Article: Blood overlooked. (Lebanon) (International)

SAVAGERY like this makes even the Lebanese flinch. At dawn on October 20th masked gunmen broke into the East Beirut flat of Dany Chamoun, a Christian politician, and murdered him, his wife, and their two sons, aged six and seven. A baby daughter escaped. The killers probably did not see her.

To say that Dany Chamoun had enemies is an understatement. The son of a former president of Lebanon, Camille Chamoun, he had been close to the Israelis, and later backed the "crusade" of General Michel Aoun to drive the Syrians out of Lebanon. That gave President Hafez Assad, of Syria, two reasons to want him out of the way. But Mr Chamoun recently made approaches to ...

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