Top Lebanese Security Official, Wissam Al-Hassan, has reportedly been killed in an attack in Beruit this afternoon. Al-Hassan was currently leading the investigation that implicated Syria and Hezbollah having a role in the killing of former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri. He was a close aide to Hariri back in ’05 before he himself was killed in a bomb attack. Dozens of others were also injured during the attack. Read more below.

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Al-Hassan reportedly told officials that proved Syria and Lebanon’s pro-Iranian Shi’ite Muslim were involved in the killing of then prime minister Hariri. He also recently uncovered a bomb plot that lead to the arrest of Lebanese politician allied to President Bashar al-Assad.
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