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New Iranian Defense Minister – Mughniyeh’s Controller, Israel Affairs Expert

DEBKAfile Exclusive Profile

August 23, 2005, 11:59 PM (GMT+02:00)



Mostafa Mohammad-Najar, defense minister and star player in new Iranian government


Mostafa Mohammad-Najar, brigadier general in the Revolutionary Guards, has packed a lurid, blood-spattered biography into his 49 years, according to the profile of Iran’s new defense minister sketched here by DEBKAfile’s exclusive intelligence and Iranian experts.

Last week, the Iranian majlis automatically approved the new cabinet tailored by president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to conform with the ultra-conservative policies of the supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei. Of the 21 new ministers, 18 hail from the Revolutionary Guards and the dread secret police, forming a war cabinet par excellence.

Mohammad-Najar’s credentials stand out enough - even in this company - to attract the attention of watchers in Washington, Jerusalem and most Middle East capitals. They mark him out as one of the most brutal products of Iran’s secret services and therefore, by definition, a high-ranking and seasoned terror master.

DEBKAfile names him in fact as the longtime senior controller of Imad Mughniyeh, one of Washington’s most wanted terror masters, who currently serves as chief of the Hizballah’s special security apparatus and Tehran’s go-between with al Qaeda.

The new defense minister is notorious for his role in the earliest terror attacks on US targets in the Middle East. The first was the October 23, 1983, suicide bombing of US Marines headquarters in Beirut which killed 241 Marines. The second was the Khobar Towers blast in eastern Saudi Arabia on June 25, 1996. This was a joint Iranian intelligence-al Qaeda operation targeting the facility housing American fighter pilots and air force crews guarding the Dharan oil fields. The death toll of that atrocity was officially put at 19 with 200 injured, but was certainly much higher.

In 1982, after the Iran-Iraq war, Muhammad-Najar was placed at the head of the Revolutionary Guards Middle East department which controls Iranian intelligence bodies in the region, including Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf emirates, and runs clandestine projects for the “export of the Islamic revolution” to these countries. He quickly proved himself an able organizer and operations chief. He forthwith planted 1,500 Revolutionary Guardsmen in the Lebanese Beqaa Valley. Their transit through Syria was approved by the Damascus government. This Iranian outpost established the first recruiting center for the new Lebanese Shiite terrorist organization calling itself Hizballah.

Right from the start, Muhammad-Najar worked closely with a rising star in the Islamic terrorist firmament, Imad Mughniyeh, who debuted with spectacular abductions of foreigners, mostly American and British hostages. The two became firm friends in this period. In February 1988, the pair organized the kidnapping of Colonel William R (Rich Higgins, the most senior American intelligence officer in Lebanon. He was tortured to death by Iranian Revolutionary Guardsmen and Hizballah operatives on an unknown date.

Later in the 1980s, when Lebanon became too hot for him, Mughniyeh fled the country ahead of American pursuit. His Iranian friend and future Iranian defense minister arranged for Iranian intelligence to protect him and smuggle him to safety in Tehran.

Muhammad-Najar also has a history of deadly strikes against Israel. More than one account ascribes him a role in the suicide bombings of Israeli army command posts in the southern Lebanese towns of Tyre and Sidon in 1983.

After his 1985 appointment as head of Iran’s Military Industries Organization under the aegis of the Revolutionary Guards, he kept up his connections with the Iranian terrorist machine including the Hizballah. One of his jobs was to develop weapons adapted to terrorist warfare outside Iran. He took a personal interest in developing the 230mm Iranian super mortar that was supplied to the Revolutionary Guards’ al Quds battalion and the Hizballah for use in the Middle East and also in Europe.

The new defense minister is also credited with organizing the 12,000 Katyusha short-range rockets Hizballah has positioned on the Lebanese-Israeli border as a deterrent against Israeli attacks on Iran and itself.

In October 2000, a month after the outbreak of the Palestinian suicide terror war against Israel, Muhammad-Najar took a hand in the Hizballah’s kidnap of three Israeli soldiers, Adi Avitan, Benny Abraham and Omar Suweid. At the end of 2001, he helped prepare the 50-ton illegal weapons cargo for loading at Kish Island aboard the Karine-A smuggling ship. Vessel and cargo were seized by Israeli commandos on the Red Sea before they reached Arafat’s terrorist squads in the Gaza Strip.

