Editing Imad Mughniyeh (section)

==Organizational affiliation==
In 2002, Mughniyeh was linked to  the [[Karine A]] incident in which the [[Palestinian Authority]] was accused of importing fifty tons of weapons. He was a member of [[Force 17]], an armed branch of the [[Fatah]] movement charged with providing security for [[Yasser Arafat]] and other prominent [[PLO]] officials.<ref name=darling>{{cite news|last=Darling|first=Dan|title=Mind of Mugniyeh|url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/466aubsk.asp|access-date=12 January 2013|newspaper=The Weekly Standard|date=25 July 2006|archive-date=13 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130413144538/http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/466aubsk.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In mid-February 1997, the pro-Israeli [[South Lebanese Army]] radio station reported that Iran's intelligence service had dispatched Mughniyeh to Lebanon to directly supervise the reorganisation of Hezbollah's security and military apparatus concerned with Palestinian affairs in Lebanon and to work as a security liaison between Hezbollah and Iranian intelligence. Mughniyeh also reportedly controlled Hezbollah's security apparatus, the Special Operations Command, which handles intelligence and conducts overseas terrorist acts. Allegedly, although he used Hezbollah as a cover, he reported to the Iranians.<ref>Rex A. Hudson, Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, September 1999 [https://fas.org/irp/threat/frd.html The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who becomes a terrorist and why?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171212213650/https://fas.org/irp/threat/frd.html |date=12 December 2017 }} Accessed 17 August 2006</ref> According to Jeffery Goldberg, writing in the ''New Yorker'', "It is believed that Mugniyeh takes orders from the office of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, but that he reports to a man named [[Qasem Soleimani]], the chief of a branch of the [[Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps]] called [[Quds Force|Al Quds]], or the Jerusalem Force—the arm of the Iranian government responsible for sponsoring terror attacks on Israeli targets."<ref name=jgoldberg>{{cite news|last=Goldberg|first=Jeffrey|title=In the party of God|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/10/28/021028fa_fact2?currentPage=all|access-date=12 January 2013|newspaper=The New Yorker|date=28 October 2002|archive-date=24 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120724040917/http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/10/28/021028fa_fact2?currentPage=all|url-status=live}}</ref> In January 2002, a US cable also stated that Mughniyeh left Hezbollah and got closer to Iran.<ref name=intelwire11>{{cite news|title=Declassifed State Department cables on Hezbollah's Imad Mughniyah|url=http://news.intelwire.com/2011/05/declassified-state-department-cables-on.html|access-date=12 January 2013|newspaper=Intel Wire|date=21 May 2011|archive-date=3 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703202027/http://news.intelwire.com/2011/05/declassified-state-department-cables-on.html|url-status=live}}</ref> However, Mughniyeh was a member of Hezbollah's jihadist council until his death in February 2008.<ref name=alm20mar>{{cite news|title=Hezbollah Again Postpones General Congress|url=http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/03/hezbollah-delays-general-congress.html|access-date=25 March 2013|publisher=Al Monitor|date=20 March 2013|archive-date=3 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603165313/http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/03/hezbollah-delays-general-congress.html|url-status=live}}</ref> After the July 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, he was assigned by Hezbollah to improve the military capabilities of the resistance in Lebanon; Damascus was his centre for this activity.<ref name=alak19feb>{{cite news |title=The Final Hours of Imad Mughniyeh |url=http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/exclusive-final-hours-imad-mughniyeh |access-date=4 April 2013 |newspaper=Al Akhbar |date=19 February 2013 |location=Damascus |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222031958/http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/exclusive-final-hours-imad-mughniyeh |archive-date=22 February 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The European Union listed him as "Hezbollah's Chief of Staff".<ref name="eur-lex.europa.eu" />