Ragheb Harb
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Early life
Harb was born into a Shia Muslim family in the town of Jibchit in the Nabatieh District. He left school at the age of seventeen to undertake religious studies, which prompted him to move to Beirut in 1969. He traveled to Najaf in 1971, where he took courses from the prominent Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, and returned to Lebanon in 1974 after three years. Harb started teaching religion and leading the friday prayer in Jibchit, and although few, his crowd grew so much that Jibchit's mosque came to be known as the "Qom of Jabal Amel.[3] In 1976, Harb moved to the town of Sharqiyyeh where he strove to counter the influence of the Iraqi Baath, which had been growing among Shiites. He established a school for the locals, and took care of the area's orphans in his own house. By 1978, he had also started a charity (mabarra).
Assassination
On 16 February 1984, he was assassinated.[4] Hussein Abbas, one of the assassins, fled to America where he lived in the home of his uncle, the academic Professor Fouad Ajami.[5]
Danny Abdallah, a Lebanese criminal living in Denmark, admitted to having killed Harb on behalf of the Israelis. [6]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".[7] As a result, Amal Movement put him on their death list, and he is wanted in Lebanon.[8][2]
See also
References
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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" Script error: No such module "webarchive". Boston Review. Accessed 2 February 2007. Originally published in the April/May 2005 issue of Boston Review
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- ↑ Tveit, Odd Karsten (2010) Goodbye Lebanon. Israel's First Defeat. Rimal Publication. Translated by Peter Scott-Hansen. Template:ISBN pp.80-82
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