By Andrew L. Jaffee

Imad Mughniyeh, aka “The Fox,” a Hezbollah murderer, may have been “an inspiration to bin Laden,” but he is now a dead one. Thanks most likely go to the Israeli Mossad, although the Jewish state is not commenting. Better to keep twisted, Palestinian terrorist master-minds guessing about their fates. Lest people bemoan the “assassination” of another “freedom fighter,” the National Post today pointed out what kind of an evil man Mughniyeh was:

… Mugniyeh cemented his dark reputation in 1983, when he orchestrated the vehicle bombing of the American embassy in Beirut and, six months later, similar attacks at the barracks of French and American peacekeepers.

He followed up with a spate of kidnappings, the 1985 hijacking of a TWA plane flying from Athens to Rome, the 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires and the bombing two years later of the city’s Jewish community centre. Some 500 died in his attacks in just over a decade. Osama bin Laden has called Mugniyeh’s tactics in Beirut his inspiration for “destroying towers in America.”

“When he joined Hezbollah — by the way he is a very fierce fighter — they carried out many bombings and assassinations,” a Hezbollah member captured in Canada told Canadian intelligence officers, according to Federal Court records. “Imad Mugniyeh’s group operates in great secrecy. He commands a number of men.”

His international network even stretched into Canada, where he was linked to a Hezbollah procurement network that purchased night-vision goggles and army surplus gear in Vancouver and shipped it to Lebanon. The Canadian Hezbollah operatives referred to him as “the Father.” He was also known as Hajj. …

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Related: Israel, War Against Islamo-fascism, Palestinians, Lebanon, Terrorist Groups

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