“I hope he heard the ticking before he was blown up.”
It’s rare when the media gives voice to a military mom who dissents from the Cindy Sheehan school of anti-war absolute moral authority. So, kudos to the Virginian Pilot for allowing Barbara Rockwell to speak her mind about the long overdue assassination of Hezbo mastermind Imad Mughniyeh. Rockwell’s son was one of the 241 US Marines who were killed in the Mughniyeh-plotted Beirut barracks bombing.
Finally, justice for the 241. And no guilt, no regrets over the hit on the evil jihadi who murdered so many innocent and honorable Americans in the name of Islam:
Barbara Rockwell has a soft way about her. Light brown hair swirls around her face, adorned by oval-framed glasses and gold elephant earrings.
Her voice is comforting and doesn’t become loud or sound angry when she takes delight in a certain man’s death.
“The fact that he got blown up in a car,” Rockwell said, pausing, “I don’t know who did it, but I’d like to thank him.”
The man against whom she has held this grudge for more than 24 years was a Hezbollah commander named Imad Mughniyeh. The reason she held it is that her son, Marine Cpl. Michael Caleb Sauls, along with 240 other U.S. servicemen, was killed in a barracks bombing that Mughniyeh directed on Oct. 23, 1983, in Beirut, Lebanon.
Her son was 20.
The phone in Rockwell’s Virginia Beach house woke her that morning. It was her neighbors, saying they were coming over for coffee. She thought that was weird. They turned on the TV, and that’s how she found out.
“Michael would be 43,” Rockwell said Friday morning. “It would have been nice to see what his children would have been like, or what he would have done. He could have done anything.”
In a backroom of the Southeastern Virginia Training Center, where she works with people with disabilities, Rockwell held a framed photo of Michael. He was about to board a Jeep in front of the building that served as the barracks. Even then, pockmarks dotted the outside walls. Rubble and pulverized concrete covered the sidewalk. Michael wore a camo helmet with this shirt sleeves rolled above his elbows and a whole-faced, tooth-showing smile.
That’s why, when she read the news story Thursday morning that Mughniyeh had been assassinated in a car bombing, Rockwell didn’t feel bad about feeling good.
“It just seemed like a special day, didn’t it?” she said. “Do I feel a little vindicated that he was blown up? Oh, yeah. I hope he heard the ticking before he was blown up.”
***
Caroline Glick write about what Mughniyeh was plotting next:
It is quite possible that terror master Imad Mughniyah was not killed Tuesday night in Damascus for his past crimes, but to prevent him from carrying out additional attacks in the future.
On January 30, French security services raided a Paris apartment and arrested six Arab men. Three of the men — two Lebanese and one Syrian — were travelling on diplomatic passports. According to the Italian Libero newspaper, the six were members of a Hizbullah cell. Seized documents included tourist maps of Paris, London, Madrid, Berlin and Rome marked up with red highlighter to indicate routes, addresses, parking lots and “truck stopping points.”The maps pointed to several routes to Vatican back entrances.
Libero’s report explained that the “truck stopping points” aligned with information the French had received the week before from Beirut. There, Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah convened a conference of his senior terror leaders where he ordered them to activate Hizbullah cells throughout Europe to kidnap senior European leaders.
The day of the arrests, French Defense Minister Herve Morin was meeting with his American counterpart Defense Secretary Robert Gates and with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington on a previously unannounced visit. During his public appearances, Morin criticized the US Intelligence Directorate’s National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear program from November. Morin stated, “Coordinated information from a number of intelligence services leads us to believe that Iran has not given up its wish to pursue its [nuclear] program,” and is “continuing to develop” it.
Other recent reports relayed French concern that their embassy in Beirut is being targeted for attack by Hizbullah. On January 15 terrorists targeted a US embassy car in Beirut killing four and wounding sixteen. This week, French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s chief of staff told L’Express newsweekly that the threat of terror against France “remains quite high.”
All of the feared terror attacks against French and European targets have the classic earmarkings of Hizbullah operations chief and Iranian Revolutionary Guards officer Imad Mughniyeh. Mughniyeh was the pioneer of embassy bombings and high-profile kidnappings.
Most of the reports of his death treated Mughniyeh as a has-been. Coverage was devoted to his attacks against American, Israeli and Jewish targets in the 1980s and early 1990s. Yet at the time of his death, Mughniyeh remained one of the most dangerous and prolific terror operatives in the world.
