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19 September 2001 Who did it? Foreign Report presents an alternative view
Israel’s military intelligence service, Aman, suspects that Iraq is the state
that sponsored the suicide attacks on the New York Trade Center and the
Pentagon in Washington. Directing the mission, Aman officers believe, were two
of the world’s foremost terrorist masterminds: the Lebanese Imad Mughniyeh,
head of the special overseas operations for Hizbullah, and the Egyptian Dr
Ayman Al Zawahiri, senior member of Al-Qaeda and possible successor of the
ailing Osama Bin Laden.
The two men have not been seen for some time. Mughniyeh is probably the world’s
most wanted outlaw. Unconfirmed reports in Beirut say he has undergone plastic
surgery and is unrecognisable. Zawahiri is thought to be based in Egypt. He
could be Bin Laden’s chief representative outside Afghanistan.
The Iraqis, who for several years paid smaller groups to do their dirty work,
were quick to discover the advantages of Al-Qaeda. The Israeli sources claim
that for the past two years Iraqi intelligence officers were shuttling between
Baghdad and Afghanistan, meeting with Ayman Al Zawahiri. According to the
sources, one of the Iraqi intelligence officers, Salah Suleiman, was captured
last October by the Pakistanis near the border with Afghanistan. The Iraqis are
also reported to have established strong ties with Imad Mughniyeh.
"We’ve only got scraps of information, not the full picture," admits one
intelligence source, "but it was good enough for us to send a warning six weeks
ago to our allies that an unprecedented massive terror attack was expected. One
of our indications suggested that Imad Mughniyeh met with some of his dormant
agents on secret trips to Germany. We believe that the operational brains
behind the New-York attack were Mughniyeh and Zawahiri, who were probably
financed and got some logistical support from the Iraqi Intelligence Service
(SSO)."
Mughniyeh was the only one believed to have tried it before. On April 12th
1997, he was reported to be only two hours away from achieving the highest goal
of any terrorist organisation (until last week): blowing up an Israeli El-Al
airliner above Tel Aviv. A man carrying a forged British passport with the name
Andrew Jonathan Neumann was in a Jerusalem hotel preparing a bomb he was
supposed to take on board an El-Al flight leaving Israel, when it accidentally
went off. Andrew Jonathan Neumann was very badly injured but strong enough to
reveal later to the Israelis that he was not British but Lebanese, and that his
operation was supposed to be a special "gift" to Israel from Imad Mughniyeh.
‘A psychopath’
"Bin Laden is a schoolboy in comparison with Mughniyeh," says an Israeli who
knows Mughniyeh . "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."
Experts on Iraq and Saddam Hussein also believe that Iraq was the state behind
the two terror masterminds. "In recent months, there was a change, and Iraq
decided to get into the terror business. On July 7th, they tried for the first
time to send a suicide bomber, trained in Baghdad, to blow up Tel Aviv airport
(Foreign Report No. 2651)."
Our sources believe that it will be very difficult to get to the bottom of this
unprecedented terror operation. However, they believe the chief of the Iraqi
SSO is Qusai Hussein, the dictator’s son, and his organisation is the most
likely to have been involved.
Mughniyeh, 48, is a "sick man", says an intelligence officer who was in charge
of his file. He is considered by Western intelligence agencies as the most
dangerous active terrorist today. He is wanted by several governments and the
Americans have put a $2m reward on his head.
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It was the assassination of one man in March 1984 that is said to have made
Mughniyeh the CIA’s most wanted terrorist. Mughniyeh allegedly kidnapped the
head of the CIA station in Beirut, William Buckley. The kidnapping triggered
what later became known as ‘Irangate’, when the Americans tried to exchange
Buckley (and others) with arms for Iran. However, the attempt ended in a
fiasco. By one unconfirmed account, Mughniyeh tortured and killed Buckley with
his own hands.
A year later, in a combined CIA/Mossad operation, a powerful car bomb went off
at the entrance to the house of Hizbullah’s spiritual leader, Sheikh Muhammad
Hussein Fadlallah. Seventy-five people were killed. One of them was his
brother. Hunted by the CIA and the Mossad, Mughniyeh hid in Iran.
In February 1992, Israeli helicopter gunships attacked the convoy of the then
head of Hizbullah, Sheikh Abas Musawi, in South Lebanon. Musawi, his wife and
children were killed and the revenge attack followed a month later. According
to press reports, Mughniyeh was called back into action and, in a well-planned
and devastating attack, his people blew up the Israeli embassy in Argentina.
The building was demolished and 92 were killed. Only last year, after a long
investigation, did Argentina issue a warrant for Mughniyeh’s arrest.
The reprisal for the attack in Argentina came in December 1994, when a car bomb
went off in a southern Shi’ite suburb of Beirut. Four people were killed. One
of them was called Mughniyeh, but to the deep disappointment of those Israelis
who planted the bomb it was the wrong one. Mughniyeh’s life was saved, but his
other brother Fuad was killed. Mughniyeh waited for his opportunity for
revenge.
Our Israeli sources claim to see Mughniyeh’s signature on the wreckage in New
York and Washington. How to counter this kind of terrorism? "To fight these
bastards you don’t need a military attack," said an experienced Israeli
commando officer. "You only need to adopt Israel’s assassination policy."
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