the israelis smuggling) Mossad has been tracking Mugniyeh for a long long time and knew when and where he was almost all the time. Remember the Bunker Attack during the last war?

Any thoughts?

[Casey]

MMM,
Speculations anyone?
This is a rather tortured situation. The gentlemen arrested for spying for Mossad where related to a 9/11 high jacker? The information they collected led to the death of Mugniyeh? The same Mugniyeh who helped facilitate 9/11?

Wild guess:
Mossad located these guys because they knew Mugniyeh too, or at least what he looked like, and when he traveled. Mugniyeh met them and recruited the one cousin. The Mossad figured this out. Mossad located, recruited and paid them. The family has no scruples, or they were blackmailed into it. ( Bekka is a big drug growing region, and Mugniyeh is involved in the growing and smuggling of drugs into Israel, so maybe they were involved, or caught by the israelis smuggling) Mossad has been tracking Mugniyeh for a long long time and knew when and where he was almost all the time. Remember the Bunker Attack during the last war?

Any thoughts?
That's not bad for a wild guess.

[The 801]

Added for confusion: Debka ( Warning Warning Warning) States that this is some sort of disinformation campaign:

Syria’s Assad cooks up Mossad-Saudi-al Qaeda plot to discredit pro-Western Lebanese government

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

November 7, 2008, 8:25 PM (GMT+02:00)


Syrian president Bashar Assad has drawn encouragement to go ahead with a drive to recover his grip on Lebanon from signals coming in from Barack Obama’s team and from the peace overtures of Israeli transitional prime minister Ehud Olmert, DEBKAfile’s Beirut sources report.

To this end, the Syrian president has concocted an improbable disinformation cocktail which brings together the al Qaeda-linked Fatah al-Islam terrorist organization, Saudi intelligence and the Israeli Mossad. This mix is designed to be explosive enough to discredit the Lebanese majority leader Saad Hariri and oust the pro-western government which stands in the way of Syria’s domination of Beirut.

Thursday night, Nov. 6, Syrian state TV paraded four Fatah al-Islam terrorists who are charged with bombing Syrian security installations on the Damascus airport road on Sept. 27 at the cost of 17 lives. Shown with them were documents “proving” that a Saudi businessman had bankrolled the attack as the manager of this al Qaeda-linked organization’s bank account.

Wafaa el-Abassi, daughter of the Fatah al-Islam leader, appeared next to “reveal” that she had heard her father say he had received moneys from Saad Hariri’s Mustaqbal Movement in Beirut.

Syria has taken to using Fatah al-Islam as a multitask tool for its propaganda needs, including the pretext for its military concentrations around Lebanon’s borders.

When he met US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice in New York last month, Syrian foreign minister Walid Muallem explained that Syria was forced to encircle Lebanon after Fatah al-Islam seized control of the northern Lebanese Tripoli region on orders from al Qaeda.

DEBKAfile’s sources report that with two ingredients of Damascus’ disinformation cocktail in place, Damascus is ready to go with the third.

The alleged Lebanese Mossad spy, whose detention was first revealed on Nov. 1, is about to be identified as Ali Jarrah, who was employed jointly by the Israeli Mossad and the Lebanese Saad Hariri. Damascus earlier implicated the spy in the murder of Hizballah’s military chief Imad Mughniyeh in Damascus last February.

This “revelation” is meant to close the disinformation noose around Hariri’s neck and undermine the reputation of anti-Syrian government leaders in Beirut as the sheet anchor of stable government in Lebanon.

Assad is presenting them instead as the hub of a roaring trade in operational plans, intelligence and funds among terror groups linked to al Qaeda, Saudi intelligence and the Israeli Mossad.

Israeli intelligence sources are highly critical of Olmert’s willingness to put up with Assad’s defamations of Israeli intelligence without protest for the sake of his prospective dialogue with Syria. Foreign minister Tzipi Livni and defense minister Ehud Barak are equally faulted for their failure to fight back.

Look it up, its debka.

Now this is a mess. And I guess it is on purpose, and that would explain it twisted logic and odd coincidences. Occam's Razor applies.

[Casey]

One of the forums I read mentioned several weeks ago that there would be a huge disinformation campaign but didn't give any details.

I expected it would involve Iraq but more and more I am pretty sure this is it.

[Vancouver]

The propaganda from Damascus is bundling together all the regime's problems and blaming them on an impossible conspiracy among their enemies, which behaviour is not really unusual for Damascus. Their problems currently include:

-- Fatah al-Islam, a violent, fanatical, and well-funded Wahhabi gang in the Tripoli area of North Lebanon

-- The assassination of Imad Mugniyeh -- the Elvis of terrorism -- who headed the whole Iranian and Syrian program of assassinations and massacres in other countries including Saudi Arabia (the Khobar Towers attack)

-- The presence of Sunni terrorist groups in Syria -- a side effect of the strictly Sunni pipeline for jihadis, including many Saudis, going to Iraq via Syria. This is not Syria's first experience of this problem. An uprising incited by the Muslim Brotherhood years ago left about 20,000 Syrians dead before it was crushed. The bulk of the Syrians themselves are Sunnis, not Shi'ites.

Some Lebanese people and newspapers try to blame Fatah al-Islam on the Syrian regime, but that cannot be sound. Damascus plays an intermediary role between Iran and its stooges Hizbullah, yes, but FaI is Salafist and rabidly anti-Shi'ite, and presumably funded by the same rich Arabs and criminal organizations who bankroll al-Qa'ida elsewhere.

[NYer]

So is a Basher-Rice Agreement a done deal?

[The 801]

Iran receives al Qaeda praise for role in terrorist attacks
Fresh links between Iran's Revolutionary Guards and al-Qaeda have been uncovered following interception of a letter from the terrorist leadership that hails Tehran's support for a recent attack on the American embassy in Yemen, which killed 16 people.


By Con Coughlin
Last Updated: 6:49AM GMT 24 Nov 2008

Delivery of the letter exposed the rising role of Saad bin Laden, son of the al-Qaeda leader, Osama as an intermediary between the organisation and Iran. Saad bin Laden has been living in Iran since the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, apparently under house arrest.

The letter, which was signed by Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's second in command, was written after the American embassy in Yemen was attacked by simultaneous suicide car bombs in September.

Western security officials said the missive thanked the leadership of Iran's Revolutionary Guards for providing assistance to al-Qaeda to set up its terrorist network in Yemen, which has suffered ten al-Qaeda-related terror attacks in the past year, including two bomb attacks against the American embassy.

In the letter al-Qaeda's leadership pays tribute to Iran's generosity, stating that without its "monetary and infrastructure assistance" it would have not been possible for the group to carry out the terror attacks. It also thanked Iran for having the "vision" to help the terror organisation establish new bases in Yemen after al-Qaeda was forced to abandon much of its terrorist infrastructure in Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

There has been intense speculation about the level of Iranian support for al-Qaeda since the 9/11 Commission report into al-Qaeda's terror attacks against the U.S. in 2001 concluded that Iran had provided safe passage for many of the 9/11 hijackers travelling between Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia prior to the attacks.

Scores of senior al Qaeda activists - including Saad bin Laden - sought sanctuary in Iran following the overthrow of the Taliban, and have remained in Tehran ever since. The activities of Saad bin Laden, 29, have been a source of Western concern despite Tehran's assurances that he is under official confinement.

But Iran was a key transit route for al Qaeda loyalists moving between battlefields in the Middle East and Asia. Western security officials have also concluded Iran's Revolutionary Guards have supported al-Qaeda terror cells, despite religious divisions between Iran's Shia Muslim revolutionaries and the Sunni Muslim terrorists.

Iran is active in Yemen, Osama bin Laden's ancestral homeland. The country has been a focal point for al-Qaeda, which has found relatively easy targets in its lawless environment. "Yemen is now a key strategic base for al-Qaeda's operations, as well as being fertile recruitment territory," said a senior Western security official. "Iran's Revolutionary Guards have provided important support in helping al-Qaeda to turn Yemen into a major centre of operations."

Apart from the terror attacks against the US embassy al-Qaeda has also threatened to attack the British and Saudi Arabian embassies in Yemen.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/3506544/Iran-receives-al-Qaeda-praise-for-role-in-terrorist-attacks.html

OK, why is this here? Well Mugniyeh set this situation up, at least got Saad out of Afganistan when the ship hit the span.

Second, this just shows further evidence that Mugniyeh probibly had a hand ( or at least a passive approval) of 9/11.

So while he is dead and gone, Mugniyeh will live on in the tangled web he wove.

Second, it has been a long time since we have seen Con Coughlin reported here. I guess it is because:

"Coughlin has been criticized for writing highly controversial unsubstantiated articles that provide justification for British foreign policy, which have subsequently been proven false.[4] He has a history of accepting phoney stories from MI6 and then publishing articles in the name of fabricated sources. He has been accused of being a conduit for Black propaganda" - Wikipedia

He was the "source" Muhammed Atta in Prague story.

[NYer]

I guess it is because:

"Coughlin ... has a history of accepting phoney stories from MI6 and then publishing articles in the name of fabricated sources. He has been accused of being a conduit for Black propaganda" - Wikipedia


Sorta like Sy Hersh ...

[Casey]

Israeli Channel: Anti-Israeli Hezbollah attack thwarted in Europe

iloubnan.info - January 29, 2009, 12h04

BEIRUT - Israeli Channel 2 quoted security officials as saying on Wednesday that a massive attack against an Israeli target in Europe had been thwarted in recent weeks.

The channel affirmed that the attack was linked to Hezbollah and was foiled due to intelligence cooperation between Israel and an undisclosed European country.

Israeli officials believed that as the one year anniversary of the February 12 assassination of Hezbollah second-in-command Imad Mugniyah approaches, attempts to attack Israeli targets around the world would intensify.

[NYer]

Mugniyeh assassination details Revealed. (http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/0/C8D352031D58C41EC22575550063C2BB?OpenDocument) HT: Weasel Zippers

[The 801]

Yedioth Ahronoth Publishes Details Of Mughniyeh Assassination By Mossad

The Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth published details regarding the assassination of leading Hizbullah military leader Imad Mughniyeh, explaining that the hands that placed the deadly blow up charge at Mughniyeh's vehicle to the right of the driver's headrest were solely Israeli.

The paper said that operational planning for Mughniyeh's assassination commenced with the arrest of Ali Moussa Daqdouq a Hizbullah 'foreign operations' official by Israeli security close to Karbala, Iraq in January 2007.

The Israelis interrogated Daqdouq and later delivered him to U.S. Central Intelligence Agents, which also questioned him regarding Mughniyeh, according to the Israeli daily.

The paper said that Mughniyeh was assassinated because he committed one mistake more than required. The fact that it was common knowledge that he would be visiting Iran's new ambassador to Damascus Hujat al-Islam Mossawi, on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the Islamic revolution on February 12.

The paper added that the Israeli assassination team sneaked into Syria from Iraqi-Kurdistan in three vehicles and monitored Mughniyeh the night before his assassination.

According to Yedioth Ahronoth, the Israeli team reached Mughniyeh's Mitsubishi Pajero and exchanged the headrest with another loaded with explosives. The Israeli team did not use a time bomb because they feared unforeseen sudden changes.

Once Mughniyeh was seen seated next to the driver, the headrest blew up by remote control, the paper said.

Yedioth Ahronoth added that Israel fears Hizbullah and Iran would take revenge for Mughniyeh's killing. The first anniversary of the assassination is soon approaching on February 12

http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/0/C8D352031D58C41EC22575550063C2BB?OpenDocument

Now we just have to wait for the movie.

[Casey]

Hizbollah Brigades in Iraq - Video in memory Hajj Imad Mugniyah (Hajj Radwan)

Hizbollah Brigades in Iraq

“We will not forget you Leader…”

View video (http://www.worldanalysis.net/download/2009/hez_iraq.htm)

In memory of Lebanese Hizbollah top military leader Hajj Imad Mugniyah (Hajj Radwan) who got martyred on this day a year ago, Hizbollah Brigades presents this Videoclip.


http://worldanalysis.net/download/2009/hez_iraq.bmp

[NYer]

I'm sure the Stethem family won't forget either. Hoo Rah!

[Casey]

Two Israeli policemen shot dead in West Bank

Sun Mar 15, 2009
By Ori Lewis

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian militants shot dead two Israeli policemen in an attack in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, the first incident of its kind in the area for several months.

In Gaza, a spokesman for the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, said a little-known group called the Imad Mougniyeh units had claimed responsibility for the attack.

The group is named after a military commander of the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah who was assassinated in Damascus in 2008.

The policemen were shot dead near the mainly agricultural Jewish settlement of Massuah, in an area of the West Bank close to the border with Jordan that is under Israeli security control.

An official from Israel's Magen David Adom ambulance service said medics had found a car that had veered off the road and that the two men inside had suffered gunshot wounds.

Earlier this month, a Palestinian bulldozer driver was shot dead after attacking two police officers in their car with his vehicle in Jerusalem.

Last Wednesday, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian youth and wounded another after firebombs were thrown at their vehicle in the occupied West Bank.

Israel has transferred some security control to Palestinian security forces in West Bank towns but controls much of the traffic that travels through the areas at checkpoints.

Most of the recent Israeli-Palestinian violence has taken place along Israel's southern border with the Gaza Strip, where more than 1,300 Palestinians and 14 Israelis died in a recent 22-day Israeli offensive targeting Islamist Hamas militants.

(Additional reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza and Atef Saad in Nablus; Writing by Ori Lewis; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE52E26L20090315

[The 801]

Lebanese Daily Reveals New Facts about 'Imad Mughniyah's Career in Hizbullah

On the first anniversary of the assassination of Hizbullah operations officer 'Imad Mughniyah, the editor of the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar, Ibrahim Al-Amin, who is close to Hizbullah, published a comprehensive editorial on Mughniyah's life and his role in Hizbullah. The article reveals new details about Mughniyah's involvement in Hizbullah's preparations before the 2006 Lebanon War, in the rebuilding of the movement's strength after the war and the investigation and assessment of the war's outcomes, in Hizbullah's preparations for its next confrontation with Israel, and in the transmission of Hizbullah's expertise to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

Following are excerpts from the editorial, and from a previous article by Ibrahim Al-Amin on Mughniyah's role in preparing the Palestinian forces in Gaza for the war:

Preparing for the 2006 Lebanon War

"During the six-year period [between Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000 and the 2006 Lebanon War], Mughniyah led the greatest development process in the history of the resistance during his time, training thousand of fighters, deploying them along the [Lebanon-Israel] border using special methods of camouflage, and introducing new methods of warfare [to be used] on the battlefield. Along with hundreds of hand-picked [fighters], he worked to deploy Hizbullah's missile force in a way that would [best] allow it [to] fulfill its function, and [oversaw] the digging of tunnels, the construction of military bases, and the establishment of dozens of observation points, concealed and unconcealed… [He] honed the abilities of the resistance [forces] through detailed study of the procedures and operation methods of the occupation army. At that time, [Mughniyah] headed an intelligence apparatus [whose activities will remain secret] for many years to come, but which had a hand in [various] victories and achievements.

"After the successful abduction [of the three Israeli soldiers] in the Shab'a Farms area in autumn 2000, and the successful [prisoners] exchange deal in January 2004, Hajj 'Imad [Mughniyah] waited for the [subsequent] mediation efforts [between Hizbullah and Israel to bear fruit]. Since there were still prisoners in the [Israeli] jails, it was decided to carry out another kidnapping. In July 2006, [Hizbullah] successfully carried out Operation Fulfilled Promise [Hizbullah's name for the July 12, 2006 kidnapping of the two Israel soldiers], and then the [2006 Lebanon] War broke out..."

Rebuilding Hizbullah's Strength after the War

"'In six months we accomplished what [previously] took us six years to do.' So said Mughniyah nine months after the end of the [2006] Lebanon War, referring to the measures taken by the resistance to rearm and restore its strength. From the very first day after the end of the insane war launched by Israel against Lebanon, Hizbullah's leaders were all engaged in caring for [the refugees] driven from their homes and in assessing the damages. Mughniyah, for his part, visited his comrades in the resistance - officers and soldiers - and handled the issue of the wounded and killed. At the same time, he was [already] formulating [plans] to recruit thousands of new resistance [fighters], as part of an intensive work plan for regaining all the arms [and resources] lost during the war. In Hizbullah's August 2006 victory rally, [Hizbullah Secretary-General] Hassan [Nasrallah] felt confident to announce to the [attending] masses that Hizbullah's missile arsenal was already larger than it had been during the war."

Drawing Lessons from the Outcomes of the War - Long before Israel's Winograd Report

"… Within a few weeks [from the end of the war], Mughniyah formed dozens of [investigation] committees, which scrutinized every point and every confrontation [between the two sides], documenting as many of the battles as possible and reconstructing what befell each of the resistance units - those that directly took part in the fighting and those that [only] assisted and stood by in the areas where no fighting occurred. Teams were appointed to go over the testimonies and conduct investigations in order to draw lessons from [Hizbullah's] successes and mistakes. Within a short period of time - long before the publication of the Winograd Report in Israel - Mughniyah and the [other] resistance commanders prepared their report and assessment of the war. Lessons were learned and conclusions were drawn, and this led to the formation of a series of plans. Mughniyah supervised the implementation of many of these plans, while other [commanders] are now working to complete the rest."

Preparing for the Next Confrontation: The Annihilation of Israel No Longer Just a Dream

"Between August 15, 2006 [the end of the war] and February 12, 2008, Mughniyah [hardly] slept. He worked very long hours, sometimes going two or three days without sleep… During this period, he again formulated new plans for the resistance, based on the outcomes of the [summer 2006] confrontation and on [his expectations regarding the next] confrontation, which could occur any day. But his operational activities were grounded in the belief, shared by other Hizbullah commanders, that the annihilation of Israel was no longer just a dream that would take decades to realize. [They saw that] it was possible … to deal the enemy blows that would neutralize its ability to defend its entity [i.e., state], and to target the [Israeli] home front in a way that would undermine its unity and its strength - all in order to accomplish … the mission of rescuing Palestine and annihilating Israel.

"[Mughniyah] worked to introduce programs for developing, training, and preparing [the Hizbullah forces], and for arming them with every type [of weapon], as rapidly as possible, in preparation for a war that would last many months, not weeks like the previous war. [He also worked to introduce] new abilities at the various ranks [of the organization], to create advanced new mechanisms for all the sectors and for all the planning activities, to meet all the needs of the [forces in] training, to arm the tens of thousands of resistance fighters, and to deploy them according to the new plans, which presented an upgraded [version of the warfare] method based on combining resistance units with classical weaponry."

Conveying Hizbullah's Expertise to Hamas: Training Fighters in Syria, Lebanon, and Iran

"Palestine always remained a watchword for [Mughniyah] and for his comrades in the Palestinian resistance, who shared his cause. Neither side ever found it difficult to cooperate [with the other] in order to achieve the common goal, which serves the [even] larger purpose of creating conditions that will bring about the actual annihilation of Israel. Mughniyah did not need any special occasion, or any false pretenses, in order to explain to the enemy - even before [he explained it to his own] allies and resistance fighters - that the cause of restoring Palestine to its people and annihilating Israel took precedence over everything else…

"From October 15, 2006 onwards, Mughniyah did not rest for a single day. He behaved as if he sensed his approaching death, and before leaving, sought to finish every [task] he could, not only in Lebanon but in other places as well, and in particular, to convey [Hizbullah's] expertise to the Palestinians. He worked on this task long and scrupulously, along with the leaders of the Palestinian factions who were in charge of this issue in Gaza, the West Bank, and the rest of Palestine. He shared with them in detail the lessons drawn by the resistance from the July war, [including] its assessment of the functioning of the enemy army, its strong and weak points, with emphasis on the needs of the Palestinian resistance.

