Saturday, August 20, 2011

Jordanian Mukhabarat brags to US

Samer sent me this:  "He claimed that a Jordanian spy had been behind one of the greatest and most mysterious assassination of terrorist figure in decades, the 2008 slaying of former Hezbollah security chief Imad Mughniyeh. the man who was dubbed Abu Dukhan – the Father of Smoke – .... Mughniyeh name was on the FBI most wanted list, which blamed him for the separate bombings 1983 of the marines barracks in Beirut ....And it was the Mukhabrat, Ben Zied said, that exacted vengeance. There was yet another surprise. One of the most enduring mysteries since the founding of the modern jihadest movement was who had killed Abdullah Azzam who helped lead the anti-soviet insurgency in Afghanistan in 1983...Now Ben Zied said flatly that Azzam’s death had been the work of the Mukhabart. He even Offered the name of the assassin: Ben Zied own boss, Ali Burjak , the “Red Devil” “."  (From the "Triple Agent", pp. 81-82).