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IDF Kills Hizbullah Commander Responsible for Deadly 2007 Attack on U.S. Troops in Iraq
(Times of Israel) Emanuel Fabian - Senior Hizbullah commander Ali Mussa Daqduq, mastermind of a January 2007 kidnapping and murder of five American soldiers in Iraq, was killed in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Friday, the IDF announced Sunday. U.S. forces jailed Daqduq in 2007 and handed him over to Iraq in 2011, which assured the U.S. he would be prosecuted, but Iraq acquitted Daqduq and released him in 2012. Daqduq "played a central role in advancing terrorist attacks and combat operations against the State of Israel and IDF soldiers," the IDF said. He commanded a terrorist cell responsible for Hizbullah's entrenchment in Syria and the establishment of military infrastructure near the Israeli border. Over the past several years, he led much of Hizbullah's operational planning against IDF soldiers.