"[Mughniyah] took charge of the assistance program aimed at transmitting [Hizbullah's] experience to Gaza and the West Bank, and [supervised] the hosting Palestinian groups in order to furnish them with experience, ideas, and plans. This, in addition to transferring [weapons] into Palestine by various means - to which end the shahid [Mughniyah] recruited enormous human and financial resources. At the same time, his basic working hypothesis was that Palestine had prodigious human resources [of its own], which must be deployed correctly in the decisive battle that is sure to come one day - even if be far in the future." [1]

In an article he published during the Gaza War, Al-Amin shed further light on Mughniyah's role in preparing the Palestinian resistance forces for this confrontation. He wrote: "Soon after Israel's defeat in Lebanon, Mughniyah engaged in [the task of] transmitting [Hizbullah's] experience to Palestine. He hurried to hold a series of meetings, right until the period just before his death, pursuing what he regarded as his greatest dream… Soon, the plans were drawn up, and dozens of Palestinian resistance cadres traveled to Syria, Lebanon and Iran, where many details were revealed to them, and they were allowed to benefit from [Hizbullah's] comprehensive experience.

"Within less than a year, Gaza saw [the emergence of] a reality on the ground that was different from the [situation] that had prevailed there in previous decades. The hierarchical [structure] of the resistance forces - particularly of Hamas - changed to accommodate the possibility of an insane Israeli war, [just] like the one that is being waged today. All the issues were discussed [in advance], including how to defend [Hamas'] ever-growing arsenal, keep the supply lines open and maintain contact between all the units. The shahid Mughniyah was quoted as saying: 'The Palestinians are proving, day after day, that they are a heroic people capable of withstanding every hardship. The way in which Gaza and the area around it turned into [a system of] living [underground] cities shows that - with willpower and [the right] leadership - [today's Palestinians] may yet accomplish what all the previous [generations] failed to do.

http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP230209

Not really all that informative.

[NYer]

"The evil that men do lives after them."
William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2

[The 801]

And the evil men do......

In Lebanon's wild east, Hezbollah finds itself on left foot
After supporting an Army crackdown against lawlessness in the Bekaa Valley, the Shiite organization faces a backlash from angry clan members ahead of June elections.
By Nicholas Blanford | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

from the April 15, 2009 edition

Dar AlWasaa, Lebanon - The death of a noted drug dealer and the revenge killing of four soldiers have plunged the Lebanese Army into a confrontation with the powerful Shiite clans that rule Lebanon's wild northern Bekaa Valley.

Hundreds of Lebanese special forces backed by helicopters deployed this week into the northern Bekaa, raiding homes and encircling villages in a manhunt for a gang suspected of carrying out an attack on Monday against an Army patrol that left four soldiers dead.

But the clash between the Army and clans in the Bekaa, a Hezbollah stronghold, has placed the powerful Shiite organization in an awkward position.

Long loathe to tangle with the clans from which it derives much grass-roots support, the organization had turned a blind eye to their criminality for years. But when a car thief struck one of its own, Hezbollah signalled its consent to the Army to crack down. Now, some angry clan members are vowing to vote against the Hezbollah-led opposition in June 7 parliamentary elections, shaping up to be the closest in decades.

The tough and close-knit Shiite clans have long held sway in the remote arid plain of the northern Bekaa, an area traditionally ignored by successive Lebanese governments. Some of them earn huge profits from drug trafficking, hashish cultivation, car theft, and counterfeiting.

In the impoverished village of Dar Al-Wasaa, tucked into rocky hills on the western flank of the Bekaa Valley, a woman from the Jafaar clan, one of the largest and most powerful tribes in the area, explains why they rely on drugs for income.

"This area is extremely neglected by the government," says the middle-aged woman, who declined to give her full name. "There is no way to earn a living. What are we supposed to do? Eat rocks? There's nothing for us to do but sell drugs."

Why Hezbollah's tolerance snapped

Although Hezbollah disapproves of drugs on moral and religious grounds, it generally ignores the hashish cultivation and heroin refining that takes place in the northern Bekaa.

And it has not been averse to exploiting narcotics as a weapon against Israel. After Israel withdrew from an occupied strip of south Lebanon in May 2000, Hezbollah coopted the existing cross-border drug smuggling networks.

Drug dealers in south Lebanon smuggle hashish and heroin across the border into Israel in exchange for cash for themselves and intelligence information for Hezbollah. The Israeli authorities have busted several drugs-for-intel spy rings in northern Israel in the past few years. One of the largest was run by a lieutenant colonel in the Israeli army who, ironically, lost an eye to a Hezbollah roadside bomb while serving in south Lebanon in the 1990s.

But Hezbollah's tolerance of the criminality in the Bekaa snapped a few months ago when thieves stole a car belonging to Jihad Mughniyah, son of Imad Mughniyah, Hezbollah's top military commander who was assassinated last year in Damascus car bombing.

According to a source familiar with the incident, Mughniyah was hunting with friends near Chaat village in the Bekaa when members of the Zeaiter clan snatched his vehicle, apparently unimpressed that its owner was the son of the legendary Mughniyah.

In response, Hezbollah quietly gave a green light to the Army to mount a crackdown on the gangs of car thieves. But the army's round-up expanded to include drug dealers and hashish farmers, infuriating the clans, some of whom are vowing to vote against Hezbollah in the upcoming election.

Army hits the road to Bekaa

On Monday, four soldiers were killed and 11 wounded near the Bekaa town of Rayak in an ambush suspected to have been carried out by members of the Jaafar clan. The attack was revenge for the killing last month of Ali Abbas Jaafar, a drug dealer who had 172 outstanding arrest warrants. Lebanese soldiers shot him in his car on a dirt track outside Dar al-Wasaa.

Speaking Monday after the ambush against the soldiers, Interior Minister Ziad Baroud said that the Army was a "red line" and vowed "to strike with an iron fist" against the perpetrators.

The next day, the highway leading from Beirut to the Bekaa was clogged with tank transporters carrying camouflaged armored personnel carriers and trucks filled with red-bereted soldiers. Troops set up numerous checkpoints on the roads leading to Dar al-Wasaa, while helicopters clattered high above, keeping well out of the range of rocket-propelled grenades carried by the fugitives.

Survivors of Army attack tell their story

The village was eerily quiet in the bright morning sunshine. The men of Dar al-Wasaa had fled ahead of the approaching soldiers, grabbing their weapons and disappearing into the rugged mountains, the traditional refuge for the clans.

The Lebanese army claimed that Ali Abbas Jaafar had failed to stop at a checkpoint, forcing the soldiers to open fire at his vehicle. Ali Abbas and another member of the Jaafar family were killed.

But those in the vehicle who survived offer a different version, insisting that the troops ambushed Ali Abbas and opened fire without warning.

"We didn't see the soldiers or their vehicles. All we saw were bullets coming from the trees, hitting the car and us," says Salwa Jaafar, who had hitched a ride in Ali Abbas' car along with her four children. She was wounded in the arm and in one lung. Her teenage son, Ahmad, was hit in the back.

Salwa claimed that the soldiers beat them despite their wounds and it took the intervention of armed members of the Jaafar clan before they were allowed to go to hospital for treatment.

The incident has inflamed the Jaafars, arousing fierce instincts of revenge and tribal solidarity.

"Yes, the Jaafars do kill, but only those that kill us," says a close female relative of Salwa, her voice rising with anger. "The soldiers who were killed deserve to be killed. I support the boys that did this. Understand this: If they kill one of us, we kill one of them. If I know where the men are who killed the soldiers I would go and kiss their feet for what they have done."

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0415/p06s21-wome.html

I love this sort of crap.

[The 801]

Ah, Mugniyeh fans, I think I will start posting this data here....


LEBANON: Report linking Hezbollah to Hariri assassination raises questions

Lebanon-hariri In a bombshell report published Saturday, the German weekly Der Spiegel says the investigation into the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is moving toward the conclusion that the Shiite militia Hezbollah was behind the attack.
Based entirely on an unnamed source or sources, the Spiegel report said Lebanese investigators monitoring cellphone usage in the vicinity of the car-bomb explosion that killed Hariri lucked into a breakthrough discovery.

According to the report, the cellphones were used exclusively for phone calls among the alleged assassins except for one instance when one of the suspects used a phone to call his girlfriend.

From that single call, investigators figured out the name of the operative. Allegedly, he was Abdul Majid Ghamlush, described as an Iranian-trained agent who belongs to a "special forces" unit of Hezbollah, according to the report, which then goes on to link him to higher-ups in Hezbollah, including a commander named Hajj Salim.

Most Lebanese believe Syria masterminded Hariri's assassination to maintain its slipping control over Lebanon, a charge Damascus vehemently denies.

Hariri was enormously popular among all Lebanese groups, and if it's true that the United Nations tribunal has concluded that Hezbollah was behind the assassination, it would have a huge effect on the country, where a critical election is being held on June 7.

But the story raises some unanswered questions. In addition to citing only an anonymous source or sources, it alludes to "documents" to bolster its claims, but they are neither described nor shown in the report.

Almost all of the Hezbollah operatives allegedly involved in the assassination are dead or missing. The Lebanese officer investigating the cellphones connection was killed, and Imad Mughniyeh, who oversaw the "special forces" unit, also was killed in Damascus last year, making the allegations tough to verify.

Although the report examines both Hezbollah's motives in wanting to assassinate Hariri and the tribunal's motives in allegedly keeping the accusations against the group under wraps, it leaves aside questions regarding the motive of the leaker, who timed the revelations just before the Lebanese elections and at a juncture when Israel and Washington are trying to coax Syria away from Iran and Hezbollah.

-- Borzou Daragahi in Beirut

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2009/05/lebanon-report-linking-hezbollah-to-hariri-death-raises-questions.html

[The 801]

Hizballah’s Phoneprints All Over Hariri Assassination?
W. Thomas Smith Jr.
23 May 2009

The Lebanon-based Jihadist terrorist group, Hizballah, is now believed to have been directly involved in the 2005 Valentine's Day Massacre of 23 people in Beirut – including former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri (the primary target of the bomb-assassins) – according to a May 23 article in DER SPIEGEL.

No real surprise. But will the forthcoming revelations be enough to quash Hizballah’s push less than three weeks before the June 7 parliamentary elections in Lebanon wherein the terrorist group is already attempting to manipulate the outcome through its classic methods of intimidation? And will the revelations be enough to shut down the Syrian-Iranian-Hizballah operations room in Lebanon.

Difficult to say. What we do know is that Hizballah – which former U.S. Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff says, “makes al Qaeda look like a minor league team” – has a media/propaganda arm that is second to none. Its military wing is stronger – and frankly has more political leverage – than the Lebanese army and police (both of which have been heavily infiltrated by Hizballah). Hizballah’s possession of huge stockpiles of military grade weapons – staged throughout the country (in violation of both United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1559 and 1701) – has never been adequately challenged. And if Hizballah doesn’t get what it wants from the so-called democratically elected government of Lebanon, the terrorist group and its allies will attack the Lebanese people as they did in May 2008 with impunity.

Now, “the United Nations special tribunal investigating the murder [of Hariri] has reached surprising new conclusions -- and it is keeping them secret,” says Erich Follath, writing for the German-based weekly magazine. “…investigators now believe Hizballah was behind the Hariri murder.”

Counterterrorism officials with the pro-democracy World Council for the Cedars Revolution (WCCR) say the “surprising new conclusions” are simply a reaffirmation of what they have been reporting for the past four years.

“The Syrians planned the operation which was then coordinated through the joint-operations war room between the Syrians, Hizballah and its Iranian overlords, and the security apparatus of the previous [Emile] Lahoud regime,” says Col. Charbel Barakat (Lebanese Army, ret.), a former infantry brigade commander who today serves as senior security advisor to the WCCR and directs the council’s office of counterterrorism. “We have long-believed Hizballah executed the operation, and the group did so in concert with the three regimes.”

According to the article, who killed Hariri “has been the source of wild speculation.” Suspects have included everyone from the Israelis to Syria’s intelligence services to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, even to Al Qaeda.

In the wake of Hariri’s assassination, a UN-approved investigative team was established, which ultimately determined that Syrian and Lebanese officials were responsible. But as Follath writes, “the smoking gun, the final piece of evidence, was not found.” A UN special tribunal revisited the investigation in March 2009, and that tribunal has now “yielded new and explosive results.”

According to Follath, Lebanese security forces’ intelligence expert Capt. Wissam Eid, who himself was assassinated Jan. 25, 2008, had determined that eight cell phones (purchased on the same day in the Lebanese city of Tripoli) “were activated six weeks before the assassination, and … were apparently tools of the hit team that carried out the terrorist attack.”

The eight phones have since been referred to as the "first circle of hell."

A so-called "second circle of hell," approximately 20 additional phones that were “noticeably often” in close proximity to “the first circle,” belonged to the "operational arm" of Hizballah.

Apparently one of the Hizballah operatives “committed the unbelievable indiscretion of calling his girlfriend from one of the ‘hot’ phones.” This led investigators to the suspected mastermind of the operation, Hajj Salim, who assumed command of Hizballah’s military wing following the Feb. 2008 assassination of the previous commander, the notorious Imad Mughniyeh, in Damascus.

The tribunal’s collected evidence runs even deeper, according to DER SPIEGEL’s source: “They have apparently discovered which Hizballah member obtained the small Mitsubishi truck used in the attack. They have also been able to trace the origins of the explosives, more than 1,000 kilograms of TNT, C4 and hexogen.”

Barakat says, “Our intelligence assessment has always indicated that the Hariri assassination – decided and ordered at the highest levels of government in Damascus and Beirut – was a direct-action operation carried out by Hizballah’s special hit squads. What’s worse is that the joint-operations room, known as ‘Ghurfat al amaliyat al mushtaraka,’ which coordinated the attack, was never dissolved even after the Syrians were kicked out in 2005.”

Follath writes, “One can only speculate over the reasons why the Hariri tribunal is holding back its new information,” but adds the investigators may fear such revelations might inflame the already caustic situation in Lebanon.

http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=2942

This is getting good, ain't it?

[The 801]

DER SPIEGLE article:
We still remain the "website of record" concerning Mugniyeh.
A bit long, but you can handle it.

BREAKTHROUGH IN TRIBUNAL INVESTIGATION
New Evidence Points to Hezbollah in Hariri Murder

By Erich Follath

The United Nations special tribunal investigating the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri has reached surprising new conclusions -- and it is keeping them secret. According to information obtained by SPIEGEL, investigators now believe Hezbollah was behind the Hariri murder.

It was an act of virtually Shakespearean dimensions, a family tragedy involving murder and suicide, contrived and real tears -- and a good deal of big-time politics.


The terror attack in Beirut on Valentine's Day, 2005: Intensive investigations in Lebanon are all pointing to Hezbollah and not Syria.
On February 14, 2005, Valentine's Day, at 12:56 p.m., a massive bomb exploded in front of the Hotel St. Georges in Beirut, just as the motorcade of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri passed by. The explosives ripped a crater two meters deep into the street, and the blast destroyed the local branch of Britain's HSBC Bank. Body parts were hurled as far as the roofs of surrounding buildings. Twenty-three people died in the explosion and ensuing inferno, including Hariri, his bodyguards and passersby.

The shock waves quickly spread across the Middle East. Why did Hariri have to die? Who carried out the attack and who was behind it? What did they hope to achieve politically?

The Hariri assassination has been the source of wild speculation ever since. Was it the work of terrorist organization al-Qaida, angered by Hariri's close ties to the Saudi royal family? Or of the Israelis, as part of their constant efforts to weaken neighboring Lebanon? Or the Iranians, who hated secularist Hariri?

FROM THE MAGAZINE
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At the time of the attack, it was known that Hariri, a billionaire construction magnate who was responsible for the reconstruction of the Lebanese capital after decades of civil war, wanted to reenter politics. It was also known that he had had a falling out with Syrian President Bashar Assad after demanding the withdrawal of Syrian occupation forces from his native Lebanon. As a result, the prime suspects in the murder were the powerful Syrian military and intelligence agency, as well as their Lebanese henchmen. The pressure on Damascus came at an opportune time for the US government. Then-President George W. Bush had placed Syria on his list of rogue states and wanted to isolate the regime internationally.

In late 2005, an investigation team approved by the United Nations and headed by German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis found, after seven months of research, that Syrian security forces and high-ranking Lebanese officials were in fact responsible for the Hariri murder. Four suspects were arrested. But the smoking gun, the final piece of evidence, was not found. The pace of the investigation stalled under Mehlis's Belgian successor, Serge Brammertz.

The establishment of a UN special tribunal was intended to provide certainty. It began its work on March 1, 2009. The tribunal, headquartered in the town of Leidschendam in the Netherlands, has a budget of more than €40 million ($56 million) for the first year alone, with the UN paying 51 percent and Beirut 49 percent of the cost. It has an initial mandate for three years, and the most severe sentence it can impose is life in prison. Canadian Daniel Bellemare, 57, was appointed to head the tribunal. Four of the 11 judges are Lebanese, whose identities have been kept secret, for security reasons.

As its first official act, the tribunal ordered the release, in early April, of the four men Mehlis had had arrested. By then, they had already spent more than three years sitting in a Lebanese prison. Since then, it has been deathly quiet in Leidschendam, as if the investigation had just begun and there were nothing to say.

Hezbollah supporters in Beirut listen to a speech given by the movement's leader, Hassan Nasrallah. Hariri's growing popularity could have been a thorn in the side of Lebanese Shiite leader Nasrallah.

Hezbollah supporters in Beirut listen to a speech given by the movement's leader, Hassan Nasrallah. Hariri's growing popularity could have been a thorn in the side of Lebanese Shiite leader Nasrallah.
But now there are signs that the investigation has yielded new and explosive results. SPIEGEL has learned from sources close to the tribunal and verified by examining internal documents, that the Hariri case is about to take a sensational turn. Intensive investigations in Lebanon are all pointing to a new conclusion: that it was not the Syrians, but instead special forces of the Lebanese Shiite organization Hezbollah ("Party of God") that planned and executed the diabolical attack. Tribunal chief prosecutor Bellemare and his judges apparently want to hold back this information, of which they been aware for about a month. What are they afraid of?

According to the detailed information provided by the SPIEGEL source, the fact that the case may have been "cracked" is the result of a mixture of serendipity à la Sherlock Holmes and the state-of-the-art technology used by cyber detectives. In months of painstaking work, a secretly operating special unit of the Lebanese security forces, headed by intelligence expert Captain Wissam Eid, filtered out the numbers of mobile phones that could be pinpointed to the area surrounding Hariri on the days leading up to the attack and on the date of the murder itself. The investigators referred to these mobile phones as the "first circle of hell."

Captain Eid's team eventually identified eight mobile phones, all of which had been purchased on the same day in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. They were activated six weeks before the assassination, and they were used exclusively for communication among their users and -- with the exception of one case -- were no longer used after the attack. They were apparently tools of the hit team that carried out the terrorist attack.

But there was also a "second circle of hell," a network of about 20 mobile phones that were identified as being in proximity to the first eight phones noticeably often. According to the Lebanese security forces, all of the numbers involved apparently belong to the "operational arm" of Hezbollah, which maintains a militia in Lebanon that is more powerful than the regular Lebanese army. While part of the Party of God acts like a normal political organization, participating in democratic elections and appointing cabinet ministers, the other part uses less savory tactics, such as abductions near the Israeli border and terrorist attacks, such those committed against Jewish facilities in South America in 2002 and 2004.

The whereabouts of the two Beirut groups of mobile phone users coincided again and again, and they were sometimes located near the site of the attack. The romantic attachment of one of the terrorists led the cyber-detectives directly to one of the main suspects. He committed the unbelievable indiscretion of calling his girlfriend from one of the "hot" phones. It only happened once, but it was enough to identify the man. He is believed to be Abd al-Majid Ghamlush, from the town of Rumin, a Hezbollah member who had completed training course in Iran. Ghamlush was also identified as the buyer of the mobile phones. He has since disappeared, and perhaps is no longer alive.

