Funerals fuel anti-Syrian anger

June 14, 2007

Thousands of mourners chanted anti-Syrian slogans at the funeral of a Lebanese MP killed in a car bomb attack. Walid Eido was the seventh anti-Syrian figure to be assassinated since February 2005 when former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri was killed in a suicide truck bombing. The incident has increased tension with Damascus and deepened Lebanon's political crisis. Eido's allies blamed his killing on Damascus and said it was in response to the establishment of a U.N. court to try suspects of the Hariri attack.