Imad Mughniyeh Killed, Israel Blamed!

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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Imad Mughniyeh, the militant accused of attacks that left hundreds of Americans and Israelis dead, including a U.S. Navy diver during the infamous 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner, has been killed, Hezbollah said Wednesday.

The militant group blamed Israel for the assassination — a charge the Jewish state denied — but it did not say how he died. However, Middle East media reported he was killed in a recent car bomb in Syria.


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Hezbollah Chief Declares War on Israel After Militant Commander's Death

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hezbollah's chief on Thursday vowed to retaliate against Israeli targets abroad after accusing Israel of taking the fight beyond Lebanese borders by assassinating militant commander Imad Mughniyeh in Syria.

"You have killed Hajj Imad outside the natural battlefield," Hassan Nasrallah said, addressing Israel and referring to Hezbollah's longtime contention it only fights Israel within Lebanon and along their common border.

"You have crossed the borders," Nasrallah said in the fiery eulogy at the funeral of Mughniyeh in south Beirut. "With this murder, its timing, location and method -- Zionists, if you want this kind of open war, let the whole world listen: Let this war be open."

"Like all human beings we have a sacred right to defend ourselves," said Nasrallah, speaking in a videotaped message broadcast over a giant screen at the ceremony in a Hezbollah stronghold. "We will do all that takes to defend our country and people."

Nasrallah went into hiding in 2006, fearing and Israeli assassination and making only three appearances since the summer war that year with Israel.

Mughniyeh was killed in a car bombing in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday. Hezbollah and its top ally, Iran, have accused Israel, but the Jewish state denies involvement.

Nasrallah warned that Israel's killing of Mughniyeh was a "very big folly" which Israel will eventually pay for it.

"Mughniyeh's blood will lead to the elimination of Israel. These words are not an emotional reaction," he said, drawing roars from the crowd which raised fists into the air.

He said the killing did not weaken his organization, but rather was a "incentive." Mughniyeh left behind "tens of thousands" of guerrillas "fully ready" to fight Israel, Nasrallah said, maintaining that the 2006 war with the Jewish state has not ended.

A U.N. resolution that ended the summer war in which more than 1,200 people died called for a cessation of hostilities to be followed later by a cease-fire, which has never been agreed to.

Soon after he finished speaking, volleys of celebratory gunfire echoed around the city's southern suburbs.

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