Italian FM: Assassination of Mughniyeh was terror

Posted on February 23rd, 2008 by Marian Houk

Haaretz’s Meron Rapoport writes today that “Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D’Alema termed the assassination of Imad Mughniyah ‘terror’ in an interview to be published today in the popular Italian weekly L’espresso. He also said that Israeli assassinations of Hamas officials ’serve as an alibi for terror’. Concerning Mughniyah’s killing, ‘by my definition, the car bomb in the middle of Damascus was terror’, he said … D’Alema also termed Israeli assassinations of Hamas operatives in Gaza an ‘unacceptable practice’. He said that ‘Targeted killings have not bolstered the West’s image, and they serve as an alibi for terror’. This is published today in Haaretz newspaper here.

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