Assassination of Imad Mughniyeh………...
“Then, in June 2007, came the break. Since the end of the war with Hizbollah in south Lebanon, Mossad had been steadily recruiting Israeli Arabs in the West Bank who were opposed to Hizbollah. One of the informers had a relative in a village near Mughniyeh's birthplace. The cousin had told him that a friend of her family had heard that Mughniyeh had travelled to Europe from the safe house the Syrian regime had provided. He had sent postcards from Paris, Frankfurt, Munich and finally Berlin. It was little to go on, but it was a start. First a Mossad agent, a fluent Arab speaker, had travelled to south Lebanon and had met the informer's cousin. The agent had posed as an old friend of Mughniyeh. Little more had emerged except that the cousin was certain Mughniyeh was back in Damascus, but according to her friend's family, he now looked different……...”
A few things here don’t seem kosher to me. No doubt the Mossad killed him, even though some mercenary media in the Persian-American Gulf claimed he was killed by Syrians, or Iranians, or Lebanese. Yet there are things that don’t seem kosher in the Independent story: How did they know that Mughniyeh will park his car, and where? He could have been dropped off at the door. How could they see him in the dark (after 9 PM)? Did they have “insider” help in Syria?
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