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SAAD HARIRI, son of assassinated former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, on last week's murder of Cabinet Minister Pierre Gemayel, the latest in a string of killings since 2005 of pro-Western leaders who opposed influence from neighboring Syria...
ASSASSINATED. Pierre Gemayel, 34, outspoken anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister of Industry and son of former President Amin Gemayel; after three gunmen shot him at point-blank range as he was driving on a busy street; in Beirut. A rising political star in the Christian Phalange Party, founded by his grandfather and namesake, he was the fifth anti-Syrian leader in the past two years to be murdered. Parliament member Saad Hariri, son of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, who was killed last year, vowed to find and prosecute those responsible...
...power as motivated by its concern that prime minister Fouad Siniora would try to begin the process of Hizballah's disarmament that was reaffirmed in the U.N.-brokered cease-fire that ended this summer's war. Moreover, some politicians in Beirut suspect that the assassination of Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel on Tuesday was plotted by Syria to scare cabinet ministers into voting against the international probe into Hariri's death by a massive truck bomb (other analysts argue the predictable fallout from the killing just ahead of such a crucial vote is precisely why Syria would not have ordered...
...This process will drag on for months before it wends its way into the U.N. Security Council. Moreover, such a confrontational approach would run counter to the expected recommendation of the Iraq Study Group, commissioned by the White House, to engage with Syria. But after the assassination of Pierre Gemayel the notion of U.S. talks with Syria may be off the table, at least for the moment...
...Lebanon as "the birth pangs of a new Middle East." A return to the old Middle East, more like it. Israel withdrew its forces from Lebanon, despite achieving few of its objectives. But U.S. support for Israel's bombardments gravely undercut the pro-American Siniora government to which Pierre Gemayel belonged and that now may not survive Hizballah's bid for greater power. As I watch dramatic events in Lebanon yet again, the U.S. looks no more able to direct events than it was two decades ago when Pierre Gemayel's uncle lost his life and his father was deserted...