In nearly five years of the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the new Iranian defense minister stayed in close touch with the Hizballah’s 1800 Unit, which interacts with the Palestinian terrorist organizations and whose agents are actively present in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and among dissident Israeli Arabs.

Ahmadinejad picked him as defense minister in appreciation of his expertise as an intelligence and terror mastermind with long experience of violent covert operations against American and Israeli targets in such places as Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and his work in conjunction with Hizballah and Palestinian terrorist organizations. Muhammad-Najar’s presence in a key position in the Iranian government is bad news above all for the United States and Israel. They see him as an omen of the imminent stepping up of Iranian involvement in Hizballah and Palestinian terrorist campaigns across the Middle East.

Copyright 2000-2005 DEBKAfile. All Rights Reserved.

La 2005-08-24 03:24:00, Dan Bostan a scris:

> 
> 
> New Iranian Defense Minister – Mughniyeh’s
> Controller, Israel Affairs Expert
> 
> DEBKAfile Exclusive Profile
> 
> August 23, 2005, 11:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
> 
> 
> 
> Mostafa Mohammad-Najar, defense minister and star player in new
> Iranian government
> 
> 
> Mostafa Mohammad-Najar, brigadier general in the Revolutionary Guards,
> has packed a lurid, blood-spattered biography into his 49 years,
> according to the profile of Iran’s new defense minister
> sketched here by DEBKAfile’s exclusive intelligence and
> Iranian experts.
> 
> Last week, the Iranian majlis automatically approved the new cabinet
> tailored by president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to conform with the
> ultra-conservative policies of the supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
> Of the 21 new ministers, 18 hail from the Revolutionary Guards and the
> dread secret police, forming a war cabinet par excellence.
> 
> Mohammad-Najar’s credentials stand out enough - even in this
> company - to attract the attention of watchers in Washington,
> Jerusalem and most Middle East capitals. They mark him out as one of
> the most brutal products of Iran’s secret services and
> therefore, by definition, a high-ranking and seasoned terror master.
> 
> DEBKAfile names him in fact as the longtime senior controller of Imad
> Mughniyeh, one of Washington’s most wanted terror masters,
> who currently serves as chief of the Hizballah’s special
> security apparatus and Tehran’s go-between with al Qaeda.
> 
> The new defense minister is notorious for his role in the earliest
> terror attacks on US targets in the Middle East. The first was the
> October 23, 1983, suicide bombing of US Marines headquarters in
> Beirut which killed 241 Marines. The second was the Khobar Towers
> blast in eastern Saudi Arabia on June 25, 1996. This was a joint
> Iranian intelligence-al Qaeda operation targeting the facility
> housing American fighter pilots and air force crews guarding the
> Dharan oil fields. The death toll of that atrocity was officially put
> at 19 with 200 injured, but was certainly much higher.
> 
> In 1982, after the Iran-Iraq war, Muhammad-Najar was placed at the
> head of the Revolutionary Guards Middle East department which
> controls Iranian intelligence bodies in the region, including Saudi
> Arabia and the Persian Gulf emirates, and runs clandestine projects
> for the “export of the Islamic revolution” to
> these countries. He quickly proved himself an able organizer and
> operations chief. He forthwith planted 1,500 Revolutionary Guardsmen
> in the Lebanese Beqaa Valley. Their transit through Syria was
> approved by the Damascus government. This Iranian outpost established
> the first recruiting center for the new Lebanese Shiite terrorist
