Posted February 13 2008 by David Tayne
Hezbollah Official Dies in Car Bombing
Hezbollah official Imad Mughniyeh, the man suspected of planning attacks on the U.S. Embassy and Marine Barracks in Lebanon in the early 1980’s, was killed by a car bombing late Tuesday in Syria. Hezbollah has blamed Israel for the attack but Israel has stated that they had no involvement.
Hezbollah announced the death several hours after the explosion but did not release details of Mughniyeh’s death. Later, the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria made a statement about Mughniyeh’s death being the result of a car bombing that took place in the Syrian capital of Damascus. Eye witnesses in Damascus claim that a civilian was killed as security forces secured the area and removed the body but Syrian authorities refused to give further details.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini was quoted as saying, “This action is yet another brazen example of organized state terrorism by the Zionist regime.” He would go on to call on the world to “prevent the Zionist regime from taking these actions that are a clear violation of international law.”
Mughniyeh, 45, acted as Hezbollah’s security chief during the 1980’s and is believed to have been responsible for the group that held westerners hostage in Lebanon. Since then, Mughniyeh has been in hiding and was one of the fugitives involved in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA airliner. He was prominent on the FBI’s most wanted list and had a $25 million bounty on his head.
He is also accused of being involved in a 1992 bombing of an Israeli embassy in Argentina.
Hezbollah television broadcast the following statement regarding Mughinyeh’s death: “With all pride, we declare a great jihadist leader of the Islamic resistance in Lebanon joining the martyrs; the brother commander hajj Imad Mughinyeh became a martyr at the hands of the Zionist Israelis.”
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