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http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSL127723220080212

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded in a residential area of the Syrian capital on Tuesday, killing one man and injuring two, witnesses said.

“We saw security officers hauling the body away,” one of the witnesses said.

Security officials at the scene refused to comment.

Witnesses saw a mangled white car being towed away by police who cordoned off the area, which houses an Iranian school, a police station and a main Syrian intelligence office.

No further details were immediately available but the witnesses and a Palestinian source in neighboring Lebanon said the blast was caused by a bomb planted inside the vehicle.

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http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/getstory?openform&E6F4B4CD79812C48C22573EE00340648

“Hizbullah’s Imad Mughniyeh Killed, Israel Blamed”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “American intelligence officials have described Mughniyeh as Hizbullah’s operations chief and was believed to have moved between Lebanon, Syria and Iran in disguise.

His last public appearance was believed to be at the funeral of his brother Fouad, who was killed on Dec. 12, 1994, when a booby-trapped car blew up in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

Syrian security forces on Tuesday quickly sealed off the area of the blast and removed the destroyed Mitsubishi Pajero, which had its driver’s seat and the rear seat blown away by the force of the explosion.

Witnesses in Damascus said that a passerby was killed as security forces removed the body, but Syrian authorities would not give details.

Iran’s English-language satellite station Press TV said an Iranian school and a Syrian intelligence office were in the same area of Kafar Soussa where the explosion occurred.

Mughniyeh’s assassination was the first major attack against a leader of Hizbullah since the 1992 helicopter strike that killed the party’s secretary-general Sheikh Abbas Moussawi in southern Lebanon.(AP-AFP-Naharnet)”

Beirut, 13 Feb 08, 11:32