Part 2: Revelations Will Likely Harm Hezbollah

Ghamlush's recklessness led investigators to the man they now suspect was the mastermind of the terrorist attack: Hajj Salim, 45. A southern Lebanese from Nabatiyah, Salim is considered to be the commander of the "military" wing of Hezbollah and lives in South Beirut, a Shiite stronghold. Salim's secret "Special Operational Unit" reports directly to Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, 48.

Imad Mughniyah, one of the world's most wanted terrorists, ran the unit until Feb. 12, 2008, when he was killed in an attack in Damascus, presumably by Israeli intelligence. Since then, Salim has largely assumed the duties of his notorious predecessor, with Mughniyah's brother-in-law, Mustafa Badr al-Din, serving as his deputy. The two men report only to their superior, and to General Kassim Sulaimani, their contact in Tehran. The Iranians, the principal financiers of the military Lebanese "Party of God," have repressed the Syrians' influence.

The deeper the investigators in Beirut penetrated into the case, the clearer the picture became, according to the SPIEGEL source. They have apparently discovered which Hezbollah member obtained the small Mitsubishi truck used in the attack. They have also been able to trace the origins of the explosives, more than 1,000 kilograms of TNT, C4 and hexogen.

The Lebanese chief investigator and true hero of the story didn't live to witness many of the recent successes in the investigation. Captain Eid, 31, was killed in a terrorist attack in the Beirut suburb of Hasmiyah on Jan. 25, 2008. The attack, in which three other people were also killed, was apparently intended to slow down the investigation. And, once again, there was evidence of involvement by the Hezbollah commando unit, just as there has been in each of more than a dozen attacks against prominent Lebanese in the last four years.

This leaves the question of motive unanswered. Many had an interest in Hariri's death. Why should Hezbollah -- or its backers in Iran -- be responsible?

Hariri's growing popularity could have been a thorn in the side of Lebanese Shiite leader Nasrallah. In 2005, the billionaire began to outstrip the revolutionary leader in terms of popularity. Besides, he stood for everything the fanatical and spartan Hezbollah leader hated: close ties to the West and a prominent position among moderate Arab heads of state, an opulent lifestyle, and membership in the competing Sunni faith. Hariri was, in a sense, the alternative to Nasrallah.

Syrian President Bashar Assad with his wife Asma: Although the Syrian government is not being declared free of the suspicion of involvement, at least President Assad is no longer in the line of fire. There is hardly anything to indicate he was aware of the murder plot.
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Syrian President Bashar Assad with his wife Asma: Although the Syrian government is not being declared free of the suspicion of involvement, at least President Assad is no longer in the line of fire. There is hardly anything to indicate he was aware of the murder plot.
Whether Lebanon has developed in the direction the Hezbollah leader apparently imagined seems doubtful. Immediately after the spectacular terrorist attack on Valentine's Day in 2005, a wave of sympathy for the murdered politician swept across the country. The so-called "cedar revolution" brought a pro-Western government to power, and the son of the murdered man emerged as the most important party leader and strongest figure operating in the background. Saad al-Hariri, 39, could have become prime minister of Lebanon long ago -- if he were willing to accept the risks and felt sufficiently qualified to hold office. After the Hariri murder, the Syrian occupation force left the country in response to international and domestic Lebanese pressure.

But not everything has gone wrong from Hezbollah's standpoint. In July 2006, Nasrallah, by kidnapping Israeli soldiers, provoked Israel to launch a war against Lebanon. Hezbollah defied the superior military power, solidifying its image as a resistance movement in large parts of the Arab world. If there were democratic opinion polls in the Middle East, Nasrallah would probably be voted the most popular leader. The highly anticipated June 7 elections will demonstrate whether the Lebanese will allow Nasrallah to radicalize them again. Once again, he is entering into the election campaign in a dual role. He is both the secretary-general of the "Party of God," represented in the parliament since 1992, and the head of Hezbollah's militia, part of a state within a state that makes its own laws.

Hezbollah currently holds 14 of 128 seats in parliament, a number that is expected to rise. Some even believe that dramatic gains are possible for Hezbollah, although landslide-like changes in the Lebanese parliamentary system are relatively unlikely. A system of religious proportionality ensures, with list alliances arranged in advance, that about two-thirds of the seats in parliament are assigned before an election. In the cedar state, a Sunni must always be prime minister, while the Shiites are entitled to the office of speaker of parliament and the Christians the relatively unimportant office of the president.

Hezbollah has not managed to upset this system, adopted decades ago, even though it objectively puts its clientele at a disadvantage. As a result of differences in birthrates, there are now far more Shiites than Sunnis or Christians in Lebanon. Some say that Nasrallah isn't even interested in securing power through elections, and that the "Party of God" would be satisfied with a modest share of the government. By not taking on too much government responsibility, Hezbollah would not be forced to dissolve its militias and make significant changes to its ideology of resistance.

The revelations about the alleged orchestrators of the Hariri murder will likely harm Hezbollah. Large segments of the population are weary of internal conflicts and are anxious for reconciliation. The leader of the movement, which, despite its formal recognition of the democratic rules of the game, remains on the US's list of terrorist organizations, probably anticipates forthcoming problems with the UN tribunal. In a speech in Beirut, Nasrallah spoke of the tribunal's "conspiratorial intentions."

The revelations are likely to be just as unwelcome in Tehran, which sees itself confronted, once again, with the charge of exporting terrorism. Damascus's view of the situation could be more mixed. Although the Syrian government is not being declared free of the suspicion of involvement, at least President Assad is no longer in the line of fire. Hardly anything suggests anymore that he was personally aware of the murder plot or even ordered the killing.

One can only speculate over the reasons why the Hariri tribunal is holding back its new information about the assassination. Perhaps the investigators in the Netherlands fear that it could stir up the situation in Lebanon. On Friday evening, the press office in Leidschendam responded tersely to a written inquiry from SPIEGEL, noting that it could not comment on "operational details."

Detlev Mehlis, 60, the German senior prosecutor and former UN chief investigator, has his own set of concerns. He performed his investigation to the best of his knowledge and belief, questioning more than 500 witnesses, and now he must put up with the accusation of having focused his attention too heavily on Syrian leads. The UN tribunal's order to release the generals who were arrested at his specific request is, at any rate, a serious blow to the German prosecutor.

One of the four, Jamal al-Sayyid, the former Lebanese general security director, has even filed a suit against Mehlis in France for "manipulated investigations." In media interviews, such as an interview with the Al-Jazeera Arab television network last week, Sayyid has even taken his allegations a step further, accusing German police commissioner Gerhard Lehmann, Mehlis's assistant in the Beirut investigations, of blackmail.

Sayyid claims that Lehmann, a member of Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) proposed a deal with the Syrian president to the Lebanese man. Under the alleged arrangement, Assad would identify the person responsible for the Hariri killing and convince him to commit suicide, and then the case would be closed. According to Sayyid, the authorities in Beirut made "unethical proposals, as well as threats," and he claims that he has recordings of the incriminating conversations.

Mehlis denies all accusations. Lehmann, now working on a new assignment in Saudi Arabia, was unavailable for comment. But the spotlight-loving Jamil al-Sayyid could soon be embarking on a new career. He is under consideration for the post of Lebanon's next justice minister.

Translated from the German by Christopher Sultan

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,626412,00.html

[Casey]

Nasrallah blames Israel for 'Der Spiegel' report on Hariri

May. 25, 2009
Associated Press , THE JERUSALEM POST
Hizbullah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah on Monday accused Israel of being behind a report by a German magazine that implicated the Shi'ite group in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.

Speaking at a rally in south Beirut, Nasrallah said the Der Spiegel report aimed to foment strife between Lebanon's Sunnis and Shi'ites.

Hizbullah dismissed Saturday's report as based on "fabrications."

After Hariri's killing, many blamed Syria, which had long dominated Lebanese affairs. Syria denied it had a role. The Der Spiegel report, however, quoted sources close to the international tribunal investigating the killing as saying that Hizbullah carried it out, not Syria.

This article can also be read at http://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1243259516948&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull

[NYer]

Michael Totten: Did Hezbollah Kill Hariri? (http://wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1456152#post1456152)

... Leaders of the “March 14” bloc could hardly ask for a more effective political weapon against Hezbollah during the run-up to the election next month, but they also couldn’t ask for one that’s more dangerous. Jumblatt is right to invoke the incident that ignited the worst war in his country’s history. Accusing Hezbollah of assassinating Hariri – and, by implication, of assassinating a number of journalists and members of parliament in the meantime – could easily do to Lebanon what Al Qaeda’s Samarra mosque bombing in 2006 did to Iraq.

[The 801]

Robert Baer: Don't Forget Mousavi's Bloody Past
By Robert Baer Thursday, Jun. 18, 2009

http://http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2009/0906/baer_mousavi_0617.jpg

Former Iranian Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi in Ankara, Turkey, in 1985

Before we go too far down the road cheering the forces of Iranian democracy, let's not forget that its public face, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, has American blood on his hands. He was Iran's Prime Minister during most of the 1980s, a time when the country was waging a terrorist campaign against the U.S.

Earlier this week, I received an e-mail from a Lebanese who was present at the creation of the country's Iranian-backed, Shi'ite militia Hizballah in 1982 and on familiar terms with its most radical and violent members. He wrote: "Are you people crazy backing Mousavi, a patron of Hizballah's terrorist wing?" (See behind-the-scenes pictures of Mir-Hossein Mousavi.)

Indeed, Mousavi, Prime Minister from 1981 to 1989, almost certainly had a hand in the planning of the Iranian-backed truck-bombing attacks on the U.S. embassy in April 1983 and the Marine barracks in October of that same year. Mousavi, as my Lebanese contact reminded me, dealt directly with Imad Mughniyah, the man largely held responsible for both attacks. (Mughniyah was assassinated in Damascus last year.) The Lebanese said Mughniyah had told him over and over that he, Mughniyah, got along well with Mousavi and trusted him completely.

When Mousavi was Prime Minister, he oversaw an office that ran operatives abroad, from Lebanon to Kuwait to Iraq. This was the heyday of Khomeini's theocratic vision, when Iran thought it really could export its revolution across the Middle East, providing money and arms to anyone who claimed he could upend the old order. Mousavi was not only swept up into this delusion but also actively pursued it.

It was Mousavi who appointed Iran's ambassador to Damascus, Ali Akbar Mohtashemi-pur, the Iranian caught red-handed planning the Marine-barracks bombing. Mohtashemi-pur also coordinated the hostage-taking in Lebanon. As a reward, Mousavi gave him the Interior Ministry, where Mohtashemi-pur went on to crack down on what was left of democracy in Iran.

And it is not as if Mousavi kept his support for Iran's secret war on the U.S. a secret. In a 1981 interview, he had this to say about the taking of American diplomats in Tehran in 1979: "It was the beginning of the second stage of our revolution. It was after that we discovered our true Islamic identity." (Read "The Man Who Could Beat Ahmadinejad: Mousavi Talks to TIME.")

None of this is to exonerate the other candidates. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was an officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the Iranian paramilitary force responsible for most of the terrorism against the U.S. Conservative Mohsen Rezaei was the Guards' commander. And Mehdi Karroubi, like Mousavi, was deeply involved in Lebanon in the '80s. According to my Hizballah contact, he too was a patron of Mughniyah's.

This may all be ancient history to Iran's fledgling democratic movement, and history the Op-Ed pages of our newspapers would prefer to forget. But at the very least, it should be a reminder that, when it comes to political leaders, there are no good choices in Iran. It is a promising sign that Mousavi has put his violent past behind him, as has Iran for the most part, but let's not completely forget his far-from-democratic roots.

Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1905477,00.html

[The 801]

Inside Intel / Why sell arms when you can play golf?
By Yossi Melman

The controversial arms dealer and businessman Aaron Frankel continues to draw fire, this time for his dealings in Croatia. Frankel is Croatia's honorary consul in Jerusalem, and his name has been linked to the purchase of 47 dunams in the historic holiday city of Dubrovnik on the Adriatic coast. The Croatian weekly Globus had reported that the city's new mayor, Andro Vlahusic, asked the country's attorney general to look into the circumstances of that deal.

Frankel is married to Maja Brinar, a former Croatian deputy minister of commerce. The two, with the help of the former Croatian minister of commerce, Davor Stern, met with Dubrovnik's then-mayor, Dubravka Suica. Last May 5, the municipality signed an agreement with a company Frankel owns for the sale of a plot of land for 360 thousand euros. The weekly says it was an "outrageously" low price and asserts it was a "dubious deal." The plot is adjacent to an area of a projected golf course and luxury tourism site. Frankel bought the adjacent area from a local businessman two years ago.

The deal was made just before municipal elections. Unfortunately for Frankel, Suica lost the elections, and Andro Vlahusic replaced her. The new mayor began examining past contracts and discovered Frankel's. "The former mayor," he told the weekly, "was a stepmother to the city and a true mother to some chosen investors, never mind where they come from." Suica denied any wrongdoing and noted that Vlahusic himself had met Frankel and his wife shortly before the elections. She wondered why they met and what they discussed.

Friends in high places

Years ago Frankel owned a failed halva plant in Bnei Brak, and his name popped up in the press in Israel such as the reports on his wedding at a deluxe hotel in Monte Carlo to the Croatian deputy minister in 2004. Major Labor Party figures were invited guests, including Shimon Peres, Haim Ramon, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, Dalia Itzik and other friends. Frankel chartered a plane to fly them to the wedding and put them up in a hotel.

Then Frankel's name emerged in connection with the mega deal involving Israel, Russia and China for the sale of Phalcon early-warning aircraft. Frankel, who befriended the then director general of Israel Aerospace Industries, Moshe Keret, was the industry's agent in arms deals with Azerbaijan and Russia. Through his mediation, a Russian Ilyushin plane was flown to Israel, and IAI installed sensitive intelligence equipment. The plane was destined for the People's Republic of China, but the deal fell through because of pressure from the United States. Instead, IAI signed a similar, but much bigger deal, to sell early-warning equipped planes to India.

Frankel's close ties with IAI yielded tens of millions of dollars. Several years ago the State Controller's Office published a report about the Ilyushin deal with Russia and found numerous irregularities and suspicion of criminal activity. Subsequently the Israel Police launched an investigation that focused on Keret, but it produced nothing, and the file was closed.

Frankel's spokesman said in response that the property in Dubrovnik was purchased legally in accordance with a tender and the winning bid was higher than the assessment that an independent legal source gave the Dubrovnik municipality - this was the finding of the Croatian authorities when they checked into the deal - but "to our regret we were caught in a struggle between the incoming and outgoing mayors and this, despite the fact that we acted without blemish."

The successor

Hezbollah has appointed Mustafa Badr al-Din as head of its external operations, reports the journal Intelligence Online in its new issue. Until now al-Din commanded the movement's military arm and was an adviser to Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah.

Badr al-Din is the brother-in-law of the late Imad Mughniyah, who was killed in Damascus a year and a half ago, and it's not surprising he was named the organization's supreme military commander. His appointment follows three stinging failures for Hezbollah's external operations. First, there was the attempt to detonate bomb-laden cars near Israel's embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan. Two Hezbollah activists were arrested, and their ties to Iran's Revolutionary Guards were exposed. The second failure was in Egypt, where a network of Hezbollah operatives was exposed, and the third was in Colombia, where three Lebanese drug dealers are standing trial for paying a commission (12 percent of their profits) to Hezbollah.

According to the Intelligence Online report, Abdul Hadi Hammade, who until now commanded Hezbollah's secret Position 71, a special forces unit that engages in counter-intelligence and internal security, was appointed al-Din's assistant. That unit reportedly helped to uncover the alleged spy rings arrested in Lebanon over the last few months.

And, finally, a question to Defense Minister Ehud Barak: Doesn't the defense minister think that the recent events in Iran require he change his decision and now keep the tiny unit in his office that monitors developments in Iran? Recently Barak decided to close that unit headed by Uri Lubrani.


http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1093896.html

[The 801]

Iran election: Tehran backs Hizbollah operations around world
Iran's harsh condemnation of Western meddling in its election has triggered an alert over a new wave of international terrorism after the regime backed a dramatic expansion of the network operated by Lebanon's Hizbollah movement.


By Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Published: 6:54PM BST 26 Jun 2009

The country's leaders have repeatedly lashed out at the West, blaming British and other foreign agents for inciting the biggest demonstrations, which were ignited after presidential candidates accused officials of rigging the election in favour of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the hardline president.

Intelligence experts have warned that rather than merely seeking to distract attention from its domestic turmoil with rhetoric, Iran will seek retaliation beyond its borders.


"Hizbollah has stretched, facilitated by Iran, across the Middle East, Central Asia, Europe and Latin America," said Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at Sweden's National Defence University. "It grants Iran global power and Hizbollah has become more susceptible to Iran's efforts to project its influence."

Intelligence experts believe that Germany, where Hizbollah has an estimated 900 operatives, is the most likely source of an attack staged by the group in Europe.

"Hizbollah is capable of striking in Germany or more likely planning an incident like the al-Qaeda cell in Hamburg that planned the attack on New York," said Alexander Ritzmann, a fellow at the European Centre for Democracy.

"Hizbollah operatives can be activated from Beirut or Tehran. Iran is using Hizbollah figures for its foreign policy purposes and killing the regime's opponents."

Hizbollah proclaims it is a Lebanese political party but acknowledges that it maintains a substantial arsenal of weapons as "resistance" against Israel. But its footprint stretches worldwide. In recent months it has been implicated in weapons smuggling, assassination attempts and illicit smuggling schemes by prosecutors in Egypt, Azerbaijan, Belgium and the US.

General Douglas Fraser, the new head of US Southern Command, which overseas its operations in Latin America, this week warned that Hizbollah and other Iranian allies posed the greatest threat to security in his region.

"The real concern is not a nation-to-nation interaction; it is the connection that Iran has with extremist organisations like Hamas and Hizbollah and the potential risk that that could bring to this region," he said.

Iranian pro-democracy activists that have fled overseas aknowlege that Iran can pose a threat to activists based overseas. "Many of the Iranians that are demonstrating all over the world fear they will be identified," said Fatehma Shams, a student at Oxford whose husband Mohammadreza Jalaeipour hass been held in solitary confinement in Tehran for the last 10 days. "In my case I've been singled out and there is risks. Even my own safety is not guaranteed but I don't care because there is a higher goal."

The murder of the veteran head of Hizbollah's military wing, Imad Mughniyah, who was blown up driving in Damascus last year, has emerged as a turning point for the organisation.

Intelligence officials believe that the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds force, Gen Qassem Suleimani, has tightened his control over the organisation's main units.

"Hizbollah is not the independent outfit it was before Mughniyeh was killed," said a British official. "Under Mughniyeh it wouldn't be involved in the range of activities that it is now implicated in.

"The Iranians can now pick and choose between the different units which are competing for prestige and funding."

Frances Guy, the British Ambassador to Lebanon, held talks last week with a Hizbollah MP as part of contacts approved by David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary. A Foreign Official conceded the talks were an attempt to reduce Hizbollah's threats to British interests.

"The point here is not to discuss Lebanese politics, there's wider reasons for this," the official said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5651837/Iran-election-Tehran-backs-Hizbollah-operations-around-world.html

[The 801]

Target Jordan' says al-Qaeda agent
Jordanian intelligence belived that it had
successfully recruited al-Balawi

An al-Qaeda double agent who killed seven American intelligence operatives in a suicide attack on a base in Afghanistan has appeared in a video calling for a "jihad" against Jordan.

Hammam Khalil al-Balawi's posthumous 42-minute-long video was posted on the internet on Sunday.

In it he detailed his recruitment by Jordanian intelligence and how he double crossed them after they sent him to Afghanistan to spy on al-Qaeda.

The video was apparently filmed shortly before the 32-year-old al-Balawi blew himself up at a facility used by the US's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on December 30 in Afghanistan's eastern province of Khost.

