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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47803)	2/14/2005 7:48:39 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

A huge car bomb on Monday killed Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri, a billionaire who masterminded the country’s reconstruction from its 1975-90 civil war. A previously unknown Islamist group said in a video aired by Al Jazeera TV it had carried out a suicide attack against Hariri because he supported the Saudi government. The claim could not be confirmed. At least 12 others, including several of Hariri’s bodyguards, died when his motorcade was blown up as it passed through an exclusive section of Beirut’s seafront, four months after he resigned as prime minister. Hariri’s funeral was planned for Wednesday, and the government called for three days of national mourning. A former economy minister among 100 people was wounded. The explosion outside the St George Hotel gouged a deep crater in the road, ripped facades from luxury buildings and set cars ablaze on streets strewn with rubble and broken glass. Dozens of Lebanese youths tried to set ablaze an office of the ruling Syrian Baath Party in Lebanon. Leaders from the White House to the Gaza Strip condemned the killing, with France calling for an international probe.