Imad Muganeyeh, linked to (among others) the U.S. Embassy and Marine Barracks bombings in Beirut in 1983 and the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 in 1985, was killed in an explosion in Damascus, Syria.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/...lah/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/...lah/index.html