Israel cheers, goes on alert after Hezbollah leader killed

Hezbollah terror mastermind Imad Mughniyeh, whose nom de guerre was Hajj Radwan.

By Roy Eitan

TEL AVIV (JTA) — The mysterious assassination of an Arab terrorist who topped America and Israel’s “Most Wanted” lists for a quarter century is being cheered in Jerusalem and Washington

Imad Mughniyeh, the long-standing terrorist leader of Hezbollah, was killed by a car bomb in Damascus on Tuesday night. Such was the depth of secrecy around his movements that it took the Lebanese Shi’ite militia 12 hours to publicly identify him as the sole fatality.

Israeli military experts said Hezbollah’s “chief of staff” had been eliminated, dealing the militia a strategic blow. Hezbollah, like its Iranian sponsors, blamed Israel’s spy services for the killing and many Lebanese called for … Full Story