Posted on 02/16/2008 11:19:33 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
NOTHING seemed very remarkable about the short, bearded man who mingled with other guests on Tuesday evening at a reception in Damascus, the Syrian capital, to mark the 29th anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeinis Iranian revolution.
Yet before the night was over he was dead in the twisted wreckage of his car and the inevitable assumption was that Mossad, the Israeli foreign intelligence service, had killed him with an ingeniously planted bomb.
The news spread rapidly that the dead man was Imad Mughniyeh, an elusive figure known as the Fox who had been one of the worlds most feared terrorist masterminds.
Robert Baer, a former CIA agent who spent years on his trail, said Mughniyeh was probably the most intelligent, most capable operative weve ever run across.
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Minutes later he was seated in his silver Mitsubishi Pajero in a nearby street when a deafening blast ripped the car apart and killed him instantly.
According to Israeli intelligence sources, someone had replaced the headrest of the drivers seat with another containing a small high-explosive charge. Israel welcomed his death but the prime ministers office denied responsibility. Hezbollah accused the Zionist Israelis of killing its brother commander but believed the explosive had been detonated in another car by satellite.
fyi
Kewl!
Israel kills terror chief with headrest bomb
But in the story, Israel esplicitly denies responsibility:
Israel welcomed his death but the prime ministers office denied responsibility.
Times (UK) biased? Nahhhhhhhhhhhh....
Good news bears repeating. It would only have been better if this evil and maniacal scumbag had been water boarded to death.
He blowed up real good.
From someone ignorant of such matters, what's the chance that this is internal strife among competing Muslim fanatics with the convenient bogeyman of Mossad to blame?
Just the Israelis doing the jobs American won’t do.
Given the history of car bombs it is surprising that any of these people would leave their vehicles unattended or unsupervised ever. Somebody let somebody have access to that car.
Yes,...I noticed that....maybe the Headline writer didn’t read the article.
It was not the Israelis.
Secret sources have told me that Imad Mughniyeh was ordered killed by North Korean leader Kim Jong il.
Yeah, that’s the ticket....
I think,...the story about it being a car that he was walking by ...was an invented story cause the way this reads....it becomes more likely to be an inside job....
It was the Lebanese with the assisatnce of Western intelligence, most likely the US, France, or Britain in that order, or some combination.
Rest in pieces!
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