Who Was Imad Mughniyeh?

By Matthew Levitt

Yesterday's assassination of arch-terrorist Imad Mughniyeh was welcome news in Washington, Buenos Aires, Tel Aviv, and, albeit quietly, Beirut and Baghdad. For Hizballah and Damascus, however, the loss of Mughniyeh -- who was a brilliant military tactician, a key contact to Tehran, and a successful political leader -- is a severe blow to their ongoing activities and operations.

But who was Imad Mughniyeh, and what kind of foreign operations was he responsible for outside of Lebanon? My colleague David Schenker and I address these issues in a Policywatch available here.

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