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Damascus blast killed Hezbollah commander


    BEIRUT (Reuters) - A car bomb in Damascus on Tuesday killed a senior military commander in the Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah, a Lebanese political source told Reuters on Wednesday.

    Witnesses had seen the body of man taken from the scene ofthe blast in the Syrian capital on Tuesday evening. Hezbollah-- a political group with a guerrilla army -- is backed by bothSyria and Iran.