> organization calling itself Hizballah.
> 
> Right from the start, Muhammad-Najar worked closely with a rising star
> in the Islamic terrorist firmament, Imad Mughniyeh, who debuted with
> spectacular abductions of foreigners, mostly American and British
> hostages. The two became firm friends in this period. In February
> 1988, the pair organized the kidnapping of Colonel William R (Rich
> Higgins, the most senior American intelligence officer in Lebanon. He
> was tortured to death by Iranian Revolutionary Guardsmen and Hizballah
> operatives on an unknown date.
> 
> Later in the 1980s, when Lebanon became too hot for him, Mughniyeh
> fled the country ahead of American pursuit. His Iranian friend and
> future Iranian defense minister arranged for Iranian intelligence to
> protect him and smuggle him to safety in Tehran.
> 
> Muhammad-Najar also has a history of deadly strikes against Israel.
> More than one account ascribes him a role in the suicide bombings of
> Israeli army command posts in the southern Lebanese towns of Tyre and
> Sidon in 1983.
> 
> After his 1985 appointment as head of Iran’s Military
> Industries Organization under the aegis of the Revolutionary Guards,
> he kept up his connections with the Iranian terrorist machine
> including the Hizballah. One of his jobs was to develop weapons
> adapted to terrorist warfare outside Iran. He took a personal
> interest in developing the 230mm Iranian super mortar that was
> supplied to the Revolutionary Guards’ al Quds battalion and
> the Hizballah for use in the Middle East and also in Europe.
> 
> The new defense minister is also credited with organizing the 12,000
> Katyusha short-range rockets Hizballah has positioned on the
> Lebanese-Israeli border as a deterrent against Israeli attacks on
> Iran and itself.
> 
> In October 2000, a month after the outbreak of the Palestinian suicide
> terror war against Israel, Muhammad-Najar took a hand in the
> Hizballah’s kidnap of three Israeli soldiers, Adi Avitan,
> Benny Abraham and Omar Suweid. At the end of 2001, he helped prepare
> the 50-ton illegal weapons cargo for loading at Kish Island aboard
> the Karine-A smuggling ship. Vessel and cargo were seized by Israeli
> commandos on the Red Sea before they reached Arafat’s
> terrorist squads in the Gaza Strip.
> 
> In nearly five years of the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the
> new Iranian defense minister stayed in close touch with the
> Hizballah’s 1800 Unit, which interacts with the Palestinian
> terrorist organizations and whose agents are actively present in the
> Gaza Strip, the West Bank and among dissident Israeli Arabs.
> 
> Ahmadinejad picked him as defense minister in appreciation of his
> expertise as an intelligence and terror mastermind with long
> experience of violent covert operations against American and Israeli
> targets in such places as Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and his
> work in conjunction with Hizballah and Palestinian terrorist
> organizations. Muhammad-Najar’s presence in a key position
> in the Iranian government is bad news above all for the United States
> and Israel. They see him as an omen of the imminent stepping up of
> Iranian involvement in Hizballah and Palestinian terrorist campaigns
> across the Middle East.
> 
> Copyright 2000-2005 DEBKAfile. All Rights Reserved.
> 
> 
SO WHAT? TERMINATI CU COPIERILE ASTEA TIMPITE.....ASTA ESTE UN ZIAR ROMANESC SI VI TU ENGLEZA TA......CITI? ROMANII STIU ENGLEZA SA INTELEAGA TOATA TIMPENIA ASTA? SCRIE DRAKU ROMANESTE SAU TRADU CE AI INTELES DIN TOATA TIMPENIA ASTA

Nu-tzi place, nu citi. Nimeni nu te obliga.

Eu cred ca sant suficient de multzi romani care intzeleg engleza. De ce nui ceri lui Rosca sa suprime partea engleza a ziarului pe Internet?
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La 2005-08-24 05:30:55, texanu a scris:

