Monday, July 17, 2006

The enemy of my friend is my enemy


Israel's Enemy is America's Enemy.
The bloody history of Hezbollah.

.....No discussion of the continuing threat posed to U.S. interests by Hezbollah would be complete without a mention of Imad Mughniyeh. A former member of Yasser Arafat's Force 17 bodyguard unit, Mughniyeh has served as Hezbollah's operations chief for more than two decades, during which time he was linked to nearly every act of Hezbollah and Iranian-sponsored terrorism worldwide, including the Beirut bombings, the hijacking of TWA 847, and the kidnapping and murder of U.S. military, intelligence, and diplomatic officials in Lebanon, the bombings of the Israeli embassy and a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires in 1992 and 1994. (He was also suspected of direct involvement in the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia.) More recently, the Daily Telegraph reported in April 2004 that "Intelligence officials in Iraq have uncovered evidence that Mughniyeh has been helping to train the self-styled al-Mahdi army set up by Moqtada al-Sadr," whose followers are believed to have been responsible for the recent outbreak of sectarian violence in Iraq. continued