[3] In the late 1990s, he was north Lebanon's public prosecutor, but he had to resign for being able to go into politics and run for elections with Rafic Hariri.
[2] He was later named as President of the Beirut Court of Appeal, a role from which he resigned in 2000 to be a candidate to the parliamentary elections on the same year.
"[10] A parked Mitsubishi Pajero four-wheel vehicle packed with 80kg (177lbs) of explosives blew up as Eido's car was driving away from a Beirut beach club on 13 June 2007, murdering him and six other people.
[16] The bomb detonated around 5:30 pm on a side street between the Nejmeh Football Club and the Luna Park amusement center along Beirut's Corniche, a seaside road dotted with tourist and family destinations such as beach resorts, hotels, and cafés.
[17] He was the seventh anti-Syrian politician and third member of the Lebanese parliament killed since the assassination of Rafik Hariri on 14 February 2005.
[18][19] The death of Walid Eido reduced then March 14 alliance's parliamentary majority to 68 out of 126 MPs total.