The head of Hizbullah's military wing, Imad Mughniyeh - considered the organization's second in command - was killed in a car bombing in Damascus late Tuesday night, Hizbullah's Al-Manar television reported Wednesday.

Mughniyeh was reportedly very close to Hizbullah head Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, and also served as Hizbullah's liaison with Iran.

He was held responsible by Israel for numerous terror attacks, as well as for masterminding a 1994 bombing at a Buenos Aires Jewish community center that killed 85. In addition, he is believed to be responsible for hijacking a TWA flight in 1985.

He has also targeted US citizens - the United States holds him responsible for an attack on the US embassy in Beirut and another on a marine base there that left over 200 soldiers dead. Wanted in at least 40 countries, he has been on the FBI's top-20 terrorist list for years...

...The explosion occurred at about 10:45 p.m. in the Syrian capital's upscale Kafar Soussa neighborhood. Security forces quickly sealed off the area and removed the destroyed car, which had its driver's seat and the rear seat blown away by the force of the blast...

...An unconfirmed report by Iranian sources said Hajj Hussein Halil, politburo director and deputy to Hizbullah chief terrorist Hassan Nasrallah, also was killed in Tuesday night's car bombing. Hizbullah has not commented.

Mughniyeh was involved in numerous terror attacks on Israel's border with Lebanon, including the kidnapping of IDF soldiers Benny Avraham, Adi Avitan and Omar Souad. He was also apparently behind the abduction of IDF reservists Elad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser in July 2006, the cross-border raid that ignited the Second lebanon War.

He was indicted in the US for the 1985 hijacking of TWA flight 847, in which the airliner's passengers were held hostage for six days at the Beirut airport. The Hizbullah terrorists severely beat US Navy diver Robert Stethem, a passenger on the June 24 flight, before killing him and dumping his body onto the tarmac.

The dead terrorist was on the US government's Most Wanted List for having organized an attack on a US Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983. The October 23 car bombing killed 241 American military personnel who were stationed in Beirut as part of a peace-keeping force...