Hezbollah: Blast killed top leader
Al-Jazeera
"Hezbollah has announced the death of one of its top military commanders in a car bomb in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Tuesday.
The Lebanese Shia group in a statement on Wednesday accused Israel of killing Imad Moghaniyah.
Hezbollah's al-Manar television, which broke into Quranic verses after the announcement, said a funeral will be held on Thursday.
"With all pride we declare a great Jihadist leader of the Islamic resistance in Lebanon joining the martyrs ... The brother commander hajj Imad Moghaniyah became a martyr at the hands of the Zionist Israelis," a statement carried on al-Manar, said......
Al Jazeera's Rula Amin said that he was considered as the man in charge of Hezbollah, almost on par with Hassan Nasrallah.
She said that the fact that he was killed in Damascus was a major security breach for the Syrian regime and that his presence in Syria was significant since he had been underground for years.
There have been many attempts on Moghaniyah's life in the last 20 years, she said......."
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