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HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS ATTEND PIERRE GEMAYEL FUNERAL

Mourners burn posters of Syrian President Bashar al Assad as hundreds of thousands of Lebanese converged on Martyrs square in the center of Beirut to pay tribute to assassinated Lebanese Minister of Industry Pierre Gemayel on November 23, 2006. Pierre Gemayel, son of former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, is the sixth anti-Syrian figure in Lebanon to be assassinated in the past two years. (UPI Photo)

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