He is thought ot have gone there under the pretext that he would reveal information on Ayman al-Zawahri, al-Qaeda's second in command.

'Gift from Allah'

Al-Balawi said he only expected to kill his Jordanian handler, Ali bin Zaid, but the addition of the CIA members would be a bonus.

"We planned for something but got a bigger gift, a gift from Allah, who brought us, through His accompaniment, a valuable prey: Americans, and from the CIA.

"That's when I became certain that the best way to teach Jordanian intelligence and the CIA a lesson is with the martyrdom belt," he said.

In the video al-Balawi appears in military fatigues cradling an assault rifle and what appears to be C4 explosives.

The suicide blast at the CIA facility caused one of the worst ever losses for the spy agency and put the focus on the co-operation between the American and Jordanian intelligence services.

Jordan accused

In the video, al-Balawi also accused Jordan of providing information for the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, in 2006 as well as that of Imad Mughniyeh, the Hezbollah commander who died in a car bomb in Damascus in 2008.

"The Jordanian intelligence apparatus has a record which emboldens them to such behavior, but with Allah's permission, after this operation, they will never stand on their feet again," he said.

Al-Balawi, a doctor, hailed from the same hometown of Zarqa as al-Zarqawi and was a prolific contributor to jihadist websites.

But he was never able to realise his dream of joining the jihad until he was arrested by Jordanian security.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/02/2010228114745982725.html

[NYer]

Petraeus: Tehran aiding Al Qaeda. (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/17/tehran-aiding-al-qaeda-links-petraeus-says/)

Iran is assisting al Qaeda by facilitating links between senior terrorist leaders and affiliate groups, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East told Congress on Tuesday.

[NYer]

Tehran arming Taliban. (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7066239.ece)

Mugsy may be dead, but his spirit lives on.

[The 801]

Jordan denies role in Mughniyeh, Zarqawi killings

AFP/Amman
Jordan yesterday dismissed posthumous video claims by a double-agent who killed seven US intelligence officers that Amman was involved in the assassination of two Hezbollah and Al Qaeda commanders.
Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, in a video made before his suicide attack, accused his home country of involvement in the killings of Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Lebanese Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh, according to a report by US-based IntelCenter.
“Jordan rejects such false and illogical accusations and lies,” said government spokesman Nabil Sharif. “Jordan has no interest in targeting people like Mughniyeh or sparking a war with Hezbollah.”
Jordanian-born Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the triple suicide bomb attacks on Amman hotels in 2005 that killed 60 people. He died in a 2006 US air strike in Iraq.
Mughniyeh was killed in a 2008 car bombing in Syria. He was wanted for the 1985 hijacking of a TWA airliner in which a US Navy diver was killed and the 1992 bombing of Israel’s embassy in Argentina that cost 29 lives.
Jordan’s intelligence service, believing Balawi to be their agent, sent him to Pakistan to spy on Islamist militants.
But in December, he blew himself up at a meeting on Forward Operating Base Chapman in Afghanistan, killing seven US intelligence officers and his Jordanian handler.
In the tape released by IntelCenter which monitors Islamist websites, Balawi also accused Jordan of involvement in the killing of Abdullah Azzam, Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s spiritual mentor, in a 1989 car bombing in Pakistan.
But Azzam’s son Huthaifa has issued a denial in the local press. “Jordanian intelligence had nothing to do with the death of my father,” he said.

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=346048&version=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17

[The 801]

While I realize that no one may be reading this thread any longer, I, for one, still appreciate a supervillian that keeps giving and giving.......

Wahab: Leaked Tribunal Info Says Mughniyeh Involved in Hariri Murder

Tawheed movement leader Wiam Wahab said Thursday that according to leaked information, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon is accusing slain Hizbullah commander Imad Mughniyeh of involvement in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's assassination.
In remarks to al-Jadeed TV station, Wahab said he wasn't the Syrian ambassador's "worker."

Wahab also commented to LBC about his recent call for President Michel Suleiman to resign, saying his stance was a "political viewpoint" that did not deserve "the intellectual terror" practiced against him.

He reminded the Lebanese that late President Fouad Shehab resigned after his political team didn't cooperate with him.

Wahab denied that he would visit Suleiman in Baabda on Friday. However, he expressed readiness to meet with the president anytime.

http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/newsdesk.nsf/0/AE30B0D645DA9DFFC22576F10037B62B?OpenDocument

Now, lets be frank: Blaming this on the dead guy is too easy. It would throw Hezbollah under the bus, but that's part of the price of doing business. But this has all of the earmarks of the classic Mugniyeh operation. I always suspected.

[The 801]

Israeli Arab jailed for spying on Gen Ashkenazi at gym

An Israeli Arab has been jailed for almost six years for spying on Israel's army chief at a gym where they both worked out.

Rawi Fuad Sultani, 23, passed information about Lt Gen Gabi Ashkenazi ( edit - IDI Chief ) to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, according to a plea deal.

The indictment says Sultani was part of a plot to assassinate Gen Ashkenazi.

Sultani met twice with Hezbollah agents after telling the organisation he and Gen Ashkenazi used the same gym.

The planned assassination was in retaliation for the killing of Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyeh, blown up in an Israeli car bomb in 2008.

Security

Sultani went to a camp in Morocco later that year where he met a Hezbollah operative and told him about his contact with Lt Gen Ashkenazi.

He also flew to Poland to meet a second operative to whom he gave details of the layout of the health club and Gen Ashkenazi's security arrangements.

The location of the gym was not specified in media reports of the court papers.

Israel fought a war with Lebanon in 2006 in which 1,200 Lebanese and more than 160 Israeli soldiers were killed.

Last year Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said the organisation would kill any Israeli spies it found in Lebanon.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8605799.stm

Always print the link and the story. The links always break and the history is lost.- 801

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Now, my reader, why is this posted here? Take a wild guess......

AP Exclusive: CIA tracks Al-Qaida moving from Iran

By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO – 7 hours ago

WASHINGTON — It's one of the enduring mysteries of the war on terrorism: What will become of the al-Qaida leaders and operatives who fled into Iran after 9/11 and have been detained there for years?

Their fate has long been a blindspot for U.S. intelligence. Recently, however, some al-Qaida figures have quietly made their way out of Iran, raising the prospect that the country is loosening its grip on the terror group so it can replenish its ranks, former and current U.S. intelligence officials say.

This movement could indicate that Iran is re-examining its murky relationship with al-Qaida at a time when the U.S. is stepping up drone attacks in Pakistan and weakening the group's leadership. Any influx of manpower could hand al-Qaida a boost in morale and expertise and threaten to disrupt stability in the region.

Details about al-Qaida's movements and U.S. efforts to monitor them were outlined to The Associated Press in more than a dozen interviews with current and former intelligence and counterterrorism officials, most of whom spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter.

Iran's Shiite regime is generally hostile to the Sunni terrorist group, but they have an occasional relationship of convenience based on their shared enemy, the U.S. It's a relationship that intelligence officials don't fully understand.

U.S. intelligence officials have tried wiretapping and satellite imagery to watch the men. The CIA even established a highly classified program — code-named RIGOR — to study whether it could track and kill terrorists such as al-Qaida in Iran. Results have been mixed. Monitoring and understanding al-Qaida in Iran remains one of the most difficult jobs in U.S. intelligence.

"This has been a dark, a black zone for us," former CIA officer Bruce Riedel said. "What exactly is the level of al-Qaida activity in Iran has always been a mystery."

That activity has waxed and waned, officials said. Sometimes the men could travel or communicate with other operatives. Other times, they were under tight constraints and the U.S. considered them to be out of commission. There was no obvious pattern to the movement.

The departures began in late 2008 as the U.S. stepped up international efforts to sanction Iran for its nuclear program. (Mughniyah kill Feb 08) Saad bin Laden, one of Osama bin Laden's sons, was allowed to leave the country around that time with about four other al-Qaida figures.

Since then, U.S. intelligence officials say, others have followed. One former CIA official familiar with the travel identified the men as moneymen and planners, the kind of manpower al-Qaida needs after a series of successful U.S. drone attacks on al-Qaida's ranks. But a senior counterterrorism official said the U.S. believes anyone who has left Iran recently is likely to be lower-level.

A major concern among U.S. officials is that this movement foreshadows the release of al-Qaida's "management council," including some of al-Qaida's most dangerous figures.

Most recently, the concern focused on Saif al-Adel, an Egyptian-born confidant of Osama bin Laden who is on the FBI's most wanted list in connection with the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. In the past year or so, intelligence officials circulated a bulletin saying al-Adel, one of al-Qaida's founding fathers, was traveling to Damascus, Syria. The U.S. is offering a $5 million reward for his capture.

The Damascus connection ultimately was disproved but, underscoring the difficulty of monitoring the men, U.S. intelligence officials are divided on whether Saif has been allowed to travel in the region. The senior counterterrorism official said there's no clear evidence Saif has left Iran.

"Regardless of where he is, we haven't forgotten about him or stopped looking for him," said Don Borelli, an assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's terrorism task force in New York. "He's a most-wanted terrorist and we intend to find him."

The roster of al-Qaida figures in Iran is something of a who's who for the terror group. One is Abu Hafs the Mauritanian, a bin Laden adviser who helped form the modern al-Qaida by merging bin Laden's operation with Ayman al-Zawahiri's Islamic Jihad. Al-Qaida's longtime chief financial officer, Abu Saeed al-Masri, has been held there. So have bin Laden's spokesman, Suleiman Abu Ghaith, and Mustafa Hamid, an al-Qaida trainer with a terrorism pedigree that spans decades.

Several members of bin Laden's family also have been under house arrest.

All fled into Iran after al-Qaida's core split up after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Bin Laden led some confidants toward the mountainous border with Pakistan. Al-Adel led others into Iran, which has historically allowed al-Qaida members safe passage through the country.

Iran arrested the men in 2003 and has held them as both a bargaining chip with the U.S. and as a buffer against an al-Qaida attack.

Using spy satellites, the U.S. has monitored vehicles in and out of the compound where the al-Qaida operatives have been held. U.S. officials have gleaned some information about the men through intercepted Iranian phone conversations and e-mails. But generally, the U.S. has only limited information about them.

If Iran were to release any of the major al-Qaida figures, it would be a violation of a United Nations resolution. A senior U.S. counterterrorism official said Iran is well aware of U.S. concerns that they not be released.

Late in President George W. Bush's administration, the CIA began developing a broad and lethal counterterrorism program, RIGOR, that targeted an array of terrorists in different countries. Part of the program examined the possibility of finding and eliminating al-Qaida inside Iran, former intelligence officials said.

They described the program as a feasibility study. One aspect was to figure out whether the CIA could slip spies into Iran to locate and possibly kill al-Qaida figures. RIGOR was separate from an earlier program involving contractors from Blackwater Worldwide.

RIGOR existed on the books for about two years but never progressed any further. CIA Director Leon Panetta canceled RIGOR last year. A U.S. official familiar with the program said a list of specific targets had not yet been identified when the program was nixed.

U.S. officials realized that things in Iran were changing in the waning days of Bush's administration when Saad bin Laden crossed into Pakistan. The administration took the unusual step of announcing bin Laden's move and freezing his assets. As many as four others were believed to have been with him.

"This served in large part as a symbolic act to remind both Iran and al-Qaida that we are watching this relationship," said Juan Zarate, Bush's former deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism. "We were concerned operationally about his movements, which was another reason for the designation."

In July, intelligence officials revealed that Saad bin Laden was probably killed in a drone airstrike. Intelligence officials suspected he was traveling with Abu Khayr al-Masry, an Egyptian who had also been held in Iran. Officials believe al-Masry — an al-Zawahiri deputy — is alive and in Iran.

At the time, officials didn't believe Saad bin Laden's departure was an isolated event.

Indeed, it wasn't.

Since Saad bin Laden left Iran, other al-Qaida figures have followed, current and former officials say. They are suspected to be taking smuggling routes heading toward Saudi Arabia or the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan. Last fall, top CIA officers received intelligence reports suggesting the release of several al-Qaida members from Iran, according to a former CIA official.

One of the men placed a phone call to a relative in Saudi Arabia. The call was made from Baluchistan, a western Pakistan province bordering both Iran and Afghanistan. It is known as a transit point for al-Qaida operatives.

But even when they have known that al-Qaida had traveled, U.S. officials say they have rarely understood the purpose.

The activity comes as Iran allowed Osama bin Laden's daughter Iman to leave the country in March and settle in Syria. Details are murky.

"Clearly, there's something going on on the Iranian front," said Riedel, the former CIA officer who is now a Brookings Institution scholar.

Some experts believe that anyone from al-Qaida freed to leave Iran must be returning to the battlefield. Others believe that, with al-Qaida families left behind, terrorists may actually be working for Iran, gathering intelligence or passing messages before returning to Iran.

Either way, it's being noticed. Clare Lopez, a former CIA officer and a senior fellow at Center for Security Policy, says it's not a good sign.

"Movement like this doesn't augur well," she said.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jZ-5-3Ifvv72jUDj3i7adCd8XAYgD9FM4J5O0

[Hound]

U.S. law requires the Secretary of State to provide Congress, by April 30 of each year, a full and complete report on terrorism with regard to those countries and groups meeting criteria set forth in the legislation. This annual report is entitled Country Reports on Terrorism. Beginning with the report for 2004, it replaced the previously published Patterns of Global Terrorism.

Are we behind sched or just slow to publish this year?

[The 801]

Interesting historical notes, not seen elsewhere.....

Will Hezbollah Support Right To Work For Palestinian Refugees?

Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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By Franklin Lamb

The current relationship between Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Hezbollah is not as clear cut as often assumed, despite the frequent inspiring brotherly words of Hezbollah’s leadership and the fact that the Party enjoys the support of more than 90% of the camp refugees, none of whom can vote. What this means is that the willingness of the Lebanese Resistance to spend its domestic political capital to legislate the right work to work for Palestinian refugees is not settled as of mid-May 2010.

The Hezbollah-PLO historical connection is well known in Lebanon. If Grand Ayatollah Imam Sayyed Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini was the omnipresent but unseen father at the birth of the Party of God (whose very name he approved), the Beirut headquartered Palestine Liberation Organization was in some ways the infant organization’s nurturing and occasionally doting ‘uncle.’ This familial relationship weakened, but did not collapse after the PLO’s leadership and local power base were gutted in the summer of 1982.

The out of country lectures of Imam Khomeini and various Shia scholars who matriculated at Najaf and Qom and who often referenced the 680 c.e. Ashura passion play of Karbala, were supplemented by lectures from pro-Palestinian Shia clerics including the pro-Palestinian Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Huseein Fadlallah,( an admirer but not an avid follower of Khomeini) Abass Mousawi, and Raghad Harb among others. All inspired Lebanon’s youth to follow the examples of the Karbala Ashura heros Ali, Hussein, Abbas and Zeinab in order to work for and achieve justice for Palestine. A frequent theme was and remains: Every day is Ashura, and every land is Karbala. In the same Lebanese neighborhood’s the PLO supplemented the idealists education with teachings the likes of Franz Fanon, Mao, Vo Nguyen Giap and Che Guevara. The Palestinians added contemporary examples of Karbala type sacrifices and steadfastness of scores of martyrs such as 19 year old Dalal Mughrabi from Rashedeyeh camp near Tyre, leader of the March 11, 1978 Kamal Al ‘Odwan Operation inside Palestine. In important aspects both movements melded into a common Resistance cause.

The March 1968 battle of Karameh inside Palestine near the Jordanian border revealed to the region that Israel was not invincible and Arafat’s frequent clarion following the June 1967 war that “every Arab and Muslim must pledge to fight until “martyrdom” linked the PLO in the minds of many Shia, with Kabala and later Hezbollah.

PLO Aid to the Islamic Resistance

Six years before the 1979 Islamic Revolution ousted the US-UK installed pretender to the Peacock Throne, via Operation Ajax on August 19, 1953, and nine years before Hezbollah was founded, the PLO supported, trained and helped arm elements of the Khomeini inspired movement inside Lebanon. On the orders of Yassir Arafat and his deputy, Khalil al Wazir (Abu Jihad) large quantities of weapons were gifted or sold cheap to Islamist groups, the only conditions being that the fighters were pledged to resist Israeli aggression and their PLO weapons were not to be used against Lebanese civilians or each other. Events would soon demonstrate that some of these loosely configured group, including the Farsi accented “foreigners” seen increasingly around Shatila and Burj al Barjeneh refugees camps and Dahiyeh, were indeed serious about resisting Israeli aggression.

Today in South Beirut, the Bekaa Valley and south Lebanon plenty of veterans of various groups operating in the 1970’s and early 1980’s vividly recall receiving help from the secular PLO resistance with its tolerance for a wide spectrum of religious views as well as the godless. One former fighter, now a Hamra Street lawyer in Beirut, told this observer just this week that the PLO taught the ABC’s of resistance tactics to Hezbollah. “We taught them a lot. But they also learned much from our many errors and that learning helped make them a formidable organization today.” The PLO respected the seriousness, discipline and honesty of the young men arriving in Lebanon and welcomed them.

One well known example of the PLO-Hezbollah symbiosis and deepending releationship in this perod was Hezbollah’s legendary military leader Imad, Mughniyeh from the southern Shia village of Tair Dibb. Imad, joined the PLO at age 13 and by 18 distinguished himself at the June 1982 battle of Khaldeh south of Beirut’s airport. One friend of Imad’s recently recalled that the young Fateh member was impressed fighting side by side with Islamic resistance fighters who joined the battle against the Israeli forces advancing on West Beirut. He also served as a body guard for Lebanon’s senior Shia cleric, Mohamad Hussein Fadlallah as well as PLO leaders Yassir Arafat, Abu Jihad and Abu Iyad, as part of his Fatah’s Force 17 duties.

Regarding the PLO assistance to Islamic fighters in the summer of 1982,mentioned above, it was Mughineh who was put in charge of the weapons distribution. ( On August 18, 1982 the late American journalist/researcher Janet Stevens was given 250 brand new Chinese made plastic handled ak-47’s wrapped in grease and heavy plastic. She enlisted this observer and two others for a 2 a.m. burying project in the then vacant lot next to the Commodore Hotel to hide them, she presciently advised us, from Israeli forces that she was sure would find an excuse to enter West Beirut. Not until the hotel, expanded and dug up the vacant lot around 1992 for a new swimming pool, were the weapons discovered.)

When Imad Mughineh was assassinated, widely thought to have been by Israel aided by its Syrian spies, he received the title: “Leader of the Two Victories” given to him by Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, the reference being to his leadership in both the May 2000 and the July 2006 victories against Israel. Today, this epithet and Imad’s photo hangs in every Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon illustrating the respect of both communities.

PLO Shia Tensions in South Lebanon

Lebanon’s Shia population, oppressed for hundreds of years by the Ottoman Empire, colonial powers including France as well as by fellow Lebanese, supported the Palestinians and initially welcomed those arriving at their door steps during the 1948 Nakba.

Palestinian-Shia relations were bound to deteriorate following the Cairo Agreement in 1969, when Yasser Arafat, the new chairman of the PLO, and General Emile Bustani, the commander of the Lebanese military, signed a deal allowing the PLO free reign in South Lebanon. The Lebanese government was opposed to the agreement but the weak government was pressured by the Arab League and Gamal Abdul Nasser, for the failure of the Arab regimes during the 1967 war, a fight Lebanon sat out. The Cairo Agreement “legitimized” the PLO’s presence in Lebanon and granted it the right to carry out guerrilla attacks against Israel at will from Lebanese territory.

