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Report: Widow of slain Hezbollah terrorist blames Syria for killing
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Imad Mughniyah, terror, Syria 

Some three weeks after the assassination of Hezbollah arch-terrorist Imad Mughniyah, his widow blamed Syria for the killing, Army Radio reported Monday.

The Lebanon-based guerilla group, of which Mughniyah was deputy secretary general, repeatedly blamed Israel for the assassination, but so far no organization or state has taken responsibility for the February 12 car bombing in Damascus.

"The Syrian traitors are responsible for his death," Army Radio quoted Mughniyah's widow as telling a press conference in Tehran. "Damascus' refusal to allow Iran to investigate the incident is further proof," she said.
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According to the report, rumors abounded in the months prior to Mughniyah's death regarding a rift between himself and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. The rumors were that Mughniyah was attempting to take over command of the militant organization.

Mughniyah headed Hezbollah's operations branch serving in a role similar to chief of staff, and had been wanted by Israel and the United States for years due to his role in numerous bombings, hijackings and abductions in which hundreds of people were killed.

He was wanted for the bombings of the Israeli embassy and the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1992 and 1994, as well as a wave of abductions of Westerns in Lebanon in the 1980s.

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      1.   WHo to blame, oh the possibilities are many 02:39  |  Adrian de Klerk 26/02/08
      2.   his brethren did it... 02:47  |  jewish doctor 26/02/08
      3.   Very interesting - Israel protecting Nasrallah 02:54  |  IsraFan 26/02/08
      4.   I must be blind 03:10  |  Mark Lincoln 26/02/08
      5.   Hizbullah had him killed 03:22  |  Simone 26/02/08
      6.   Syria was responsible, never in doubt. 03:41  |  El-Birawi 26/02/08
      7.   Ahahaa! 03:44  |  Brad 26/02/08
      8.   That was an absolutely terrible thing for Syriato do 03:47  |  Mu 26/02/08
      9.   That was an absolutely terrible thing for Syria to do 03:52  |  Murray of Montreal 26/02/08
      10.   iran behind mughniyah killing 04:19  |  jorge luis 26/02/08
      11.   Mughniyahs demise. 04:48  |  Mr. Smith 26/02/08
      12.   The Cowmen and the Farmers should be Friends! 04:59  |  Fred McCann 26/02/08
      13.   They faked his death 05:39  |  Nuri 26/02/08
      14.   Mark Lincoln 05:40  |  Avrum 26/02/08
      15.   Another victim of remote mind control by Mosad. 05:53  |  Darth Zaider (Ed) 26/02/08
      16.   #4 Interesting point, Mark Lincoln 05:55  |  Johnboy 26/02/08
      17.   Charlie Wilson`s War 05:56  |  Mark 26/02/08
      18.   State Terrorism Involved 05:57  |  Javed Akbari 26/02/08
      19.   AGAIN. All the Israel haters gone deaf mute! Arabs do not count!! 06:08  |  PETER SM 26/02/08
      20.   Syria Exterminates Terrorists 06:09  |  Yosemite 26/02/08
      21.   POP. MAUREEN. WHERE are you ? 06:13  |  PETER SM 26/02/08
      22.   Hmmm tracing this story..... 06:17  |  Johnboy 26/02/08
      23.   Try Russia and China 06:22  |  Fred 26/02/08
      24.   Mark Lincoln 06:28  |  Nikita 26/02/08
      25.   What happened to the Israel bashers for this story? 07:05  |  PlanoStu 26/02/08
      26.   Bullshit 07:07  |  3akham 26/02/08
      27.   next we`ll be told elvis is alive and well living in tel aviv 07:09  |  ralph 26/02/08
      28.   I am sure it is Israel. Who else could benefit from it? 07:45  |  Yaakov Sullivan 26/02/08
      29.   #8 Mu, this is Israel, as always-not Syria, it is clear to me 07:47  |  Yaakov Sullivan 26/02/08
      30.   Syrian traitors 07:47  |  akiva (zionist) 26/02/08
      31.   #5 Simone. This is Israel`s job. I recognize Mossad or Shabag. 07:49  |  Yaakov Sullivan 26/02/08
      32.   El-Birawi #6 08:26  |  Albert 26/02/08
      33.   PlanoStu #10 08:27  |  Albert 26/02/08
      34.   POOR LADY, HOW MUCH MORE BEFORE 08:40  |  Robert 26/02/08
      35.   Prejudgement would explain it Mark. 09:15  |  MaryRose 26/02/08
      36.   NAZIRALLAH KILL A (NARCO)TERRORIST? GO FIGURE 09:54  |  YACOV 26/02/08
