An Israeli website, that describes itself as "an association of western intelligence organizations established to fight the threat of terror”, revealed Hezbollah’s new chief military operations officer, who had assumed his new ‘post’ following the assassination of his predecessor, Imad Mughniyye.
Moustafa Amin Badreddine, born in 1961, is the man who replaced his brother-in-law, Imad Mughniyye, according to the website "stop910." Badreddine had filled a series of military and security positions inside Hezbollah.
The website undiscloses monetary rewards to be offered for anyone who has information regarding the identities and whereabouts about a number of individuals with proven or suspected ties to Hezbollah's military wing.
According to the website, Badreddine is a dominant figure in Hezbollah. He is also deemed as one of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah's closest associates and has close connections with the leadership of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). He is reported to be heavily involved in Hezbollah's decision-making process across the board, but especially when it comes to its terror policy at home and abroad.
Badreddine is reportedly responsible for Hezbollah's External Security Organization (ESO) -- Unit 910, which allegedly mounted the July 2012 attack on a bus of Israeli tourists in Burgas, Bulgaria that claimed six lives.
His career in Hezbollah began in the early 1980s and he has since participated in numerous deadly attacks against various targets throughout the world. In 1983, according to stop910, he played a part in the attacks on U.S. and French forces operating in Beirut. Hundreds of people were killed in those attacks.
He was also reportedly involved in forming a terrorist cell in Kuwait. He was arrested by the Kuwaitis for plotting to murder the Emir of Kuwait and sentenced to death. Following his arrest, Hezbollah's External Security Organization mounted attacks in Kuwait and abroad in the hope of achieving his release. These attacks allegedly included hijackings of Kuwaiti and Western airplanes, and abductions of Western citizens in Beirut. Badreddine escaped from prison during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and returned to Lebanon.
Badreddine was accused along with four other Hezbollah members of involvement in former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's 2005 assassination.