The Shia-PLO relationship worsened rapidly between July 1981 and June 1982 as the PLO increased its heavy arms in South Lebanon from 80 cannon and rocket launchers to 250 and beefed up its forces to 6,000 (of its approximate 18,000 of whom about 5,000 were alleged to be foreign mercenaries from such countries as Libya, Iraq, India, Sri Lanka, Chad and Mozambique.) During this period some commanders allowed their troops to run roughshod over the local population and naturally sympathies for Palestinian refugees due both to Israeli reprisals and PLO abuse eroded fast and have not been fully restored. PLO crimes against the southern population ran the gamut from ‘property requisitions’ to thefts, extortions, plundering of villages, arbitrary arrests and killings. While officially condemned by its leadership, the PLO did not do enough to stop it. By the late 1970’s some Shia, including the newly established Amal militia organized armed resistance against the PLO ‘occupation’.

To this day, some in South Lebanon bitterly mention three modern day occupations of their villages following half a millennia of discrimination and marginalization by the Ottomans and French among others. These more recent occupations include the PLO from the early 1970’s until 1982, the Israeli army from March 14,1978 until May 24, 2000 and their financed and micro managed right wing surrogates, the “Southern Lebanese Army (SLA) from May 1976 until May 24, 2000 still fester.

Local Political Pressures on Hezbollah

Some in and out of Parliament are suggesting that if Hezbollah publicly pushes Palestinian civil rights legislation, especially the most urgent right to work , the party which is currently having good success broadening its popular base within the Sunni and Christians communities, could lose some support and especially among its south Lebanon Shia base. A new rival Shia party, the Lebanese Option Gathering ( LOG) led by Ahmad Assad son of the former Speaker of Parliament is challenging Hezbollah in at least one of its three base areas. It was LOG that during the 2009 Parliamentary election publicly boasted being funded by Saudi Arabia and paid voters handsomely with what it claimed was a wink and nod from the American government. The Ahmad Assad organization is stepping up its criticism of Hezbollah for neglecting the needs of South Lebanon. Since some Shia oppose the right to work for Palestinian refugees who make up a significant minority in the Southern Shia where jobs are even more scarce than in the Beirut area, some political analysts see this issue as a lose-lose for Hezbollah.

One sympathetic Member of Parliament allied with Hezbollah explained during a meeting with representatives of the Palestine Civil Right Campaign in early May:

“Hezbollah is in a tough spot on this essential issue. If Hezbollah backs the right to work for Palestinian refugees it risks losing some of its Shia, Sunni and Christian supporters. If it doesn’t back the right to work Hezbollah arguably makes a mockery out of its claimed raison e’tre. How can it lead the fight for justice in Palestine while its literal next door neighbors wallow in disgusting open sewer camps with no chance to earn a living and live in dignity. What would its hard earned and much valued credibility amount to?” Others point out that since Palestinians cannot now and will never vote in Lebanon backing a civil rights law is a political black hole for Hezbollah.

Weakening this argument a bit, both Hezbollah and the PLO leaders acknowledge individual Palestinian crimes against the Shia in the South Lebanon confrontational zone with. Both sides agree that the PLO Beirut leadership should have done more to stop individual abuses during the 1974-1982 period. Hezbollah members also acknowledge that since the late 1960’s virtually all militia in Lebanon had individuals who abused the civilian population and the Party appears able to let bygones be bygones. One party member reminded this observer that the PLO helped Hezbollah during its bloody intra Shia battles with Amal and its was Hezbollah’s then Secretary-General Abass Mousawi who refused to join the Amal 1985-87 Palestinian Camp wars and if fact helped end them by intervening with Syria.

To add to Hezbollah’s political problems on this issue, longtime Palestinian nemesis Samir Geagea (“I was born with my views on Palestinians!”, he jokingly told one interviewer recently) and the Lebanese Forces have been making a significant political comeback since his July 2005 release from prison, including in this month’s municipal elections. “Geagea’s Christians” are cutting into Amin Gemayels Phalange Party and his other Christian rival Michel Aoun’s Free Patriotic Movement. This could be part of the reason why Aoun, a key Hezbollah ally, when asked about granting civil rights to Palestinian refugees, squints, gets red faced and starts badmouthing the idea and reminds his audience, that “there are 500,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and our country is going to implode, Ya Allah.” Actually, General Aoun inflates the true figure which is close to 250,000 Palestinian refugees remaining in Lebanon although 423,000 are registered with UNWRA.

Hezbollah is expected to add to its public endorsements of civil rights for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon by declaring soon exactly what it intends to do in Parliament. It is said to be studying the various proposals and quietly discussing the issue with a wide range of parties, Palestinian factions and local and international NGO’s. Some political analysts in Lebanon believe as Hezbollah goes on the right to work for Palestinian refugees so goes Parliament. The consequences of its decision will be major for the Lebanon’s refugees, the region and the National Lebanese Resistance.

Franklin Lamb is doing research in Lebanon and volunteers with the Palestine Civil Rights Campaign. He contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com. Contact him at: fplamb@palestinecivilrightscampaign.org.

http://www.eurasiareview.com/2010/05/will-hezbollah-support-right-to-work.html

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=pTwytIeeEpc

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Martyr
Haj Imad Moghnieh

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Local Editor, 14-02-2010

Thursday the 12th of July, 1962 was no ordinary day for the southern town of Tair Dibba. On that day the town's Fayez Moghnieh family received a new born they named Imad Moghnieh, the first and eldest of his brothers. Relative to his peers, Imad's childhood flew rapidly, and he died martyr before old age set in. He was assassinated at the age of 45, on the 12th of February, 2008. His martyrdom became a beacon to the resistance fighters, just as his life, biography and deeds were.

Imad was brought up by modest and spiritual parents; their religiosity and love of Ahl-Albait was passed onto him from a young age. He was worthy of the legacy which he bequeathed in turn to the thousands of Mujahideen he met, and the thousands of Mujahideen to come.

Martyr Imad

From his childhood through youth to his martyrdom, Imad was a special person, known for his religiosity and piety, jovialness and love for others. His great sense of tolerance and humility with the pious was contrasted with an intense and rugged arrogance and condescension to the enemies of God, the enemies of His Messenger and the enemies of the believers.

Due to difficult living conditions, Fayez Moghnieh's family moved along with Imad and his brothers to the southern suburbs of Beirut to settle in the town of Shiah, a suburb which became a source for a great number of martyrs and cadres of resistance.
Imad went to Shiah school until the beginning of 1975 when the civil war began in Lebanon. He joined the ranks of Fatah movement at the time to defend the Palestinian resistance and protect his people in the wake of attacks and killings by forces loyal to "Israelis". Imad enrolled in one of the elite units of the Fatah movement, soon to rise rapidly in its ranks, although he was the youngest among his peers at the time. He received a great deal of training and combat skills in the ranks of this unit. When he was later put in charge of one of Fatah's centers, he drew a large number of young people to the unit, who rallied around him and acted under his orders though they were mostly older than him at the time.

Despite his responsibilities in the Fatah movement, and despite the war and its almost daily battles, Imad clung to his religious commitment and was a regular attendant at Shiah mosque and a committed listener to the sermons of its preachers and classes of its teachers, among them Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, who came to the area from al-Naba'a locality in East Beirut, in the wake Phalange Party attacks on its people.

Imad headed a cell of faithful people that provided protection and escort for Ayatollah Fadlallah, after the failed assassination attempt on his life in 1980, until the "Israeli" invasion of Lebanon in 1982, when he, along with a number of his brethren were among the first Mujahideen to confront the advancing "Israeli" Army in Khaldeh area.
He remained in Beirut during its siege and the period that followed, when the "Israeli" Army moved into a number of Beirut's neighborhoods. He was among the Mujahideen who silently worked against the "Israelis", inflicting them with heavy losses and casualties which they had to carry with them as they were forced to retreat out of Beirut.

Not settling for its withdrawal from Beirut, Imad pursued the "Israeli" forces into the south and was among the initial founders of resistance action against "Israel". He moved with his friends to join the ranks of the resistance since its founding beginnings in 1982, when Hajj Radwan-known as a commander, planner, military and security engineer- was responsible for the planning and execution of many jihad operations against the occupying "Israelis."

Martyr Hajj Radwan was a forerunner among brothers and martyrs who achieved many resistance victories in southern Lebanon throughout the years of "Israeli" occupation. He was the victor and the "Israelis" lost in the many confrontation rounds he engaged them in. He developed a resistance combat school that was to become a model, whether by planning, implementation, equipage, or knowledge of and work on enemy capabilities and weaknesses.

The Americans accused Hajj Radwan of masterminding their humiliating exit from Lebanon, along with the French forces, which invaded Lebanon in the framework of a multinational force to replace the "Israeli" occupation forces in Beirut. According to U.S. intelligence, Hajj Radwan was behind the bombings against the Americans in Lebanon, including the simultaneous bombing of the Marines in 1983, which killed 241 Americans, and the French paratroopers Camp that killed at least 63 French paratroopers.
This led to the collapse of the U.S. plan in Lebanon, as the Americans were forced to retreat from the Lebanese arena.


Thus, strength-building was conducive to the goal of victory.
This led eventually to victory in the year 2000; at the time, he was the field commander against a first time ever retreat by the "Israeli" Forces from Lebanon, the first unconditional "Israeli" retreat from Arab land since the establishment of Zionist entity.
He also commandeered the July 2006 war victory, a heroic epic that totally transformed modern warfare doctrine; a war victory studied in depth by friends and foes alike, who are still working on understanding it, in order to either emulate it or to find ways to confront it.

After his martyrdom, Hajj Radwan deserved the exceptional title of "Leader of the Two Victories" given to him by Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the May 2000 and the July 2006 victoriesShahid Imad.

"Israel" assassinated Hajj Imad Moghnieh at forty five years of age, after many years of jihad achievements and victories during which the "Israelis" were given a taste of humiliation, disgrace and defeat.


Two brothers preceded Martyr Hajj Radwan to the afterlife, covered with their blood of martyrdom. The first is Jihad, martyred in 1984 and the second is Martyr Hajj Fouad, assassinated in 1995 by an explosive device that targeted him in Sfeir area, in the southern suburbs.
Hajj Radwan died a martyr after more than 25 years of being chased by "Israeli"-U.S. and Western intelligence cooperation, to have him kidnapped or killed.

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[NYer]

Top White House advisor John Brennan wants to reach out to Moderate Hezbollah. (http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/05/crazy-dangerous-john-brennan-says-team-obama-will-reach-out-to-moderate-elelments-of-hezbollah-terror-group-video/)

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Top White House advisor John Brennan wants to reach out to Moderate Hezbollah. (http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/05/crazy-dangerous-john-brennan-says-team-obama-will-reach-out-to-moderate-elelments-of-hezbollah-terror-group-video/):mad_08:

[The 801]

LBCI: Mugniyah poster placed along border by Hezbollah members
iloubnan.info - May 24, 2010

BEIRUT – According to LBCI television, several Hezbollah members placed, on Monday along the border in Kefarkela village, a large poster of late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mugniyah.

Following this incident, UNIFEL as well as Lebanese and Israeli armies went on alert.

http://www.iloubnan.info/politics/actualite/id/46412/liban/LBCI:-Mugniyah-poster-placed-along-border-by-Hezbollah-members

[NYer]

Israelis should respond with a poster of Moshe Dayan.

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[The 801]

Lebanon Border on Alert after Posting Mughniyeh Picture

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Lebanese army troops and U.N. peacekeepers went on alert Monday after an Israeli force, backed by military vehicles, took up combat positions near Fatmeh Gate and in the groves overlooking Kfar Kila.
Local media said the Israeli deployment at around 5 pm Monday came as Hizbullah men attempted to put up a huge poster for Imad Mughniyeh near Fatmeh Gate.

They said a 20-strong Israeli force quickly deployed in the area, taking pictures of what was going on.

Mughniyeh, a top Hizbullah commander, was assassinated in a car bombing in Damascus Feb. 12, 2008.

http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/newsdesk.nsf/0/BF1489346AF9956EC225772E00391027?OpenDocument

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Power plays between friends in Beirut
By Michael Young
Commentary by
Thursday, April 01, 2010

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[B][No one could fail to notice that it was a Syrian spokesperson, Wi’am Wahhab, who spilled the beans recently about Hizbullah members being called in for questioning by investigators working on behalf of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. It was also Wahhab alone who mentioned the possibility of a link between the late Imad Mughniyeh and the Hariri assassination/B]. This has raised interesting questions about what Syria is trying to achieve.

Of course, Wahhab’s professed purpose was to warn against what an accusation directed against Hizbullah might mean for Lebanon’s stability. This has been a recurrent theme sounded by the Syrians and their allies in recent years. However, party officials must also have suspected that Wahhab’s comments, by providing information no one else had, threw the light, uncomfortably, on Hizbullah to avoid it falling elsewhere.

Beyond the tribunal, there are other dynamics at play specifically related to the Syria-Hizbullah relationship. In its effort to reassert its hegemony in Lebanon, Damascus has not only sought to wear down its one-time adversaries in March 14; it also seems to be looking for ways to tighten its control over its more autonomous allies, above all Hizbullah.

It’s not difficult to grasp why. In the five years after Syrian soldiers left Lebanon in April 2005, the party became the pre-eminent defender of Syria’s interests in Lebanon. With no soldiers on the ground the regime of President Bashar Assad had to watch as Iran’s sway over events in Beirut increased, because although Hizbullah remained close to Syria, there was never any question that it was, above all, an Iranian venture.

For Assad, this was unwelcome. From the moment his men left Lebanon, his ambition was to recover the country as a Syrian card in regional politics. But if it was Iran that was primarily calling the shots, because Syria remained so dependent on the pro-Iranian Hizbullah to defend its Lebanese stakes, all that really meant was that Assad was a secondary player in Lebanon. That is, until the Saudis came to the rescue.

In February 2009, King Abdullah “reconciled” with Assad at an Arab economic summit in Kuwait. After having spent more than three years trying to isolate Syria regionally, only to see Saudi Arabia itself become more isolated, the kingdom’s leadership concluded that it was time to change tack. With Iran gaining power and developing a nuclear capability, and Iraq perceived as being under the control of a Shiite regime, the Saudis decided that Lebanon was a distraction worth dispensing with.

What appears to have emerged from that rapprochement is a quid pro quo with Syria, explicit or more likely implicit: the Syrians would be granted considerable leeway in Lebanon, in the process containing Hizbullah, while Syria and Saudi Arabia could find common ground in looking the other way on Iraq’s destabilization, each for its own reasons. A byproduct of the understanding was that Saad Hariri, if he became prime minister, would visit Damascus in the context of a lowering of hostility between Lebanon and Syria. This could be placed under the rubric of “Arab solidarity.”

While Syria has done almost nothing to curb Hizbullah, the Saudi calculation may have been more subtle. In handing Assad great latitude to impose Syrian priorities on the party, Riyadh probably took the minimalist view that it was better to have an Arab state in charge in Lebanon than Iran. That hard-nosed assessment preserved little of the sporadic sovereignty that Lebanon enjoyed after 2005, but the Saudis were too preoccupied with the future of their own regime to pay much heed to this.

That is where the Hariri tribunal comes in. Although the Syrians want to ensure that the investigation does not harm them or Hizbullah, the situation offers political opportunities. A Hizbullah feeling the heat, even if this is unjustified, is also one more vulnerable to Syrian power plays in Lebanon. Assad and party officials have denounced prosecutor Daniel Bellemare’s investigation as politicized; they have raised the pressure on him by warning that indictments might carry Lebanon into a new civil conflict; and they will both use the ensuing fears to politically emasculate Hariri, who will find it difficult to approve measures that might threaten civil peace.

But within this complex game is another one, whereby the mere prospect of an accusation against Hizbullah makes the party doubly exposed: toward its traditional enemies such as the United States and Israel; but also toward Syria, which could make Hizbullah more beholden to it by using its weight in Beirut to ensure that the Lebanese government defends the party’s innocence. Syria’s developing rapport with Hizbullah would bring home that Hizbullah now needs Syria to protect its margin of maneuver in Lebanon rather than the other way around following the Syrian departure.

This does not mean that Syria and Hizbullah are on a collision course. Both share multiple aims. Wahhab’s recent criticism of Michel Sleiman was perhaps, in part, a sign of Syrian displeasure with the president’s endorsement of municipal elections, which Hizbullah wanted to postpone. Both Syria and the party are collaborating to control the Palestinian camps by marginalizing officials recently appointed by the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas. For Assad to depict Hizbullah as a problem that only Syria can resolve, he must give the party room to be a problem.

That is why we should understand statements by Hizbullah officials as addressed both at the party’s foes and, somewhere, at Syria. Hizbullah does not relish becoming a Syrian bargaining chip once again, even if it has no choice but to cooperate with Damascus. But the grip is tightening on all.


Michael Young is opinion editor of THE DAILY STAR.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=113346#axzz0pL274rWh

[NYer]

Hizbullah and Al-Quds Networks Being Established In US (http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/ss_terror0516_06_11.asp)

The threat to the United States posed by Iranian-backed Hizbullah terrorists is growing and U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies have failed to adequately address the problem, according to U.S. intelligence officials.

Hizbullah is continuing to build up its terrorist infrastructure within the United States through infiltration operations across the Mexican border and through other U.S. entry points.

However, little of the activity has been detected by the FBI, which has not been able to identify the networks, other than through some of its semi-covert fundraising operatives who have been caught.

Apparently, Mugniyeh's Plan is still operational.

[NYer]

Mohammed Ali Hamad, another of the murderers of Navy Diver Robert Dean Stethem, is dispatched to meet Imad Mugniyeh in hell. (http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htterr/articles/20100622.aspx)

Hoo Rah!

[Hound]

Hizbullah and Al-Quds Networks Being Established In US (http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/ss_terror0516_06_11.asp)


Hizbullah is continuing to build up its terrorist infrastructure within the United States through infiltration operations across the Mexican border and through other U.S. entry points.


Apparently, Mugniyeh's Plan is still operational.

TBA

(CNSNews.com) - Amid growing concern about the illicit drug trade across the U.S.-Mexico border, the terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas have been linked to South American drug trafficking organizations–and the money Hezbollah and Hamas make from narco-trafficking is used to finance their organizations, according to the non-partisan Congressional Research Service (CRS).

“International terrorist groups, including Hamas and Hezbollah, have also reportedly raised funding for their terrorist activities through linkages formed with DTOs in South America, particularly those operating in the tri-border area (TBA) of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina,” stated CRS in anApril 30 report (http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R41215_20100430.pdf).

As evidence that Hezbollah and Hamas are doing business with South American drug traffickers, CRS referred to comments by Anthony Placido, the assistant administrator for intelligence at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

In testimony (http://%20http//oversight.house.gov/images/stories/subcommittees/NS_Subcommittee/3.3.09_Drugs_Hearing/3-3_Placido_Testimony.pdf) before a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on March 3, Placido stated, “Some DTOs based in the tri-border area have ties to radical Islamic terrorist groups such as Hezbollah. It is important to note that this is not an emerging threat per se, but one that has existed since the late 1980s or early 1990s,” he added.

continue www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=67377 (http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=67377)

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Mugniyeh's Mentor


Grand Ayatollah Fadlallah, Shiite Cleric, Dies at 75
By THANASSIS CAMBANIS
Published: July 4, 2010

Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the top Shiite cleric in Lebanon, whose writings and preachings inspired the Dawa Party of Iraq and a generation of militants, including the founders of Hezbollah, died Sunday morning in Beirut. He was 75.

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Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, center, with bodyguards, at a funeral for victims of a 1985 car bombing. (I believe this was one of Mugniyeh's brothers funeral - I am attempting to research that - 801)

Ayatollah Fadlallah suffered a liver hemorrhage at Bahman Hospital, run by Al Mabarrat Charity Association, which he founded, his adviser Hani Adbdallah said. Hezbollah called for three days of mourning, while clerics and political figures from Iran, Iraq, the Persian Gulf states, Lebanon and around the Middle East issued condolences.

“Today we lost a merciful father and a wise guide,” the Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a statement.

Ayatollah Fadlallah was one of the most learned and influential Shiite “spiritual references,” or marjas. All Shiites must choose a marja, whose teachings they follow and to whom they give alms. Ayatollah Fadlallah was a marja to Shiites across the Islamic world, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, as well as in Arab nations.

