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Another Politician Killed in Lebanon

HeadlineJun 21, 2005

In Lebanon, there has been another apparent assassination of an anti-Syrian politician. George Hawi, a former leader of the Lebanese Communist Party, was killed on Tuesday when a bomb ripped through his car in Beirut, two days after parliamentary elections ended with victory to an alliance that opposed Damascus’s role in Lebanon. It was the second killing of an anti-Syrian figure in Beirut this month. Newspaper columnist Samir Kassir was killed on June 2 when a similar explosion destroyed his car.

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