No Requiem for the Michael Corleone of Jihad.... U-mad is Muggin'-ya no more

 

		An undated image of Hezbollah terror chief Imad Mughniyah.. the Michael Corleone of Jihad

Imad Mugniyad or Mughniyeh's rap sheet of crimes against Citizens of the World is vast and chilling.  He is the Godfather of Jihadoterrorism reminiscent of Michael Corleone's killing spree of the Don's Mario Puzo's famous fictional account of the Italian Mafia in America.  There is no doubt that had this Jack the Ripper of Lebanon been the leader of a Country his crimes against humanity would have rivaled those of Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin, or China's Mao!  It can be said that the "Eulogy" that follows below by Terry Anderson, the American Associated Press Chief Mideast Correspondent who was held as Imad Mugniyad's captive for 6 years it is so very fitting if understated as I would chime in and say "Live by the Car Bomb die by the Car Bomb"!:

	The vehicle of assassinated top Hezbollah commander Imad Moughniyah is towed away from the scene of a car bomb blast in Damascus, Syria, in this picture taken with a cellphone. Photograph by : Agence France-Presse; Getty Images

From the AP

"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 the 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."  

Here is the Rap Sheet of for this Godfather of Jihadoterrorism this "Jack the Ripper" of Jihad.  I hope 'Hell hath no Fury' like that of a Loving and Forgiving God Scorned in his Name......dRIH 'don't Rest in Hell' "Umad Mugging-Yak"

• Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers on the border between the two countries in July 2006, sparking an Israeli incursion into south Lebanon and a 34-day war. While Hezbollah has not come forward with evidence that the soldiers are alive, Israel regards them as such until it is proved otherwise and would not want to jeopardize their return.

 

• Hezbollah called for a huge turnout at Mughniyeh's funeral in south Beirut on Thursday. The same day, government supporters are planning a rally of hundreds of thousands in downtown Beirut to mark the third anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

 

• Mughniyeh was born on Dec. 7, 1962 in the south Lebanon village of Tair Debba.
• He joined the nascent Hezbollah in the early 1980s and formed a militant cell known as Islamic Jihad or Islamic Holy War. The cell was said to be Hezbollah's strike arm, but the group denies any link to it.
• Accused of masterminding the first major suicide bombing to target Americans: the April 1983 car bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut that killed 63 people, including 17 Americans.
• Blamed for the devastating suicide truck bomb at the barracks of French and U.S. peacekeeping forces in Beirut, killing 59 French paratroopers and 241 American Marines.
• Indicted in the United States for the 1985 hijacking of TWA flight 847, during which Shiite militants shot Navy diver Robert Stethem, who was a passenger on the plane, and dumped his body on the tarmac of Beirut airport. The hijacking produced one of the most iconic images of pre-9/11 terrorism: a photo of the 727's pilot leaning out the cockpit window with a gunman waving a pistol in front of his face.
• In the 1980s Mughniyeh was also believed to have directed a string of kidnappings of Americans and other foreigners in Lebanon. The hostages included The Associated Press's chief Mideast correspondent Terry Anderson, who was held for more than six years until his release in 1991; and CIA station chief William Buckley, who was tortured by his captors and killed in 1985.
• "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 the 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."
• Giandomenico Picco, an Italian diplomat working at the time of the Terry Anderson release was a special assistant to U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, said he was certain but never able to confirm that the hooded man he met in the slums of Beirut to finalize the deal was Mughniyeh.
• Mughniyeh's trail of terror was believed to continue into the 1990s.
• Israel accused Mughniyeh of involvement in the 1992 bombing of its embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina in which 29 people were killed.
• Argentine special prosecutor Alberto Nisman also accused Mughniyeh in the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center, an attack which killed 85 people. Prosecutors said Iranian officials orchestrated the attack and entrusted Hezbollah to carry it out.
• The Khobar Towers bombing came two years later. Faris bin Hizam, a Saudi journalist who closely follows Islamic groups, said Mughniyeh flew to the kingdom days before the bombing and met the group that carried out the attack.
• Mughniyeh spent his final years moving between Lebanon, Iran, Syria and Turkey, and used as many as 47 different forged passports, bin Hizam said.
• His last public appearance was believed to be at the funeral of his brother Fuad, who was killed in 1994 by a booby-trapped car in Beirut. In 2006, Mughniyeh was reported to have met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Syria.
• Mughniyeh's body was brought to south Beirut in the afternoon and was laid in a refrigerated coffin, wrapped in Hezbollah's yellow flag.

 

From Jerusulem Post July 2006

• Born in the Lebanese city of Tyre in 1952, Mughniyeh did not attract attention until 1976, when he joined Force 17 as a sniper targeting Christians on the Green Line dividing West and East Beirut.
• Mughniyeh, who is believed to have been behind the abduction of the two IDF soldiers on July 12, is also reported to be in charge of Hizbullah's rocket unit in south Lebanon. The unit has fired more than 1,600 rockets at Israel during the current violence.
• Imad Mughniyeh, a former officer in Arafat's Force 17 presidential guard who has been in charge of Hizbullah's military operations in south Lebanon for the past decade.
• "Imad Mughniyeh is the overall commander of the Islamic Resistance [Hizbullah's armed wing] in southern Lebanon," said a Fatah official who said he knew Mughniyeh well during the '70s and '80s.
• "He's nicknamed tha'lab [the fox], and today he's considered the second important figure in
• When the IDF forced the PLO to leave Lebanon in 1982, Arafat entrusted Mughniyeh with transferring the organization's weapons to Lebanese militias allied with the Palestinians.

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