A Blast From the Past
Imad Mughniyeh has been blown up in Damascus. Mughniyeh is perhaps the world’s most notorious terrorist since Carlos the Jackal. Mughniyeh was behind the following attacks:
1983 – American embassy bombing in Beirut – killing 63.
1983 – Attacks on US & French barracks – killing 300.
1984 – Kidnapping and murder of US CIA station chief William Buckley.
1985 – TWA Hijacking in which a Navy diver was killed.
1992 – Attack on Israeli embassy in Argentina – 92 killed.
Mughniyeh was so notorious that there was some speculation immediately after 9-11 that he had masterminded the attack. Of course we later learned that this hairball did.
Associated Press’s chief Mideast correspondent Terry Anderson, who spent 6 years in captivity in Lebanon, said of Mughniyeh, “I can’t say I’m either surprised or sad (by his death). He was not a good man. Certainly, the primary actor in my kidnapping and many others,” Anderson told AP on Wednesday. “To hear that his career has finally ended is a good thing and it’s appropriate that he goes up in a car bomb.”
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