And what we must understand moving forward:
His work revealed the inconvenient truth so fervently denied by policymakers and politicians throughout the Western world. He showed that for the jihadists there is no distinction between terrorists who attack in Israel or Jewish targets abroad and those who attack non-Israeli and non-Jewish targets. Moreover, his work as an Iranian agent demonstrates Iran’s central role in sponsoring jihad throughout the world.
Mughniyeh’s legacy is not simply a laundry list of massacre and torture. It is the nexus of global terror. While it is a great thing that he is dead, it must be understood that his death is insufficient. Hundreds of thousands converged in Beirut to celebrate his life’s work. The West must understand the significance of that work and unite to destroy it — layer after layer.
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It was a shame that nobody bombed Imad’s funeral and taken out his terrorist buddies with him. But at least someone got him.
One down, far too many more to go.
From now on flowers will smell better, and life will be somewhat more fulfilling for Barbara Rockwell and all the others. God Bless them all.
May the memories of them live on forever.
I would love to hear the laughing going on in hell right now; “72 virgins, are you kidding me?”
May God bless the memory of the brave men and women who were murdered by this evil coward.
Personally, I’d rather strap it to his chest so he could watch it tick down. Not that I’m vindictive or anything.
It all starts with Iran and someday it has to end there.
And Obama’s foreign policy advisor just got back from a meeting with the Syrian President. Despite the crystal clear motives of the Syrian government in not only supporting terrorism by harboring the likes of Mughniyeh, but actively participating as our enemy in the war on terror.
Can anyone imagine the advisor to a presidential candidate during the run up or even during WWII having a sit down with Hitler?
24 years late..
And we didn’t do it…
Our intelligence services suck.
Or we don’t have the will needed to do what needs to be done….
He should not have been granted 24 more years of life….
And I say that as someone who was in Leb in 83…
I’m sure we Catholics are at fault for not denouncing our horrible faith and joining the ‘Religion of Peace.’/sarc/
This just goes to show that these radical whacko’s are targeting other religions, and will sooner or later succeed in carrying out an attack on a Church or Temple. When that starts to happen, this war between opposing faiths (which is in it’s infancy after a brief spurt in the Middle Ages) will start to rage.
Christianity and Islam are polar opposites. They’ve been tiptoeing around each other for centuries (figuratively.) If they come head to head, only one of them will survive (at least in it’s present form.)
Islam is tied to the earthly – the lose the sites, they lose thier core. And Islam cannot change for literal obedience is its tenet, meanign a changing world will destroy it.
Christianity is tied to individual faith – only loss of faith loses the core. And Christianity, as Pope Benedit points out, requires reason and can deal with a changing world.
Vibe, it will end only when Mecca is a smoking hole in the ground – if they have no rock to pray towards, they lose. Their fake paedophile prophet is chained to the material and literal, and that will lead to the defeat of the tribal moon-cult he founded.
God Bless Barbara Rockwell, may she know some long overdue peace of mind. And God Bless you Romeo and thank you for your service.
#1…interesting and somewhat poetic considering that the death worshipers have been reported to blow themselves up at funerals.
Any ideas as to where to send a thank you card?
A short note indicating the bomb was activated and why…finishing the note with “Bang! You’re dead!” (”The Mechanic” with Charles Bronson)
Not likely any democrap or their candidates. I am sure Pelosi and Reid will denounce this as more Bush aggression.
The devil, Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah, should be next. Then we can start on Iran proper. The plague emanating from Tehran must be eliminated.
I urge President Bush to ignore the appeasers in our congress and destroy the terror regime in Iran. Do it now.
No, the idiots like Chamberlain met with Hitler before the war. That gave the socialist maniac a chance to see just how appeasing his opponents would be. He had the stones to stand up to the wussies; Chamberlain and his ilk just folded like a lawn chair.
As Mick Mannock, British WWI flying ace, said of the Red Baron when he learned the Baron was dead, “I hope he roasted the whole way down.”
Actually, he passed through heaven on his way to hell. That’s where he learned it was 72 Virginians. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, et.al., kicked the living snot out of him on his way out.
Romeo13 said:
Well they were probably waiting for the ok from the lawyers…after all that’s who has control over the ROE now.
Ba$tard$ that they are.
So this is what the Democrats mean when they prattle on about giving diplomacy a chance?
