{"id":54502,"date":"2017-08-12T17:05:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T15:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=54502"},"modified":"2017-08-06T06:34:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T04:34:56","slug":"06-05-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=54502","title":{"rendered":"Imad Mughniyeh Revealed as Founder of Iran-Backed Shia Militias in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/algem.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"30%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2017\/07\/31\/infamous-assassinated-hezbollah-terror-mastermind-imad-mughniyeh-revealed-as-founder-of-iran-backed-shia-militias-in-iraq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Infamous Assassinated Hezbollah Terror Mastermind Imad Mughniyeh Revealed as Founder of Iran-Backed Shia Militias in Iraq<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Ben Cohen<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/49yzp92imhtx8radn224z7y1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/imadmughniyeh.png\" width=\"100%\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Late Hezbollah terrorist leader Imad Mughniyeh. Photo: File.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>One of the most historically-feared architects of Iran\u2019s terror network in Lebanon has been named as a key contributor to the growth of the Tehran-backed Shia militias that now wield decisive power in Iraq.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In an interview with Iraqi newspaper Al-Akhbar that was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis \u2014 the deputy commander of the Iranian-backed PMU militia \u2014 paid fulsome tribute to the late Hezbollah terrorist leader Imad Mughniyeh\u2019s role with Iraqi Shia organizations stretching back to the 1980s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Together with his Hezbollah comrade Mustafa Badr Al-Din, Mughniyeh \u201ctrained the first armed jihad groups of the Iraqi opposition in 1982, as well as the first resistance units that opposed the [American] occupation in 2003,\u201d Al-Muhandis said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Before his assassination in Damascus in February 2008 in a car bombing widely assumed to have been the work of a joint CIA-Mossad team of agents, Mughniyeh was renowned as one of Hezbollah\u2019s most ruthless and effective operatives \u2014 spending nearly thirty years at the helm of a regional and global terror network that thrives more now than at any time in the past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mughniyeh, 45 at the time of his death, was personally responsible for the murder of hundreds of people in various terrorist outrages. As Hezbollah\u2019s chief of international operations, Mughniyeh masterminded several deadly terror attacks \u2014 among them the 1983 bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut, which killed 63, and the subsequent bombing in the same year of military barracks in the Lebanese capital in which 241 American and 58 French service members lost their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mughniyeh\u2019s footprint also extended to Latin America, where he directed the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires and the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in the Argentine capital \u2014 the worst single act of antisemitic terror since the Second World War.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">As well as bombings, Mughniyeh was involved with hijacking, kidnapping \u2014 including the abduction of CIA Beirut station chief William Buckley, who was eventually murdered \u2014 and arms trafficking. Mughniyeh was a central player in the infamous \u201cKarine A\u201d affair of 2002, when the IDF intercepted a shipload of weapons bound for the Palestinian Authority (PA). Mughniyeh\u2019s deputy, Hajj Bassem, facilitated the delivery of the weapons to the carrier, the \u201cKarine A\u201d ship, from an Iranian vessel under his command.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">While Mughniyeh\u2019s death was a blow to Hezbollah\u2019s global subterfuge, the arsenal at the terror organization\u2019s disposal in Lebanon is much greater than during its last war with Israel, in 2006, despite UN Security Council resolutions demanding its disarmament. Meanwhile, Mughniyeh\u2019s tactical vision of maximum harm against American as well as Israeli interests survives in the threat issued by Al-Muhandis, the Shia commander in Iraq.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cThe possibility of friction or a confrontation between the PMU forces and the American forces is very real,\u201d the Al-Akhbar report said. \u201cAl-Muhandis does not rule this out \u2018if Iraq\u2019s sovereignty comes under attack.&#8217;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> twoje uwagi, linki, wlasne artykuly, lub wiadomosci przeslij do: <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 710px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infamous Assassinated Hezbollah Terror Mastermind Imad Mughniyeh Revealed as Founder of Iran-Backed Shia Militias in Iraq Ben Cohen Late Hezbollah terrorist leader Imad Mughniyeh. 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