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Article: Thinking the unthinkable: Lebanon steels itself for sectarian violence and a possible coup following the assassination of Pierre Gemayel, with Syria seen as the prime suspect. Ed Blanche reports from Beirut.(CURRENT AFFAIRS)
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- The Middle East
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- January 1, 2007
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IN ANY POLITICAL assassination in Lebanon, there is invariably an abundance of suspects. Sectarian hatreds, clan blood feuds, political power struggles, business rivalries and foreign conspiracies have all been to blame for the mosaic of murder in Lebanon over the last 60 years. Few of the perpetrators have been apprehended, fewer still ever stood trial. Most of the assassinations remain unsolved.
But the assassination of Pierre Gemayel, Lebanon's industry minister and the scion of one of the country's most prominent and bloodstained political dynasties, on 21 November was a meticulously planned attack carried out by professionals with deadly precision and ...