WORLD : Saudi Diplomat Slain in Beirut
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BEIRUT — A Saudi diplomat was assassinated in a hail of machine-gun fire in West Beirut today following threats by pro-Iranian extremists to sabotage a peace plan for Lebanon worked out in Saudi Arabia.
Police identified the victim as Mohammed Marzouqi, a personnel officer in the Saudi Embassy in Damascus, Syria, who was visiting the Muslim sector of the Lebanese capital.
The assassins, in a gray car with a private license plate, opened fire while Marzouqi climbed into his gray limousine in the Tallet Khayyat district at mid-morning.
Marzouqi’s driver, a Syrian, suffered a gunshot wound in the hand.
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