You can run, but you can't hide (Imad Moughniyah) [Archive]

webfusion

13th February 2008, 08:54 AM

Although there are probably more interesting things for the MSM to focus their headlines on,
( http://www.miamiherald.com/776/story/417315.html )

this particularly-spectacular incident caught my eye.

Hezbollah arch-terrorist Imad Moughniyah killed in Damascus by car bomb.
http://www.euronews.net/index.php?page=info&article=469847&lng=1

FYI, Israel denies knowing anything about it.

Puppycow

13th February 2008, 11:23 PM

Just read about it (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021300494.html?hpid=artslot)

This is perhaps the mastermind behind the Beirut Marine barracks bombing that killed 241 US marines.
One witness, who declined to give her name, said the explosion occurred about 10:15 p.m. and blew parts of the car into her apartment. Her husband said the blast hurled Mughniyah's body into the building entrance about 15 feet away, severing his arms and legs. He was dead by the time rescue workers arrived, she said. Other residents told her that the bomb detonated as Mughniyah opened the car after visiting Iranians who live on the building's second floor. "We hadn't seen him here before," she said.

Syria had no official comment. Although there have been periodic clashes in the capital involving radical Islamic fighters, the country's authoritarian government prides itself on the security it maintains, particularly in Damascus. Even so, some in Lebanon speculated that Mughniyah's slaying after so many years of having eluded his enemies could have been carried out only with Syrian involvement.
Hezbollah made no explicit threat to retaliate, but Israel braced for a response.

"No matter who did it, they're going to blame us," said Yossi Alpher, a former senior official in Mossad. "There almost certainly will be an attempt at revenge."