Assassination Of Rebanese Intelligence Chief Causes Violent Protest In Beirut

A Lebanese protester gestures to security forces during clashes after the funeral of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan who was assassinated on Friday by a car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday Oct. 21, 2012. Lebanese soldiers fired guns and tear gas to push back hundreds of protesters who broke through a police cordon and tried to storm the government headquarters in Beirut. The enraged crowd came from the funeral of a top Lebanese intelligence official assassinated in a massive car bombing.

Members of Lebanese police intelligence division units, carry the coffins wrapped with the Lebanese flags of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan and his bodyguard’s coffin who were assassinated on Friday by a car bomb, during their funeral processions at the Lebanese police headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. Thousands of Lebanese waving the national flag packed a central square in downtown Beirut Sunday for the funeral of a top intelligence official assassinated in a car bombing that many blame on the regime in neighboring Syria. <AP Photo/Hussein Malla>

Lebanese march to protest the death of the country’s intelligence chief, Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, a powerful opponent of Syria, in Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. The placards depict Al-Hassan, who was assassinated Friday in a car bomb attack, and Rafik Hariri, former Prime Minister of Lebanon, who was assassinated in 2005 in a car bombing. <AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari>

Lebanese honor guards carry the flag-draped coffins of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan and his bodyguard Ahmad Sahyouni who were assassinated on Friday by a car bomb, during their funeral procession at Martyrs’ Square in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday Oct. 21, 2012. Lebanese soldiers fired guns and tear gas to push back hundreds of protesters who broke through a police cordon and tried to storm the government headquarters in Beirut. The enraged crowd came from the funeral of a top Lebanese intelligence official assassinated in a massive car bombing. <AP Photo/Ahmad Omar>