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	<title>Comments on: Breaking: Anti-Syrian Lebanese cabinet member murdered in Beirut suburb</title>
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		<title>By: Michelle Malkin &#187; Not again: Lebanese Christian official assassinated</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michelle Malkin &#187; Not again: Lebanese Christian official assassinated</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Allah has a massive news round-up and commentary. More at PJM. AP coverage here. Yahoo! News is covering. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Hot Air &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Security Council votes to create Hariri tribunal</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hot Air &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Security Council votes to create Hariri tribunal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 20:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Wonderful news, even if Russia and China couldn&#8217;t quite bring themselves to endorse it. This has been Assad&#8217;s greatest fear since Rafiq Hariri, the anti-Syrian former prime minister of Lebanon, was assassinated two years ago: all signs point to the Syrian government&#8217;s involvement and he knows it and soon the rest of the world will know it too. That&#8217;s why people ended up dying every time the UN inched a little closer to approving the tribunal &#8212; it was Assad&#8217;s version of a shot across the bow, a warning of what could and would happen in Lebanon if the UN went ahead with the investigation. His puppet was already making threats in advance of the vote: Damascus denies involvement but has indicated it will not cooperate with the court. Washington’s U.N. ambassador, Zalmay Khalilzad, warned Syria on Tuesday it would face “increased pressure” if it did not do so. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Wonderful news, even if Russia and China couldn&#8217;t quite bring themselves to endorse it. This has been Assad&#8217;s greatest fear since Rafiq Hariri, the anti-Syrian former prime minister of Lebanon, was assassinated two years ago: all signs point to the Syrian government&#8217;s involvement and he knows it and soon the rest of the world will know it too. That&#8217;s why people ended up dying every time the UN inched a little closer to approving the tribunal &#8212; it was Assad&#8217;s version of a shot across the bow, a warning of what could and would happen in Lebanon if the UN went ahead with the investigation. His puppet was already making threats in advance of the vote: Damascus denies involvement but has indicated it will not cooperate with the court. Washington’s U.N. ambassador, Zalmay Khalilzad, warned Syria on Tuesday it would face “increased pressure” if it did not do so. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Hot Air &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Terror in Beirut: Bomb explodes outside shopping mall, killing one</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hot Air &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Terror in Beirut: Bomb explodes outside shopping mall, killing one</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 22:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] So what? Who cares? Well, here&#8217;s the twist: Fatah al-Islam might not be the renegade Al Qaeda offshoot it pretends to be. This short analysis in the JPost is a must-read, as is Anton Efendi&#8217;s surprisingly optimstic take at Across the Bay. Every time the UN moves a little closer to establishing the international tribunal to investigate Rafiq Hariri&#8217;s assassination &#8212; a tribunal that&#8217;s expected to point directly at the Syrian government &#8212; violence breaks out in Lebanon. In November the Security Council approved a draft plan for the tribunal; a few days later, anti-Syrian Lebanese cabinet member Pierre Gemayel was shot in the face while sitting in his car. Now another draft regarding the tribunal is before the Security Council &#8212; and what do you know, the Lebanese army is attacked and bombs are bursting in Beirut. The JPost: It is known that the Syrian regime is determined to prevent this tribunal at all costs, since it is believed that senior Syrian officials may be found to have been involved in the Hariri killing. Could it be that the regime in Damascus might see an escalation of tension in Lebanon as currently helpful - as a tacit reminder to the international community of what Damascus is capable of when put in a corner? This is the view of senior officials in Lebanese government, and is in keeping with earlier practices of the Damascus regime. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] So what? Who cares? Well, here&#8217;s the twist: Fatah al-Islam might not be the renegade Al Qaeda offshoot it pretends to be. This short analysis in the JPost is a must-read, as is Anton Efendi&#8217;s surprisingly optimstic take at Across the Bay. Every time the UN moves a little closer to establishing the international tribunal to investigate Rafiq Hariri&#8217;s assassination &#8212; a tribunal that&#8217;s expected to point directly at the Syrian government &#8212; violence breaks out in Lebanon. In November the Security Council approved a draft plan for the tribunal; a few days later, anti-Syrian Lebanese cabinet member Pierre Gemayel was shot in the face while sitting in his car. Now another draft regarding the tribunal is before the Security Council &#8212; and what do you know, the Lebanese army is attacked and bombs are bursting in Beirut. The JPost: It is known that the Syrian regime is determined to prevent this tribunal at all costs, since it is believed that senior Syrian officials may be found to have been involved in the Hariri killing. Could it be that the regime in Damascus might see an escalation of tension in Lebanon as currently helpful &#8211; as a tacit reminder to the international community of what Damascus is capable of when put in a corner? This is the view of senior officials in Lebanese government, and is in keeping with earlier practices of the Damascus regime. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Janos Hunyadi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Janos Hunyadi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Neo, WW3 is over. We won. This is 4&lt;/blockquote&gt;.

