Have you seen this anywhere in the national media?
The assassination of a top ranking “Christian Lebanese Official” No?

It could be due to the probability that the peace that socialists thought they could achieve through negotiations isn't going to hold with those that they have supported. Hezbollah!

Damn Christian crossed the path of innocent Hezbollah gun play.

Who wants too invite to the table and have negotitations with Iran and Syria over Iraq? Hmmmm?
Only those who do not pay attention and feel they can be kind to the two nations who wish for nothing more than Muslim domination in the Middle East first then the world!

This is just a microcosm of what would happen in Iraq if we allow them any authority.


Excerpt from the AP

Key Lebanese Politician Assassinated
Tuesday, November 21, 2006 3:59 PM EST
The Associated Press
By SAM F. GHATTAS

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Pierre Gemayel, an anti-Syrian politician and scion of Lebanon's most prominent Christian family, was gunned down Tuesday in a carefully orchestrated assassination that heightened tensions between the U.S.-backed government and the militant Hezbollah.

Anti-Syrian politicians quickly accused Damascus, as they have in previous assassinations of Lebanese opponents of its larger neighbor. Gemayel, 34, an outspoken opponent of the Syrian-allied Hezbollah, was the fifth anti-Syrian figure killed in the past two years and the first member of the government of Prime Minister Fuad Saniora to be slain.

The assassination, in Gemayel's mainly Christian constituency of Jdeideh, threatens further instability in Lebanon at a time when Hezbollah and other parties allied with Syria are planning street protests unless Saniora gives them more power.

The United States denounced the killing, calling it "an act of terrorism."
Gemayel's driver, who was wounded but survived, rushed the gravely injured politician to a nearby hospital. Soon afterward, Voice of Lebanon — the Phalange-run radio station — reported Gemayel was dead — the fifth member of his family to die in violence.

President Bush denounced the assassination as an attempt to intimidate Saniora's government.
"We support the Saniora government and its democracy and we support the Lebanese people's desire to live in peace," Bush said in Honolulu. "And we support their efforts to defend their democracy against attempts by Syria, Iran and allies to foment instability and violence in that important country."
In Washington, Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said: "We view it as an act of terrorism. We also view it as an act of intimidation."

In an interview with CNN, Saad Hariri, Rafik's son and leader of the anti-Syrian parliamentary majority, implicitly blamed Damascus, saying, "We believe the hand of Syria is all over the place." He said Gemayel was "a friend, a brother to all of us" and appeared to break down after saying: "we will bring justice to all those who killed him."

"They're killing people in Lebanon. They're assassinating political leaders. Not the time to seek justice? There may be those on the Security Council who say it. Let then step forward and say it," he said.
"I think the facts need to be developed," Bolton said when asked about Syria's involvement in Gemayal's killing. But, he said, given "the evidence that links the Hariri assassination to the other political assassinations, I think people can draw their own conclusions."

On Sunday, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah threatened a wave of street protests aimed at bringing down the government if it ignores the group's demand to form a national unity Cabinet, in which Hezbollah and its allies would have considerable influence and would be able to block major decisions.
Nasrallah accused Saniora's government of falling under the influence of the Bush administration and called it "illegitimate" and "unconstitutional."