The assassination of a senior Hamas leader, apparently by Israel’s Mossad intelligence service, on Jan. 19 may well trigger a surge of eye-for-an-eye bloodshed — and not just in the Middle East.
The fundamentalist Hamas, the Palestinian group that controls the Gaza Strip, has vowed to retaliate against Israel for the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in the Gulf emirate of Dubai.
But Lebanon’s Hezbollah is also bent on avenging the 2008 killing in Damascus of its leader, terrorist mastermind Imad Mughniyeh. The Mossad was blamed for that, too.
Israeli sources claim Hezbollah has made 10 attempts to attack Israeli targets inside and outside the Jewish state since Mughniyeh was blown up by a booby-trap bomb in his SUV in the Syrian capital on Feb. 12, 2008.
Israeli security authorities expect Hezbollah to try again to mark the second anniversary of the death of Mughniyeh, who until Osama bin Laden came along was the most wanted terrorist fugitive on the planet.
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