Ja, but WW IV is gonna make WW III look like a Unitarian-Universalist Sunday School picnic</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Neo, WW3 is over. We won. This is 4</p></blockquote>
<p>.</p>
<p>Ja, but WW IV is gonna make WW III look like a Unitarian-Universalist Sunday School picnic</p>
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		<title>By: Ugly</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ugly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 05:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I feel sorry for his family.

I wish death upon the assassins.

I want to be young again.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I feel sorry for his family.</p>
<p>I wish death upon the assassins.</p>
<p>I want to be young again.</p>
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		<title>By: The Wide Awake Cafe &#187; Killing Lebanon</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Wide Awake Cafe &#187; Killing Lebanon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] While we&#8217;re all distracted by Thanksgiving preparations very ominous things are happening in Beirut, Lebanon. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Right Voices &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Lebanon, Syria, Israel and Hezbollah..Oh My!</title>
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		<dc:creator>Right Voices &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Lebanon, Syria, Israel and Hezbollah..Oh My!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Allah has a massive news round-up and commentary. More at PJM. AP coverage here. Yahoo! News is covering. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Secular Blasphemy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Secular Blasphemy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Minister killed in Beirut...&lt;/strong&gt;

...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Minister killed in Beirut&#8230;</strong></p>
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		<title>By: rayvet</title>
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		<dc:creator>rayvet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Neo, WW3 is over.  We won.  This is 4.  But I know what you mean and agree whole heartedly.  I see a storm brewing on the horizon.  And I see this to be part of the &quot;grand plan&quot; in our invasion of Iraq.  Our presence over there, and the disruption of Iraq&#039;s previous euphoric military state, has caused and entire region (the whole of the middle east) to be put into turmoil.  Think about it.  These savages are just a hair&#039;s breath away from ripping at each other&#039;s throats.  If civil wars in and between these countries start up, we don&#039;t have to worry about the terrorists over on this side of the world any time soon.  Twenty years from now, President Bush and the administration will be hailed as geniuses for bringing this upheaval about.  Because when these animals start killing each other, look out.  You think there&#039;s been a lot of blood shed the past couple of months.  You haven&#039;t seen anything yet.  I hear and read about all these little rifts between Muslim factions and sit back and think, &quot;Are these people (ooops, savages) going to destroy themselves.&quot;  The answer I keep coming up with is yes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Neo, WW3 is over.  We won.  This is 4.  But I know what you mean and agree whole heartedly.  I see a storm brewing on the horizon.  And I see this to be part of the &#8220;grand plan&#8221; in our invasion of Iraq.  Our presence over there, and the disruption of Iraq&#8217;s previous euphoric military state, has caused and entire region (the whole of the middle east) to be put into turmoil.  Think about it.  These savages are just a hair&#8217;s breath away from ripping at each other&#8217;s throats.  If civil wars in and between these countries start up, we don&#8217;t have to worry about the terrorists over on this side of the world any time soon.  Twenty years from now, President Bush and the administration will be hailed as geniuses for bringing this upheaval about.  Because when these animals start killing each other, look out.  You think there&#8217;s been a lot of blood shed the past couple of months.  You haven&#8217;t seen anything yet.  I hear and read about all these little rifts between Muslim factions and sit back and think, &#8220;Are these people (ooops, savages) going to destroy themselves.&#8221;  The answer I keep coming up with is yes.</p>
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		<title>By: jaleach</title>
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		<dc:creator>jaleach</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know, as long as I can remember I&#039;ve been seeing footage from the Middle East of cars with bullet holes in them. I&#039;m 36, by the way.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know, as long as I can remember I&#8217;ve been seeing footage from the Middle East of cars with bullet holes in them. I&#8217;m 36, by the way.</p>
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		<title>By: right2bright</title>
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		<dc:creator>right2bright</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Uh, I know this one. Is it Haliburton? 

Editor on November 21, 2006 at 1:37 PM&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Is that the only company people on the left know?  There are hundreds of companies making more money during this war, that are larger and more influential, yet it is the only one mentioned.  The left doesn&#039;t get out much, do they?

