An anti-Syrian lawmaker and five other people were killed in a car bombing in a Beirut suburb on Wednesday, plunging deeply divided Lebanon into more chaos just days before a key presidential poll.
A powerful bomb killed an anti-Syria lawmaker and six others Wednesday in a Christian neighborhood of Beirut, threatening to derail an effort by an already deeply divided Parliament to elect Lebanon's next president in voting to begin next week.
President Bush said the killing of an anti-Syria lawmaker in Lebanon on Wednesday was a "horrific assassination," but he stopped short of directly blaming it on Syria.
A powerful bomb killed an anti-Syria lawmaker and six others Wednesday in a Christian neighborhood of Beirut, threatening to derail an effort by an already deeply divided Parliament to elect Lebanon's next president in voting to begin next week. Antoine Ghanem was the eighth anti-Syria figure and fourth lawmaker from the governing coalition to be assassinated in less than three years.
A powerful bomb killed an anti-Syria lawmaker and six others Wednesday in a Christian neighborhood of Beirut, threatening to derail an effort by an already deeply divided Parliament to elect Lebanon's next president
An anti-Syrian lawmaker who had just returned to Lebanon two days ago from refuge abroad was killed Wednesday along with six other people by a bomb that rocked a Christian neighborhood of the capital, security officials said.
Antoine Ghanem was the eighth prominent anti-Syrian figure killed in Lebanon in just over two years. A look at the attacks:
An anti-Syrian lawmaker was killed in a car bombing in a Christian suburb of Beirut on Wednesday, shaking Lebanon just a week ahead of a crucial election in the divided country.
CAIRO, Egypt— The car-bomb assassination Wednesday of an anti-Syrian Christian legislator in Beirut is likely to raise tensions in Lebanon just days before political factions there are scheduled to meet to decide who will succeed the pro-Syrian president, Emile Lahoud.
A car bomb ripped through a Christian suburb of Beirut on Wednesday, reportedly killing four people and shaking Lebanon just a week ahead of a crucial election in the divided country.