Yes we are happy to capture of destory a major enemy. But does the state department need this, when it's job is entirely of another nature. This could infringe on progress else wheres. Stupid is as stupid does. Reminds me of a great movie. lol Lets face it this is anothe rBush mess up. Not him per say, but the choices of people to do the jobs. Maybe the War Department should have made the statement. Just more proof that the next president has a lot to do before they get along with his/her plans. Cleaning up behind Bush/Cheney is going to take years! And futhe rproof that it isn't the elected official that is to blame but more so the appointments they make to do the dirty work so their hand are clean. And we have so many appointments that need honest men to do the jobs. Not beholden to anyon ebu tthe American people period.

US welcomes death of Hezbollah militant Wed Feb 13, 11:48 AM ET

US welcomes death of Hezbollah militant - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON - The State Department said on Wednesday it welcomes the reported death of the suspected mastermind of attacks on the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon in the 1980s.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said that the United States has no independent information on the reports that Imad Mughniyeh was killed in a car bombing in Syria Tuesday.

"The world is a better place without this man in it," McCormack said. "One way or the other he was brought to justice."

The United States blames Mughniyeh for numerous terrorist attacks that killed hundreds of Americans.

He is on an FBI wanted list with a $5 million bounty on his head.

The Islamic militant group Hezbollah and its Iranian backers on Wednesday blamed Israel for the killing of Mughniyeh, Hezbollah's security chief in the 1980s who was one of the world's most wanted and elusive terrorists. Israel denied involvement.

Mughniyeh was Hezbollah security chief during a turbulent period in Lebanon's civil war. He has been accused of masterminding the April 1983 car bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut that killed 63 people, including 17 Americans, and the simultaneous truck bombings of the U.S. Marine barracks and French military base in Beirut, killing 58 French soldiers and 241 Marines.

He was indicted in the United States for the 1985 TWA hijacking in which Shiite militants seized the 747 and flew it back and forth between Beirut and Algiers demanding the release of Lebanese Shiites captured by Israel. During the hijacking, the body of U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem, a passenger on the plane, was dumped on the tarmac of Beirut airport.

During Lebanon's civil war, Mughniyeh was also believed to have directed a string of kidnappings of Americans and other foreigners, including former Associated Press chief Mideast correspondent Terry Anderson — who was held for six years until his release in 1991 — and CIA station chief William Buckley, who was killed in 1985.

__________________
Yea can't keep the words of your great leader.

Prophet Muhammad - “Do you love your creator? Love your fellow-beings first.”

There is much irony in this thread.

Like life...

__________________
Yea can't keep the words of your great leader.

Prophet Muhammad - “Do you love your creator? Love your fellow-beings first.”