> La 2005-08-24 03:24:00, Dan Bostan a scris:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > New Iranian Defense Minister – Mughniyeh’s
> > Controller, Israel Affairs Expert
> > 
> > DEBKAfile Exclusive Profile
> > 
> > August 23, 2005, 11:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Mostafa Mohammad-Najar, defense minister and star player in new
> > Iranian government
> > 
> > 
> > Mostafa Mohammad-Najar, brigadier general in the Revolutionary Guards,
> > has packed a lurid, blood-spattered biography into his 49 years,
> > according to the profile of Iran’s new defense minister
> > sketched here by DEBKAfile’s exclusive intelligence and
> > Iranian experts.
> > 
> > Last week, the Iranian majlis automatically approved the new cabinet
> > tailored by president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to conform with the
> > ultra-conservative policies of the supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
> > Of the 21 new ministers, 18 hail from the Revolutionary Guards and the
> > dread secret police, forming a war cabinet par excellence.
> > 
> > Mohammad-Najar’s credentials stand out enough - even in this
> > company - to attract the attention of watchers in Washington,
> > Jerusalem and most Middle East capitals. They mark him out as one of
> > the most brutal products of Iran’s secret services and
> > therefore, by definition, a high-ranking and seasoned terror master.
> > 
> > DEBKAfile names him in fact as the longtime senior controller of Imad
> > Mughniyeh, one of Washington’s most wanted terror masters,
> > who currently serves as chief of the Hizballah’s special
> > security apparatus and Tehran’s go-between with al Qaeda.
> > 
> > The new defense minister is notorious for his role in the earliest
> > terror attacks on US targets in the Middle East. The first was the
> > October 23, 1983, suicide bombing of US Marines headquarters in
> > Beirut which killed 241 Marines. The second was the Khobar Towers
> > blast in eastern Saudi Arabia on June 25, 1996. This was a joint
> > Iranian intelligence-al Qaeda operation targeting the facility
> > housing American fighter pilots and air force crews guarding the
> > Dharan oil fields. The death toll of that atrocity was officially put
> > at 19 with 200 injured, but was certainly much higher.
> > 
> > In 1982, after the Iran-Iraq war, Muhammad-Najar was placed at the
> > head of the Revolutionary Guards Middle East department which
> > controls Iranian intelligence bodies in the region, including Saudi
> > Arabia and the Persian Gulf emirates, and runs clandestine projects
> > for the “export of the Islamic revolution” to
> > these countries. He quickly proved himself an able organizer and
> > operations chief. He forthwith planted 1,500 Revolutionary Guardsmen
> > in the Lebanese Beqaa Valley. Their transit through Syria was
> > approved by the Damascus government. This Iranian outpost established
> > the first recruiting center for the new Lebanese Shiite terrorist
> > organization calling itself Hizballah.
> > 
> > Right from the start, Muhammad-Najar worked closely with a rising star
> > in the Islamic terrorist firmament, Imad Mughniyeh, who debuted with
> > spectacular abductions of foreigners, mostly American and British
> > hostages. The two became firm friends in this period. In February
> > 1988, the pair organized the kidnapping of Colonel William R (Rich
> > Higgins, the most senior American intelligence officer in Lebanon. He
> > was tortured to death by Iranian Revolutionary Guardsmen and Hizballah
> > operatives on an unknown date.
> > 
> > Later in the 1980s, when Lebanon became too hot for him, Mughniyeh
> > fled the country ahead of American pursuit. His Iranian friend and
> > future Iranian defense minister arranged for Iranian intelligence to
> > protect him and smuggle him to safety in Tehran.
> > 
> > Muhammad-Najar also has a history of deadly strikes against Israel.
> > More than one account ascribes him a role in the suicide bombings of
> > Israeli army command posts in the southern Lebanese towns of Tyre and
> > Sidon in 1983.
> > 
> > After his 1985 appointment as head of Iran’s Military
> > Industries Organization under the aegis of the Revolutionary Guards,
> > he kept up his connections with the Iranian terrorist machine
> > including the Hizballah. One of his jobs was to develop weapons
> > adapted to terrorist warfare outside Iran. He took a personal
> > interest in developing the 230mm Iranian super mortar that was
> > supplied to the Revolutionary Guards’ al Quds battalion and
> > the Hizballah for use in the Middle East and also in Europe.
> > 
> > The new defense minister is also credited with organizing the 12,000
> > Katyusha short-range rockets Hizballah has positioned on the
> > Lebanese-Israeli border as a deterrent against Israeli attacks on
> > Iran and itself.
> > 
> > In October 2000, a month after the outbreak of the Palestinian suicide
> > terror war against Israel, Muhammad-Najar took a hand in the
> > Hizballah’s kidnap of three Israeli soldiers, Adi Avitan,
> > Benny Abraham and Omar Suweid. At the end of 2001, he helped prepare
> > the 50-ton illegal weapons cargo for loading at Kish Island aboard
> > the Karine-A smuggling ship. Vessel and cargo were seized by Israeli
> > commandos on the Red Sea before they reached Arafat’s
> > terrorist squads in the Gaza Strip.
> > 
> > In nearly five years of the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the
> > new Iranian defense minister stayed in close touch with the
> > Hizballah’s 1800 Unit, which interacts with the Palestinian
> > terrorist organizations and whose agents are actively present in the
> > Gaza Strip, the West Bank and among dissident Israeli Arabs.
> > 
> > Ahmadinejad picked him as defense minister in appreciation of his
> > expertise as an intelligence and terror mastermind with long
> > experience of violent covert operations against American and Israeli
> > targets in such places as Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and his
> > work in conjunction with Hizballah and Palestinian terrorist
> > organizations. Muhammad-Najar’s presence in a key position
> > in the Iranian government is bad news above all for the United States
> > and Israel. They see him as an omen of the imminent stepping up of
> > Iranian involvement in Hizballah and Palestinian terrorist campaigns
> > across the Middle East.
> > 
> > Copyright 2000-2005 DEBKAfile. All Rights Reserved.
> > 
> > 
> SO WHAT? TERMINATI CU COPIERILE ASTEA TIMPITE.....ASTA ESTE UN ZIAR
> ROMANESC SI VI TU ENGLEZA TA......CITI? ROMANII STIU ENGLEZA SA
> INTELEAGA TOATA TIMPENIA ASTA? SCRIE DRAKU ROMANESTE SAU TRADU CE AI
> INTELES DIN TOATA TIMPENIA ASTA
> 

