Ragheb Harb (Arabic: راغب حرب; 1952–1984 was a Lebanese leader and Muslimcleric.[1] He was born in Jibchit in 1952, a village in the Jabal Amel region of Southern Lebanon. Harb was an imam and led the regional Shiite resistance against Israeli occupation.[2] In March 1983 he was detained by the Israel Defense Forces, but following wide spread demonstrations throughout southern Lebanon he was released seventeen days later. On 16 February 1984 he was assassinated by Lebanese collaborators working for Shin Bet.[3] Hussein Abbas, one of the assassins, fled to America where he lived in the home of his uncle, the academic Professor Fouad Ajami.[4] Danny Abdallah, a Lebanese criminal living in Denmark, admitted to having killed Harb on behalf of the Israelis, and also claimed to have participated in the kidnapping of Harb's successor, Abdul Karim Obeyd.[5][6] As a result, Hezbollah put him on their death list, and he is wanted in Lebanon.[7] According to one source, Harb's supporters would go on to form the Lebanese paramilitary and political organization Hezbollah. He belonged to the first Shiite party in Lebanon, the "Amal Movement".[2]
^Ronen Bergman, 2018, Rise and Kill First, ch 21: "“Harb was a man of the cloth, not a fighter, but stories about him were reaching Meir Dagan, who argued that “Harb was becoming an important religious authority in the south and he was constantly advocating attacks against Israel and Israelis.” Dagan requested authorization to eliminate Harb. Though Harb never took part in terrorist actions against Israel himself, he incited them constantly, and in those years Israel, mired in its battle with Hezbollah and feeling impotent, welcomed every idea for action. Dagan dispatched two Lebanese agents he’d used in past operations of the Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners"
^ abCobban, Helena "Hizbullah’s New Fact" 3 February 2007 at the Wayback MachineBoston Review. Accessed February 2, 2007. Originally published in the April/May 2005 issue of Boston Review
^. Archived from the original on 26 June 2008. Retrieved 1 January 2009.
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