ISRAEL SUGGESTS HIZBULLAH INTEL CHIEF KILLED

TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Israeli military intelligence has assessed that
Hizbullah's intelligence chief could have been killed in a massive air
strike on the movement's headquarters in Lebanon.
Israeli sources said Imad Mughniyeh was believed to have been seriously
injured or killed in a July 19 strike on Hizbullah headquarters in Beirut.
The sources said Mughniyeh was in Hizbullah's command and control bunker
during an Israeli air bombing that damaged the facility.
"There are things we know and things we don't know," an Israeli source said.
"We know their top people are out of commission."
The sources said about 12 senior members of Hizbullah attended a meeting at
its command headquarters in Beirut's Dahya neighborhood on July 19. They
said Israeli F-15I fighters dropped 23 tons of munition that damaged but did
not destroy the underground bunker, concealed under a mosque and constructed
by Iran.

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