CIA assassinated Hezbollah commander and forced Newsweek to hold story

‘The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) persuaded Newsweek to hold a story on the assassination of senior Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh for a year, the magazine reports.

Mughniyeh was assassinated in a joint US-Israeli car-bomb operation in February, 2008, according to two independently-sourced stories by The Washington Post and Newsweek.

The details of how the US and Israeli intelligence agencies assassinated Mughniyeh remains a deeply held secret at the CIA.’

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