(Wall Street Journal) Sune Engel Rasmussen - Senior Hizbullah military commander Fuad Shukr had eluded the U.S. for four decades, ever since a bombing killed 241 American servicemen in a Marine barracks in Beirut, which he helped plan. On July 30, an Israeli airstrike found him. Despite being one of Hizbullah's most important figures, he lived an almost invisible life, appearing only in small gatherings of the group's trusted veterans. His office was on the second floor of a residential building in the southern Beirut neighborhood of Dahiyeh. He lived on the seventh floor of the same building. According to a Hizbullah official, Shukr received a call from someone telling him to go to his apartment five floors up, where he would be easier to target amid the surrounding buildings. Around 7 p.m., Israeli munitions slammed into the apartment.
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