Fact-based drama ‘Ghosts of Beirut’ about ‘worst terrorist in the world’
nypost.comImad Mughniyeh killed thousands of people with car bombs — including 220 Marines stationed in Beirut in 1983 — before he himself was blown to bits in Syria 25 years later.The story of Mughniyeh an Islamic Jihadist dubbed “The Man of Smoke,” is dramatized, for the first time and in detail, in “Ghosts of Beirut,” a four-part Showtime series mixing real, documentary-style on-camera interviews with scripted drama that goes inside the joint CIA/Mossad operation to track down and assassinate Mughniyeh … or so the story goes, since US and Israeli officials have never officially confirmed their agencies’ roles in sending him to kingdom come.“Ghosts” was created by Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff, who also developed the hit Netflix series “Fauda,” in which Raz stars as Israeli Defense Force team member Doron Kavillio. (Raz himself was a commando in an IDF counter-terrorism unit.)Raz and Issacharoff also co-wrote “Ghosts of Beirut,” filmed in Morocco, with Joëlle Tauma and Greg Barker (who directed all four episodes). “We can assume [the Mughniyeh assassination] was a joint operation,” Raz, 51, told The Post. “I read some books and articles about the involvement of the CIA and Mossad.
But nobody will ever say it officially. We cannot confirm anything but … we talked to a lot of people from both [the CIA and Mossad] and they are very reliable.“We did all kinds of research in the US, in Lebanon and in Israel,” he said.
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