Comments on: Imad Fayez Mugniyah (1962-2008)

By: Rodney Z Hartman

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By: Don Quijote

Don Quijote — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:20:20 +0000

Uncontrollable Psychological Reasons

As it happens, one of my favorite things ever written by anyone anywhere was about Moughniyah. This is from a 2001 article about him by Kenneth Zimmerman in the Washington Times:

Imad Fayez Mugniyeh [is] a Lebanese Shiite long considered one of the world's most ruthless and elusive killers...

Once the Palestinians were kicked out of Lebanon in 1983, Mugniyeh and his two brothers, Fuad and Jihad, joined a new organization set up by Iran called Hezbollah (Party of God). Its goal was to drive the Western powers out of Lebanon...

Intelligence officials believe Mugniyeh is seeking personal vengeance on the United States and Israel for the deaths of his brothers, which explains in part his willingness to lend his expertise to operations organized by other groups. Mugniyeh's brothers were killed in retaliatory attacks in Lebanon believed to have been carried out by Israeli and U.S. operatives.

"Bin Laden is a schoolboy in comparison with Mugniyeh," an Israeli-intelligence officer told Jane's Foreign Report recently. "The guy is a genius, someone who refined the art of terrorism to its utmost level. We studied him and reached the conclusion that he is a clinical psychopath motivated by uncontrollable psychological reasons, which we have given up trying to understand. The killing of his two brothers by the Americans only inflamed his strong motivation."

Wait...you're telling me that a young man, when his country was invaded by foreigners, got angry? And then when they killed his brothers, he became even madder? And he wanted revenge on the people who'd done it?

You know, if we stopped going into other people's countries, killing the locals and just plain fucking up the landscape, I bet that they would be far less anti-American terrorism.

By: Don Quijote

Don Quijote — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:20:20 +0000

By: Imad Mughniyah, Wanted: Dead… « waves and particles

Imad Mughniyah, Wanted: Dead… « waves and particles — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:11:21 +0000

[...] Mughniyah’s passing. “May he rot in hell,” declared Shaun Mullen over at the Moderate Voice [...]

By: DLS

DLS — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:09:09 +0000

Hizballah is planning a mass funeral, it seems.

Oh, please — have Nasrallah speak. MISSILE AWAY!

And mine the funeral procession route.

By: DLS

DLS — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:09:09 +0000

Hizballah is planning a mass funeral, it seems.

Oh, please — have Nasrallah speak. MISSILE AWAY!

And mine the funeral procession route.

By: Slamfu

Slamfu — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:53:00 +0000

And the world becomes a slightly better place.

By: Slamfu

Slamfu — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:53:00 +0000

And the world becomes a slightly better place.

By: Tully

Tully — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:34:31 +0000

You're not advocating political assassinations, are you, Shaun?

By: Tully

Tully — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:34:31 +0000

You're not advocating political assassinations, are you, Shaun?

By: DLS

DLS — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:21:23 +0000

Loo-dee-doo-doo...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-35062...

Iran: Israeli state terrorism at work [again] [typical anti-civilizational drivel]

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-35064...

By: DLS

DLS — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:21:23 +0000

By: DLS

DLS — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:56:53 +0000

Israel should just say with this guy what it said with one other guy who met a similar end a few years ago:

“Some people lead dangerous lives.”

By: DLS

DLS — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:56:53 +0000

Israel should just say with this guy what it said with one other guy who met a similar end a few years ago:

“Some people lead dangerous lives.”

By: T_Steel

T_Steel — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:35:42 +0000

And as we in the black community are fond of saying:

Go to hell with gasoline drawers on!

Not you Shaun...