Six weeks before Sept. 11, in a meeting in Beirut, the top Hezbollah commander, Hassan Nasrallah, placed Mughniya on the terror group's governing body, the Shura Council.

Speaking of the new move, the unnamed Hezbollah commander stated: "We are going to go after strongholds where they (the FSA) think they are safe.

Hezbollah commanders who spoke to Lebanese al-Akhbar a year after the war did not confirm this version of events.

Possible targeted killing: Imad Mugniyah, a senior Hezbollah commander, was killed in February 2008 in a car bomb.

A Hezbollah commander claimed that the tactics and weapons used against them were the same as those that Hezbollah used in the past.

A Hezbollah commander, Ali Hussein Nasif, and several other fighters were killed in Syria when opposition forces ambushed their convoy near al-Qusayr.

The guerrillas have also managed to improve their intelligence abilities so substantially that the experts say most Israeli operations within the area are quickly known to Hezbollah commanders.

"I wish to go with you," the Hezbollah commander told him.

Imad Mughniya was a Hezbollah commander killed in Syria in 2008.

A top Hezbollah commander and Saudi Hezbollah contacts were involved.