Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Hezbollah top militant killed

America's one of the most wanted Imad Mughniyeh has been killed in a car bombing by Israeli agents. Hezbollah confirmed it in a statement Wednesday. According to an Iranian television, he was killed in carb bombing in Syria. Mughniyeh was belived to be involved in the attacks that killed more than 200 Americans in Lebanon in the 1980s. He was Iranian-backed Hezbollah's security chief at that time.
Mughniyeh is also believed by Israel to have been involved in planning the 1992 bombing of Israel's embassy in Argentina in which 29 people were killed and the blast at a Buenos Aires Jewish center two years later that killed 95.


Read more in MSNBC.

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