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Who Killed Terrorist Mastermind Imad Moughniyah?

Frida Ghitis | Bio | 13 Feb 2008
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At 10:45 p.m. on Tuesday night, a loud explosion rocked the neighborhood of Kafr Soussa in Damascus. Residents rushed to see the gruesome spectacle left by the explosion of a car bomb. It was the kind of scene that has become eerily common not in this, the Syrian capital, but in Beirut, where the victim of this attack, terrorist mastermind Imad Moughniyah, found most of his followers, and more than a few of his many enemies.

Moughniyah was the No. 2 -- some say No. 1 -- man in Lebanon's Hezbollah organization. The group reported his death declaring it was proud to announce that Moughniyah had "joined the martyrs." Hezbollah immediately blamed Israel for the assassination, but a look at Moughniyah's record of "successful" terrorist attacks shows that while it may be difficult, perhaps impossible, to discover who killed him, it is easy to point to the many places around the world where his death will be cause for celebration. ...

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