Lebanese Fearful After Leader's Murder

Lebanon plunged into fear and gloom Wednesday as mourners came to this mountain town to pay last respects to a Christian politician, whose assassination threatened to push the country's political crisis over the brink.

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Of all the media outlets one might be expect to toe the March 8 coalition party line, the New York Times is pretty far down on the list. But that is exactly what has happened, twice in the past five days, under Hassan Fattah's byline.

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The shooting death of Lebanese Minister Pierre Gemayel and the poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko were the most prominent political murders of 2006.

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From the article: BIKFAYA, LEBANON – As this mountain town in the Christian heartland north of Beirut mourns the murder of one of its most revered leaders, Pierre Gemayel, its residents ponder a future that many fear is slipping toward civil conflict.

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Zvi Bar'el: The accusation leveled at the Syrians by Saad Hariri, son of assassinated former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, the hints by Prime Minister Fuad Siniora urging the establishment of an international tribunal to try Hariri's killers, and statements by anti-Syrian …

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Civil war - the words on all our lips yesterday.

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Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora says Lebanon will not be intimidated by the killers of anti-Syrian politician Pierre Gemayel. Mr. Siniora spoke hours after the Christian Cabinet minister was gunned down outside Beirut Tuesday.

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Pierre Gemayel, scion of Lebanon's most prominent Christian family and a leading opponent of Syria, was gunned down Tuesday in a brazen daytime hit.

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The Hizballah and Amal ministers have resigned from the Lebanese government in order to protest the up-coming Hariri investigation. Now Hizballah and its co-sponsor Syria take their coup to the next level, by assassinating a popular, anti-Syrian Christian politician.

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