      37.   Syria`s Killings in Lebanon and of Lebanese 10:11  |  Diam 26/02/08
      38.   anyway it was the 10:20  |  cool 26/02/08
      39.   4: Mark, no, just dumb 10:28  |  David Teich 26/02/08
      40.   SHE IS NAIVE...... ISRAEL DID IT 10:35  |  TripleJump 26/02/08
      41.   TRIPLEJUMP YOUR EVIDENCE BEING? "SHE IS NAIVE"? GREAT POINT !! 10:47  |  PETER SM 26/02/08
      42.   The arabs invented Israel, to have someone to blame 10:49  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 26/02/08
      43.   David Teich 10:56  |  TonyL 26/02/08
      44.   Muslims tend to live lives of lies 10:56  |  Johnny 26/02/08
      45.   Jayed Akbari 11:00  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 26/02/08
      46.   #40 triple jump is the naive party 11:01  |  v hardman 26/02/08
      47.   YEAH, RIGHT 11:08  |  indrajaya 26/02/08
      48.   Lincoln, Johnboy, both blind 11:15  |  FOX 26/02/08
      49.   What a romp on this TB! 11:24  |  S 26/02/08
      50.   CELEBRATING CONFUSION 11:35  |  FOX 26/02/08
      51.   David Teich 11:48  |  TonyL 26/02/08
      52.   Woops! another good PR moment out the window 11:54  |  Doc Holliday 26/02/08
      53.   C·mon Jokers, we all know its was Syria... 12:32  |  Stephen. 26/02/08
      54.   Who killed Mughniyah? 12:32  |  Michael J 26/02/08
      55.   Israel killed him and they know it. 12:59  |  pal 26/02/08
      56.   #4 Mark Lincoln....... Read Fars News 13:46  |  Lynn 26/02/08
      57.   # 16 Johnboy, Dutch et al.......try reading the Fars News 13:50  |  Lynn 26/02/08
      58.   # 18 Javed Akbari Of Iran ..... 14:03  |  Lynn 26/02/08
      59.   6El Birawi,Syria has given safe haven to many Palestinian 14:05  |  lakshmi 26/02/08
      60.   Hmmm.. no coments yet from Clickfool etc... 14:12  |  The Judge 26/02/08
      61.   It is too contrived...she is in Iran holding press conference 14:16  |  r 26/02/08
      62.   SHE OUGHTTA KNOW 14:21  |  HAMDUNI MAJNOON 26/02/08
      63.   # 28 Yaakov LOL STILL FANTISIZING? 14:25  |  petra 26/02/08
      64.   # 37 DIAM, GOOD REPORT, THANKS 14:29  |  petra 26/02/08
      65.   lynn give `em hell baby. 14:33  |  petra 26/02/08
      66.   SIMPLE::FOLLOW THE MONEY 14:44  |  TIM BUCKTU 26/02/08
      67.   Margie in the UK 14:50  |  GABE1 26/02/08
      68.   Reminder: Yaakov Sullivan is a neo-nazi freak 15:01  |  Steve Randolph 26/02/08
      69.   While it is still not clear who killed Mughniyah, carbombs are 15:14  |  common sense 26/02/08
      70.   Margie Of the UK 15:14  |  GABE1 26/02/08
      71.   Fake Sullivan #31 15:37  |  Simone 26/02/08
      72.   The Merry Widow 15:42  |  Ron 26/02/08
      73.   # 29 Yaakov Sullivan.... 16:30  |  Lynn 26/02/08
      74.   Hamas` Psycho Rabbit Did It 16:33  |  Juan Epstein 26/02/08
      75.   hunches 16:34  |  The Northern Wind 26/02/08
      76.   Syria kills anyone who gets in their way 16:39  |  Amir 26/02/08
      77.   # 59 lakshmi....what you don`t get 16:39  |  Lynn 26/02/08
      78.   Sly old Syria... 16:39  |  Esther 26/02/08
      79.   johnboy # think some more,maybe you can still find a way to blame 16:46  |  terrornator 26/02/08
      80.   jaakov sullivan # 28 "who else could benefit from it"? 16:53  |  terrornator 26/02/08
      81.   #12, Fred McCann- Territory folks should Stick Together 17:14  |  dyinglikeflies 26/02/08
      82.   # 75 Northern Windy 17:18  |  Lynn Kubiak 26/02/08
      83.   an obvious plant 17:32  |  H 26/02/08
      84.   SO SHALL PERISH ALL THY ENEMIES, O MERCIFUL GOD OF VENGEANCE! 17:33  |  VOICE of MOSHIACH))) 26/02/08
      85.   Unfortunately some people don`t see through israeli lies 18:27  |  Yaakov Sullivan 26/02/08
      86.   #67 Gabe 1 re Margie the rightwing fanatic 18:54  |  Labhras 26/02/08
      87.   #42 M in TA The Olive branch covered in poison ivy 19:00  |  Labhras 26/02/08
      88.   Syria 100 % 19:20  |  Ben Hamed 26/02/08
      89.   Yaakov 19:21  |  Simone 26/02/08
      90.   Perhaps Syria called Mughniya in to make a report 19:30  |  DJStahl 26/02/08
      91.   What is she really saying? 19:33  |  Tosefta 26/02/08
      92.   squatter labhras forced to leave the US and now living in hiding 19:38  |  he`s Irish now 26/02/08
      93.   Margie 19:41  |  ChanahS 26/02/08
      94.   Perhaps the woman wanted him dead? 20:21  |  just another theory 26/02/08
