Nasrallah. Injured?
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Kuntar dispels rumors with baby picture
Report: Beirut blast targeted Nasrallah
Kuwaiti paper al-Jarida cites unnamed source as saying Israel set off blast in Hezbollah suburb of Dahiya after learning of leaders' meeting with group commanders in neighboring building. Report remains unconfirmed
A mysterious blast that occurred in the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahiya has inspired a number of explanations, and on Monday the Kuwaiti paper al-Jarida joined the fray by extrapolating that its intention was to assassinate the leader of the Lebanese group, Hassan Nasrallah.
The unconfirmed report alleges Israel received information that Nasrallah was meeting with a number of commanders in a building nearby the one in which the explosion occurred.
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Earlier Speculation
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Lebanese website cites residents of Hezbollah stronghold who say arch-terrorist was hurt by blast
The source did not know whether Nasrallah was harmed, but he surmised that a number of senior members of the group were injured.
Earlier reports from various Arab news agencies postulated that the blast targeted Samir Kuntar, a terrorist released from Israeli prison in 2008. However, the man who murdered two members of the Haran family was quick to publish pictures of himself holding his newborn son in the hospital, in order to dispel rumors he was injured.
On Monday the focus was switched to Mustafa Mughniyeh, son of Imad Mughniyeh, who was killed in Damascus in 2008 by a mysterious blast in his car. The report said one of Mughniyeh's henchmen was killed and another injured.
Hezbollah, for its part, published an obscure statement saying the blast was a gas tank explosion in a residential building. Dahiya is known as a suburb in which many of the organization's members reside.
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