A retired Navy SEAL whose brother was killed by Hezbollah terrorists expressed reduction when he heard that Hassan Nasrallah was killed.
“When the solar went down yesterday, the world was a greater place with Nasrallah not in it,” Kenneth Stethem advised The Put up on Saturday, lower than 24 hours after Nasrallah, 64, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb.
“Ever since [Hezbollah’s] inception in 1982, Nasrallah and others like him have brought on a lot loss of life and destruction,” he stated.
Stethem would know: His brother, Navy diver Robert Dean “Robbie” Stethem, was killed by Hezbollah terrorists through the June 1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacking.
Robbie, 23, was coming back from an task in Greece when the airplane was hijacked by a pair of terrorists who demanded the discharge of 766 Palestinian and Lebanese inmates held in Israel.
The hijackers initially flew the airplane to the Beirut airport, the place an “enraged terrorist” beat Robbie earlier than fatally capturing him within the head and tossing his physique onto the tarmac, in keeping with the US Navy Memorial.
His face and physique have been reportedly so badly mangled that he might solely be recognized by his fingerprints.
“I bear in mind after they got here to the door and advised us. The sound that got here from [our mother] seemed like an animal that had simply been hit by a automotive. By no means, by no means heard screams like that earlier than,” Kevin Stethem advised The Put up of the second the household discovered their son and brother had been murdered.
Stethem deliberate to interrupt the information about Nasrallah’s loss of life to his father, now 88, on Saturday.
After they final spoke two days in the past, as Israel was bombarding Hezbollah, Stethem stated he advised his father, “Girl karma doesn’t overlook, and tonight in Israel, the identical individuals chargeable for killing Rob are listening to bombs go off throughout them.”
“He’s going to be grateful that [Hezbollah] was broken as badly as they have been broken,” he advised The Put up of how he anticipated his dad to answer the replace.
Stethem’s mom died two years in the past, however “she can be very grateful for what the Israelis had the braveness to do,” the brother stated.
Despite the fact that Hashem Safieddine is anticipated to take his cousin Nasrallah’s place as the top of Hezbollah, Stethem predicted that the decimated terror group may have problem reorganizing.
“Iran higher watch out as a result of Nasrallah didn’t belief anyone,” he claimed.
“Not solely is he gone, with none mentees, however his basic employees and employees beneath that’s gone. So Iran ought to rigorously select their subsequent actions, as a result of they see that Israel is not going to cease till they reduce the top off of this snake.”
“Terrorism has grown into the hazard it’s as a result of we by no means formulated an efficient coverage in opposition to it,” Stethem added.
He referred to an Albert Einstein quote that sometimes reads, “The world is a harmful place, not due to those that do evil, however due to the individuals who don’t do something about it.”
“For those who don’t care for one thing when it’s a small drawback, it grows into a giant drawback and grows power after which it will possibly develop terminal,” Stethem famous.
“We don’t want hurt on anybody,” he stated of his household, which incorporates two different surviving siblings. “However these accountable have to be accountable.”
