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Mohamad Chatah (; 7 March 1951 – 27 December 2013) was a Lebanese economist and diplomat.


Biography

Chatah was born in
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. He studied economics at the American University in Beirut and earned a doctorate at the
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in the
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. Then he taught economics at his alma mater, University of Texas. In 1983 he secured a position with the
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as the deputy to the Executive Director, Dr. Mohamed Finaish. He served as Ambassador to the U.S. from 1997 to 2000. He returned to the IMF in 2001 and stayed until June 2005. Chatah's resignation from the IMF in 2005 coincided with the assassination of former
Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...
Rafik Hariri Rafic Bahaa El Deen al-Hariri (; 1 November 1944 – 14 February 2005) was a Lebanese businessman and politician who served as prime minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 to 2004. Hariri headed five cabinets during his tenu ...
on 14 February 2005; he returned to Lebanon as a senior adviser to the newly elected Prime Minister
Fouad Siniora Fouad Siniora (; born 19 July 1943) is a Lebanese politician. He served as the 12th Prime Minister of Lebanon, prime minister of Lebanon from 2005 to 2009. He served as minister of Finance from 2000 to 2004. Early career In the 1970s, Sanioura ...
in August 2005 and served in the post until July 2008. During the July 2006 war, Chatah appeared on numerous Western news outlets as a public spokesman for the Lebanese government. When asked about the government's role in disarming local armed groups, Chatah said "we are doing it hroughdialogue and persuasion, and trying to reach a point where the state is the sole holder of weapons and the one with the only authority throughout our territory." He also served as vice-governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon. Chatah was named the Minister of Finance of the 70th Lebanese government in July 2008 and held the position to November 2009. He served as foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister
Saad Hariri Saad El-Din Rafik Al-Hariri ( ; born 18 April 1970) is a Lebanese people, Lebanese businessman and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Lebanon, prime minister of Lebanon from 2009 to 2011 and 2016 to 2020. The son of Rafic Hariri, he ...
from November 2009 to January 2011. He was affiliated with the Hariri Future Movement, a Sunni political group, although he officially remained an independent figure in national politics.


Assassination and reactions

At approximately 9:40am on 27 December 2013, a
car bomb A car bomb, bus bomb, van bomb, lorry bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive device designed to be detonated in an automobile or other vehicles. Car bombs can be roug ...
struck Chatah's convoy in the Central District of
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,
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. The bombing killed a total of eight people, among them Chatah, and injured seventy others. The bomb "was estimated to weigh more than 50 kilograms and was placed inside a stolen Honda car." The attack has been described as a political
assassination Assassination is the willful killing, by a sudden, secret, or planned attack, of a personespecially if prominent or important. It may be prompted by political, ideological, religious, financial, or military motives. Assassinations are orde ...
of Chatah. Later this bombing along with other political assassinations were linked to Unit 121, executing Hezbollah's policy. The US President
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and the Secretary of State
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condemned the assassination of Chatah and described it as a terrorist attack on 27 December.


Publications


Offshore gas belongs to the Lebanese, so let them see the moneyArchived version

Mohamad Chatah's Blog


See also

*
List of assassinated Lebanese politicians This is a list of assassinations in Lebanon and nearby countries. Pre-1970s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also * Assassinations linked to the Cedar Revolution * Lebanese Civil War * Unit 121 References ...


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Personal blog
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chatah, Mohamad 1951 births 2013 deaths Politicians from Tripoli, Lebanon Lebanese Sunni politicians American University of Beirut alumni University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts alumni University of Texas at Austin faculty International Monetary Fund people Ambassadors of Lebanon to the United States Finance ministers of Lebanon Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon Assassinated Lebanese politicians 21st-century Lebanese politicians Mass murder victims Deaths by car bomb in Lebanon Lebanese officials of the United Nations Future Movement politicians 20th-century Lebanese diplomats 21st-century Lebanese diplomats Asian politicians assassinated in the 2010s Politicians assassinated in 2013 Deaths by explosive device