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Lebanese protesters clash with security forces after intelligence chief’s funeral
President tells mourners in Beirut he has ordered rapid investigation into murder of General Wissam al-HassanThe Lebanese president, Michael Sleiman, told mourners at the funeral of a senior intelligence official murdered on Friday in a car bombing that he had ordered a rapid investigation into the killing, and called for further examination of a series of destabilising plots that many Lebanese suspect are linked to to the Syrian government. Within an hour of the end of the funeral in central Beirut on Sunday, protesters drawn mostly from General Wissam al-Hassan’s Sunni Muslim community began attacking security forces and attempted to storm the office of the prime minister, Nijab Mikati, before rubber bullets and teargas forced them back from the barricades.
