Imad Mughniyeh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Imad Mughniyeh

Lebanese militant, head of security for Hezbollah

Date of Birth: 07-Dec-1962

Place of Birth: Tayr Debba, South Governorate, Lebanon

Date of Death: 12-Feb-2008

Profession: politician, terrorist

Nationality: Lebanon

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Imad Mughniyeh

  • Imad Fayez Mughniyeh (Arabic: ???? ???? ??????; 7 December 1962 – 12 February 2008), alias al-Hajj Radwan (????? ?????), was the founding member of Lebanon's Islamic Jihad Organization and number two in Hezbollah's leadership.
  • Information about Mughniyeh is limited, but he is believed to have been Hezbollah's Chief of Staff and understood to have overseen Hezbollah's military, intelligence, and security apparatuses.
  • He was one of the main founders of Hezbollah in the 1980s.
  • He has been described as "a brilliant military tactician and very elusive".U.S.
  • and Israeli officials have long accused Mughniyeh of being directly and personally involved in terrorist attacks which has resulted in many suicide bombings, murders, kidnappings, and assassinations.
  • It began with the Beirut barracks bombing and US embassy bombings, both of which took place in 1983 and killed over 350, as well as the kidnapping of dozens of foreigners in Lebanon in the 1980s.
  • He was indicted in Argentina for his alleged role in the 1992 Israeli embassy attack in Buenos Aires.
  • The highest-profile attacks for which it is claimed he is responsible took place in the early 1980s, shortly after the founding of Hezbollah, when Mughniyah was in his early twenties.
  • U.S.
  • intelligence officials have accused him of killing more United States citizens than any other man prior to the September 11 attacks, and the bombings and kidnappings he is alleged to have organized are credited with all but eliminating and completely removing the US military presence in Lebanon in the 1980s.Mughniyeh was known by his nom de guerre Al-Hajj Radwan.
  • Mughniyeh was included in the European Union's list of wanted terrorists.
  • and had a US$5 million bounty on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list.
  • To many in his home country, Lebanon and the Middle East, he symbolizes resistance to foreign military occupation.As part of a joint operation, he was assassinated by the CIA and Mossad.
  • Mughniyeh was killed on the night of 12 February 2008 by a car bomb that detonated as he passed by on foot, in the Kafr Sousa neighborhood of Damascus, Syria.

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