User:Barrydarnell/Mustafa youssef badreddin

Mustafa Youssef Badreddin a Lebanese national imprisoned by the Kuwaitis for the 1983 terrorist bombings of American and French embassies, the country's main airport and a petro/chemical plant in Kuwait. A member of the Iraqi Islamic Dawa Party working with the support and assistance of the Islamic Republic of Iran. His group was known as Dawa 17. He was a brother-in-law and cousin to Imad Mugniyah. Mugniyah a shadowy figure who is either Hezbollah's security chief or the operations specialist is known to be the main link to Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security. Mugniyah planned the 1983 attacks on the American embassy in Beirut, the suicide truck bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, and was the mastermind behind the hijacking of TWA flight 847.