In Lebanon, over 150,000 mourners have filled the streets of Beirut to mark the funeral of Rafik Hariri. The former prime minister was assassinated on Monday along with five bodyguards and eight others in a massive car bombing. Tension between the US and Syria is rising since the bombing even though it has not been determined who carried out the attack. On Tuesday the U.S. State Department recalled Margaret Scobey, its ambassador to Syria, to protest what it sees as Syria’s link to the bombing. Before departing, Scobey delivered a message to the Syrian government to express “deep concern as well as our profound outrage over this heinous act of terrorism.