Posted by
J-GOP on Sunday, February 24, 2008 7:00:58 PM
Whether it was the Israeli Defense Force, the Mossad, or someone on the inside of Hezbollah, the assasination of Imad Mughniyeh is something worthy of praise since it will certainly deliver a blow to the Islamic terrorist group.
Mughniyeh was responsible for the terrorist group's overseas operations including the assistance it provided to Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He was also directly responsible for many terrorist acts including the 1983 bombings of the US Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut, the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center that killed 85 people, the bombing of the Israeli Embassy in that same city two years earlier, and more recently, the abduction of the two IDF reservists that sparked the 34-day Second Lebanon War.
His death is a blow to Hezbollah operations and a boost to Israel's security since any large-scale attack he might have been planning - possibly in response to the air strike alleged conducted by Israel on a Syrian nuclear facility in Syria in September 2007 - is likely now thwarted. It also sends a message to any terrorist attempting to seek shelter in another Arab country that Israel will hunt them down wherever they may be living.
So here's to taking out the trash. It won't be friendly virgins that Mughniyeh will be finding on the other side, but instead a red guy with horns and a three-pointed pitchfork.