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| Lebanon MP assassination condemned worldwide, but Syria silent |
| 2007-06-15 |
| A powerful car bomb killed anti-Syrian Lebanese lawmaker Walid Eido and nine other people on Wednesday in an attack his colleagues blamed on Damascus. A parked Mitsubishi Pajero four wheel vehicle packed with 80 kg (177 lbs) of explosives blew up as Eido's car was driving away from a Beirut beach club, a senior security source said. One of the parliamentarian's sons and two bodyguards were among the dead. At least 15 people were wounded including the youngest son of Eido . Eido, 65, belonged to the majority anti-Syrian parliamentary bloc of Saad al-Hariri, which controls the government. A Sunni Muslim lawyer, he had been a foe of Syrian influence in Lebanon and an ally of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, who was assassinated by a suicide truck bomber in February 2005. Eido was killed just three days after a U.N. Security Council resolution came into effect setting up an international tribunal to try suspects in Hariri's assassination. Saad al-Hariri says Syria was behind his father's killing and later attacks. Damascus denies any involvement. Eido's death brought to seven the number of anti-Syrian politicians and journalists killed in Lebanon since 2005. "It is the same fingers that assassinated the martyred premier Rafik al-Hariri ... the fingers of evil and its evil agents that plant terror in Lebanon," Hariri said of Eido's killing. "They don't want Lebanon to rest." |
| Posted by:Fred |