December 2013 Beirut bombing

Name: December 2013 Beirut bombing
Start: 2013

2013 CE.

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The assassination of Mohamad Chatah occurred on 27 December 2013 when a car bomb targeting a convoy detonated in Beirut Central District killing Chatah, his bodyguard, and four others. Chatah had previously served as Lebanon's finance minister and ambassador to the United States and was known as a leading critic of Hezbollah and the Assad regime among the country's political elite. Described as a political assassination, the killing was widely seen as a message to Lebanon's March 14 movement.

Text from the Wikipedia article Assassination of Mohamad Chatah, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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