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Senior Hezbollah man dies in 'unclear circumstances' or... assassinated
Qatari newspaper 'Al Arab' says senior Hezbollah figure killed in southern Lebanon Monday. Here is the news as published by 'Al Arab' (translated from Arabic By Google, not first class translation):
..."Information on the assassination of a leading role in Hezbollah
2008-08-25
Doha - Arabs
The sources told 'Arabs' that one of Hezbollah leaders, Jamil al-Haj Saleh was assassinated yesterday, the city of Tyre (south Lebanon) in mysterious circumstances. ً. But Hezbollah sources told 'Arabs': the killing of Saleh came in normal circumstances, and through its work, and the incident was not a murder.
This has already been a number of leaders and cadres of the party's most prominent assassination operations commander Imad Mughniyah, Ali Saleh, Ghalib Awali, who are interested in the file of the relationship with the Palestinian factions."... .
Here is a quotation from the Israeli YNET citing 'Al Arab, (08.26.08, 19:47).
Hizbullah man dies under mysterious cirmustances: A senior Hizbullah figure, , was killed Monday in south Lebanon under "unclear circumstances," Qatari newspaper al-Arab reported.
Hizbullah sources confirmed Salah's death but said he was killed "under normal circumstances during work, and not as result of an assassination." No additional details were provided regarding the incident.
A somewhat ironic 'chat' on the circumstances of the events is here.




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at 12:45 on August 26th, 2008
Interesting information - I think you have a spelling error in your title however.