Imad Mughniyeh

The image showed Mahdi Baydoun curled up on the ground with a rocket-propelled grenade lying next to him.

There was barely time to mourn the father of two, Mughniyeh tells me.

To this day, actually, we have not laid him in his final resting place.

War is happening, so you bury him temporarily in a, in a different spot.

It might be soon where we will be laying him to rest in his actual final resting place.

Mughniyeh says he's not a fighter himself, but Hezbollah's history runs through his family.

His father, Imad Mughniyeh, was a senior military commander nicknamed The Ghost of Beirut.

The US and Israel accused him of orchestrating some of Hezbollah's biggest terrorist attacks in the 1980s and '90s.

Uh, um, and I was at home.

Imad Mughniyeh was killed.

Um, I heard the blast, uh, in Damascus, and, um, I went back to work, like, a week after I was sick, and, um, I noticed I was in the...

We had two stories, and I noticed that no one came to my office, my office was the big one, all day.

And we'll come back to Billy as it pertains to nuclear war and just in general.

But you mentioned the Mugnia one.

Was that the joint operation with CIA and Mossad where they killed him with a car bomb?

Yes.

No one could find him.

And then there was a tip that he was found.

But the way the CIA works, or at least worked at the time, was they couldn't, it was President Bush, they couldn't get President Bush to authorize this joint operation with Mossad without being 100% sure that it was Imad Mugnia who they were killing.

And so they needed a photograph of him, hence intelligence reconnaissance surveillance, okay? So the story, according to Billy, was there was a special activities guy who was a former SEAL who was on it and who was – so Mugnia was found in Saudi Arabia, right? which is impossible to wrap your head around because, you know, Iran's Hezbollah's weapons chief, what is he doing in Saudi Arabia, the arch enemy? I'll give you the punchline on that at the end of what Billy said about that, but details first.