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...commanders of Lebanon's security and intelligence services, four generals were once among the most powerful and feared officials in the country. But last week, they languished in underground Beirut cells after Lebanese judicial authorities formally charged them with involvement in last February's assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. Lebanese police arrested all four suspects - Jamil Sayyed, Raymond Azar, Ali Hajj and Mustafa Hamdan - as part of a United Nations?led investigation headed by German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis. If top Lebanese officials and their backers in Syria had hoped to evade Mehlis' probe, they've since been surprised...
...Fractured Relationship Our report on the mystery surrounding the February assassination of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri [June 6] described the enormous influence that Syria has wielded in Lebanese political affairs for 30 years. In a Dec. 19, 1983, cover story, TIME explained the reasons for Syria's intense feelings about its neighbor...
...morning, the 45-year-old Kassir, a university lecturer and columnist for Lebanon's An-Nahar newspaper, was dead, blown to pieces by a bomb planted beneath the driver's seat of his gray Alfa Romeo. It was the first assassination in Lebanon since the murder of former Premier Rafiq Hariri in February, which sparked huge anti-Syrian demonstrations and finally compelled Damascus to disengage from its neighbor at the end of April. Why was Kassir targeted? He was the most outspoken critic of Syria's stranglehold over Lebanon. "It's a message to say that despite the international pressure...
ASSASSINATED. SAMIR KASSIR, 45, outspoken Lebanese journalist and critic of Syrian control in Lebanon; in a car bombing in Beirut. The first attack on a prominent Lebanese opposition figure since the killing of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in February, it came less than a week after the anti-Syrian opposition won a clear victory in the first round of Lebanon's parliamentary elections. Syria, still influential despite its withdrawal of troops under international pressure, denied involvement in the murder, which reignited national outrage and prompted calls for the resignation of Lebanese President Emile Lahoud...
...Days after their father's funeral, Hariri's four sons fled the country following a warning that they might be next. But as the Syrians began pulling out their troops, paving the way for elections, the Hariri clan grew concerned that without its leadership, the opposition could falter, jeopardizing Rafiq's legacy. "We gave our father's blood for this country," says Saad, formerly the CEO of the family's $3.8 billion construction empire. "But we realized that we had to continue his dream...