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Indeed, such was Mughniyah's mythical status that sometimes it was not always certain if he really existed at all. "I sometimes would ask myself if Mughniyah was a real person or a figment of imagination," said Magnus Ranstorp, a Hizballah specialist at the Swedish National Defense College in Stockholm who has traced Mughniyah's activities for years. "But the intelligence agencies I was in contact with were under no illusions. He was the real deal...
According to Ranstorp, from the early 1990s, Mughniyah was "extraordinarily cautious," in covering his trail, dividing his time mainly between Beirut and Tehran where he moved with his family in 1990. Damascus, therefore, seems an unlikely location for Mughniyah's enemies to catch up with him. "I always thought they would get him in Beirut, so what does it mean that he was killed in Damascus?" asked Robert Baer, a former CIA officer who tracked Mughniyah in 1980s Beirut and is also TIME's intelligence analyst...
British investigators have begun interrogating el-Nashar, who studied at North Carolina State University in 2000 and was awarded his Ph.D. in pharmaceutical enzymology by Leeds University in May. Someone with his training "could put this together blindfolded," says Magnus Ranstorp, director of the Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St. Andrews University in Scotland. But Hany el-Nazer, president of the government-funded research institute in Cairo where el-Nashar worked, says el-Nashar's research was in biochemistry enzymology and pharmaceuticals and not related to building bombs or explosives...
...classified briefing for U.S. Senators last week. British investigators have begun interrogating el-Nashar, who studied at North Carolina State University in 2000 and was awarded his Ph.D. in pharmaceutical enzymology by Leeds University in May. Someone with his training "could put this together blindfolded," says Magnus Ranstorp, director of the Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St. Andrews University in Scotland. But Hany el-Nazer, president of the government-funded research institute in Cairo where el-Nashar worked, told Time that el-Nashar's research was in biochemistry enzymology and pharmaceuticals and not related...
...British also employ a tight-lipped approach, refusing last week even to confirm media reports, based mostly on U.S. and Pakistani sources' information, that suspected alQaeda leader Abu Eisa alHindi had been arrested in Britain. "That's the British style," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at St. Andrews University in Scotland. "Don't talk about it, get on with the job quietly, and leave an aura of mystery." But that style drew criticism from Conservative Party leaders amid media reports that alHindi had been in the final stages of planning an attack on Heathrow Airport. "The British public appears...