Killing off your [erstwhile] allies...?

Our friend Aharon Etingoff sends me this from the JP:

'Arabs helped Mossad kill Mughniyeh'

Syrian sources claim that several Arab nations conspired with Mossad to assassinate Hizbullah chief of operations Imad Mughniyeh earlier this month, the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily stated on Wednesday.

According to the report, which could not be confirmed by any official source, Syria was making significant progress in the investigation of Mughniyeh's death, and would publish the results of its inquiry following the Arab league summit in Damascus in March.

Meanwhile, Kuwaiti newspaper Al Seyassah reported Wednesday that Hizbullah was preventing Syrian investigators from questioning three senior members of the organization, fearing that Syria would blame the Lebanese terror organization for the assassination.

The paper asserted that Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah may have had a motive to have Mughniyeh killed, due to what it said was an attempt by Iran to strengthen the latter at the expense of Nasrallah following what Teheran termed Hizbullah's "failures" under Nasrallah during the Second Lebanon War.

This seems to me to be the most plausible explanation so far. And the most conspiratorially Machiavellian....

-- Christian

February 29, 2008 08:23 AM | Most Wanted | 

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or wait was it in lebanon? if so nevermind, even though lebanon didn't sign a peace deal with Israel they do have a ceasefire

Posted by: txzen at March 1, 2008 07:42 PM

Israel would admit to blowing up a building in the desert... admit to flying jets into syrian air space.. and kinda admit to having spec ops help to destroy the buildings in syria with jets in syrian air space and they admit to incursions with tanks helicopters jets and infantry into gaza but they wouldn't admit to killing the former public enemy #1 to the US and a lot of the west? Syria and Israel are still in a state of war... why would be it be so much worse than blowing up a supposed nuke facility and admitting it and killing someone who is suspected of actually mass murdering civilians and marines?

Posted by: txzen at March 1, 2008 07:41 PM

Good riddance, and props to whoever pulled it off. That's one less Iranian puppet in Syria and one less murderer of Americans. Bob Baer would be proud.

Posted by: anonymous at February 29, 2008 06:13 PM

Usually conspiracy theories break down and get more outlandish and complicated to explain various things.

However, this seems plausible. There have been plenty of examples in history of Arab infighting, and one could argue that such infighting is why the Palestinians remain in the state they are today.

If Mughniyeh was becoming a problem for Nasrallah, then it is not inconceivable that a little push in the right direction led to his assassination. Heaven help the person who draws the ire of both Hezbollah and Israel.

Posted by: smith at February 29, 2008 04:47 PM

Jerusalem Post or The Onion - the "truth factor" is about the same though The Onion certainly has the better writers.

BTW the headline of the above drivel asserts something that not even JP and its dubious inuendo assert.

Is that "truthiness"?

Posted by: b at February 29, 2008 02:06 PM

You have to hand it to the Israelis if this story is true. Not only did they take out Mughniyeh, but they also may have managed to create divisions between Hizbullah, Syria, and Iran. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some anonymous tips originating at Mossad headquarters that tipped off the Syrian investigations to the involvement of the other Arab nations and/or Nasrallah.

Posted by: Jeremy at February 29, 2008 11:11 AM

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