Al-Qaida denied involvement in the assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister, saying Israel could be the culprit. An Internet statement signed by a previously unknown group, the Al-Qaida Organization of the Levant, rejected a claim of responsibility for Monday’s car bombing of Rafik Hariri’s cavalcade in Beirut.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.