![]() "The way it was set up, the US could object and call it off, but it could not execute," a former US intelligence official told the newspaper.Ī senior Hezbollah commander, Mughniyeh was suspected of masterminding the abduction of Western hostages in Lebanon in the 1980s and of the 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy in Argentina that killed 29 people. The bomb, built by the United States and tested in the state of North Carolina, was triggered remotely by Mossad agents in Tel Aviv who were in communication with Central Intelligence Agency operatives on the ground in Damascus. He was killed instantly by a car bomb planted in a spare tire on the back of a parked car, which exploded shrapnel in a tight radius, the Post said. Citing former intelligence officials, the newspaper reported that US and Israeli spy agencies worked together to target Mughniyeh on Februas he left a restaurant in the Syrian capital Damascus.
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