Syrians continue their war against Lebanon
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CNN has more on the attack including this:
Wretchard at the Belmont Club see a lawfare morass as the only likely out come in dealing with Syria. That would certainly be true if we decide to go the "diplomatic" route. However, Syria has really isolated itself since the Hariri murder and its joint ventures with Iran. I think the NATO powers and Saudi Arabia and Egypt can bring considerable power against the light weights doing the thinking in Damascus. With a Hezballah-Iran connection also likely it could result in more pressure against this axis of wickedness.
An anti-Syrian Lebanese MP has been killed in an apparent car bomb attack in a mainly Christian suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.The Syrians have never been able to explain the coincidence of the deaths of those who oppose Syrian domination of Lebanon. Shazamm! It just keeps happening. Perhaps they need to change the subject from their failure to stop the Israeli raid in Syria and the failure of the al Qaeda operation in Lebanon without Syrian assistance. The UN needs to speed up it Hariri trial and go after the Assad thugocracy.
Antoine Ghanim, a member of the Maronite Phalange party, and at least six others died when his car exploded in the eastern Sin al-Fil district.
The blast also damaged several nearby buildings and set four cars alight.
The son of the Phalange leader Amin Gemayel, Pierre Gemayel, was shot dead by gunmen in November 2006.
Five other high-profile anti-Syrian Lebanese figures have been killed since the assassination of the former Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, in 2005.
The Syrian government has denied any involvement in the killings.
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CNN has more on the attack including this:
...It is time for some massive blasts in Damascus, if this does not stop. Are we just going to send another UN inquiry or is that unaugust body just going to ignore Syria's low grade war with a free Lebanon.
Fellow parliamentarian Walid Jumblatt, head of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party, called the killing "a bloody message" as it comes ahead of elections and will reduce the parliamentary majority from 69 to 68, preventing them from electing "a free president for Lebanon."
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The White House said it strongly condemned Ghanem's killing, immediately labeling it as a politically motivated assassination.
"Since October of 2004 there has been a pattern of political assassinations and attempted assassinations designed to intimidate those working courageously toward a sovereign and democratic Lebanon," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said, reading a prepared statement. "The victims of these cowardly attacks have consistently been those who publicly sought to end Syria's interference in Lebanon's internal affairs."
"It is no coincidence that this attack comes as Lebanon prepares to elect a new president," the statement continued.
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Wretchard at the Belmont Club see a lawfare morass as the only likely out come in dealing with Syria. That would certainly be true if we decide to go the "diplomatic" route. However, Syria has really isolated itself since the Hariri murder and its joint ventures with Iran. I think the NATO powers and Saudi Arabia and Egypt can bring considerable power against the light weights doing the thinking in Damascus. With a Hezballah-Iran connection also likely it could result in more pressure against this axis of wickedness.
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