Abbas al-Musawi

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Sayyid Abbas al-Musawi ( Arabic عباس الموسوي, DMG ʿAbbās al-Mūsawī ; * approx. 1952 in an-Nabī Schaith in the Bekaa plain ; † February 16, 1992 ) was a Lebanese Shiite Islamist and general secretary of the military wing of Hezbollah . In this office he was the predecessor of Hassan Nasrallah .

Life

Al-Musawi studied Shiite theology at the University of Najaf in Iraq , where he was particularly influenced by the Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini . He was also influenced in the Hawza by Muhammad Baqir as-Sadr , whose lectures he attended. In 1978 he returned to Lebanon and, four years later, helped form the Hezbollah resistance movement to fight the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon. He has been blamed by many Western observers as the mastermind behind numerous attacks, including the 1983 attack on the US base in Beirut , in which 299 French and US soldiers were killed. In 1991, al-Musawi was elected General Secretary of Hezbollah, replacing Subhi at-Tufaili .

On February 16, 1992, al-Musawi was killed with his wife, son and four other people in an Israeli helicopter attack in southern Lebanon. Apparently in response to this " targeted killing " there was a bomb attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires on March 17, 1992 , in which 29 people were killed and around 240 injured.

additional

The killing of al-Musawi and his family was a subject in the 2013 documentary License to Kill - How Israel Liquidates Its Enemies .

literature

  • Ahmad Nizar Hamzeh: In the path of Hizbullah. University Press, Syracuse NY 2004, ISBN 0-8156-3053-0
  • Judith Palmer Harik: Hezbollah. The Changing Face of Terrorism. IB Tauris, London 2004, ISBN 1-84511-024-2
  • Manuel Samir Sakmani: The way of Hezbollah. Suitability for democracy. Conflict and Stabilization Potential in Lebanon. Schiler Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-87997-651-5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marius Deeb: . Shia Movements in Lebanon: Their Formation, Ideology, Social Basis, and Links with Iran and Syria . In: Third World Quarterly . 10, No. 2, April 1988, pp. 683-698. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Musawi, Abbas al-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Musawi, Sayyid Abbas al- (full name); عباس الموسوي (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lebanese Shiite Islamist and Secretary General of the Hezbollah Military Wing
DATE OF BIRTH around 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH an-Nabī Shaith , Bekaa plain
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1992