WRAP Hariri's family, protests, official comment, 3 day mourning

Описание: (15 Feb 2005)

Sidon
1. Demonstrators holding pictures of assassinated former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri
2. Demonstrators in the streets
3. Burning of tyres
4. Security forces among demonstrators on street
5. Demonstrators holding up blackened hands shouting pro-Hariri slogans
6. Reverse of men throwing stones at security personnel in background down street
7. Security personnel in fatigues gathered at one end of street
8. Protesters walking towards security personnel
9. Security personnel running away
10. Close-up of security officer's handgun, pulls out to wide of personnel on street

Beirut
11. Wide of Interior Ministry meeting
12. Ministers and officials taking part in meeting, seated for photo opportunity
13. Lebanese Interior Minister Suleiman Franjieh heading meeting
14. Various of officials
15. Close-up of Justice Minister Adnan Addoum
16. Wide of meeting
17. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Suleiman Franjieh, Lebanese Interior Minister:
"We almost have confirmation from the investigating authority that there was a car bomb and they suspect that it was not parked and it tried to invade the motorcade, which confirms that someone was driving the car."

Beirut
18. Exterior of Hariri's house
19. People at Hariri's house
20. Official hugging Hariri's eldest son, Bahaa
21. Speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berry, presenting condolences
22. Relatives and officials receiving condolences
23. Bahaa and Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam sitting side-by-side
24. People in room

Beirut
25. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Abdul-Halim Khaddam, Syrian Vice President:
"Israel assassinated a whole nation, it assassinated a whole region. We expect the worst from Israel."

Beirut
26. Hariri's relatives receiving condolences
27. Wife of Hariri's son, Bahaa, crying
28. Hariri's sister Bahia, a member of parliament, grieving
23. Hariri's son, Saad, approaching the site of the explosion
24. Lebanese soldiers checking the site
25. Saad praying at the blast scene for his father
26. SOUNDBITE: (English) Saad Hariri, Son of Rafik Hariri:
"It's a great loss for Lebanon, for the family of Hariri and for every Lebanese, for the Arab world. My father served Lebanon all his life and we will keep serving Lebanon like him. I hope justice will be brought upon those who committed this crime."
27. Saad Hariri beside blast crater

Beirut
28. Women taking part in street protest, holding flowers and portraits of Hariri
29. Supporters of Hariri taking part in street protest, men on scooters and car with megaphone
30. Portrait of Hariri adorned with red roses

STORYLINE

Lebanon was in deep mourning on Tuesday for former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, whose assassination in a massive bomb blast raised fears that the country might plunge into a new period of political violence.

Police said the toll from Monday's bombing in downtown Beirut was 17 dead and about 120 injured.

In Hariri's hometown of Sidon on southern Lebanon's Mediterranean coast, dozens of angry demonstrators attacked Syrian workers on Tuesday, lightly wounding five people before police intervened.

There was also some stone-throwing following street demonstrations, but the security forces appeared to avoid confrontation by backing away from the protesters.

Elsewhere in Sidon, black banners and pictures of the slain former leader covered the streets.

In Beirut, mourners converged on the family's southern residence to offer their condolences.

At the site of the bombing, troops clamped a cordon around the area.











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