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Imad Mughniyah was killed on February 12, 2008 by a car bomb blast around 11:00 pm local time in the Kfar Suseh neighborhood of Damascus, Syria. He had been the target of Israeli Mossad assassination attempts since the 1990s. Furthermore, The Times states that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met privately with Mossad director Meir Dagan on the day of Mughniyeh's burial, reportedly to congratulate him.
On February 27 Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported that several Arab states helped the Mossad carry out the bombing. Accounts cited by the Jerusalem Post state that Mughniyeh was assassinated in revenge for the 2006 Lebanon War, which he had a role in instigating. Mossad tasked the Kidon unit, a school of assassins which operates under the Caesarea Branch, with the mission.