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=== News Update ===


Former CIA official: Mossad behind Mugniyah killing

Evidence in Damascus car bombing points to
Israel, says Bruce Riedel, former advisor to
three US presidents on Middle Eastern affairs.
'This proves Israel has infiltrated Hizbullah,'
he notes, adding that Nasrallah has genuine reason for concern

Yitzhak Benhorin

Published:  02.13.08, 22:09 /
<http://www.ynetnews.com/home/0,7340,L-3082,00.html>Israel News

WASHINGTON – While
<http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3284752,00.html>Israel
has formally refuted allegations it was involved
in the
<http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3506203,00.html>assassination
of
<http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3284023,00.html>Hizbullah
'operations officer'
<http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3506372,00.html>Imad
Mugniyah in Damascus on Tuesday, former CIA
official Bruce Riedel says all signs seem to
indicate the Mossad was behind the killing.
Riedel, who spent over 30 years with the CIA
before serving as a senior advisor on South Asian
and Middle East affairs under three US
presidents, said Israel has already carried out
similar operations in
<http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3285832,00.html>Syria.
Currently a senior fellow with the Saban Center
for Middle East Policy at the Brookings
Institute, he says Mugniyah's assassination
proves Israel has successfully infiltrated
Hizbullah and that even Secretary General Hassan
Nasrallah knows he may also be in the crosshairs.

"Israeli intelligence services have motive and
they have proven their ability to strike in
Damascus in the past. This is a significant
operation, whether or not the Israelis want to
publicly admit to it. He (Mugniyah) has topped
the US and Israel's most-wanted list for a quarter of a century," said Riedel.

The seasoned intelligence official said he
believes Mugniyah was not the only name on a
possible hit list. "It definitely includes
<http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3284065,00.html>Hassan
Nasrallah," he said, "the Mossad is looking for
Nasrallah and he knows it, that's why he conducts
his operations from underground."

And the Hizbullah leader may have good reason to
worry, said Riedel. "He's wondering who tipped
off Mugniyah's location. That same individual
could also reveal his own whereabouts."

When asked if the United States did not also have
a stake in seeing the elimination of a man
responsible for the deaths of American citizens,
among them a senior CIA figure, Riedel said that
while it was true Mugniyah was responsible for
the murder of William Buckley "and that as far as we're concerned, he was
second only to Osama bin-Laden" – a car bombing
was more consistent with the Mossad's modus operandi.

"In all honesty over the years we've become busy
with many other issues, while ever since the
summer of 2006 Hizbullah has returned to the
forefront of Israel's concerns. Mugniyah also
acted as a go-between with
<http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3284215,00.html>Iranian
intelligence and
<http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3377113,00.html>Hamas."

source:
<http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3506535,00.html>http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3506535,00.html

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