Ragheb Harb

Ragheb Harb
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Ragheb Harb ; ???? ???
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Born	1952 ; Jibchit , Lebanon
Died	16 February 1984 (aged 31?32) ; Jibchit, Lebanon

Ragheb Harb ( Arabic : ???? ??? ; 1952?1984) was a Lebanese leader and Muslim cleric . ^[1] He was born in 1952 in Jibchit , 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. ^[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]^{[
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^ Ronen Bergman , 2018, Rise and Kill First , ch 21: "“Harb was a man of the cloth, not a fighter"
^ ^a ^b Cobban, Helena "Hizbullah’s New Fact" Archived 3 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine Boston Review . Accessed February 2, 2007. Originally published in the April/May 2005 issue of Boston Review
^ "Sheikh Ragheb Harb" . Archived from the original on 26 June 2008 . Retrieved 1 January 2009 .
^ Tveit, Odd Karsten (2010) Goodbye Lebanon. Israel's First Defeat. Rimal Publication. Translated by Peter Scott-Hansen. ISBN 978-9963-715-03-9 pp.80-82
^ "Abdalla har uindskrænket magt" . 21 March 2008.
^ "Nyheder | TV2/NORD" . Archived from the original on 8 April 2010 . Retrieved 20 April 2010 .
^ "Udvist til Dødsdom" . 17 December 2003.

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[1] Ronen Bergman , 2018, Rise and Kill First , ch 21: "“Harb was a man of the cloth, not a fighter"

[cobbanBR30_2-2] Cobban, Helena "Hizbullah’s New Fact" Archived 3 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine Boston Review . Accessed February 2, 2007. Originally published in the April/May 2005 issue of Boston Review

[3] "Sheikh Ragheb Harb" . Archived from the original on 26 June 2008 . Retrieved 1 January 2009 .

[4] Tveit, Odd Karsten (2010) Goodbye Lebanon. Israel's First Defeat. Rimal Publication. Translated by Peter Scott-Hansen. ISBN 978-9963-715-03-9 pp.80-82

[5] "Abdalla har uindskrænket magt" . 21 March 2008.

[6] "Nyheder | TV2/NORD" . Archived from the original on 8 April 2010 . Retrieved 20 April 2010 .

[7] "Udvist til Dødsdom" . 17 December 2003.

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