HEZBOLLAH OPENLY MOVING FIGHTERS CLOSE TO ISRAEL'S BORDERS
MARCH 20 2008
CLIP FROM ARTICLE ---> Hezbollah the past few days openly moved fighters close to the Israeli border.
As Jews around the world celebrate the holiday of Purim,
Israel today raised its statewide terror alert to the second highest level,
fearing a massive revenge attack after the assassination last month of
Hezbollah's arch-terrorist Imad Mughniyah.
The terror leader topped Israel's most wanted list and was responsible for a
series of infamous deadly attacks against the U.S. and Israel, including
involvement in the 1983 bombing of a U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon. Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert denied Israel was involved in the extermination, but
Hezbollah directly blamed the Jewish state and threatened retaliation.
This Sunday marks the end of the Islamic 40-day mourning period for Mughniyah.
Palestinian and other Islamic terror groups have several times carried out
what the called revenge attacks following the mourning period for a killed
terrorist leader.
Through the weekend Israelis will be celebrating Purim, a holiday that
commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people of the ancient Persian
Empire from Haman's plot to annihilate them.
Israel traditionally goes on high alert for Purim, but this year, Israeli
security officials say they have specific information indicating Hezbollah
might be planning a large-scale attack either within Israel, abroad or both.
To that affect, Israeli forces imposed a complete closure of the West Bank and
beefed up police forces throughout the country, particularly in Jerusalem and
Tel Aviv.
Sources in the Israel Defense Forces told WND the army reinforced units in the
north of the country fearing a possible outbreak of hostilities with Hezbollah
at the Lebanese border. According to Lebanese newspaper reports
Hezbollah the past few days openly moved fighters close
to the Israeli border.
The IDF also beefed up its presence along the Israel-Gaza border fearing a
possible coordinated attack from both Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
According to Israeli media reports, the government here instructed all
missions abroad to go on high alert for the possibility Hezbollah will target
Israeli interests overseas.
Mughniyah was killed in a bombing in Damascus last month. He led Hezbollah's
"international terror branch," orchestrating attacks against foreign targets,
according to Israeli security officials.
Mughniyah was accused of helping to plan the 1983 Marine barracks attack in
which 300 were killed and also the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut the
same year, killing 63 people.
He was responsible for the 1985 hijacking of a TWA passenger jet and the
murder of one of its passengers, a soldier in the U.S. Navy. Mughniyah was
indicted for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires
that killed 85 people. A warrant was issued for his arrest for the 1992
bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires in which 29 people died.
Argentinean officials have publicly pointed a finger at Iran for aiding in
those attacks.
Also, serving as commander of Islamic Jihad in the 1980s, Mughniyah was
accused of kidnapping dozens of Western hostages, including Americans, killing
some of them, such as the CIA's Middle East station chief.
According to foreign press reports, the Mossad reportedly tried to assassinate
Mughniyah in a complex operation in southern Beirut in the 1990s.
Mughniyah reportedly lived a secretive life, routinely switching between
locations in Syria, Lebanon and Iran. He is thought to have undergone multiple
plastic surgeries and changed identities numerous times.
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