Nu intelegi, nu comenta.
E asa de simplu.

Nu, nu este asa de simplu.
"Comenta" e cu siguranta cuvantul cheie. Sau mai bine zis Comentarii. Asa se cheama rubrica. Si e in romana. Mai este una "English".
Pe urma "comentariile " tale nu sunt comentarii. Sunt articole scrise de alte persoane.
Intelegi si scrii romaneste f bine. Daca esti de acord sau nu cu ce se scrie in articolele pe care le afisezi si crezi ca asta are de-a face cu articolul in discutie, explica asta in romana - si eventual afiseaza un link daca nu ai incredere in discernamantul personal.
E asa de simplu.

La 2005-08-24 10:06:14, Dan Bostan a scris:

> Nu intelegi, nu comenta.
> E asa de simplu.
> 

Si nu doar a Bostanului

Uite-te la Oriana citat "inflacarat-ofticat" de sus pana jos asta la teze.

Cat despre antiteze kanci Marghioalo ca ti-am dres-o.

Sa ajungem la sinteze sau concuzii si rationamentre nici nu se pune problema .

Nu vezi ca maximum ce pot sa faca e sa se comporte ca activistii comunsiti de pe vremuri care tot ce puteau sa faca cu oaresce efort e sa citeze din carticica pt propagandisti sau din carticica sefului de cuib legionar.

Sunt din acelasi aluat cu "gandacii drogati din sticla "
Doar ca in ambele cazuri drogul care si-il baga zilnic in vena e e ideologia suprematiei lor nedreptatite de realitate si a urii , doctrina urii habotnice , habarniste si aburiste cu pretentii de stiinta, esenta concentrata din "lupta de clasa" si "nevoia de spatiu vital " pt atingerea "menirii si maretiei lor istorice "a lor a unsilor si alesilor lui Dumnezeu .

Preotii urii de gang atata stiu atat pot sa isi ciuguleasca unii altora din cioc pseudo-argumente date pe din-doua cu periuta la seful de gasca.

