Washington Post reports that the American spy agency carried out surveillance, helped design & build, then test the bomb that the Israelis later remotely detonated in the 2008 assassination.
By Yitzhak Benhorin
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. Continue Reading »