Jihad returns to Lebanon? From Reuters, with thanks to Shiva:
Feb 14, 2005 “” BEIRUT (Reuters) – A massive car bomb killed Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri on Beirut’s waterfront Tuesday, witnesses and security sources said. At least eight others, some of them his bodyguards, also died.
Hariri’s motorcade was blown up as it passed along an exclusive section of the city’s waterfront Corniche.
The explosion close to the St George Hotel gouged a deep crater out of the road, ripped facades from luxury buildings and left half a dozen cars ablaze on streets carpeted with rubble.
It appeared to be the biggest bomb in the city since the Lebanese civil war ended in 1990. The blast could be heard even outside Beirut’s city limits and shattered windows in buildings hundreds of meters away.