Was last weeks assassination of Hezbollah commander Mughniyah faked?
Normally, when Israel takes out a prominent and universally hated terrorist, they openly take credit, or at least remain silent; in this case, Israel denied any role right from the beginning. Arab news media sources also seemed confused, with some suggesting that maybe the Syrians or other Arabs did it. Closer to the truth may be the statement of an Egyptian author, who suggested the whole thing was staged and that Imad Mughniyah remains alive. The “bombing” was conducted in Communist Syria itself, away from any possibility of outside confirmation, and Syrian authorities refused to allow reporters close enough to see Mughniyah’s “body” or even whether there were any bodies in the car’s wreckage altogether. Certainly Mughniyah and his sponsors in the Communist regimes of Soviet Russia, Syria, and Iran had plenty of good reason to move Mughniyah underground. A top lieutenant of Yassir Arafat in the PLO’s elite Force 17 terrorist unit, Mughniyah founded Hezbollah in 1982 as a new label fo
