"Town air makes free" was the old German saying; a serf in the country but a freeman in the town. Russian gangsters have a similar saying, "London air makes dissident".

So who killed Mughniyah? Nobody seems to know. The Israelis are hoping to get the credit as this would mean that they can carry out their operations in Damascus. But if it had been them the details would have been linked to their favoured propagandists for dissemination.I don't think it was the Israelis or the Americans. So was it the Syrians themselves, or was it "gang-related"? After all Mughniyah was just a gangster with slogans.