Warren Mass
thenewamerican.com
December 27, 2013
Mohammed Chatah, who served as Lebanon’s Ambassador to the United States from
1997 to 2000, was assassinated on December 27 when a car bomb struck his car in
downtown Beirut.
The blast killed five others, including Chatah’s bodyguard, Mohammed Badr.
Seventy-one people were also wounded in the attack.
Only an hour before the attack, Chatah posted a tweet about Hezbollah, the
Lebanese-based Shiite militant group: “#Hezbollah is pressing hard to be granted
similar powers in security & foreign policy matters that Syria exercised in
Lebanon for 15 yrs.”
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Friday, December 27, 2013
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