      95.   of course. rats turning on one another. 20:29  |  frenz 26/02/08
      96.   The end of a barbarian!! 20:48  |  a wandering Jew 26/02/08
      97.   He was "friendly" with Nasrallah` wife " 21 y. o. russian muslim" 20:56  |  Ron Berbekov 26/02/08
      98.   #91 Tosefta...she is really saying 21:02  |  Lynn 26/02/08
      99.   # 85 Yaakov Sullivan.... 21:05  |  Lynn 26/02/08
      100.   Diam (37) that ´s what I think as well. May be... 21:09  |  Karl 26/02/08
      101.   TIM BUCKTU (66) making a big point!!! 21:15  |  Karl 26/02/08
      102.   Lab RAT #86 21:25  |  GABE1 26/02/08
      103.   ChanaS 21:27  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 26/02/08
      104.   HAHAH! 21:27  |  Paul 26/02/08
      105.   97hey ron. like your theory! yeah sounds really good. 21:28  |  full of dugashkuki 26/02/08
      106.   VOICE of MOSHIACH))) Thou show True Insight 21:32  |  Mark B. 26/02/08
      107.   Actually she is Uzbeki, her dad in an our Mullah 21:32  |  Ron Berbekov 26/02/08
      108.   #93 Chanah S `Dilusional as usual` 21:57  |  Labhras 26/02/08
      109.   Simone un autre tata 23:36  |  Robert/Montreal 26/02/08
      110.   #6 El-Birawi- Interesting theory 23:45  |  Dorothy 26/02/08
      111.   #61- Interesting point- ( too contrived) 23:49  |  Dorothy 26/02/08
      112.   Esther-#78 23:51  |  Dorothy 26/02/08
      113.   Tosefta- High level of complicity ( Syria) 23:57  |  Dorothy 26/02/08
      114.   to blame 00:02  |  mark 27/02/08
      115.   #6 El-Birawi 00:22  |  Moshe 27/02/08
      116.   Labarse 108 00:36  |  ChanahS 27/02/08
      117.   Who killed Meshugeneh? 00:38  |  peter 27/02/08
      118.   Conspiracy theory (Dorothy #113) 00:47  |  Tosefta 27/02/08
      119.   the `blame it on israel` game is getting old 00:54  |  michelle 27/02/08
      120.   Doubting Labhras` Veracity/Sincerity 01:00  |  Natallie Durson 27/02/08
      121.   #79 A quick question for you, terrornator 02:40  |  Johnboy 27/02/08
      122.   Sullivan #28: "Who else could benefit from it?" I know, I know 02:40  |  Comforti 27/02/08
      123.   what a load of BS 02:51  |  VIPER 27/02/08
      124.   #57 Lynn 03:05  |  Johnboy 27/02/08
      125.   So which widowed wife said that, Fatiha, Fatima, Fatma or Fatwa? 03:27  |  Genuine Tosefta 27/02/08
      126.   Where was Mughniyah`s Countersurveillance? 03:34  |  B (The other one) 27/02/08
      127.   labhras Margie and Gabe not polite enough? 03:34  |  he`s Irish now uknow 27/02/08
      128.   They Didn`t Call Him Number 2 For Nothing 03:43  |  Yosemite 27/02/08
      129.   "Muggys" demise 03:46  |  Rozz 27/02/08
      130.   I would still like to know 03:59  |  Mark Lincoln 27/02/08
      131.   Ron Berbekov, your analysis is very interesting, More info? 04:09  |  Musa 27/02/08
      132.   #126 B. If in doubt look for women., Ehud Barack 04:26  |  Yaakov Sullivan 27/02/08
      133.   According to the Israeli army; always a trustworthy source... 04:37  |  peacelover 27/02/08
      134.   Mughniyah Very Famous Now 05:12  |  Yosemite 27/02/08
      135.   Mark # 130: Lebanese/Saudi sources 05:54  |  B (The other one) 27/02/08
      136.   ahhhhh-HAH! i think she`s absolutely right! 06:17  |  eric 27/02/08
      137.   Dont blame Israel First 06:20  |  Abu Yusuf 27/02/08
      138.   Mark Lincoln "I would still like to know why... 06:48  |  Yosemite 27/02/08
      139.   VIPER" BS" because?? How about Arabs do not kill each other? 06:49  |  PETER SM 27/02/08
      140.   #135 Well, that`s a laugh, B (The other one) 07:50  |  Johnboy 27/02/08
      141.   She obv Mossad 07:52  |  . 27/02/08
      142.   Curiouser and couriouser...... 08:25  |  Johnboy 27/02/08
      143.   to no. 18 09:38  |  troo style 27/02/08
      144.   I rather think the butler did it 09:44  |  Percival Ollie 27/02/08
      145.   # 144 to percival ollie; you may be onto something! 11:17  |  eric 27/02/08
      146.   Johnny-Boyish #142 11:37  |  FOX 27/02/08
      147.   #145 FOX, of course, gets his news from FOX NEWS 11:59  |  Johnboy 27/02/08
      148.   Johnny-Boyish, is running on empty 20:17  |  FOX 27/02/08
      149.   hezbollah 14:11  |  anna slay 28/02/08
      150.   Imad Mughniyeh "Death" 10:08  |  Annie 20/05/09
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