Syrian human rights organization accuses "Israel" of terrorism for Moghnieh martyrdom

Source: AFP, 13-2-2008
A Syrian human rights watchdog, which regularly reports on the jailing of dissidents by the Damascus regime, accused "Israel" on Wednesday of state-run terrorism in the killing of a top Hizbullah commander.
"The killing of Imad Moghnieh in the Kfar Suseh neighborhood of Damascus followed repeated threats by "Israeli" Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to have Hizbullah and Hamas leaders killed wherever they are," the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria said.
"The action carried out by the "Israeli" government is a terrorist act of the sort condemned under international law," the watchdog's chairman, Ammar Qorabi, said.
""Israel" has acknowledged in the past having assassinated the Palestinian, Ezzedine Sheikh Khalil, one of the leaders of the Hamas movement," who died in a September 2004 car bombing in Damascus, Qorabi added.
Moghnieh, a senior Hizbullah commander who was on Washington's list of most wanted, died in a car bombing late on Tuesday in a residential neighborhood of the Syrian capital.
Several "Israeli" senior politicians swiftly hailed the demise of a man they held responsible for a string of deadly attacks against "Israeli" targets.
Hizbullah claimed victory after last year's war with "Israel" in which the Zionist state failed to achieve either of its two stated aims: to halt the firing of rockets into northern "Israel" and to secure the release of two captured "Israeli" soldiers.