Hezbollah’s chief of military operations is dead;
For many, Mughniyah was a reviled figure, wanted by both Israel and the United States for his alleged role in numerous attacks on American and Israeli targets—including the truck-bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut in 1983 and the attack on the Israeli embassy in Argentina in 1992. (Formally, the FBI most-wanted him for his role in the 1985 hijacking of an American airliner to Beirut and the murder of a U.S. Navy diver on board.)
The article goes on to suggest that the assassination couldn’t have come “at a worse time” for Lebanon. All things considered, it’s hard to conceive of a “bad time”.
Update – Two excellent pieces, at the Belmont Club (a long list of suspects) and by Sigmund, Carl and Alfred” – “the medium is the message.”
(Belmont Club link fixed – sorry!)







