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Haaretz reports that terrorist asshole and mass murderer Imad Mughniyah was killed when his car exploded on Wednesday, February 13. The deputy leader of Hezbollah was responsible for a long campaign of murder and mayhem and will not be missed by a single civilized human being. Still, the official line from the Syrian government is that he was a good guy and that his fiery deliverance is the work of the Jooos.

Via Haaretz, a short list of this asshole's crimes against humanity includes the following:

Mughniyah was indicted for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people, and was the subject of an arrest warrant for the 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy there, in which 29 people died.

He was responsible for the 1985 hijacking of a TWA passenger jet, and the murder of a soldier in the U.S. navy. Four Hezbollah operatives hijacked the flight, travelling between Athens and Rome, to Beirut, beginning a 17-day ordeal in which the plane made two trips to Algeria. The hijackers killed U.S. Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem in Beirut.

He has been accused of a role in the bombings of U.S. Marines and French army barracks in Lebanon in 1983 that left more than 300 people dead.

Mughniyah is believed to be behind a 1983 bomb attack on the U.S. embassy in Beirut, in which 63 people lost their lives.

Islamic Jihad, a shadowy pro-Iranian group widely believed linked to Hezbollah, kidnapped dozens of Western hostages, including Americans, in Beirut in the mid 1980s at a time when Mughniyah was thought to be the group's commander. The group killed some of its captives and exchanged others for U.S. weapons to Iran in what was later known as the Iran-Contra scandal. Among the victims of Islamic Jihad was the CIA's Middle East station chief.

According to Syria's Interior Minister Brig. Gen. Bassam Abdul-Majid, Mughniyah was a "Lebanese combatant", part of whose job description appears to have been murdering innocent people in the name of Allah, or Palestinian liberation, or fiftys and c-notes- I'm only guessing, mind you- while whoever blasted him to smithereens, and Abdul-Majid suspects it was the Joooos, are terrorists and criminals. I'm always fascinated by that, but whatever- it goes with the territory.

Abdul-Majid also said an investigation into the blast was under way, and that his Hezbollah brothers suspect it was the work of a group of Sderot-based Mossad agents disguised as kindergarteners.

The truth is that several entities could be responsible for this asshole's demise, what with the Broad Spectrum of Humanity that he slaughtered, but blaming the Jooos is the default position, what with their cursed insistence on defending themselves and punishing their attackers. Damned Jooos....

Now, I'm nothing if not compassionate, so now that this asshole has been sent to Hell On A Carseat, I advocate that whatever is left of him be awarded complete and full protection under the United States Constitution.

At this point, it's the right thing to do.

Says Captain Ed:

Hezbollah has no reason to stamp its feet, however. They live through terrorism, and when their enemies strike back, they have no one to blame but themselves. Good riddance to Mughniyeh, and may the rest of Hezbollah's terrorists go out the same way -- and soon.

Thomas Joscelyn on Mughniyah's "instrumental role in al Qaeda’s rise."