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June 14, 2007

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Recent killings of top Lebanese figures

Lawmaker Walid Eido, killed Wednesday, is the seventh prominent anti-Syrian figure in Lebanon to be killed in a little more than two years. Here is a glance at recent attacks in Lebanon, most of them against opponents of Damascus:

• Feb. 14, 2005: Former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, tilting toward the opposition, is assassinated in a massive bombing. Bassel Fleihan, who served as economy minister in Hariri's government, also died in the blast. Opposition blames Syrian and Lebanese governments, charges both deny.

• June 2, 2005: Anti-Syrian journalist and activist Samir Kassir is killed by a bomb placed under his car.

• June 21, 2005: Anti-Syrian politician George Hawi, former Communist Party leader, is killed by a bomb placed under his car.

• July 12, 2005: Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Elias Murr survives a car bombing that targets his vehicle as he drives on a north Beirut suburban street. Although pro-Syrian, Murr later says he was threatened by Syria's intelligence chief in Lebanon.

• Sept. 25, 2005: Prominent anchorwoman May Chidiac of the leading anti-Syrian TV station LBC loses an arm and a leg from a bomb placed under her car.

• Dec. 12, 2005: Gibran Tueni, prominent anti-Syrian newspaper editor and lawmaker, is killed in a car bomb that destroys his vehicle.

• Nov. 21, 2006: Pierre Gemayel, 34, the industry minister and a prominent Christian politician, is shot to death by gunmen in a Beirut suburb.

• June 13, 2007: Walid Eido, 65, an anti-Syrian member of parliament, was killed along with his son, two bodyguards and six others in an explosion in Beirut.

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