Lebanese aggressor foiled by bomb

[lord of the mark]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/905326.html

[LordShiva]

At least copy-paste teh article in teh OP

[lord of the mark]

Anti-Syrian MP, 5 others killed in Beirut car bomb

By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent and News Agencies

A Lebanese anti-Syrian parliamentarian and at least five other people were killed Wednesday when a car bomb exploded in a Christian suburb of the capital Beirut. Another 20 people were wounded.

Christian MP Antoine Ghanem, 64, was killed in the attack. Security sources said earlier that the explosion had targeted a politician.

The explosion occurred in the Sin el-Fil district, but the cause was not immediately known. Television footage showed severe damage in nearby buildings and several cars on fire. The blast sent a cloud of gray smoke over the area.



The area houses the home of former Lebanese President Amin Gemayeh, whose son, Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, was shot dead in November. Antoine Ghanem is a member of parliament belonging to the Christian Phalange party, the same party to which the assassinated Gemayel belonged.

The explosion took place before Lebanon's parliament is supposed to convene to elect a new president next week. Lebanon has been going through its worst political crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war.

Beirut has been hit by a series of bomb attacks in the past two and a half years, many of them aimed at anti-Syrian politicians. Ghanem is the eighth prominent anti-Syrian figure assassinated since 2005, including three lawmakers from the majority, reducing the ruling party's margin in Parliament.

In June this year, anti-Syrian lawmaker Walid Eido and nine other people died in a car bomb attack.

In February 2005, former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri was killed along with 22 other people in a massive car bomb attack.

Hariri's family says Syria was behind the killing of the former prime minister and later attacks, but Damascus denies this.

Tension has been high in Beirut, where the U.S.-backed government of Prime Minister Fuad Siniora is locked in a feud with the opposition led by Shi'ite Hezbollah, backed by Iran and Syria.

[Straybow]

"Ok, you got us. Dang, we thought we'd pull one over."
Of course they deny. It just proves they did it.

[Zkribbler]

I wonder why it is always the anti-Syrian politicians who get blown up?

[dannubis]

Well, quite a few civilians were blown up too not too long ago...

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by dannubis
Well, quite a few civilians were blown up too not too long ago...

Anti-syrian civilians.

[dannubis]

No, "just" civilians... to put it in the words of our friendly neighbourhood watch dog.

[Nikolai]

Which watchdog? The EU?

[Heresson]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
I wonder why it is always the anti-Syrian politicians who get blown up?

Because Israel wants to turn world against Syria

[Shrapnel12]

If someone was trying to wipe my civilization out, I'd want to turn the world against them too.

[Victor Galis]

Yeah, it'd be nice if we could do something about Syria... oh, wait... still busy in Iraq :|

[Arrian]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
I wonder why it is always the anti-Syrian politicians who get blown up?

Odd, isn't it?

Syria

-Arrian

[Arrian]

Originally posted by Victor Galis
Yeah, it'd be nice if we could do something about Syria... oh, wait... still busy in Iraq :|

We?

-Arrian

[Heresson]

Originally posted by Shrapnel12
If someone was trying to wipe my civilization out, I'd want to turn the world against them too.

It's Israel who tries to wipe out Palestinians. Syria doesn't want to wipe out Israel, just to get Golan back and help Palestinians and Lebanese. And there's no Israeli civ