Lebanon Shuts Down to Mourn Assassinated Hariri
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Lebanon shut down on Tuesday to mourn  former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri whose assassination in a  car bomb blast plunged the country into political crisis and  rekindled bitter memories of the 1975-90 civil war.
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One hospital in the heart of Beirut will stop taking new patients while another in the south &#151; full of war wounded &#151; expects to close soon.
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They wept, threw rice and turned Beirut's streets into a sea of grief. But a bitter surge of anti-Syrian sentiment rippled through vast crowds at Rafik al-Hariri's funeral.
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Lebanon's Hezbollah holds a mass funeral for its assassinated commander Imad Moughniyah, one of the United States' most wanted men, in Beirut on Thursday to calls of revenge against its sworn enemy Israel.
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The funeral for Gen Francois al-Hajj, who was assassinated on Wednesday, have begun in the Lebanese capital Beirut.
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JERUSALEM -- Former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, a billionaire who helped his country rebuild after its civil war, was assassinated yesterday in Beirut in a car bomb attack on his motorcade that some Lebanese opposition officials blamed on Syria but that analysts said could also have been carried out by an Islamic group, possibly Al Qaeda.
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Lebanese mourned their slain ex-premier Tuesday with noisy street processions, while the country's interior minister suggested a suicide bomber aided by "international parties" may have been behind the assassination of Rafik Hariri.
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Mourners carried the coffin of Christian leader Pierre Gemayel to a cortege heading on Thursday for his funeral which tens of thousands of Lebanese will turn into a show of strength against Syria and its Hezbollah allies.
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Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and his cabinet have resigned, ending weeks of political uncertainty.
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BEIRUT, Nov. 23 -- Allies of a slain Lebanese Christian minister Pierre Gemayel transformed his funeral into protest, pulpit and show of force Thursday, as tens of thousands surged into downtown Beirut to vent their anger against a Syrian government they blamed for his assassination and to press demands at the heart of a crisis as pronounced as any since the end of Lebanon's 15-year civil war....
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Lebanon prepares for the funeral of leading anti-Syrian politician Pierre Gemayel who was killed on Tuesday.
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Tens of thousands of Lebanese choked downtown Beirut to pay tribute to assassinated Christian leader Pierre Gemayel on Thursday, turning his funeral into a show of defiance against Syria and its Hezbollah allies.
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As Pierre Gemayel is laid to rest and pro- and anti-Syrian factions square off for a confrontation, the modern Lebanese state appears to be on life-support
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DAMASCUS -- It is unclear who engineered the attack that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and at least nine others, but his death has pitched Syria into deeper isolation and vulnerability.
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International pressure mounted on Syria to ease its grip over Lebanon as stunned Lebanese prepared to bury slain former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri on Wednesday.
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Lebanon mourned on Thursday an anti-Syrian member of parliament whose assassination plunged the country deeper into crisis and threatened to derail efforts to elect a new president.
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Lebanon began three days of mourning on Wednesday as a bitter power struggle brewed after the assassination of an anti-Syrian Christian cabinet minister that his allies blamed on Damascus.