Atata stiau atunci , atata pot si acuma , astia sunt ,cu astia defilam .
vat deLa 2005-08-24 11:39:34, MirceaCelnicu a scris:

> Nu, nu este asa de simplu.
> "Comenta" e cu siguranta cuvantul cheie. Sau mai bine zis
> Comentarii. Asa se cheama rubrica. Si e in romana. Mai este una
> "English".
> Pe urma "comentariile " tale nu sunt comentarii. Sunt
> articole scrise de alte persoane.
> Intelegi si scrii romaneste f bine. Daca esti de acord sau nu cu ce se
> scrie in articolele pe care le afisezi si crezi ca asta are de-a face
> cu articolul in discutie, explica asta in romana - si eventual
> afiseaza un link daca nu ai incredere in discernamantul personal.
> E asa de simplu.
> 
> La 2005-08-24 10:06:14, Dan Bostan a scris:
> 
> > Nu intelegi, nu comenta.
> > E asa de simplu.
> > 
> 
> 

La 2005-08-24 05:30:55, texanu a scris:
> > 
> > 
> SO WHAT? TERMINATI CU COPIERILE ASTEA TIMPITE.....ASTA ESTE UN ZIAR
> ROMANESC SI VI TU ENGLEZA TA......
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daca zici ca nu intelegi inseamna ca nu stii daca e timpita sau ....cine e!

Chiar daca ziarul e romanesc, forumul e international si mai ales pentru stiiutori de carte. Vad ca tu mai ai pina te califici.


CITI? ROMANII STIU ENGLEZA SA
> INTELEAGA TOATA TIMPENIA ASTA? SCRIE DRAKU ROMANESTE SAU TRADU CE AI
> INTELES DIN TOATA TIMPENIA ASTA
=========================================================

nu conteaza citi romani stiu englezeste ca nu e SCINTEIA. Si de altfel ar fave bine sa invete, ca si in EU e tot limba oficiala. Sorry dar ai imvatat ruseste DEGEABA! 

PS. ESTI SURD SAU DECE URLII?

Mormolocilor, agitatia browniana face bine la neuroni.
Poate mai intelegeti ceva din ce se intimpla in lume.
Doar daca puteti citi...

La 2005-08-24 13:19:30, laur a scris:

> Si nu doar a Bostanului
> 
> Uite-te la Oriana citat "inflacarat-ofticat" de sus pana
> jos asta la teze.
> 
> Cat despre antiteze kanci Marghioalo ca ti-am dres-o.
> 
> Sa ajungem la sinteze sau concuzii si rationamentre nici nu se pune
> problema .
> 
> Nu vezi ca maximum ce pot sa faca e sa se comporte ca activistii
> comunsiti de pe vremuri care tot ce puteau sa faca cu oaresce efort e
> sa citeze din carticica pt propagandisti sau din carticica sefului de
> cuib legionar.
> 
> Sunt din acelasi aluat cu "gandacii drogati din sticla "
> Doar ca in ambele cazuri drogul care si-il baga zilnic in vena e e
> ideologia suprematiei lor nedreptatite de realitate si a urii ,
> doctrina urii habotnice , habarniste si aburiste cu pretentii de
> stiinta, esenta concentrata din "lupta de clasa" si
> "nevoia de spatiu vital " pt atingerea "menirii si
> maretiei lor istorice "a lor a unsilor si alesilor lui Dumnezeu
> .
> 
> Preotii urii de gang atata stiu atat pot sa isi ciuguleasca unii
> altora din cioc pseudo-argumente date pe din-doua cu periuta la seful
> de gasca.
> 
> Atata stiau atunci , atata pot si acuma , astia sunt ,cu astia defilam
> .
Nene laure, nu crezi ca, dat fiind tonul interventiei, tot ce scrii mai sus ti se aplica foarte bine? Dar la Tirziu, Chilian, etc. te-ai uitat inainte sa dai drumul <<analizei de caractere>>?

Exista un ziarist in Toronto Sun (Margolis) care scrie extrem de antiamerican si pro-musulman (fiindca el insusi este musulman american de origine albaneza). Cind a fost atacata Iugoslavia striga din toti bojocii: <<sa fie bombardati pina la unul, sa fie stershi de pe fata pamintului!>> (despre sirbi, ma intzelegi). Cind cu Irakul: <<jos razboiul, jos agresorul, ati omorit suta de milioane de copii irakieni>>. Si vine admiratorul din Ottawa si scrie la redactie: imi place Eric Margolis fiindca prezinta situatia nepartinitor (unbiased).

Cam asha si dta...