[iwar] [fc:Israel.suggests.two.others.as.atrocity.'masterminds']

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Subject: [iwar] [fc:Israel.suggests.two.others.as.atrocity.'masterminds']
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Israel suggests two others as atrocity 'masterminds'
The Independent
Terror in America: The Organisation
By Chris Blackhurst
21 September 2001
Two new names were put in the frame yesterday as possible masterminds
for last week's terrorists attacks in the US, joining the prime
suspect, Osama bin Laden.
Imad Mughniyeh, head of special overseas operations for the Lebanese
group, Hizbollah, and Dr Ayman Al Zawahiri, a senior bin Laden aide,
were named as two terrorists capable of planning the atrocities.
Jane's, the respected defence publisher, quoted Israeli intelligence
sources as believing the two men led the suicide assaults. Officers
from Aman, the Israeli military intelligence operation, were also said
to have named Iraq as having sponsored the onslaught.
Mr Mughniyeh is one of the world's most wanted men and has a $2m
(£1.3m) reward on his head in the US. He is wanted in connection with
a series of incidents, including the kidnap, torture and murder  said
to have been at his own hands  of the Beirut CIA chief William
Buckley, and the abduction and seven-year confinement of the American
Terry Anderson.
The bombing of the Israeli embassy in Argentina, in which 92 people
died, has been attributed by Western authorities to Mr Mughniyeh. He
is wanted by Argentina in connection with that attack. Mr Mughniyeh,
48, is thought by security agencies to be capable of matching Mr bin
Laden for audacity and to outstrip him for barbarity.
In 1997, Mr Mughniyeh came close to blowing up a packed El-Al airliner
over Tel Aviv in another suicide mission. A passenger travelling on a
forged British passport was seriously injured when a bomb he was
carrying accidentally went off before he could board the plane. The
passenger, who turned out to be Lebanese, later named Mr Mughniyeh as
having planned the bombing as a spectacular "gift" to the people of
Israel.
Two of Mr Mughniyeh's brothers were killed by Americans and the
Israeli sources said that as well as having a developed hatred of the
US he is a psychopath.
"Bin Laden is a schoolboy in comparison with Mughniyeh," the magazine
quoted an Israeli source. "The guy is a genius, someone who refined
the art of terrorism ... We studied him and reached the conclusion
that he is a clinical psychopath motivated by uncontrollable
psychological reasons."
Mr Mughniyeh, who is now thought to be back in Lebanon, has reportedly
made secret trips to Germany. Several of last week's hijackers met
there before travelling to the US.
According to Aman, Mr Mughniyeh and Mr Al Zawahiri have been in
regular touch with the Iraqi intelligence service, SSO. Qusai Hussein,
son of the Iraqi dictator, is thought by Western agencies to run SSO.
Jane's quotes Israeli sources as believing that Iraq changed tack
recently and decided to enter the terror business.
Middle East experts were sceptical about the likelihood of Mr
Mughniyeh being behind last week's carnage. They said it suited
Israel's agenda to link these attacks with its own enemies, the
Hizbollah and Iraq. The Hizbollah's spiritual leader had publicly
condemned the US attacks and so far, it would appear the hijackers
were Sunni Muslims, when Mr Mughniyeh was a Shia.

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