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The Most Hideous Of Them All?

February 15, 2008 · Mustapha Hamoui

I always knew Mughniyeh was preceded by his reputation, but this?

“The 1980s were the heyday of the celebrity terrorist. There was Carlos the Jackal, the Venezuelan-born Marxist who led the team that took 42 Opec ministers hostage during a conference in Vienna in 1975 [..] And there was Abu Nidal, the radical Palestinian terrorist, who thought nothing of machine-gunning innocent women and children as they waited to board their flights[..]
But they were both amateurs when compared with the murderous effectiveness of the terror campaign Mughniyeh [..] orchestrated in Beirut from the early 1980s.”