UPDATE #3 This is an interesting take on the event, as it sounds like even the Arabs are cheering the result.
UPDATE #2: I do workers compensation reviews so maybe this is in my line. It looks as though it was a “work accident” after all. He was building a car bomb to prevent the March 14 Forces from holding a rally to mark the third anniversary of the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Al-Hariri.Oh. Dangerous work, that.
UPDATE: After denying his existence for years, Hezbollah is now celebrating his death as a martyr. So much for denials.
The mastermind of much Hezbollah terrorism, including the Marine Barracks bombing in 1983 and the 1985 TWA hijacking in which Navy Diver Robert Stethem was murdered, has been blown up. The Syrians had been protecting him and the Iranians considered him a major asset. No doubt Nancy Pelosi will volunteer to give a eulogy.
Belmont Club points out that the assassination was a day before the anniversary of Syria’s assassination of Harari. Bill Roggio says the Israelis are probably responsible but I wish we were capable of neat and clean operations like this. No doubt the New York Times would blow the operation sky high, probably the day before it was scheduled like one of their reporters did a couple of years ago.
Of course, to AP, he is a “militant” , not a terrorist. Is there any enemy of the US that AP doesn’t love ? Reuters is not a US company but AP used to be.