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APDAMASCUS, Syria - Syria and Iran will conduct a joint investigation into the car bombing that killed Imad Mughniyeh, a commander of their Lebanese ally Hezbollah, Iran's state news agency reported Friday.
Mughniyeh, the suspected mastermind of 1980s attacks on the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Lebanon that killed hundreds of Americans, died Tuesday night in the Syrian capital Damascus.
Iran and Hezbollah blamed Israel but the Israelis denied involvement. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed in a eulogy to the slain militant on Thursday that his Shiite guerrilla group would retaliate against Israeli targets anywhere in the world.
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UN concerned at targeted assassinationsBy EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer
Thu Feb 14, 11:21 PM ET
UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council expressed great concern at targeted assassinations in Lebanon and elsewhere on Thursday, the anniversary of the assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister and the day of the funeral of an assassinated Hezbollah leader.
The council did not agree on a press statement drafted by France and the United States which would have reaffirmed its "strongest condemnation" of the Feb. 14, 2005 bombing that killed former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri and 22 others and condemned "all targeted assassinations" of Lebanese officials since October 2004.
But the current council president, Panama's U.N. Ambassador Ricardo Arias, told reporters the members asked him to report their "great concern of any targeted assassinations that have been committed in Lebanon or in any other place."
Arias said the council also asked him to report "its great concern for the institutional stability in Lebanon, the importance for the Lebanese people to reach an agreement and understanding on the differences."
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