HIGH RANKING LEBANESE OFFICER ASSASSINATED
A Lebanese soldier attempts to extinguish the fire after a bomb killed Captain Wissam Eid, a high ranking member of the Lebanese Internal Security Force, and three others in a Beirut suburb on Friday January 25, 2008. Twenty other people were injured in the attack. Eid had survived two previous assassination attempts. He was also one of the police force top investigators in charge of terrorism including the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. (UPI Photo)
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