News Brief20:35 PM

(IsraelNN.com) Egyptian researcher Majdi Kamal, who recently published a book on senior Hizbullah terrorist Imad Mughniyeh, has announced that he believes Mughniyeh’s death was staged.  Mughniyeh evaded 42 security services in nations worldwide, Kamal said.  According to Kamal, it is not logical that Mughniyeh would be killed by something as simple as a car bomb.

“Mughniyeh either died a natural death a while ago, or is still alive,” Kamal told Al-Arabiya television.  He pointed out that Mughniyeh was reported dead just one day before the three-year anniversary of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, an outspoken opponent of Syrian intervention in Lebanon.  Whether Hizbullah faked the death in order to throw intelligence agencies off of Mughniyeh’s trail or Mughniyeh actually died, Hizbullah chose the timing of the “assassination” in order to ruin Hariri’s memorial ceremonies, Kamal said.