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Chronology
of political assassinations in
Lebanon
Here
is a short chronology by Reuters of some of the major political
assassinations in
Lebanon
over the three decades.
March
1977 - Druze leader Kamal Jumblatt is killed in ambush in his Shouf
mountain fiefdom in central
Lebanon
.
June
1978 - Tony Franjieh, son of former President Suleiman Franjieh, is
assassinated in raid by rival militias at his home in Ehden, north
Lebanon
.
September
1982 - Bashir Gemayel, elected president, is killed before taking
office by a bomb. His brother Amin becomes president.
June
1987 -
Lebanon
's veteran Prime Minister Rashid Karami is killed by a bomb in an army
helicopter in
Tripoli
. Karami was serving his ninth term as prime minister in a 37-year
career.
May
1989 - Grand Mufti Sheikh Hassan Khaled, religious head of
Lebanon
's Sunni community, is killed by a car bomb in
Beirut
. The blast killed 22 people and wounded 80.
November
1989 - President Rene Muawad is killed in a huge bomb explosion in
Beirut
.
October
1990 - Gunmen killed Dany Chamoun, chairman of the National Liberal
Party, in a
Beirut
suburb.
February
1992 - Israelis killed Abbas Mussawi, a Hizbullah leader, in
helicopter ambush of his convoy near
village
of
Jibsheet
in south
Lebanon
.
January
2002 - Elie Hobeika, former minister and leader of pro-Israeli militia
involved in 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees in
Lebanon
, is killed in
Beirut
.
May
2002 - Mohammad Jihad Ahmad Jibril, son of Ahmad Jibril, leader of
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General-Command
(PFLP-GC), is killed in car bomb in
Beirut
.
February
2005 - Huge car bomb killed
Lebanon
's former prime minister Rafik Al-Hariri on
Beirut
's waterfront.
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