Report: CIA helped Mossad kill Hezbollah's Imad Mughniyeh

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4621215,00.html

The targeted killing in 2008 of Imad Mughniyeh, Hezbollah's international operations chief, was carried out by Mossad in cooperation the CIA, according to a report published Saturday by the Washington Post.

A CIA team watched as Mughniyeh left a Damascus restaurant at night and walked towards a parked SUV, said the report. Mossad agents in Tel Aviv then remotely detonated a bomb hidden inside the vehicle, killing Mughniyeh.
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The United States has never admitted to taking part in the targeted killing, but five former intelligence officials confirmed its involvement to the newspaper in the report, which was published two weeks after the targeted killing of Mughniyeh's son Jihad, allegedly by Israel.

President George W. Bush, the attorney general, the director of national intelligence, the national security adviser and the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department all approved the operation, said the report.

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. Live by the sword, die by the car bomb.