The Jackal of Arabia

I will not call him the fox because for me Imad Mughniyeh is like the Jackal Character , for over 20 years this man was a puzzle for the Americans and the Israelis , millions were spent to catch him but in vain and another 25 Million U.S dollars were added to anyone who lead to the man.

Again I did not know anything about the man because our main press and media did not speak about him even as a wanted man ,I do not know why may be because of his Iranian connection , I mean the Press in Egypt talked about Carlos for age where he was in my point of view is a guerilla. Now I found out that this man is like a legend in secret warfare , for 20 years the biggest secret services failed in catching him ,in fact they did not have any picture for him except those two ancient ones from the 1980s , they were chasing a ghost ,a phantom , and it was not a surprise that the ghost and the phantom were among the names the people called him by.

In 1996 Bill Clinton ordered 3 warships to head for the Gulf because they believed that he was in a ship in front of Qatar called "Ibn Tafil" ,the marines went to get the man who killed their buddies ,the problem they did not know how he looked like , in other words they were not sure from the 1980s shots

For 20 years this man kept a low profile in his homeland in order to building a militia that sooner became a state inside a state ,in fact it is more powerful than the state in our case and no one can deny this , the man is more than a fighter ,he had this leadership mind set.

His only biographer in the Arab world is the Egyptian Magdy Kamal said to Al-Arabiya Network says that he was the real founder of the Shiite group and he was the teacher of Hassan Nasrallah ,yet he preferred to be no.2 and leave the leadership of the group to Nasrallah because he did not like the light , well I do not know , Mr. Kamal may be is the expert we should not forget that the Shiites groups like to be led by a religious cleric , a sheikh , due to their ideologies that the Sheikhs or the Mullahs have a direct connection with God .

Mr.Magdy Kamal published his book about Haj Imad from two years ago and with my all respect I feel that there are lots of bias against Imad in his talk and surely in his book , already Kamal identifies himself as Arabic Nationalist in other words he hates Iran to the bones and it is obvious when he accused Late Imad of spreading Shiite believes among Hamas leadership !! Strangely Hamas is proudly identify itself as Sunni and it has no Shiite among them , it is a MB Sunni group.

Already Mr. Kamal says that it is strange that Imad would be killed like this , he either died from awhile in a normal death and Hezbollah decided to fabricate a heroic scenario in order to hit many birds with one stone , first destroy the Hariri anniversary "they seem to me that they failed today" and to create martyrdom to their man

Mr. Kamal even goes to far and say that the man is still alive and that he did this so he would be free from the chase , I am sorry for more than 20 years the man succeeded in having a low profile do not you think it is too late to get tired from the chase!!?? I mean he is not like Ali Hassan Salameh a.k.a the red prince ,enjoying his life in the craziness of 1970s.The only recent two shots for him were released only in the last 48 hours by Hezbollah "despite I feel there is difference between the two shots"

          

Mr.Kamal said that he is with the resistance and is not against Hezbollah ,with my all respect Mr. Kamal forgot to analyse the personality and character of Haj Imad,Haj Imad is a Shiite who was trained in Iran in the dune of the Islamic revolution on the term of sacrifice , already I do not need to speak about the sacrifice in Islam in general and in Shiite sect in specific, this man was acting as if he were in a holy war , in fact it was his holy war . Any biographer in my opinion should not be biased with or against the character ,and this is why Dr.Latifa Sallam's biography about King Farouk is considered the Best because she did not make him appear an angel or a devil but a human who she tried to analyse his behaviour based on what she had from second hand information.

By the way many think that it is strange I would admire the Shiite group or late Imad , well guess what it is me only many Egyptians do like them , may be because  they hate Israel and proud to find someone else who can stand against the IDF , still for me I admire for another reason and this reason I believe many military personalities from the top famous generals and experts share it with me , how they are so organized , how they managed to fool Israel and America ,not all militias are like this

Anyhow back to late Imad , the son of the simple farmer from the South of Lebanon who moved to the Southern Suburb thanks to the civil war and sooner he became a part of it . He did not look for fame or popularity and this is another thing I admire him for , because we live in a region everyone adores fame and seeking for it .

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