The New York Times coverage of the Mughniyeh assassination has been disgraceful. Although that should not be a surprise, it is still shameful. The Time reporter covering Mughniyeh’s death has used romantic language to describe Mughniyeh. Reporter Walton referred to Mughniyeh as a “famously elusive militant”. Although John Kifner, doing a video report for the Times web edition, called Mughniyeh a “terrorist”, the Times has never in print used the word for Mughneh. The
Times use of phrases like the “famously elusive militant” creates the impression that Mughniyeh was some sort of Lebanese Bourne. From reading the Times romanticized accounts of Mughniyeh and the starry eyed descriptions of his derring do from Times reporters, one would think this man was a Lebanese Omar Sharif. I had to remember that this is the NY Times, the same paper that called Zubiyeh, the Al Queda thug in Iraq, “a Jordanian born fighter”. Many of us have tried writing to the “public editor”, one Clark Hoyt. Hoyt is pretty much useless. He views his job as defending the Times and sees his McGovern liberalism as objective truth.
romeo13-
one of shipmates was an HM3 during the Beirut attack and heard he retired in 2002 as an HM1
I propose a new ROE—-
Adopt the “Sword of Gideon” approach: if they’re responsible for killing Americans, then they are hunted down like the bast–ds they are irregardless how long it takes.
If this means killing their family in the process, then so be it. Heartless, maybe. Cruel, no. Approbiate-He11 Yes!
GSP
OT-What happened to the strong/link, etc buttons?
This is why targeting was appropriate. His death doesn’t bring back her son, but it will prevent other people from being victims in the future.
Yeah, Jerusalem, Israel. This is why they are our friends and we need to start acting a lot more like them in terms of security. They deal with terrorism every day that we (nor anyone else) would ever put up with.
God Bless all my brothers who died in Lebanon and their families, Justice is sweet and thanks and God Bless who ever got this evil scumbag.
Iran’s foreign minister at funeral in Lebanon of slain Hezbollah commander Mughniyeh
Iran’s FM meets Hamas, Islamic Jihad leaders in Syria
Iran, Syria open joint investigation into Mughniyeh assassination
Syria Denies Joint Iran Investigation
Hezbollah Appoints Mughniyeh Successor
I have a feeling that something big is being planned by Iran, Syria, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah.
Barbara Rockwell is already blessed. She is blessed with the people who look out for her:
Gol Bless her neighbors for making sure she heard this and she that wasn’t alone.
Furthermore, I think it would be really nice if we could find out who did this. I would be very happy if it was an American-led OPS. Then I’d sit back and listen to the Left fall all over themselves in comdemnation of it.
They already Hate the Jooos. But I understand where you’re coming from. If they attacked the Vatican, I expect to see The Crusades – Part Duex.
GOD Bless her neighbors for making sure she heard this and she that wasn’t alone.
Oh boy, that was a biggy….
All that Vatican planning makes it sound like they had hopes of abducting the Pope … obviously it was thwarted and no one is saaying that was the target … but there is no one else in the Vatican that is of any meaningful profile …
If they had managed to pull that off I suspect it would have been the beginning of the end world wide for the islamo-fascists … could have been the crusades all over again …
I hope he didn’t go quickly. He deserved a slow painful death.
Israel/Mossad Operations Wrath of God and Spring of Youth, after 36 years still has not got all of the 1972 Munich Olympic Terrorists, If I’m not mistaken, those believed to have planned the Munich massacre, only Abu Daoud, the man who claims that the attack was his idea, is known to be alive, and he is in his seventies. and wether we got Mughniyeh or the Israelis got him is irrelevant, he was got, thats the point.
I hope they included the special pork fat sprayer feature on the weapon, the one the douses the pirate in pork fat five seconds before initiation of the charge.
Actually, I do *not* want to know who managed this success — nor how. Just so they can repeat the event and remain effective.
Are we or are not at WAR!!!?
Do I remember correctly-the Pres. is the Commander in Chief?! Thus-he has war powers and responsibilty to our troops on the ground.
It was the appeasers in Congress that made us retreat just a month or two before the N. Viet.army was about to surrender (acc. to account post in Viet. museaum (sp) by N. Viet. Gen.)
Mr. Pres. use your power-protect us and our troops.
While you’re at it, declare an IMMancipation Proclaimation for the UNBORN.
For me, this is really it. Nothing to regret, but for me nothing to celebrate, either, per se. This is going to be a long,workmanlike job. Maybe we should enlist some inner-city-trained exterminators on the war on terror, because this is nothing more or less than dispassionately cleaning out the cockroaches. It won’t be easy for this country to adopt that mindset with the MSM whining endlessly, but that’s what this is about.
