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How does the NY Times explain this headline? Bomb in Syria Kills Militant Sought as Terrorist UPDATE: Headlines in both the Houston Chronicle and the Globe and Mail give Mughniyeh the more respectable title of…

BackSpin Editor
February 14, 2008
12:00 am

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How does the NY Times explain this headline?

Bomb in Syria Kills Militant Sought as Terrorist

UPDATE: Headlines in both the Houston Chronicle and the Globe and Mail give Mughniyeh the more respectable title of “Hezbollah official.”

Notorious Hezbollah official wanted by U.S. killed

Leading Hezbollah official killed by bomb

But there’s hope:

Hezbollah’s most wanted terrorist died the way he lived

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