Assassinated Hezbollah leader key to technology, drone operations
A source said Hassan al-Laqis was one of Imad Mughniyeh’s “smart students.”
![Lebanon's Hezbollah boy scouts carry picture of Hezbollah commander al-Laqqis during funeral in Baalbeck Lebanon's Hezbollah boy scouts carry a picture of Hezbollah commander Hassan al-Laqqis during his funeral in Baalbeck, in Lebanon's Bekaa valley December 4, 2013. Al-Laqqis, a Hezbollah commander who fought in Syria's civil war was shot dead outside his home in Lebanon on Wednesday in an attack which the militant Shi'ite group blamed on Israel. Israel denied any role in the killing of Hassan al-Laqqis, who was shot from close range by a silenced gun as he arrived home at around midnight in the Hadath distri](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2013/12/RTX163E1.jpg/RTX163E1.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=CXLpSIYk)
BEIRUT — It was at least the fourth time coming face to face with his assassins. Hassan al-Laqis didn’t survive this time. So who was this Hezbollah high-tech unit head who was killed?
“One of Imad Mughniyeh’s smart students,” a source close to Hezbollah told me. “He was Hezbollah’s technological Mughniyeh, he’s the commander whose team gave Israel and its spies a serious headache, both on the ground and in the air, he was a genius on the head of tens of geniuses whom are expected to continue the job he was doing.”