It’s good that the parents of those killed soldiers get to see these moments for closure.
Further proof that the West isn’t at war with islam. . .islam is at war with the West. And if our leaders don’t figure that out soon, we will lose.
Keep loading ammo.
#33 walterc–
You are so right on!
As stated in #31 – we are at WAR only our leaders DON’T get IT.
Thanks for another voice out there.
AMMO is good.
MMMM, Ammo
Yet, our glorious Democratic leadership still denies global terrorism is a problem for the U.S.
NO to “coercive” interrogation tactics for these sweethearts of the Islamic world, and NO to tools that enable our Intelligence Professionals to intercept foreign communications, which may help protect our citizens, and our allies citizens.
Instead, use the WOT to gain political advantage, dismiss lawmakers who have been elected to protect us from this type of nonsense, and go…go attend a wedding instead of doing your job. Marvelous, simply marvelous!!
May God bless our fallen brethren. I pray that one day, ALL our elected representatives will put America ahead of themselves, or relatives. Semper Fi, brothers!
Shame and a curse on anyone who would make this woman feel bad for feeling good about this scumbag getting blown to hell. As I had said in a previos thread, there are actually people out there who feel we had and have no right to kill and destroy these murderous thugs and that we should just let them alone because, in their words, they are humans and have families that will feel bad if they are killed etc.
Well that’s just too bad.
Good for this woman. i wish I could buy her a cake and coffee to let her relax and finally feel some sort of justice has been served after so many years of nothing being done.
I can only pray that every single mother and father, brother and sister, husband and wife of victims of Islamic Terrorism, Islamic Global Take-Over…one day soon feels the kind of peace and vindication this mother felt the other day, and that we all can rest easy knowing that the Islamic threat will some day be erradicated from this planet.
American Thinker.com has a wonderful letter titled Rationale of a Suicide Conservative Voter: fits my soon to be actions at the booth -perfectly.
#33 & #35 ammo IS good!
LiveLeak/Danish Soldiers in Afghanistan-to give assurance that our “GUYS” are not alone. Little Denmark – Don’t you just love her?
I remember when I was in high school my family and I went to the funeral for a sailor that was killed in that Beruit bombing. It was my first military funeral.
Now, as a member of the Patriot Guard, I stand for him and all others that have fallen. God Bless America and our troops at home and abroad.
God bless this Gold Star mom. I pray that this bit of justice gives her further solace… that and knowing that a truer justice awaits this murdering scum bag in the hottest part of hell.
blind_mule…
ammo really good-can I come out and play too?
GSP
Ammo is getting too expensive to shoot, just keep stockpiling.
Sure, be honored to pop some caps witcha.
I just love a good old-fashioned come-uppance!
May his 72 virgins be well endowed Sodomites prepared to enjoy him for eternity.
Greetings:
This is not a joke. During WWII the U.S. government made deals with organized crime to help the Army and FBI protect their “turf” from sabotage on war-vital real estate like the Brooklyn Navy yard and other similar sites (Dad claimed such was inspired by the movie “All Through The Night”). Terrorists have to deal with the underworld at some point to get their supplies and weapons; it’d be hard for me to believe that SOME organized crime outfit, Mafia or internat gang, wouldn’t know how to contact these bastards or know where they haunt. I would not be against the gov’t dealing with OC to help us locate and rout out these animals.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Not to worry, if he didn’t hear the ticking last year they voted in Hell for instant replay and it won in a landslide. So, since they’re are no virgins in his new residence they play the scene on a loop drilling it in his tiny little brain over and over, thats all he see’s forever.
I’ll never forget that morning and hearing the news of the attack on the barracks in Lebanon.
tick tick..
The War on Terror goes back a lot farther than most realize.
tick tick ..
Karma can be a real b*tch.
Praise the lord….Now pass some more ammo.
So what do you think the ironic punishment for Islamic terrorists in Hell is, anyway?
EXACTLY what I thought when I saw the funeral on TV, attended by so many of his terrorist friends!
What a wasted opportunity – and we KNOW what THEY would have done in the same circumstances.
We should have dropped pork-slathered bunker busters, along with lots of extra pork so they’d be in NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER. Make that well-cooked premium bacon.
“What that? Noooo! Nobody said anything about 72 virgin WOMEN!”