News of death is rarely greeted with enthusiasm, but Tim McCoskey said he got a good feeling when he learned the terrorist who helped plan the bombing of a Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 had been killed.

“At least he can go to hell now,” said McCoskey, 44, of Elloree, S.C.

“Being raised Catholic, I fear [it’s] a sin to welcome another human being’s death, but in Imad Mughniyeh’s case, I’ll make an exception and take my chances in the confessional,” said Glenn Dolphin, 50, of Aiken, S.C.

“I have to believe that the man upstairs is dealing out justice now, and for Imad Mughniyeh it not going to be pretty,” he said.
 

Craig Renshaw, 45, called Mughniyeh’s death “payback.”

“He got what’s coming to him and he got the same thing he did to others,” said the former lance corporal, who lives in Folkston, Ga.


Alan Opra, 43, said he considers Mughniyeh’s death to be poetic justice.

“I was happy that he died the way he died because he died in a car bomb and he orchestrated a truck bomb, so it was like karma,” said Opra, of Harrison Township, Mich., and a lance corporal at the time of the attack.