Bin Laden Idol Dead

Above: Imad Mughniyeh

According to Hezbollah station Al-Manar, Imad Mughniyeh — a reputed role model for Osama bin Laden — died in an explosion in a residential section of the Syrian capital Damascus. Mughniyeh — who had been eluding capture for decades — is considered as the main suspect in some of the deadliest terrorist attacks of the last 25 years.

U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack called him “a cold-blooded killer, a mass murderer and a terrorist who was responsible for [the death of] countless lives.”