Iran has recruited a top terrorist to plan retaliation strikes against Israel and the U.S. if a strike against Iran’s nuclear capabilities occurs.
IRAN’S president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, attended a meeting in Syria earlier this year with one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, according to intelligence experts and a former national security official in Washington.
US officials and Israel intelligence sources believe Imad Mugniyeh, the Lebanese commander of Hezbollah’s overseas operations, has taken charge of plotting Iran’s retaliation against western targets should President George W Bush order a strike on Iranian nuclear sites.
Mugniyeh is on the FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorists†list for his role in a series of high-profile attacks against the West, including the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet and murder of one of its passengers, a US navy diver.
Now in his mid-forties, Mugniyeh is reported to have travelled with Ahmadinejad in January this year from Tehran to Damascus, where the Iranian president met leaders of Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and Hamas.
The meeting has been dubbed a “terror summit†because of the presence of so many groups behind attacks on Israel, which Ahmadinejad has threatened to wipe from the map.
The Telegraph also says:
Elite Iranian army officers who arrived in south Lebanon this month have taken command of thousands of rockets aimed at cities across Israel. They are believed to have been given control of the missiles by Hezbollah to deter possible Israeli attacks against Iran’s nuclear facilities.
I would say it’s past time for a pre-emptive strike on the rocket launchers along the Lebanese border that are aimed at Israel. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised to see that happen at the same time as any attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities.