Khazen.org offers its condoleances to the family of MP Walid Eido and rejects this horrific crime.
BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) june 13 — A member of the Lebanese parliament was killed in an explosion Wednesday outside a Beirut military sports club in what hospital sources called an assassination. Lawmaker Walid Eido, known as a foe of Syrian involvement in Lebanon, his son, Khalid, and two of his bodyguards were killed, Lebanese media reports said. At least six other people died and 11 were wounded in the explosion, believed to be from a car bomb, in the seaside neighborhood of Manara, according to Lebanese security sources.
Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, an outspoken critic of Syria, blamed Eido’s killing on Damascus, calling it an attempt to reduce the anti-Syrian majority in the Lebanese government. With this bunch of assassins in Damascus, they don’t care about international justice," Jumblatt told CNN International. Syria has denied any involvment in the assasination
Eido, a constitutional expert, was a member of a political bloc led by Saad Hariri, the son of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, whose assassination two years ago sparked widespread protests that led to the ouster of Syrian forces from Lebanon.Eido was a vocal supporter of the U.N. tribunal investigating Hariri’s killing, approved earlier this month by U.N. Security Council..The impact of Wednesday’s blast shattered the windows of nearby buildings, while bystanders sustained injuries from the shrapnel. CNN’s Brent Sadler witnessed wounded people being carried out of one building
One of Eido’s sons was also killed in the blast in which eight other people were killed and 11 were wounded.Here are four facts about Eido: * Born in 1942 in Beirut, he graduated in 1966 and became a magistrate a year later. In the late 1990s he was north Lebanon’s public prosecutor. Eido won a seat in parliamentary elections in 2000 and 2005 and was a member of several parliamentary committees. * Eido was a Sunni Muslim and a member of the majority anti-Syrian parliamentary bloc of Saad al-Hariri, which controls Lebanon’s Western-backed government..* Eido used to be a member of the Sunni Murabetoun militia during Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war.* He was an avid swimmer and the bomb exploded outside his favourite Beirut beach resort, Sporting Club.
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