Rival mass tributes were held in Beirut Feb. 14 despite bad weather to commemorate the third anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and the Feb. 12 car-bomb slaying of senior Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh in Damascus. Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addressed his followers at the Mughniyeh funeral: "Zionists, if you want this kind of open war, then let the whole world listen: Let this war be open." (Lebanon Daily Star [2], Feb. 15) CNN news anchor Jim Clancy theorizes that Mughniyeh, who was on the US "Most Wanted Terrorists" list, faked his own death. (CNN [3], Feb. 14)
See our last post on Lebanon [4].