He spent his entire career arguing that after centuries of passivity, Shiite Muslims should become involved in politics and organize militias. He famously justified suicide bombings and other tactics of asymmetrical warfare by arguing that if Israel and its allies used advanced weaponry, Islam permitted the use of any weapons in retaliation.

In a 2002 interview with the British newspaper The Telegraph, he was quoted as saying of the Palestinians: “They have had their land stolen, their families killed, their homes destroyed, and the Israelis are using weapons, such as the F16 aircraft, which are meant only for major wars. There is no other way for the Palestinians to push back those mountains, apart from martyrdom operations.”

Paradoxically, Ayatollah Fadlallah was also distinguished by his comparatively progressive positions on women’s rights and family law. Among his many fatwas, or religious edicts, on family law, he argued that women had the right to defend themselves from domestic violence. On Sunday, women wept openly on the streets of Shiite south Beirut as word of his death spread.

Ayatollah Fadlallah was often mistakenly identified by Western governments as the spiritual guide of Hezbollah, the militant Islamist organization that was founded in 1982 with Iranian help and that spearheaded a violent campaign against Western and Israeli targets in Lebanon.

But his relationship with Hezbollah was much more complicated and far-reaching. He never considered himself to have any authority over the group and denied any operational links to it.

Western intelligence services, however, held the ayatollah responsible for attacks against Western targets, including the 1983 bombings of two barracks in Beirut in which 241 United States Marines and 58 French paratroopers were killed.

The C.I.A. is thought to have carried out an assassination attempt against the ayatollah in 1985, in which a 440-pound car bomb was placed along the short route between his apartment and mosque. Ayatollah Fadlallah narrowly escaped the explosion, but 80 other people were killed.

The administration of President Bill Clinton froze the ayatollah’s assets in 1995 because of his suspected involvement with terrorists. And in 2006, Israel bombed his house in south Beirut, but he was not there at the time.

Born in 1935 in Najaf, Iraq, a major center of Shiite learning, Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah was a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad. He relocated to his ancestral village in southern Lebanon in the 1960s and quickly amassed thousands of followers.

An early supporter of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Ayatollah Fadlallah grew to be a quiet critic of the revolution’s ideology, which placed all political power in the hands of clerics. He said he thought that Islamic clerics drew their authority from their followers as well as from God, and that while they should possess wide influence, they should not govern directly.

In 1989, Ayatollah Fadlallah distanced himself from Hezbollah, when it named as its new marja the Iranian successor to Ayatollah Khomeini.

He is survived by his wife, Najat Noureddin, and 11 children.

Until his recent illness, Ayatollah Fadlallah regularly preached to tens of thousands of followers at his Friday Prayer services in south Beirut, and published his sermons and clerical writings on the Internet, in Arabic, English and French.

Since the early 1990s, he adopted a more pragmatic tone, preaching against the division between Shiite and Sunni Muslims. He raised money for a sprawling international network of charities and willingly met with prominent Americans, including critics of his beliefs, and considered dialogue with the enemy an Islamic imperative.

But he never shed his fiery pedigree. He railed against the American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and against United States policy in the Middle East. He never missed an opportunity to criticize Israel, denouncing Arab governments for what he said was a lack of organized opposition to and military confrontation of the Jewish state. When he was admitted to the hospital on Friday, Reuters reported, a nurse asked Ayatollah Fadlallah what he needed. Without hesitation, he replied, “For the Zionist entity to cease to exist.”

Hwaida Saad contributed reporting from Beirut, Lebanon.

[NYer]

Hezbollah honcho busted in Tijuana. (http://faustasblog.com/?p=21457)

It's about National Security, not Civil Rights.

[The 801]

Resistance Land

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/files/mleetaresized.jpg

Hezbollah's new tourist park, meant to indoctrinate visitors with the ideals of the Islamic Resistance, may be the latest sign that another war is on the horizon.
BY ANDREW TABLER | JULY 8, 2010

On a hilltop overlooking Israel's former occupation zone in south Lebanon, Hezbollah has built what the international press has dubbed the Shiite militia's "Disneyland." Mleeta, Hezbollah's new "Tourist Landmark of the Resistance," is designed to celebrate the party's long war against Israel. As it pulls in the masses, Mleeta also provides another sign that Israeli deterrence in Lebanon is disintegrating.

A former Hezbollah command center, Mleeta is located 27 miles (44 km) southeast of Beirut. Built at a reported cost of $4 million, Mleeta attracted over 130,000 visitors in the first ten days following its opening on May 25 -- the 10th anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon.

Abu Hadi, our Hezbollah guide, who employs the same nom de guerre as Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, aimed to give visitors a glimpse into the high-risk life of killing Israeli soldiers. He began our tour in "The Abyss" -- a pit filled with Israeli helmets, boots, cluster bombs, and overturned military vehicles. At the center of the display is an Israeli Merkava-4 tank, with its gun turret tied in a knot. As we ascended a spiral walkway overlooking the display, I caught sight of a tombstone embossed with the Israel Defense Forces symbol, and the word "Abyss" written in big, concrete Hebrew letters.

Abu Hadi told us Mleeta was the inspiration of Imad Mughniyah, a man the United States believes was the mastermind of the 1983 U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks bombings in Beirut. The attack on the U.S. Marine Corps' barracks claimed the lives of 241 servicemen, marking the largest single-day death toll for the Marines since the Battle of Iwo Jima. Mughniyah was indicted by a U.S. court for the June 1985 hijacking of TWA flight 847 and the murder of passenger and Navy diver Robert Stethem, whose body was tossed out on the tarmac at Beirut Airport. He also played a key role in the kidnappings of Western journalists, diplomats, and academics (amongst others) in Lebanon between 1982 and 1990.

One of the world's most wanted men and reportedly a master of disguise, Hezbollah would barely mention Mughniyah's name until his mysterious February 2008 assassination by car bomb in Damascus. Now, the party brings him up at every turn. "That is Mughniyah's signature," Abu Hadi said, pointing to a sign embossed into a tall, yellow cement monolith placed to look as if it were stopping an Israeli tank. Looking solemn and proud, he paused for a moment of silence and said a small prayer under his breath. Abu Hadi peppered his spiel with mentions of the late resistance leader, proving his influence on Hezbollah.

As we circled the walkway and proceeded down into the abyss, I lagged behind Abu Hadi to take a few photos. Mothers and fathers filled the walkways, pulling their children this way and that. By their dress and accents, many appeared to be from south Lebanon's majority Shia community. However, a significant minority also appeared to be Christian, a testament to the fact that Hezbollah's history of guerilla warfare against Israel has earned the party support that transcends Lebanon's fractious sectarian divide. Children gathered around the Mughniyah memorial, their hands outstretched to the tank as if they were trying to polish the turret. "See, only resistance will liberate Palestine from the Jews," one mother said to her infant son as she pushed his stroller down the walkway.

"The Path," a series of trenches and warrens reminiscent of World War I battlefields in France or Belgium, was the next stop on our tour. Abu Hadi pushed a crowd of visitors out of the way to show us the prayer nook of Abbas Moussawi, the Hezbollah co-founder and secretary general who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in 1992. Beside his prayer rug and Koran were two AK-47 assault rifles and what appeared to be a World War II-era helmet like those worn by the Marines in 1983. Among Hezbollah's older generation, Moussawi is regarded as the "father of resistance" because of the long hours he spent with fighters on the front lines.

Throughout Mleeta, exhibits aimed to instill visitors with Hezbollah's spartan military ethic. Emerging from the trench, we entered a stone path shaded by oaks, with mannequins dressed in green camouflage fatigues lining both sides of the trail. One exhibit portrayed a fighter cutting barbed wire while his compatriot provided covering fire; another display showed two fighters preparing to fire a 120mm rocket. Every so often a teenage boy would dart out for a snapshot en scene. While the poses were always different, each wore a vacant and fearsome stare like that of country boy on the first day of hunting season.

Mleeta aims to place a halo around Hezbollah's foreign patrons. We descended into a maze of tunnels Hezbollah had carved into Mleeta's rocky hilltop, where displays showed command centers, field kitchens, and weapons caches. Photographs of Hezbollah leaders standing side by side with Iran's former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and current Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei adorned the battleship gray walls. "Our blood is the most powerful, and the demise of Israel," read one of the signs dotting the tunnel.

The park also encourages visitors to celebrate Hezbollah's arsenal in its "rocket garden." On display are Hezbollah's standard 107mm and 120mm Katyusha rockets, which rained down on northern Israel by the thousands during the 2006 war. But there are also a number of more advanced weapons on display, including U.S.-made TOW missiles -- reportedly acquired by Hezbollah through the arms-for-hostages swaps that were later exposed in the Iran-Contra affair -- RPG 29s, and a Kornet-E anti-tank guided missile, which Hezbollah used to decimate Israeli tank columns in 2006. Colorful signs outline each weapon's specifications in Arabic and English. And unlike in most museums in the Arab world, the spelling and grammar are almost perfect.

However, there was one exhibit missing from Mleeta: any description of the true horrors of war. The goriest exhibition is a Hezbollah doctor caring for a wounded fighter. This largely disaster-free version of "resistance" dovetailed nicely with Abu Hadi's repertoire of war stories, which emphasized the fighters' valor. In one story, a fighter was so brave he literally dug his own grave prior to battle. In another, two Hezbollah fighters were so well disciplined not to fire until ordered that they endured an Israeli colonel unknowingly urinating off a rock onto their heads. And because it was clear that the Hezbollah fighters fought hard, this narrative papered over the stories of when missions didn't go according to plan. Hezbollah lost an estimated 400 to 600 fighters during the 2006 war with Israel, so there must be plenty of material.

Since the end of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war, Hezbollah's decision to hang back and replenish its weapons caches, aided by the presence of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in the south, has resulted in the calmest period along the Lebanese-Israeli border in decades.

But Mleeta, and the enthusiastic Lebanese reaction to it, is only the latest sign that Israel's power of deterrence in Lebanon is rapidly deteriorating. Escalating clashes this year between UNIFIL soldiers and pro-Hezbollah villagers in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah's effective veto power over the Lebanese government, combined with widespread reports Syria is sending long-range and sophisticated weapons to the Party of God, has raised tensions to all-time highs and produced a war of words between Hezbollah and Israel that could eventually lead to an actual war.

As our tour came to an end, Abu Hadi handed us over to Sheikh Ali Daher, the park's supervisor. Daher described Hezbollah's plans to construct hotels and conference centers to attract visitors from across the Arab world. Hezbollah's ambitious expansion plans, and the care with which the party looks after the ideological foundations of its power, prove that it is digging in for the long haul. When I asked Daher whether he worried that another war could lay waste to Hezbollah's construction plans, he simply shrugged. "If they bomb us, we will simply build it all again," he said. "Resistance takes patience."



http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/07/08/resistance_land

[Hound]

Can we be sure this isn't a teaser for National Lampoon's "Middle Eastern Vacation" - coming soon a theatre near you?

[The 801]

Best collection of Mugniyeh photos I have ever found:

http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=KhKH64GL54k

[The 801]

Sorry for the doublepost here.
Guess who is going to get thrown under the bus for Harri. Hey, he's perfect, he's dead, except for that Iranian connection.

Lebanon: Hezbollah Chief Expects Indictments in Ex-premier’s Death
By ROBERT F. WORTH
Published: July 22, 2010

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, said Thursday that he had been told that members of the group would be indicted by a United Nations tribunal investigating the 2005 killing of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri of Lebanon, left. Mr. Nasrallah said Mr. Hariri’s son Saad Hariri, who became prime minister of a unity government last year, had told him that “undisciplined” members of Hezbollah would be accused. “We firmly reject the accusation of any Hezbollah member,” Mr. Nasrallah said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/world/middleeast/23briefs-Lebanon.html

[The 801]

Tensions Simmer in Lebanon Over Assassination Probe And Suspicions of a Deal
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
By Patrick Goodenough, International Editor


(CNSNews.com) – Tuesday’s deadly clash along the Israel-Lebanon border has added to tensions stoked by the investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Some fear the results of the investigation could plunge both the country and region into new turmoil.

Arab leaders are trying to ensure that the findings of the U.N.-established Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), to be released in the coming months with accompanying indictments of suspects for trial, do not shatter Lebanon’s fragile stability.

The matter was high of the agenda during an unprecedented summit in Beirut last Friday between the leaders of Lebanon, Syria and Saudi Arabia. The latter two have long been influential with Lebanon’s Shi’ite and Sunni parties respectively.

Lebanese media report there is mounting suspicion that a “deal” designed to avoid upheaval in the country may be in the works – even at the expense of finding and punishing those responsible for Hariri’s murder.

“Speculation is rife that a political deal will be made to minimize the impact of the indictments, though in truth we still do not know who will be indicted,” Rami Khouri, a columnist with the Daily Star in Beirut, wrote Wednesday.

Possible options cited by sources in media reports include pressuring the Special Tribunal for Lebanon to postpone the planned issuing of indictments and encouraging Prime Minister Saad Hariri – the assassinated politician’s son – to ask the tribunal not to take the indictments forward to trial.

On Monday, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem said the tribunal was not looking for the truth about the killing but had a hidden political agenda.

The tribunal, based in The Hague, is widely reported to be preparing to indict members of Hezbollah, the Iranian- and Syrian-backed Shi’te terrorist group, on suspicion of involvement in the assassination of Hariri, a Sunni, who was killed along with 22 others in a massive suicide truck bombing in Beirut in February 2005.

One third of the cabinet led by the current U.S.-backed prime minister is controlled by Hezbollah and its allies.

Hezbollah, a militia whose existence as an armed group is in violation of U.N. resolutions, characterizes itself as a “resistance” working in the interests of all Lebanese. But it has not hesitated in the past to use naked power to get its way.

In May 2008 its gunmen took over parts of Beirut after the government tried to dismantle a telecommunications network run by the group, triggering the worst violence since the country’s civil war ended in 1990.

The crisis, which brought government to a standstill, ended only with the formation of a unity government in a deal that gave Hezbollah effective veto power.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has warned that he will not accept any STL indictments accusing members of his organization. The U.N. special coordinator for Lebanon, Michael Williams, late last week voiced concern that the tribunal’s findings “may affect Lebanon’s stability.”

The STL began its work in March 2009, after a U.N.-established independent commission said it found evidence implicating senior Syrian and pro-Syrian Lebanese security officials in Hariri’s assassination.

Syria has a long history of military and political interference in its small neighbor. Hariri was a popular politician who opposed President Bashir Assad’s attempts to manipulate Lebanese politics by forcing the unconstitutional term extension of a pro-Syrian Lebanese president.

The assassination sparked a wave of public demonstrations in Beirut and accelerated the end of Syria’s military presence in Lebanon.

Hariri’s death and suspicions of Syrian involvement also prompted the United States to downgrade diplomatic ties with Damascus. The Obama administration is seeking to restore relations, but its appeals to Assad to sever links to both Hezbollah and Iran have been manifestly unsuccessful.

Both Syria and Hezbollah have denied any responsibility in Hariri’s death.

An Israeli television station, citing sources in the STL, said last week those indicted would include a senior Hezbollah figure, Mustafa Badr al Din, identified as the brother-in-law of Imad Mughniyah, the organization’s former security chief. (Mughniyah, one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, was himself killed in a bombing in Damascus in February 2008.)

For his part, Nasrallah said during a speech to supporters Tuesday that he would soon release evidence showing that Israel was in fact behind the Hariri killing.

“This coming Monday, I will hold a press conference during which I will present evidence of Israel’s involvement in Hariri’s assassination and the goings-on in the international tribunal in The Hague,” he said.

“After the press conference, Lebanese authorities should take the initiative and seriously take into consideration the facts that will be revealed,” Hezbollah’s al-Manar television channel quoted him as saying.

Nasrallah said Hezbollah was ready to work with the government, “to uncover the real criminals behind the Rafik Hariri murder.”

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/70481

Can you ever believe how much this guy just gives and gives to the world of terrorism? No surprise here.

[The 801]

Sorry for the details, but that's the damage that we inflict.......

Planners of Baku embassy attack released from jail

Two Lebanese citizens sentenced to 15 years in prison for planning to bomb Israeli embassy in Azerbaijan released from prison, apparently deported to Iran, according to media reports


Published: 08.14.10, 09:53 / Israel News

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Two Lebanese citizens who were convicted of planning terrorist attacks in Baku, including in the Israeli embassy, were released this week, according to reports from Azeri media and the Al Arabiya network.

Some of the reports noted that the two, who held ties with al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, were deported to Iran in exchange for an Azeri scientist who has spent the last two years in an Iranian prison.

The Azeri justice minister said that the two men were released together with 12 Iranians.

Najmaddin Ali Hussein and Karaki Ali Muhammad were sentenced to 15 years in prison last October for planning to carry out a terrorist attack in retaliation for the assassination of Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh.

Terrorism experts said that the two headed a terrorist cell and traveled from Baku to Iran and Lebanon in early 2008 using Iranian passports.

The cell members held observations of Israel's Embassy in Baku, which is located inside the city's Hyatt Hotel. It is said the group planned on attacking other targets as well.

Hussein and Muhammad's plan was to simultaneously detonate three or four car bombs outside the embassy building and had obtained hundreds of kilograms of explosives for this purpose, allegedly from Iranian elements.

In May 2008, several weeks before the scheduled attack, the two noticed they were being followed and tried to escape to Iran. Azeri police forces managed to apprehend them and their car bombs, before they could carry out their plan.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3936036,00.html

Where is Baku?

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Baku&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rlz=1R1GGIC_en___US342&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Baku,+Azerbaijan&gl=us&ei=DGVnTLqSGMSqlAff8cyeBQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CB0Q8gEwAA

Losers in the land of nowhere.... How did they come up with this crappy plan?
801

[The 801]

For historical reasons only:

http://www.shiatv.net/view_video.php?viewkey=f8e151b191c53c1842a3

[NYer]

Mugsy's successor? (http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2010/09/13/Irans-invisible-man-runs-terror-net/UPI-46801284391732/)

Brig. Gen. Qassem Suleimani, who commands the Guards Corps' elite and largely clandestine al-Quds Force, has long been the invisible man in Iran's intelligence hierarchy and an enigma to the U.S. intelligence community that is one of his main adversaries.

... Suleimani's al-Quds Force is responsible for all the Tehran regime's clandestine operations abroad. These range from setting up sleeper cells around the globe -- a network likely to be activated if Iran is attacked -- to assassinating enemies of the regime and providing funds, arms and training for militant groups such as Hezbollah.

[The 801]

According to Wikileaks documents, Hezbollah's operations in Iraq were co-ordinated by Iranian Gen. Qassem Suleimani, the commander of "Quds" (Jerusalem) force, which is part of Iran's Revolutionary Guards and which is responsible for foreign operations. In addition to operatives in Iraq, Hezbollah also operated a special training camp near Qom. Among other subjects, Iraqis who were brought to Qom were trained by Hezbollah in kidnapping, sniping and assassinations of senior Iraqi officials who co-operated with American and British troops in Iraq. The Hezbollah trainers emphasized that the training was based on their experience in the fight against Israel. Imad Mughniyeh, Hezbollah's operations chief who was killed in Damascus about three years ago, visited the camp in Qom several times. Prior to his recent visit to Beirut, Ahmadinejad asked that Mughniye's mother be included in the official group that welcomed him at Beirut's airport.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/wikileaks-tip-irans-hand-in-iraq-105754138.html

[The 801]

Israel benefited Rafiq Hariri murder'
Thu Oct 28, 2010 7:53AM

Major General Amos Yadlin
The former head of Israel's Military Intelligence says Israel benefited from the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.


Major General Amos Yadlin said on Wednesday that Israel has been able to launch more than one operation in Lebanon following Hariri's killing.

In 2005, Hariri was killed in a massive car bombing in the capital city of Beirut.

