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February 16, 2008
Mughniyeh's True Legacy
The great Caroline Glick provides some fascinating analysis into the recent assassination of terrorist Imad Mughniyeh. As I wrote earlier, this was no ordinary hit, the complexity of such an operation cannot be overstated. Running foreign agents in a totalitarian state like Syria is a massively difficult undertaking that demands financing, rock-solid intelligence, agents who speak the native language fluently, cover stories that bear the closest scrutiny, the ability to set up the hit right under Puppy Assad's brutal secret police, and of course a smooth exit after the assassination, when borders are sealed and the country is locked up tighter than a sardine can.
Mughniyeh was not killed because of past deeds, though certainly the Israelis had him marked for death many years ago—no, this terrorist was deleted in order to halt future operations.
It is quite possible that terror master Imad Mughniyeh was not killed Tuesday night in Damascus for his past crimes, but to prevent him from carrying out additional attacks in the future.
On January 30, French security services raided a Paris apartment and arrested six Arab men. Three of the men - two Lebanese and one Syrian - were travelling on diplomatic passports. According to the Italian Libero newspaper, the six were members of a Hizbullah cell. Documents seized included tourist maps of Paris, London, Madrid, Berlin and Rome marked up with red highlighter to indicate routes, addresses, parking lots and "truck stopping points." The maps pointed to several routes to Vatican back entrances.
Libero's report explained that the "truck stopping points" aligned with information the French had received the week before from Beirut. There, Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah had convened a conference of his senior terror leaders where he ordered them to activate Hizbullah cells throughout Europe to kidnap senior European leaders.
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Posted by Robert J. Avrech at February 16, 2008 07:13 PM
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