Lebanon Papers Mourn Martyr Moghnieh

Source: Al-Manar TV, 14-2-2008
It is Thursday 14th of February 2008; the Lebanese people will definitely remember this date as a very tragic one. They have lost a great resistance leader. How did the Local papers deal with the grave terror attack that took the life of Imad Moghnieh on Tuesday? Not all, but most Lebanese newspapers put the news in their headlines next to former Prime Minister martyr Rafik Hariri's annual commemoration.
AL-AKHBAR DAILY
‘Hajj Radwan', ‘the ghost', ‘the mystery', ‘the fox',...etc; these names may ring a bell in the people's heads more than ‘Imad Moghnieh'. Journalist Ibrahim Al-Amine said in his Al-Akhbar Daily that Hajj Imad Moghnieh was a figure that couldn't get out to public but as a martyr. Al-Amine said that "The elimination (of Imad Moghnieh) is a painful blow, and the toughest blow, to Hizbullah", it is the hardest in Hizbullah's history. He continued that "this "Israeli" masterstroke seems to be very professional" and he highlighted the martyr's fundamental role in confronting the 2006 "Israeli" aggression against Lebanon. "Hence, the secret has been revealed. The (magician) came out from behind his curtain. He went on a road he'd known since he was a child. But he left behind a heavy burden on the shoulders of a comrade of his named, Hasan Nasrallah," Al-Amine said.
ASSAFIR DAILY
For its part, Assafir daily said in its Thursday edition that "Imad Moghnieh, the orchestrator of legendary heroic operations, martyred", adding that Hizbullah has been hit with a serious and severe stroke. The daily also said that Damascus was conducting a thorough investigation into what it called the "the security breech."
"Moghnieh was killed with a small bomb, but definitely an oriented one, in a clod Damascus night, without companions to gather his remains or friends to inform his party about his death," the daily said. "Moghnieh went out to public for the first time as a martyr, giving his name and some of his achievements stature; achievements that only his party will or will not reveal their details."
On the other hand, some pro-February 14 papers said that the bloodshed should prompt the Lebanese people to "close ranks" between the Lebanese national opposition supporters and the ruling bloc's who are gathering in the Martyrs' Square, downtown Beirut, to commemorate the third anniversary of former Prime Minister Martyr Rafiq Hariri.