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Lebanese Mourn MP Slain by Bomb

Unrest builds; White House condemns assassinations of anti-Syrian politicians

By Caroline Zimmerman, Newser User

Posted Jun 14, 2007 7:09 AM CDT

(Newser) – Lebanon observed a national day of mourning today as a prominent anti-Syrian MP was buried in Beirut. The assassination yesterday of Walid Eido further destabilized the shaky situation in the country. President Bush condemned the "clear pattern of assassinations" of prominent Lebanese critics of Syria; Eido was the sixth murdered in just over 2 years. Damascus denies involvement.

A car bomb in Beirut killed Eido, his son, two bodyguards, and at least six passers-by. The Lebansese government and the UN are assembling a tribunal to investigate the 2005 assassination of ex-president Rafik Hariri, whose murder set off the latest round of violence, the worst since the 15-year civil war that ended in 1990.

A Lebanese firefighters extinguish a burning car after a bomb exploded in a narrow street off the main waterfront in Manara, which is in the Muslim sector of the capital Beirut, Lebanon Wednesday, June... (Associated Press)

A lebanese woman, holds a portraits of slain anti-syrian lawmaker Walid Eido and his son Khaled who they killed by an explosion on Wednesday, as she walks in front of two ambulances covered with Lebanese... (Associated Press)

The brother of walid Eido's bodygaurd, Said Shouman who was killed by an explosion on Wednesday, mourns as he follows his brother coffin during a funeral procession, in Beirut, Lebanon Thursday, June... (Associated Press)

A Lebanese soldier gestures in front of burned out cars after a bomb exploded in a narrow street off the main waterfront in Manara, which is in the Muslim sector of the capital Beirut, Lebanon Wednesday,... (Associated Press)

-old lawmaker, Walid Eido, was the seventh opponent of Damascus to be killed in two years in this conflict-ridden country. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (Associated Press)

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