The world's most elusive terrorist

摘要

To most of the world he was a vicious killer. To devotees of Hizbullah, Lebanon's Shia party-cum-militia, to their Iranian backers, and especially to those who came of age in the 1980s, during what they saw as wars of survival in Lebanon and Iran, he was a hero. Whatever the view of Imad Mughniya, the manner of his death, by a car bomb in Damascus on February 12th, was characteristic of the man.