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Good Riddance
By lmhall | February 14, 2008
“The world is a better place without this man in it.”
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.
Imad Mughniyeh was killed Tuesday in car bomb in the Syrian capital of Damascus, is accused of masterminding the 1983 bombings if the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut, the 1985 hijackings of a TWA airliner and two Kuwaiti jets, the kidnappings of Westerns including journalist Terry Anderson.
And he allegedly did all this before he turned 30.
The United States welcomed the death of Mughniyeh, who was indicted in the U.S. over the 1985 hijacking of a TWA airliner, the FBI had put a $5 million bounty on Mughniyeh.
“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,” Terry Anderson told 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.”
Mughniyeh’s body was brought to south Beirut in the afternoon and was laid in a refrigerated coffin, wrapped in Hezbollah’s yellow flag.
Mughniyeh’s father — Fayez, a south Lebanese farmer — as well as Hezbollah’s deputy leader, Sheik Naim Kassem and other Hezbollah officials received condolences at the hall from allied Lebanese politicians and representatives of militant Palestinian factions. Though bitter rivals of Hezbollah, some pro-U.S. politicians including Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora and parliamentary majority leader Saad Hariri offered written condolences in a gesture of solidarity.
Source: International Herald Tribune
Topics: Death, Garden, war, freedom, religion |
