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February 16, 2008
How Mughnieyha Got Dead
Some days, it's just good to roll out of bed go to shul, daven, not check out any news until Shabbos is over and then BOOM, discover a nugget of gold like this:
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 Khomeini’s 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 world’s most feared terrorist masterminds.
According to Israeli intelligence sources, someone had replaced the headrest of the driver’s seat with another containing a small high-explosive charge. Israel welcomed his death but the prime minister’s 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.
To read the complete story, please click here.
Seraphic Friend Shrink Wrapped analyzes one short section of this story and comes to the conclusion that someone is not quite telling the truth.
Soccer Dad, always a sober analyst, raises questions about the reliability of the sources for the head-rest story.
And here's an informative article from The Weekly Standard that ties in Mughnieyah with Al Qaeda.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at February 16, 2008 07:48 PM
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