Damascus, Syria – A senior Hezbollah commander implicated in some of the most high-profile international terrorist attacks of the last 25 years has died in an explosion in Syria.
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The FBI listed Imad Mughniyeh as one of its “Most Wanted Terrorists.” with a US$5 million bounty on his head.
Imad Mughniyeh was suspected by Western intelligence agencies in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, which killed 63 people, as well as the truck bombing that year of the U.S. Marine barracks there, an attack that killed 241 people and preceded the U.S. military withdrawal from Lebanon. and the attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets in Buenos Aires, Argentina during the 1990s.
The FBI listed Mughniyeh as one of its “Most Wanted Terrorists,” blaming him for his role in the June 14, 1985, hijacking of TWA 847, a terrorist episode that captivated television viewers in the United States and around the world for more than two weeks.
Israel has denied being behind the car bomb. former chief of Israel’s spy agency Mossad, Dany Yatom, said “He was one of the biggest terrorists in the world, in the same league with Osama bin Laden,”
Mugniyah was currently at the top of a US Military and CIA assassination list. [CNN/VIN]