He also admitted that Tel Aviv carried out the terror assassination of Hezbollah's commander Imad Mughniyeh in Syria two years ago.

The former official noted that Israel restored a huge number of espionage networks inside Lebanon and managed to assassinate Mughniyeh through the very same spy rings.

Yadlin claimed Mughniyeh's murder helped Israel enter a new stage in its conflict with Hezbollah, adding that the Israeli Military Intelligence should proceed with such plans in Lebanon.

Earlier reports had revealed that chief of Israeli spy agency Mossad Meir Dagan personally planned the assassination at orders by former Israeli premier Ehud Olmert.

Mughniyeh, who was one of the most prominent Hezbollah figures, was assassinated in a car bomb explosion in the Syrian capital on February 12, 2008.

Hezbollah held the Israeli regime responsible for the assassination of Mughniyeh, but the regime's officials at the time denied having any role in the assassination.

AGB/MB/HRF

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/148593.html

Watch that source:

Wiki : Press TV is a 24-hour English language global news network owned by Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB). "At the beginning of July 2007, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered a speech on the occasion of the inauguration of Press TV’s broadcast operations. In that speech, he said, "Disseminating correct and timely news, and presenting correct analyses and disclosing behind scene of the mankind's enemies propaganda networks are among new TV's basic duty." Ahmadinejad added that “the message of media is the same as that of the prophets,” and insisted that "our media should be fully free from all vices that have polluted the world."

[The 801]

French paper tracks Hezbollah arms trail

Le Figaro reveals well oiled machine focused on Syrian weapon deliveries to Shiite group

Ynet
Published: 10.26.10, 14:48 / Israel News

French newspaper Le Figaro published a special in-depth report Tuesday, revealing how Syria and Lebanon are both allowing and aiding Hezbollah in building up its arsenal.

The report unveils three Hezbollah logistical units based in Syria and Lebanon, which oversee the safe delivery of Iranian-sponsored weapons to the Shiite group.

Exposed?
IDF reveals Hezbollah's deployment / Hanan Greenberg
Information obtained by IDF exposes Hezbollah's immense scope of activity in south Lebanon, in preparation for next clash with Israel

Thank to these units' operations, Hezbollah is now believed to be in possession of over 40,000 rockets. The organization currently has some 10,000 members.

Le Figaro maintains that "Unit 108" heads weapon shipments form warehouses on the Syria-Lebanon border to Hezbollah bases. The unit, whose headquarters are located just outside Damascus, has both regular servicemen as well as a reserve forces.

Another distribution unit is "Unit 112,' whose men handle the actual delivery of weapons to various Hezbollah strongholds. Deliveries are restricted to night time.

The third link in the supply chain in "Unit 100": The unit comprises of Hezbollah weapons specialists and their Iranian counterparts, who travel between the militia's various bases in Lebanon and Iran.

The paper said that both sides consider Hezbollah training in Iran as crucial, since the topography of south Lebanon prevents the true training needed for missile launching systems.

Le Figaro further maintains that since the end of the Second Lebanon War Hezbollah and the Revolutionary Guards have become closer than ever.

The assassination of Imad Mugniyah, and Israel's assertion that Syria has been supplying Hezbollah with Scud missiles, has prompted the group to tighten security around its senior operatives, and its weapons delivery array.

The complexity of this system, said the French paper, illustrates Hezbollah's importance to Syria. A senior security source in Paris told Le Figaro that "a targeted Israel action against Unit 108 sites under is still possible."

The security source maintained that since the end of the 2006 war, "Hezbollah has been able to completely rehabilitate its weapons cashes, tunneling under the Syrian-Lebanese border, in an effort to create escape route for its operative, in case of another altercation with Israel."

Hezbollah, according to the report, has recently gained naval capabilities, as it "Unit 87" is now training divers.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3975249,00.html

[Casey]

Profile : The missing assassin
December 21, 2010 ⋅ 6:47 am
BY BARBARA SLAVIN

As Lebanon braces for a U.N. tribunal to announce indictments in the 2005 assassination of Rafiq al-Hariri, one key suspect is beyond the scope of any court of law.

Imad Mughniyeh, Hezbollah’s chief of operations until his own assassination in Damascus in 2008, likely played a role in the massive car bombing that claimed the lives of the former Lebanese prime minister and 22 others in Beirut. Experts on Lebanon and Hezbollah say it is difficult to envision a crime of such scale and consequence without Mughniyeh’s involvement.

“My guess is no,” said Mona Yacoubian, director of the Lebanon Working Group at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), asked if the Hariri assassination could have been pulled off without Mughniyeh’s knowledge. She added, “It would be hard to know how it could have been done without the connivance of Syria given its role in Lebanon in 2005.”

After a three-year investigation by a U.N. special tribunal, much more is known about the assassination of Hariri than the death of Mughniyeh. Press reports have linked Hezbollah to cell phones used by the Hariri plotters. Yacoubian and other Lebanon analysts say indictments are expected against as many as half a dozen Hezbollah operatives as soon as this month or early next year.

Hezbollah has reacted defiantly, suggesting without any evidence that Israel was somehow involved in Hariri’s murder. Hassan Nasrallah, the group’s leader, threatened last month to “cut off the hand” of anyone who tries to arrest a militia member.

But the Syrians, nervous at first that they would be blamed given well-publicized differences between Hariri and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, now seem to believe that the tribunal will leave the regime alone despite its long, complicated relationship with the Lebanese Shiite group. “There have been no indications that Syrians are among the list of indicted names,” says Joshua Landis, a Syria expert who directs the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma.

Could that be in part because Mughniyeh was involved and he is now in no position to speak?

Landis doubts Syrian responsibility for Mughniyeh’s death, noting that he was considered a “hero” in Syria for his role in helping to chase Israel from southern Lebanon. “For the Syrians to kill their own hero — even for the most wizened Mukhabarat — would be very demoralizing,” Landis said, using the Arabic term for secret police. “On the other hand, it makes perfect sense for Israel or America” given the number of Americans, Israelis, and Jews Mughniyeh helped kill.

Still, questions continue to swirl around the death of Mughniyeh, a master terrorist who served both Iranian and Syrian masters in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East and beyond. Born in southern Lebanon in 1962, he began his militant career in the 1970s as a bodyguard in Beirut for Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat, having been “discovered” by Arafat aide Khalil al-Wazir, also known as Abu Jihad. Mughniyeh later also served as a bodyguard for Sheikh Muhammed Hussein Fadlallah, the Shiite cleric who was close to Hezbollah and had a wide following in Lebanon until his death earlier this year.

Mughniyeh went on to become a seminal player in Hezbollah-linked international terrorism, implicated in attacks that killed hundreds of Americans, including 241 Marines in their Beirut barracks in 1983 and U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem during the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847. Mughniyeh was also implicated in attacks on Argentine Jews in the early 1990s in apparent retaliation for the Israeli assassination in Lebanon in 1992 of Abbas al-Musawi, Hezbollah’s leader prior to Nasrallah. Before the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. authorities had put Mughniyeh at the very top of the U.S. wanted list.

Until his murder, however, few had even seen Mughniyeh’s picture. After his death, posters of a chubby bearded man in camouflage resembling an Islamic Rob Reiner suddenly plastered the southern suburbs of Beirut and streets in the Iranian capital, Tehran.

Mughniyeh died on the evening of Feb. 12, 2008, shortly after he left an Iranian reception marking the 29th anniversary of the Iranian revolution. According to witnesses quoted at the time by the Washington Post, a powerful bomb detonated in his Mitsubishi Pajero as he stepped into the car. The blast shattered Mugniyeh’s body and hurled parts into a building entrance 15 feet away.

His violent death in an upscale Damascus neighborhood not known for such attacks created a crisis in Iranian-Syrian relations, a fact that has been underlined by recent WikiLeaks disclosures.

Even though both Iran and Syria publicly blamed Israel and the United States for the killing, Iran said it would mount an independent investigation. The results of that probe — if it ever took place — have never been announced. Likewise, Syria has never announced the results of its own investigation.

A Dec. 22, 2009, cable to the State Department signed by the chargé d’affaires in Damascus, Chuck Hunter, noted that Qassem Suleimani, the head of the elite Quds force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, had just visited Syria for the first time in months accompanying a high-level delegation led by Iranian national security advisor Saeed Jalili. (The U.S. Treasury Department designated Quds force a terrorist entity in October 2007.)

“Reportedly accompanying Jalili, Soleimani returned to Damascus after a long absence, perhaps a reflection of lingering tensions between Iran and Syria that erupted after the February 2008 assassination of Hizballah military strategist Imad Mugniyah in the Syrian capital,” the cable said, using alternate spellings of Hezbollah and Suleimani. “‘Soleimani represents the business end of the resistance,’ commented [name withheld], also reluctant to discuss the sensitive issue of Iranian-Syrian-Hizballah military cooperation.”

Randa Slim, an independent consultant and former scholar at USIP who has extensive contacts with Hezbollah officials, says that for six months after Mughniyeh’s death, Hezbollah forbade senior cadres from going to Damascus.

The Guardian newspaper, in a Dec. 7 article, wrote that the Saudi ambassador to Lebanon, Abdel Aziz Khoja, told U.S. diplomats in Beirut in 2008 that Hezbollah believed Syria was responsible for Mughniyeh’s killing.

The Saudi envoy noted that no Syrian official attended Mughniyeh’s funeral in Beirut. He said that Iran sent its foreign minister, who “had come to calm down Hezbollah and keep it from taking action against Syria.”

Did the Syrians kill Mughniyeh or conveniently step aside to allow Israelis or the CIA to do the deed? No one is likely ever to know for sure.

Meanwhile, the chances that others involved in Hariri’s death will face justice even in absentia also appear remote. U.N. officials plan to try to keep the indictments confidential for several weeks to allow time for the evidence to be evaluated, but the names are likely to leak.

Slim told an audience at USIP in Washington on Dec. 8 that after the indictments are known, “Most likely these people will be whisked to Syria and put on a plane to Iran and we’ll never hear of them again.”

http://www.yalibnan.com/2010/12/21/profile-the-missing-assassin/

[The 801]

Ugh, Newsmax. Therefore for entertainment purposes only.

Newsmax: Iran Ordered Rafik Hariri Execution

A U.N. investigative body is expected to ignite tensions in the coming weeks when it releases its report on the assassination of Lebanese former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Sources familiar with the investigation told Newsmax that the United Nations Special Tribunal for Lebanon will accuse Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei of giving the order to murder Hariri, and will lay out evidence showing that the murder was committed by Iran's Quds force and their allies, Hizbullah in Lebanon.

The order to murder Hariri was transmitted to Imad Mughniyeh, Hizbullah's military leader, by Quds force chief Qassem Suleymani, sources familiar with the investigation told Newsmax.

Mughniyeh and his brother-in-law, Mustapha Badr al-Dine, put together the hit team that carried out the attack. "The Iranians considered Hariri to be an agent of Saudi Arabia, and felt that killing him would pave the way for a Hizbullah takeover of Lebanon," the sources said.

Syrian President Bashar al-Aassad, and his brother-in-law, Assef Shawkat, the head of Syrian intelligence, also played key roles in the assassination plot, the sources told Newsmax.

As news of the tribunal's focus on Iran and Hizbullah has leaked out in recent weeks, the party's leaders have threatened to seize key government buildings and launch a new war against Israel.

In a fiery speech on November 11, Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said his fighters would "chop off the hand that dared to accuse or detain members" of the Iranian-backed group.

"We await the day the indictments will be released. We are ready for any Israeli war on Lebanon and will again be victorious … Whoever thinks that threatening us with another Israel war will scare us is mistaken. On the contrary, whoever speaks of another war is bearing good news not threatening us."

Nasrallah recently ordered the Hizbullah liaison officer in Tehran to return home, naming him as chief of military operations in southern Lebanon and along the border with Israel.

The appointment of Hashem Safieddine as the new military commander "is the most ominous sign to date of the seriousness Iran and Hizbullah attach to their plans for an early war with Israel," according to the Israeli website, Debkafile.

In mid-October, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad traveled to Lebanon and toured Hizbullah outposts along the Israeli border, where he was welcomed by crowds carrying his portrait and that of Khamenei.

Hizbullah and its allies are trying to convince the Lebanese government to reject the findings of the U.N. tribunal even before they are published.
"The situation is very tense," Lebanese Christian leader Tony Nissi told Newsmax from Beirut. "We hear government ministers saying that if the price of the truth is civil war, then we don't want the truth."

Hariri died when a powerful car bomb ripped through his armor-plated limousine as he was driving in a convoy near the St. George Hotel in Beirut. The massive blast killed eight bodyguards traveling with him and 14 innocent bystanders as well.

The murder gave birth to a popular movement known as the Cedars Revolution and huge street protests demanding the withdrawal of Syrian occupation troops from the country.

It also led to the creation of the United Nations Special Tribunal for Lebanon, initially led by a German judge named Detlev Mehlis.

Mehlis issued a blistering report in October 2005 accusing Syria of Hariri's murder, and revealed a dramatic showdown between President Bashar al-Assad and Hariri in the Syrian president's offices six months before his murder, during which Assad threatened to "break Lebanon over [his] head."

The tribunal issued arrest warrants for four Lebanese generals it alleged were also involved in the plot.

But after Mehlis resigned, the investigation stalled until February 2008, when a young Lebanese intelligence officer provided stunning new information implicating top officials in the Iranian-backed Hizbullah party of Lebanon.

Just days after Captain Wissam Eid met with the U.N. investigators in Beirut and provided them with a detailed analysis of cell phone records showing Hizbullah's involvement, he was murdered in a car-bombing similar to the one that killed Hariri.

The cell phone analysis linked phones carried by the hit team to known telephones of Hizbullah leaders. It also showed linkages to the current head of Lebanon's internal security service, Col. Wissam al-Hasan, who was head of Hariri's security detail at the time of the murder.

An internal tribunal memorandum, leaked to the Canadian TV network CBC, found that al-Hasan, who was supposed to accompany Hariri on the day of his murder, provided a false alibi to investigators and made several calls that morning to Hussein Khalil, the No. 2 official of Hizbullah.

The cell phone records showed that Khalil then called Wafiq Safa, a top Hizbullah security official now accused by the tribunal as a key member of the assassination team.

The French authorities initially discovered the cell phone linkages to Hizbullah when investigating the assassination of Samir Kassir, a Franco-Lebanese journalist who was murdered less than four months after Hariri.

"The man who bought the cell phones used in both murders was a member of Lebanese Hizbullah, but he was directly attached to the Iranian Quds force," a source familiar with the French investigation told Newsmax.




Beirut, 15 Jan 11, 08:28

http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/0/FE972D033E699265C22578190022AFFC?OpenDocument

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WikiLeaks: Khoja Told Americans Hizbullah Believed Syria Responsible for Mughniyeh's Murder

Saudi Arabia's former ambassador to Lebanon Abdel Aziz Khoja had informed U.S. diplomats in Beirut that Hizbullah believed the Syrians were responsible for Imad Mughniyeh's assassination in Damascus, according to a leaked cable.


No Syrian official was present at Mughniyeh's funeral in Beirut's southern suburbs the following day. Khoja said Iran was represented by its foreign minister who had come to calm down Hizbullah and keep it from taking action against Syria.

But according to the leaked documents, U.S. reports reveal Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime was shocked at the killing of Mughniyeh, a founder member of Hizbullah.

U.S. reports from February 2008, revealed by WikiLeaks, described how Assad's regime was shocked when Imad Mughniyeh was murdered by a bomb planted in his car.

Mughniyeh was wanted by the U.S., Israel, France and other governments.

"Syrian military intelligence and general intelligence directorate officials are currently engaged in an internecine struggle to blame each other for the breach of security that resulted in Mughniyeh's death," the U.S. embassy cable said.

Khoja said that another rumor was that Syria and Israel had made a deal to allow Mughniyeh to be killed, an Israeli objective.

According to U.S. diplomats, Mughniyeh's murder led to tensions between Syria and Iran, perhaps because Tehran shared Khoja's suspicion of Syrian complicity in the affair.

It took more than a year for Syrian-Iranian relations to improve, with a low-profile visit to Damascus in late 2009 by the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's (IRGC) elite al-Quds force, Qassem Suleimani, described by a Lebanese source as being at "the business end" of Hizbullah's military activities, The Guardian wrote. U.S. officials speculated that Suleimani's long absence was "perhaps a reflection of lingering tensions between Iran and Syria that erupted after the assassination of Mughniyeh".

It said that both the U.S. and Israel say explicitly that they want to weaken the links between Iran and its main Arab ally, Syria.

Mughniyeh, linked to the kidnappings of western hostages in the 1980s, was a controversial and shadowy figure whose influence reaches beyond the grave.

In 2006, Defense Minister Elias Murr told U.S. diplomats that Mughniyeh was "very active in Beirut", hinting that he was involved in a spate of murders of Lebanese politicians who were hostile to Syria, the Guardian said.

It said that according to Murr, Mughniyeh was working with the IRGC on the one hand and the Syrian intelligence supremo (and President Assad's brother-in-law) Asef Shawkat on the other.

http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/0/7B2FEF75751BC5FDC2257813005614DF?OpenDocument

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Report: Argentina offered to 'forget' bombings for improved ties

Argentinean daily says South American country told Islamic Republic it would suspend probe of deadly attacks on Israeli embassy, Jewish center in 1990s in order to increase trade between countries

Ynet
Published: 03.27.11, 08:21 / Israel News

During secret talks with Iran, the Argentinean government offered to "forget" the bombings of the Israeli embassy and the Jewish community center in the capital Buenos Aires in the 1990s in exchange for improved ties between the two countries.

The Argentine weekly Perfil reported Saturday that the negotiations were aimed at increasing the trade volume between Argentina and the Islamic Republic, which is currently estimated at $1.2 billion a year.

According to the report, Cristina Kirchner's government offered to suspend the investigation of the bombings, which are believed to have been orchestrated by Iran.

It was further reported that a memo sent by Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stated that "Argentina is no longer interested in solving the mystery of these two attacks and would rather improve its economic relations with Iran."

Perfil said Argentinean Foreign Minister Hector Timerman asked Syrian President Bashar Assad and Foreign Minister Walid Moallem to relay the offer to Tehran. The three met at the Syrian city of Haleb on January 23, the weekly said.

In September Kirchner told the UN that Argentina would continue the investigation and demanded that Iran hand over those responsible for the attacks.

In the 1992 embassy bombing, 29 people were killed and 242 were injured. In the bombing at the AMIA Jewish community center in 1994, 85 people were killed and more than 300 were injured. No one has been indicted despite the fact that Israel and the US have been assisting in the investigation.

Iran's Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi is wanted by Interpol for the attack on the Jewish center, as are four other Iranians.

Argentinean prosecutor Alberto Nisman said Vahidi was accused of "being a key participant in the planning and of having made the decision to go ahead with the attack."

Imad Mughniyeh, the Hezbollah commander who was assassinated in Damascus in 2008, was also suspected of involvement in the attack.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4048088,00.html

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Mugniyeh's facebook page.....


http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=245495482488#!/group.php?gid=245495482488&v=wall

Gosh, it even has his email address

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Court Filing Alleges "Clear And Convincing" Evidence Of Iran's "Direct Involvement" In 9/11 Attack
May 20, 2011 - San Francisco, CA - Yesterday, attorneys representing families of 9/11 victims made a filing in Manhattan's U.S. District Court, which heavily implicates the Islamic Republic of Iran in the September 11, 2001 jihadist attack undertaken by elements of al-Qaeda.

A website Iran 911 Case, created by the Philadelphia law firm headed by Thomas Mellon, Jr. [lead attorney in a 9/11 suit filed on behalf of Fiona Havlish, whose husband, Donald perished in the WTC's North Tower] claims that, "...Iran played a key role in planning and facilitating the 9/11 attacks and called on the U.S..."

