Family of murdered militia leader mourn his death

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(26 Jan 2002) • • Hazmieh • 1. Exterior Maronite Church • 2. Hobeika and bodyguard's coffins inside the church • 3. Close up on Hobeika's picture on coffin • 4. Relatives mourning • 5. Hobeika's mother standing in front of Coffin • 6. Brigadier General Ghazi Kanaan, Syria's intelligence chief in Lebanon (representing President Bashar Assad) leaving the church • 7. Lebanese Prime minister Rafik Harriri leaving the church • 8. Various, three coffins carried on hands out of the church • 9. Convoy driving towards Baskinta village • • Baskinta • 10. Black car transporting the coffin entering the village square • 11. Band playing music • 12. Mourners carrying coffin • 13. Women throwing petals on coffin • 14. Hobeika's family and mourners following the coffin into the village church • 15. Women carrying Hobeika's picture and weeping • 16. Mourners carrying Hobeika's poster and coffin • 17. Mourners wrapping the coffin with the Lebanese flag inside the church • 18. Priests praying • 19. Hobeika's son praying next to coffin • 20. Mourners carrying coffin and burying it • 21. Top view of mourners outside the cemetery • • Outside Elie Hobeika's house, five kilometres (three miles) east of Beirut, 24 Jan 2002 • 22. Smoke rising from wreckage of car • 23. Damage and smoke at adjacent apartment • 24. PHOTO - Elie Hobeika's body face down in grass • • FILE • 25. Hobeika at Phalange Party meeting (at corner of table shuffling documents) • 26. Wide shot meeting • • FILE May 1983 • 27. King Assad of Syria - pullout to show meeting with Hobeika • 28. Close up Hobeika smiling • 29. Close up King Assad • • FILE : • 30. Hobeika in room talking to others • • STORYLINE: • • After Saturday's funeral service held in the Maronite church of Mar-Thekla, family members took the coffin of the assassinated former Christian warlord Elie Hobeika to his home village of Baskinta, 40 kilometres (25 miles) northeast of Beirut, for burial. • • Hobeika died on Thursday when a parked car exploded killing him and his three bodyguards as they drove away from his east Beirut home. • • Six others were wounded in the blast. • • Hours before Saturday's funeral took place news reports said that police had detained two men in connection with the assassination. • • In the investigation's first arrests, security officials said they had detained for questioning George Massoud Hanna, 40, the former owner of the parked car, and his cousin Charbel Hanna in their hometown of Ein el-Mir in southern Lebanon. • • Massoud Hanna told investigators he had sold his dark blue Mercedes for 9000 US dollars a month ago to two men who apparently gave false identities, officials said, speaking on the customary condition of anonymity. • • Hobeika, 45, led the Christian militiamen that massacred hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children in the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps in Beirut in 1982. • • Hobeika had been quoted as saying he was preparing to go to Belgium to testify that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was behind the 1982 massacre. • • Sharon was Israeli defence minister at the time of the massacre and Israeli troops controlled access to the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps. • • An Israeli judicial commission found Sharon indirectly responsible for the atrocity but it was militiamen under Hobeika's command who carried it out. • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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