He was killed in a car bombing last year at the height of the so-called Cedar Revolution, a mass protest movement spearheaded by Lebanon's Christians and Sunni Muslims that eventually forced Syria to end its long military occupation of Lebanon.

NPR: Divided Lebanon Wary of Hezbollah 'Victory'

In December 2006, during the height of the ethno-sectarian violence that escalated in the wake of the bombing of the golden dome mosque in Samarra, the leaders in Iraq at that time, General George Casey and Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, concluded that the coalition was failing to achieve its objectives.

CNN: Transcript of Iraq hearing statements