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Picture dated 05 July 2001 shows former Lebanese minister Elias Hobeika during a press conference in Beirut 05 July 2001. The former official of an Israeli-backed Christian militia, who was implicated in the 1982 massacres at the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps, was killed by a car bomb in a Beirut suburb 24 January 2002, according to security sources in the Lebanese capital. (KEYSTONE/EPA PHOTO AFP/Str)