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Wissam al-Hassan was among eight people who died in the attack
The Lebanese cabinet has been holding emergency talks a day after a powerful car bomb killed the head of internal intelligence and seven others.
There have been calls for the Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, to resign and opposition leader Saad Hariri and others have accused Syria of being behind the attack.
The attack was condemned by the Syrian government.
Mr Hariri's supporters have held tyre-burning protests over the attack.
Druze leader Walid Jumblatt has also accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of organising the blast.
The US and the UN Security council have led international condemnation of the bombing.
Damascus accusedFriday's blast, which also wounded dozens of people, occurred in the mainly Christian district of Ashrafiya, in a busy street close to the headquarters of Saad Hariri's 14 March coalition.
Internal intelligence head Wissam al-Hassan was among those who died. He was close to Mr Hariri, a leading critic of the government in neighbouring Syria.
Mr Hassan led an investigation that implicated Damascus in the 2005 bombing that killed Mr Hariri's father, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
He also recently organised the arrest of a former minister accused of planning a Syrian-sponsored bombing campaign in Lebanon.
His supporters have set up roadblocks around Lebanon's capital, while denouncing the Syrian president and his Lebanese allies.
'Guarantor of security'Lebanon's religious communities are divided between those who support the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad - including many Shias - and those mostly from the Sunni community who back the rebels.
- Head of the intelligence branch of Lebanon's Internal Security Forces
- Sunni Muslim born in the northern city of Tripoli in 1965
- Responsible for the security of former PM Rafik Hariri
- Viewed as being close to the Hariris and the opposition 14 March coalition
- Responsible for the August arrest of pro-Syrian politician and ex-information minister Michel Samaha
Tension in Lebanon has been rising as a result of the Syrian conflict.
"We accuse Bashar al-Assad of the assassination of Wissam al-Hassam, the guarantor of the security of the Lebanese," Mr Hariri said on Lebanese TV.
Mr Jumblatt told satellite channel Al-Arabiya: "[Bashar al-Assad] is telling us that even though he turned Syria into rubble, `I am ready to kill in any place"'.
Nadim Gemayel, an MP from the right-wing Christian Phalange Party, also pointed to Syria, where an uprising against Mr Assad that began 18 months ago has led to an increasingly violent conflict.
"This regime, which is crumbling, is trying to export its conflict to Lebanon," he said.
Mr Hariri's 14 March bloc issued a statement accusing the Beirut government of protecting "criminals" and calling on it to stand down.
The force of Friday's blast, the worst in the Lebanese capital for four years, ripped balconies from the fronts of buildings and set many cars on fire. For many, it evoked scenes from Lebanon's civil war in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Mr Mikati said the government was trying to identify the perpetrators and they would be punished.
Lebanon's Shia militant group Hezbollah - a close ally of the Syrian government - condemned the bombing.
Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi called it a "cowardly, terrorist act". He said such incidents were "unjustifiable wherever they occur".
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on "all Lebanese parties not to be provoked by this heinous terrorist act", while EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton called on "all Lebanese to remain calm".
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the bombing a "dangerous sign that there are those who continue to seek to undermine Lebanon's stability."
"Lebanon must close the chapter of its past and bring an end to impunity for political assassinations and other politically motivated violence," she said.
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