Warlord Death 'Link with Sharon Case'
Published on Thursday, January 24, 2002 by the BBC
Israel and Lebanon are at loggerheads over the death on Thursday
of former militia leader Elie Hobeika who was killed with five
others in a massive car bomb in east Beirut.
Lebanese officials have implicated Israel in the assassination,
saying it wanted prevent Hobeika from testifying against Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in a Belgian court case about the Sabra
and Shatila refugee camp massacres in 1982.
Interior minister Elias Murr said there was "confirmation" of
Israeli involvement, although he did not elaborate further.
Mr Sharon responded that Israel had no link to the killing, saying
the allegation was "not worthy of comment".
Meanwhile, a previously unknown group calling itself Lebanese for a
Free and Independent Lebanon claimed responsibility for the bombing,
branding Hobeika a "Syrian agent", an apparent reference to his
transfer of allegiance towards Damascus after Lebanon's 1975-90
civil war.
During the war, Hobeika had been leader of the Lebanese Forces, a
right-wing Christian militia that was allied to Israel and which, in
September 1982, slaughtered hundreds of Palestinian refugees in
their camps as they were surrounded by Israeli forces.
Days before his death, Mr Hobeika said he had important revelations
to make about the killings in the Belgian case - in which Mr Sharon
is being accused of crimes against humanity.
Mr Sharon resigned as Israeli defence minister after an Israeli
commission of inquiry established that he bore indirect
responsibility for the 1982 massacres for "having disregarded the
danger of acts of vengeance" by the militias when he allowed them
into the camps.
Scene of devastation
Family and friends of Mr Hobeika visited the scene of the bombing
during the day, but correspondents say few are mourning the death of
such a controversial and divisive figure on the Lebanese political
scene.
Municipal workers cleared away the wreckage at nightfall, removing
broken glass and debris from nearby buildings in the Hazimiyeh
district of Christian east Beirut.
The blast - from 10 kilogrammes of TNT packed in a parked Mercedes -
was so strong it set fire to surrounding buildings. Mr Hobeika's
body flew 50 metres down the road while one of his bodyguards was
blown onto a second floor balcony.
The bomb, thought to have been set off by remote control, went off
shortly after Mr Hobeika and his entourage had driven off for a
scuba diving expedition.
Neighbour Assad Khairallah said he saw the explosion from across the
street, where he and his wife were having coffee on their balcony.
"Fires broke out in buildings, cars flew in the air and caught fire,
people screamed in the buildings," Mr Khairallah said.
'Violent settlement of conflict'
A Belgian appeals court is expected to rule in March whether Mr
Sharon should stand trial for the 1982 massacres. The final
pre-trial hearing about the admissibility of the case was held on
Wednesday.
The legal team for 23 survivors of the massacres suing Mr Sharon in
Belgium confirmed that Mr Hobeika had been a key protagonist who had
offered to assist in the case.
The lawyers said it appeared his killing was an attempt to undermine
the case.
"In closing our pleadings yesterday before the Court of Appeal, we
repeated that the victims are engaged in a judicial procedure which
jars with the tradition of violent settlement of the conflicts in
the region," the lawyers said in an statement on their website.
"Those behind [Hobeika's] assassination clearly follow a logic of
war which seeks to prevent the pursuit of an alternative of
non-violence, law, and justice."
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