Germany condemns killing of top Lebanese officer Al Hassan

German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned on Monday the killing of the Senior Lebanese Intelligence officer, Wissam Al hassan. Al Hassan was slain in a strong car bomb in Beirut on Friday that wounded dozens of people and killed eight others. Germany’s government spokesman Steffen Seibert said here today that the perpetrators of the bombings should be soon identified and be brought to justice German language daily, (Berliner Morgenpost) reported. He said Chancellor Merkel was in great concern over the current developments in Lebanon and is calling on all political powers there to prevent from the occurrence of any civil tensions in the country especially with the fear of civil war leaking from neighboring Syria. The killing of Al Hassan has been spiking scares of erupting another civil war in Lebanon. He is a Sunni Muslim who was close to the political group of assassinated former prime minister Rafik Hariri as well as being a key investigator into the murder of the latter in 2005. Lebanese Sunnis already blame the Shia sect, Hezbollah, for Hariri’s murder.