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Source: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=13350
Attacks Destroy Lebanese Statue of Syrian President
(Daily Star-Lebanon) Mohammed Zaatari - The statue of late Syrian President Hafez Assad in the southern Lebanese village of Qana was completely destroyed on Thursday as anti-Syrian sentiment gains force. The monument was first attacked on Feb. 27 when the metallic statue of Assad's head and torso in the middle of a water fountain was felled from a stand hailing "the eternal leader." The president of the Committee for Immortalizing Martyr Hafez Assad, Hussein Dakhlallah, accused the Israelis of perpetrating the attack. Sources said that local officials have decided not to rebuild the statue.