The terrorist Imad Mughniyeh eluded American and Israeli intelligence forces for over 25 years. He spent his career as the number two of Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah, and as the founder of Lebanon’s Islamic Jihad Organization (IJO), pulling strings from the shadows and organising suicide attacks and high-profile kidnappings.Although he was placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list, and had a $5 million bounty on his head, he was seemingly impossible to catch. His elusiveness meant that he became know among his trackers as ‘the ghost’. That was until 2008, when he was not only discovered, but killed, in a car bomb blast in Damascus that is widely assumed to have been orchestrated by Israel’s Mossad in collaboration with the CIA.
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00:00 (dramatic music)
00:02 - In Beirut, Lebanon today,
00:18 there was a tremendous explosion.
00:19 TWA flight 847 was hijacked.
00:23 Another American has been kidnapped.
00:25 Who is responsible?
00:27 - These are not the same terrorists we've known before.
00:30 - Do you have a name?
00:33 - He only uses nicknames.
00:34 - We call him the father of the smoke,
00:37 because he disappears.
00:39 (speaking in foreign language)
00:44 - Our services need to work together.
00:53 - America has many enemies.
00:56 - Where is he?
00:56 (dramatic music)
01:00 - Our friends are expected to get on board with our plan,
01:02 and those that don't, will pay a very heavy price.
01:05 - And with all the respect, you can fuck off, sir.
01:09 (speaking in foreign language)
01:13 - This is the same guy from 25 years ago,
01:15 same guy who's outplayed us ever since.
01:17 (speaking in foreign language)
01:20 - We're in position.
01:21 - You're not going to win the war.
01:23 (dramatic music)
01:27 - Target confirmed.
01:28 (dramatic music)
01:31 - This will haunt you.
01:35 Think about his wife,
01:37 think about his kids.
01:40 (dramatic music)
01:43 - Three.
01:47 (speaking in foreign language)
01:49 - Two.
01:50 (speaking in foreign language)
01:53 - One.
01:54 (dramatic music)
01:57 - Ghosts of Beirut, only on Showtime.
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