Hezbollah No. II assassinated

A car bomb in Damascus has killed a senior military commander of the Lebanese Shia Muslim group Hezbollah, a Lebanese source says. A Hezbollah official said on Wednesday that one of the Shia group's top commanders, Imad Mughniyah, had been killed in Syria and blamed the Zionist regime for the murder. "He has been a target of the Zionists for 20 years," a statement from Hezbollah said. A vehicle was blown up in a car park in the newly-completed Damascus residential neighborhood of Kfar Suseh at around 11 p.m. (2100 GMT) on Tuesday, witnesses said. Witnesses had seen the body of a man taken from the scene of the blast. The windows of nearby buildings were blown in and four cars parked close by were damaged.