Mughniyeh remained alive when Tsafrir left Lebanon in 1984 for other postings, and his assassination would wait more than two decades. Though Israel and the US perhaps top the list of suspects, Tsafrir said, countries like France, Germany, and Saudi Arabia also had "unsettled accounts" with him, along with any internal opponents he might have had.
Mughniyeh's assassination has generated swirls of speculation about who killed him and how. Some anti-Syrian politicians in Lebanon have accused Damascus of being behind the killing. The US intelligence chief, Mike McConnell, has suggested internal factions in Hezbollah or the Syria regime may be to blame. Reports in the Arab press have suggested Palestinians might have been involved.
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