Editing Imad Mughniyeh (section)

==Allegations==
U.S. and Israeli officials have implicated Mughniyeh of many terrorist attacks, primarily against American and [[Israel]]i targets. These include 18 April 1983 [[April 1983 US Embassy bombing|bombing of the United States embassy]] in [[Beirut, Lebanon]], which killed 63 people including 17 Americans whom among them were 7 CIA officers which included [[Robert Ames (CIA official)|Robert Ames]], the head of the Near East Division.<ref>{{cite news|title=CIA and Mossad killed senior Hezbollah figure in car bombing|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-and-mossad-killed-senior-hezbollah-figure-in-car-bombing/2015/01/30/ebb88682-968a-11e4-8005-1924ede3e54a_story.html|access-date=31 December 2021|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=10 January 2015|archive-date=10 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180210002525/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-and-mossad-killed-senior-hezbollah-figure-in-car-bombing/2015/01/30/ebb88682-968a-11e4-8005-1924ede3e54a_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Mughniyeh was also accused of planning and organising the 23 October 1983 [[truck bomb]]ings against French paratroopers and the [[1983 Beirut barracks bombing|U.S. Marine barracks]], attacks which killed 60 French soldiers and 240 Marines.<ref name="CSM">{{Cite journal|title=U.S. warship stirs Lebanese fear of war|author=Nicholas Blanford|journal=[[Christian Science Monitor]]|date=4 March 2008|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2008/0304/p01s01-wome.html|access-date=30 August 2012|archive-date=9 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309190847/https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2008/0304/p01s01-wome.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=cnn10101>{{cite news|title=U.S. renews bid to catch Beirut bombing suspect|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/10/09/ret.mughniyah.link/|access-date=12 January 2013|work=CNN|date=10 October 2001|archive-date=24 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124171512/http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/10/09/ret.mughniyah.link/|url-status=live}}</ref> While a student at the [[American University of Beirut]] (AUB) on 18 January 1984, Mughniyeh allegedly assassinated [[Malcolm H. Kerr]] (father of former NBA player/current coach [[Steve Kerr]]), the school's president. On 20 September 1984, he is alleged to have attacked the [[1984 United States embassy annex bombing|US embassy annex building]].

The United States indicted Mughniyeh (and his collaborator, Hassan Izz al-Din) for the 14 June 1985 [[Aircraft hijacking|hijacking]] of [[TWA Flight 847]], in which he tortured and murdered the [[U.S. Navy]] [[Seabee]] diver [[Robert Stethem]].<ref name="Norton">{{cite book|last=Norton|first=Augustus|author-link=Augustus Richard Norton|year=2007|title=Hezbollah: A Short History|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton|isbn=978-0-691-13124-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/hezbollahshorthi00nort}} p. 77</ref> Mughniyeh and his men allegedly tortured Stethem for hours, before killing him and dumping his body onto the airport tarmac.<ref name=kohn>{{cite news|last=Kohn|first=David|title=Shadow Warriors|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shadow-warriors/|access-date=12 January 2013|work=CBS News|date=11 February 2009|archive-date=8 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108064505/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/01/60ii/main507784.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref>

U.S. and Israeli officials have also alleged that Mughniyeh was involved in numerous [[Lebanon hostage crisis|kidnappings of Americans]] in Beirut during the 1980s, most notably the kidnapping of [[Terry A. Anderson|Terry Anderson]], [[Terry Waite]], and [[William Francis Buckley]], who was the CIA station chief in Beirut. Some of these individuals were killed by Mughniyeh directly, such as Buckley, who was subjected to extreme psychological and medical torture under the supervision of the [[psychiatrist]] [[Aziz al-Abub]].<ref>Martin, David C. and Walcott, John, "Best Laid Plans: The Inside Story of America's War Against Terrorism," Harper & Row, (1988), pp. 154–55, 233</ref> The remainder were released at various times, with the last one, Terry Anderson, released in 1991.<ref name=jgoldberg/> On 30 September 1985, Mughniyeh allegedly organised the kidnapping of four diplomats from the Soviet Embassy in Beirut, one of whom he personally killed. The result of the kidnapping was Soviet pressure on Syria to stop its operations in Northern Lebanon in exchange for the release of the remaining three hostages.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://svr.gov.ru/smi/2001/ogon20011022.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070128011810/http://svr.gov.ru/smi/2001/ogon20011022.htm|url-status=dead|title=Interview with former Beirut KGB resident Yuri Perfilev|archive-date=28 January 2007}}</ref>

Mughniyeh was formally charged by [[Argentina]] for his alleged involvement on 17 March 1992 [[Israeli Embassy Attack in Buenos Aires|bombings of the Israeli embassy]] in [[Buenos Aires]], which killed 29, and of the [[AMIA Bombing|AMIA cultural building]] in July 1994, killing 85 people.<ref>Norton, Augustus Richard, ''Hezbollah: A Short History,'' Princeton University Press, 2007, p. 79</ref> In March 2007, [[Interpol|the Interpol]] issued "[[red notice]]s" for his and others' alleged roles in the attack.<ref name=sap16nov>{{cite news|title=Argentina: More international arrest warrants issued for 1994 Jewish center bombing|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/ARGENTINA%3a+MORE+INTERNATIONAL+ARREST+WARRANTS+ISSUED+FOR+1994+JEWISH...-a0171417659|access-date=25 March 2013|work=South American Political and Economic Affairs|date=16 November 2007|archive-date=2 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160302171123/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/ARGENTINA%3a+MORE+INTERNATIONAL+ARREST+WARRANTS+ISSUED+FOR+1994+JEWISH...-a0171417659|url-status=live}}</ref>

In addition, Mughniyeh allegedly planned the killing of Micha Tamir, the [[Israeli Defense Force|IDF]] general in Lebanon,  and two IDF soldiers on 6 April 1992.<ref name=ykatz142>{{cite news|last=Katz|first=Yaakov|title=Security and Defense: Who was Imad Mughniyeh?|url=http://www.jpost.com/Features/Article.aspx?id=92096|access-date=17 January 2013|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post|date=14 February 2008|archive-date=26 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110226221356/http://www.jpost.com/Features/Article.aspx?id=92096|url-status=live}}</ref>

U.S. and Israeli officials have also alleged that Mugniyeh was the mastermind of the [[Khobar Towers bombing]] in 1996, which killed 19 American air force personnel and a Saudi civilian.<ref name=jgoldberg/>

Israeli officials accuse Mughniyeh of orchestrating the October 2000 capture of three IDF soldiers in northern Israel, and of the kidnapping of IDF colonel [[Elchanan Tenenbaum]]. They also accuse Mughniyeh of overseeing the 2006 cross border raid that killed eight soldiers and abducted two during [[2006 Lebanon War|Israel's 2006 incursion into Lebanon]].<ref name=ykatz142/>