The posting also states, "Representing eight law firms from across the United States, the attorneys and their team of investigators have turned up convincing evidence that Imad Mughniyah was the main liaison between Iran's leadership and al Qaeda and that Mughniyah played an active role in planning the 9/11 attacks. Mughniyah, a Lebanese Shiite, was a top commander in Hezbollah, the terrorist organization created and supported by Iran since the early 1980s. Mughniyah was assassinated on February 14, 2008, in Damascus, Syria."

The central focus of the filing pertains to the actions of Imad Mughniyah, who is no stranger to terrorism having been accused, "...of masterminding the April 1983 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, that killed 63 people, the October 1983 simultaneous attacks on the U.S. and French military barracks in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. Marines and 58 French soldiers; and the kidnapping and murder of numerous U.S. hostages in Lebanon, including the CIA's Beirut station chief William Buckley and U.S. Marine Lt. Colonel Richard Higgins."

Mughniyah is also thought to have been a key player in the, "...1985 hijacking of TWA flight 847...the murder of U.S. Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem, and by Interpol for his role in the 1992 attack on the Israeli Embassy, and the July 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish community center, both in Buenos Aires."

The new evidence was obtained as a result of a private investigation undertaken by the legal team, which formed a panel of experts including three former 911 Commission members who sifted through testimony taken from, "...former U.S. Government and intelligence officials, members of the 9/11 Commission staff, former Iranian intelligence officers, and a wide variety of non-governmental experts and fact witnesses..."

The investigation reveals for the first time the existence of hard evidence of Iran's intimate involvement in aiding al-Qaeda both before and after the attacks, a connection the 911 Commission was still working on as its report was published.

As attorney Tim Fleming states, "Imad Mughniyah was known to be an agent of Iran, running terrorist operations for Iran and Hezbollah. Mughniyah's participation in the hijackers' preparations for the 9/11 attacks leaves no doubt that Iran was directly involved in, and had foreknowledge of, a planned terrorist attack on the U.S."

He added that the 911 Commission had determined that, "after 9/11, Iran and Hezbollah wished to conceal any past evidence of cooperation with Sunni terrorists associated with al Qaeda.'"

It has long been known that despite sectarian differences between Shia Iran and the Sunni led al-Qaeda, there has been a degree of cooperation between the two seemingly antagonistic groups. If this new information proves to be valid, it will be a game changer, entirely transforming the nature of the still festering controversy regarding the American incursion into Iran. Moreover it will provide some measure of closure for the 911 families as well as Americans in general as the true dimensions and nature of Islamic jihadism comes better into focus.

©2011 PipeLineNews.org LLC. All rights reserved.

http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=sept115202011101.htm

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Iranian doublespeak on the anniversary of the AMIA bombing
By MATTHEW LEVITT
07/20/2011 22:50

Those indicted for the 1994 bombing in Argentina should be brought to stand trial.

Seventeen years ago this week, Hezbollah operatives working closely with Iranian intelligence blew up the Israeli-Argentine Mutual Association (AMIA) building in Buenos Aires, killing 85 people and wounding 300 more. Now, after years of obstructing investigation into the attack, Iran claims it is ready to “engage in constructive dialogue” with Argentina about the case, but insists that talk of an Iranian link is nothing more than “plots and political games.”

In fact, it is Iran that is playing games.

Argentinean authorities conducted an extensive investigation into the AMIA attack, with significant international cooperation, and concluded that “the decision to carry out the AMIA attack was made, and the attack was orchestrated, by the highest officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the time, and that these officials instructed Lebanese Hezbollah – a group that has historically been subordinated to the economic and political interests of the Tehran regime – to carry out the attack.”

Iran and Hezbollah each had their own reasons for wanting to attack Israeli or Jewish targets in Argentina in 1994, as they had just two years earlier when they bombed the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires. At the time, Tehran was furious over Buenos Aires’ decision to cease all nuclear cooperation with Iran in 1992 for fear that Iran’s nuclear program was not limited to peaceful purposes. In 1994, Argentina terminated its nuclear cooperation. Hezbollah, meanwhile, sought to avenge the Israeli assassination of its leader, Abbas Moussawi, in 1992, and then Israel’s capture of Hezbollah ally Mustapha Dirani in Southern Lebanon in May 1994. Such coincidence of interests, coupled with Hezbollah’s prized status as Tehran’s primary proxy, and operational considerations such as Argentina’s porous borders, Iran’s heavy diplomatic and intelligence presence there, and the existence of a strong Hezbollah financial/logistical support network in South America, all combined to make Argentina a particularly attractive target for Iranian intelligence and Hezbollah operatives.

ACCORDING TO Argentinean intelligence, as early as May 1993 – a full year before Dirani’s capture by Israeli commandos – and again in November 1993, Iranian operative Mohsen Rabbani visited Buenos Aires car dealerships inquiring about purchasing a Renault Trafic van of the kind later used in the 1994 AMIA bombing. Rabbani’s fieldwork in support of Iranian intelligence dates to his arrival in Argentina in 1983, when he began recruiting local Shia – described by others in the community as his “antennas” – who served as an informal intelligence network, carrying out surveillance on his instructions. Assessments from Rabbani’s scouts on potential Jewish and American targets in the city served as the basis for targeting reports that Rabbani drafted and passed along to senior intelligence officials in Iran. Rabbani was the imam at the al- Tawhid mosque, which served as a base for his activities on behalf of Iran, and was also intimately involved in staffing Iranian front companies in Argentina. According to prosecutors, Rabbani’s surveillance reports would later prove to be “a determining factor in making the decision to carry out the AMIA attack.”

Based on evidence gathered in the AMIA investigation, including the testimony of Abolghasem Mesbahi, a defector from the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), prosecutors concluded that the decision to bomb the AMIA building was made at a meeting held by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council in Mashhad on Saturday, August 14, 1993.

During this meeting, senior Iranian leaders approved the bombing plot and selected the AMIA building as the target.

According to Argentinean intelligence, once the committee reached its decision, intelligence chief Ali Fallahian was given overall operational responsibility for the attack, and Qods Force Commander Ahmad Vahidi – who today serves as Iran’s Minister of Defense and is a wanted fugitive in Argentina – was instructed to provide any necessary assistance. Fallahian turned to Hezbollah’s Imad Mughniyeh to execute the attack. Rabbani was put in charge of local logistics, including all details pertaining to the purchase, hiding and arming of the van to be used in the bombing. Rabbani was also suddenly appointed Cultural Attaché at the Iranian embassy, providing him with diplomatic immunity. Asghari, already a diplomat, was tasked with activating Iran’s “clandestine networks” in support of the operation.

In time, investigators would uncover records of phone calls between the Iranian embassy in Buenos Aires and suspected Hezbollah operatives in the tri-border area who helped coordinate the attack out of a mosque and a travel agency there.

ARGENTINA’S FOREIGN ministry issued a statement saying it had yet to receive a formal word from Tehran but, if confirmed, Iran’s offer to cooperate with the AMIA investigation would be “unprecedented and positive.”

Iran’s offer should be immediately tested with renewed requests for those indicted to be made available to stand trial. But the families of the victims should not hold their breath waiting for Iran’s response. In light of the evidence linking Iran and Hezbollah to the AMIA bombing, the odds are overwhelming that Iran’s offer to assist in the investigation is, to borrow Iran’s phrase, nothing more than “plots and political games.”

The writer directs the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and is the author of the forthcoming book Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s ‘Party of God.’


http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=230258

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Son of Hezbollah's Mughniyeh target of Beirut blast: report
August 02, 2011 09:44 AM (Last updated: August 02, 2011 01:28 PM)
The Daily Star

BEIRUT: An explosion in Beirut’s southern suburbs Friday was aimed at Mustafa Mughniyeh, the son of slain Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh, some Lebanese media outlets, quoting Israel television, reported.

Quoting Israel’s Channel 10, the reports said Mustafa Mughniyeh, a member of Hezbollah’s “operations apparatus,” had left the building five minutes before the explosion went off.

It said one of his bodyguards was killed in the explosion.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said Friday that one person had been seriously wounded when a gas cylinder blew up in the Rweiss neighborhood of Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold.

The NNA said the explosion reverberated across the southern suburbs, prompting ambulances and Civil Defense unites to rush to the scene of the incident.

Imad Mughniyeh, a top military commander in Hezbollah, was killed in a car bomb explosion in Syria in 2008.

According to Israeli reports, the building targeted was Mustapha Mughniyeh’s office and not his place of residence.

Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2011/Aug-02/Son-of-slain-Hezbollah-commander-target-of-Lebanon-blast-report.ashx#ixzz1Tt0eIzAm
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)

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Wikileaks - for historic note only.......

Reference id aka Wikileaks id #141235  ? 
Subject Hizballah's Imad Mugniyah Killed By Car Bomb In Damascus
Origin Embassy Damascus (Syria)
Cable time Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:47 UTC
Classification SECRET
Source http://wikileaks.org/cable/2008/02/08DAMASCUS107.html
History First published on Thu, 4 Aug 2011 09:46 UTC
Media Add media item
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Hide headerS E C R E T DAMASCUS 000107 SIPDIS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/12/2018 TAGS: PGOV [Internal Governmental Affairs] PTER [Terrorists and Terrorism] SY [Syria] LE [Lebanon]

SUBJECT: HIZBALLAH'S IMAD MUGNIYAH KILLED BY CAR BOMB IN DAMASCUS Classified By: CDA Michael Corbin, reasons 1.5 b and d.

¶1. (SBU) Syria's tightly controlled press remained silent on reports of Imad Mugniyah's death in a car bomb that exploded near Syrian Military Intelligence (SMI) headquarters in the neighborhood of Kafr Sousa at approximately 10:00 pm local February 12. According to contacts who were on the scene, SMI secured and cleared the area and kept other police services away. Tow trucks removed several vehicles within 45 minutes after the explosion which jarred surrounding buildings and could be felt at the American Ambassador's residence three miles away. Syrian officials reported the blast had been the result of a butane gas leak and that one unidentified person (later two) had been killed.

¶2. (C) Media and other contacts reported mid-morning February 13 that unknown assailants had launched a car bomb attack against notorious Hizballah military operative Imad Mugniyah. The story broke simultaneously on wire services and Arab satellite television stations al Jazeera, al Arabyia, and al Manar. Western press was also reporting that the second victim was Hizballah MP al Hajj Hussein, although Hizballah denied this. As of COB local, Syrian authorities had yet to provide any further comment on the incident. (A Fox News affiliate told us MFA officials seemed "shocked" by reports of Mugniyah's death but offered no comment.)

¶3. (C) The most frequent theory suggested by media and diplomatic contacts was that Israel conducted the attack to embarrass Syria on the eve of a previously scheduled visit by Iranian FM Manuchehr Mottaki. Going to the other extreme, others were unwilling to rule out that Hizballah itself had conducted the assassination to neutralize Mugniyah's challenge to Hizballah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah. One contact even suggested that Syria could have undertaken the operation as a sign of its desire to engage Israel and the West.

¶4. (S) Saudi XXXXXXXXXXXX (protect) told us Mugniyah's presence in Damascus might have been related to a possible February 13 meeting in Damascus among Lebanese March 8 MPs with SARG officials. He also noted that SMI Director Assaf Shawkat's offices were close to where the explosion occurred, and Mugniyah could have been going to or coming from the meeting. British and Egyptian Embassy sources suggested Iranian FM Mottaki planned to meet with Hizballah and March 8 representatives during his February 13-14 visit to Damascus as a counter to March 14's planned public demonstration to mark the third anniversary of the February 14 assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafiq Hariri.

¶5. (C) Comment: This apparent targeted assassination of one of Hizballah's most notorious operatives coincides with a busy week of official visits meant to refute suggestions that Syria's Lebanon policy is resulting in a new period of Western and Arab diplomatic isolation. Syria's ongoing silence regarding the attack is a characteristic regime response, most recently observed (and still in effect) after Israel's September 6 air strike near Deir az-Zur. This silence likely reflects a deep sense of regime embarrassment from the acknowledged assassination of a wanted-terrorist whose presence in Syria it denied for years. The event also impacts Syrian-Iranian-Hizballah cooperation on the eve of FM Mottaki's visit likely meant to bolster Syria's position in the face of escalating March 14 rhetoric and growing Western impatience with Syria's Lebanon policy. CORBIN


http://www.cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=08DAMASCUS107

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Syrian TV to reveal alleged plot behind Mugniyah assassination
September 15, 2011

SANA news agency announced on Thursday that Syrian national television will broadcast on Saturday an interview with “an Israeli spy who will… confess how he contributed to the [2008] assassination of Hezbollah official Imad Mugniyah in Syria.”

Imad Mughiyah, who was a high-ranking Hezbollah official and used to run military operations in close collaboration with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps-Qods Force, was assassinated in 2008 in Damascus.

To read more: http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=311765#ixzz1Y9z7Qx4M

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Thursday, March 15th | 21 AdarI 5772


Wikileaks Global Intelligence Files: Israel Day 17, The Assassination of Hezbollah’s Security Chief
March 14, 2012 4:21 pm 0 comments


Since February 27, 2012, WikiLeaks has continued releasing what it says will eventually be 5 million e-mails sent between July 2004 and late December 2011 from the private intelligence company Stratfor. The emails were obtained from a series of hacking attacks against Stratfor in December 2011, carried out by the online activist collective Anonymous.

An email dated March 25, 2008, refers to a source described as a Syrian businessman who has business dealings with Rami Makhluf, Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad’s maternal cousin. The source has a reliability rating of C and a credibility rating of 3 [average Stratfor ranking].

This email lists the following claims made by the source:

“…Syrian president Bashar Asad has ordered his brother-in-law general Asef Shawkat to step down as the chief investigator in the assassination of Imad Muhniyye [senior Hizbullah leader]. Bashar’s maternal cousin Rami Makhluf … has replaced Shawkat as the Mughniyye assassinmation investigator chief despite his modest credentials.”

“… Hizbullah has protested to Asad against the appointment of Makhluf as the investigator. Hizbullah accuses Shawkat of having a key role in Mughniyye’s assassination and demanded interrogating him as a primary suspect.”

“…Syrian investigations have already revealed involvement by a Syrian army officer in Mughniyye’s assassination. The officer collected detailed intelligence about Mughniyye’s movements while in Syria and in the Biqaa vallye, during former’s tenure in the central Biqaa as an intelligence officer during the 1990s. The officer discussed security matters with Mughniyye during two major Israeli military operations in Lebanon …”

A separate email dated March 27, 2008, refers to a source who has a reliability rating of A [highest Stratfor ranking] and an unknown credibility rating.

According to the source the assassination of Imad Mugniyah “has soured relations between Hizbullah and Syria”. Syria is reportedly embarrassed and reluctant to provide information about the assassination because some Syrians were involved in the assassination plot.

The source mentioned that “Hizbullah has made up its mind on putting all the blame on Israel” but will not be attacking Israeli targets at the moment mainly due to the political crisis in Lebanon

Another email dated March 7, 2008, refers to a source described as a “Source in Lebanon”. The source has a reliability rating of B and a credibility rating of 3 [second highest and average Stratfor ranking respectively].

According to the source, “Syria is very upset with Hizbullah’s chief Hasan Nasrallah because, during his eulogy of Imad Mughniyye, he limited his accusation to Israel” and did not criticize the CIA. Syrian president Bashar Asad reportedly felt by only criticizing Israel, Syria-Israel peace talks over the Golan Heights were jeopardized. The source mentioned that it was more acceptable for Syria to give the impression that its intelligence service was penetrated by the CIA rather than the Mossad.

An email dated March 14, 2008, refers to a source described as a “Fatah military source”. The source has a reliability rating of B and a credibility rating of 3 [second highest and average Stratfor ranking respectively].

The email states that Iran and Syria have clearly told Hizbullah “not to avenge the assassination” of Imad Mughniyye in Damascus. Both countries are reportedly concerned that such retaliation could lead to massive Israeli reprisals against Syria and Iran.

This email also makes the following statement, “Hizbullah’s retaliation for Mughniyye’s assassination was via the Islamic Jihad who launched the attack against the seminary in West Jerusalem that killed eight Israeli religious students.”

An email dated March 18, 2008, refers to a source who has a reliability rating of A [highest Stratfor ranking] and an unknown credibility rating.

The email states that Syria does not want to release information about “the Mughniyye assassination investigation because they are waiting for the outcome of” an Arab summit in Damascus and also because they want to deny any involvement in the assassination. If the summit is not a success, Syria is expected to accuse “Saudi Arabian intelligence for playing a role in assassinating Mughniyye.” This email also makes the following statement; “So far, all suspects, believed to be four, have been Palestinians from Hamas and the Islamic Jihad.”

A separate email dated February 18, 2008, also refers to the assassination of Imad Mugniyah. Hizbullah reportedly distrusts the Syrians. The email states that Syria will blame the Lebanese government for the assasination.

Imad Mugniyah and other Hizbullah officials are allegedly escorted by Syrian intelligence vehicles inside Syria and when they “travel to Iran via Damascus, they board private jets
with Iranian markings.”

This email also states that senior Hizbullah officials have temporarily stopped travel to Syria and increased their security arrangements in Lebanon.

This email contained the following statement, “…Hizbullah will seek soft targets. They are most likely to find Israeli targets in the Far East or South America. They will avoid targets in Europe. They may hit American targets in Jordan.”

Another email dated March 7, 2008, refers to a source described as a “Source in Hezbollah”. The source has a reliability rating of B and a credibility rating of 3 [second highest and average Stratfor ranking respectively].

According to the source, Syrian intelligence is spreading rumors that Nasrallah [Hezbollah leader] ordered Mughnyah’s assassination because of a power struggle. The source denies these rumors.

The source mentioned that Hezbollah has refused to allow three of its top officials to be interrogated by Syria. Syrian intelligence allegedly interrogated “four Palestinian security officers, three of whom are from the PFLP-GC [Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command].”

This email also contained the following statement: “The Syrians are spreading rumors that the IRGC [Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps] is very angry with Hasan Nasrallah and his cliche in Hizbullah for their failures during the 2006 summer war. In particular, the Iranians are dismayed with the failure of Hizbullah gunners to inflict significant casualties as a result of firing more than 4000 rockets against Israel. Hizbullah handling of the Iranian provided missiles has caused Israel to lose respect for Iran’s arsenal of missiles. The firing of the missiles was more like fireworks than instruments of death.”

A separate email dated February 13, 2008, states “the assassination of Mughniyye has an unmistakable Ehud Barak’s hallmark” who “…is known for this style of high concept assassinations.” It also listed the following claim: “The Israelis have many Druze ‘eyes’ in Syria… The Israelis have perfected their espionage networks in Syria many years ago.”

An email dated February 21, 2008, refers to a source described as an “Israeli source”. The source has a reliability rating of B and a credibility rating of 2 [second highest Stratfor ranking].

According to the source, the Mughniyeh assassination was carried out by the Mossad and the United States knew about it. The assassination was described as “…a very elegant attack. As the footage showed, the car was still very much intact, controlled explosion fitted in the head rest.”

The source mentioned that more than 3 Mossad agents were involved in the operation but they were all unlikely to have been in Syria at the same time. The source claimed Hezbollah will be planning a retaliatory attack overseas, similar to the Buenos Aires attack and added that in the Buenos Aires attack “the Iranians succeeded in bribing the Argentinian security
officials and investigation team.”

The source stated that Ashkenazi [former IDF Chief of Staff] had done a “phenomenal job” preparing Israel militarily for another war. The source also added that Meir Dagan [former Director of the Mossad] “totally transformed Mossad” and that the “…Mughniyeh hit was his baby.”

Israel reportedly does not want another war with Hezbollah right now, is averse to military casualties and is focusing on “covert ops.” The email concluded that “the Dimona bombing [Palestinian suicide bombing in 2008] came from Hebron; ironically, Israeli peace activists succeeded in stopping the wall building at the spot where the bomber got through.”
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