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Massive Participation in al-Hasan's Funeral at Martyrs Square
2012-10-22
[An Nahar] Thousands of mourners participated in Sunday's funeral of slain Major General Wissam al-Hasan, chief of the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau, who was killed by a powerful car booming on Friday blamed on the Damascus
...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world...
regime.

Anti-Syria opposition chief ex-premier Saad Hariri
Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's liquidation. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.
had called for a huge turnout for the funeral of the fallen general and thousands of people took part in the ceremony outside the Mohammed al-Amine Mosque in Beirut's Martyrs Square.

Hasan was laid to rest next to slain former prime minister Rafik Hariri whose tomb is adjacent to the mosque.

The slain general was the head of Hariri's guard platoon.

"We will not engage in dialogue before the departure of the government. We will not engage in dialogue over the blood of the deaders and the Lebanese," said ex-PM Fouad Saniora in a speech at Mohammed al-Amine Mosque.

"This government is responsible for the liquidation of martyr Maj. Gen. Wissam al-Hasan, so it must leave," he stressed.

"The latest of your achievements was unveiling the conspiracy of (ex-minister Michel) Samaha and (Syrian security chief Ali) al-Mamlouk, so they killed you," Saniora added, addressing al-Hasan.

Saniora called on Prime Minister Najib Miqati to resign or be "accused of covering the criminals."

He also called for forming a "salvation government that represents the Lebanese" and replaces "the government that is trying cover up the crime."
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