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Commander’s death deals blow to Hizbollah

By Ferry Biedermann in Beirut, Tobias Buck in Jerusalem,and Roula Khalaf in London

Published: February 13 2008 09:43 | Last updated: February 14 2008 12:06

Hizbollah was dealt a blow on Tuesday after a senior commander, and one of the US and Israel's most wanted men, was killed in the -Syrian capital Damascus.

The Lebanese Shia militant group blamed the assassination on Tuesday night of Imad Moughniyah on its arch-foe Israel, a charge swiftly denied by the Jewish state.

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