A Lebanese soldier secures the explosion site.
Lebanese parliamentary majority leaderSaad Hariri accuses Syria of involvement in the
car blast which killed a top terror investigator.
"This attack is a clear message to all Arabs that the
future of Lebanon will remain under the stranglehold
of crimes and terrorism despite all the initiatives to
resolve the political crisis," Hariri said in a
statement on Friday.
"That compels us to call once again on Syria to stop
its interference in Lebanon, and pushes us to block
a plan for a Syrian takeover of our country's independence,"
Hariri said. "Lebanon is not the theater of the
Syrian regime's score-settling."
Friday's blast killed Captain Wissam Eid,
a member of the Internal Security Forces (ISF),
his bodyguard and at least four others.
It also wounded 39 people.
Sports Minister Ahmed Fatfat, said Eid was
on his way home from a meeting at the
headquarters of the UN commission investigating
the 2005 assassination of the former
prime minister Rafik Hariri.
The amount of explosives used in Friday's
blast, 154 pounds, amounted to the largest
blast since Hariri and 22 others were killed
in a February 2005 by more than a
ton of explosives.
Lebanon has plunged into a political crisis
since Emil Lahoud stepped down as president
in November without an elected successor in place.
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