...and the most obvious was missed, that evil bastard Karl Rove.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Uh, I know this one. Is it Haliburton? </p>
<p>Editor on November 21, 2006 at 1:37 PM</p></blockquote>
<p>Is that the only company people on the left know?  There are hundreds of companies making more money during this war, that are larger and more influential, yet it is the only one mentioned.  The left doesn&#8217;t get out much, do they?</p>
<p>&#8230;and the most obvious was missed, that evil bastard Karl Rove.</p>
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		<title>By: Mensa Barbie Welcomes You</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mensa Barbie Welcomes You</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Destabilization, now Assassination...&lt;/strong&gt;

Very sad news...When will this &#039;Militant Madness&#039; Ever Stop? FM Philippe Douste-Blazy on Monday,  &quot;I do not think that there is a war between Israel and Lebanon, I think that Syria, Iran and Hezbollah are trying to destabilize Lebanon, which is our ...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Destabilization, now Assassination&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Very sad news&#8230;When will this &#8216;Militant Madness&#8217; Ever Stop? FM Philippe Douste-Blazy on Monday,  &#8220;I do not think that there is a war between Israel and Lebanon, I think that Syria, Iran and Hezbollah are trying to destabilize Lebanon, which is our &#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Puritan1648</title>
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		<dc:creator>Puritan1648</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;I count possibly 15 holes in that shot group. Which seems more typical of a burst of automatic rifle or machine gun fire, not bolt action or semiautomatic rifle fire.  -- EFG

His vehicle was pinned by two cars in the hit team, and those shots thorough the driver’s side window were clustered in a way that highly suggests fully automatic weapons fire (probably from an AK) at close range, measured in feet, not yards. --  Bob Owens&lt;/blockquote&gt;

...now, guys...don&#039;t go muddying this thing up with facts informed by experience.

If the media says &quot;sniper&quot;, it can mean anything from a marksman concealed in a book depository to a guy with a poison-dart umbrella.  Don&#039;t make &#039;em do homework on what a &quot;sniper&quot; is.  They&#039;re convinced that &quot;sniper&quot; and &quot;assasin&quot; are synonyms.

The hit was pretty blatant and pretty by-the-book.  Block the car in, put a magazine of whatever -- AK series, MP5, one of those sexy little Italian numbers, maybe a captured Uzi -- through the appropriate window, blow the side of the guy&#039;s face off.  Simple, effective, repeat as needed.

Was it stupid?  Did anyone *EVER* note the Bozos (my pet name for Hezbollah, based in no small part on antics like this) for being brainiacs?  They&#039;re sly, yes.  They&#039;re sometimes surprising.  They just aren&#039;t very subtle and certainly aren&#039;t very smart.

Who killed him?  If the Bozos acted, meaning that it&#039;s the Bozos primarily who wanted him gone, they&#039;d&#039;ve had to kiss Assad&#039;s hand and get his go-ahead.  If it was the Syrians, they might&#039;ve used Bozo muscle or their own, thick on the ground in Leb-bozo-non.  Could&#039;ve been the Iranians, who&#039;re hip-deep in things there.  Might&#039;ve been rival falangists, but that&#039;s doubtful.

Then again, it might&#039;ve been Santa Clause, delivering early on little Hassan&#039;s wish of a dead rival for Christmas.  &quot;...an&#039; I wanna pony, an&#039; I wanna Flexible Flyer, an&#039; I wanna botulism toxin lab, an&#039; I want more missles, an&#039; I wanna dead Christian falangist, an&#039; I wanna GI Mohammed with jihad-grip...&quot;.

...but that last one could just be me...after too much coffee....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>I count possibly 15 holes in that shot group. Which seems more typical of a burst of automatic rifle or machine gun fire, not bolt action or semiautomatic rifle fire.  &#8212; EFG</p>
<p>His vehicle was pinned by two cars in the hit team, and those shots thorough the driver’s side window were clustered in a way that highly suggests fully automatic weapons fire (probably from an AK) at close range, measured in feet, not yards. &#8212;  Bob Owens</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8230;now, guys&#8230;don&#8217;t go muddying this thing up with facts informed by experience.</p>
<p>If the media says &#8220;sniper&#8221;, it can mean anything from a marksman concealed in a book depository to a guy with a poison-dart umbrella.  Don&#8217;t make &#8216;em do homework on what a &#8220;sniper&#8221; is.  They&#8217;re convinced that &#8220;sniper&#8221; and &#8220;assasin&#8221; are synonyms.</p>
<p>The hit was pretty blatant and pretty by-the-book.  Block the car in, put a magazine of whatever &#8212; AK series, MP5, one of those sexy little Italian numbers, maybe a captured Uzi &#8212; through the appropriate window, blow the side of the guy&#8217;s face off.  Simple, effective, repeat as needed.</p>
<p>Was it stupid?  Did anyone *EVER* note the Bozos (my pet name for Hezbollah, based in no small part on antics like this) for being brainiacs?  They&#8217;re sly, yes.  They&#8217;re sometimes surprising.  They just aren&#8217;t very subtle and certainly aren&#8217;t very smart.</p>
<p>Who killed him?  If the Bozos acted, meaning that it&#8217;s the Bozos primarily who wanted him gone, they&#8217;d've had to kiss Assad&#8217;s hand and get his go-ahead.  If it was the Syrians, they might&#8217;ve used Bozo muscle or their own, thick on the ground in Leb-bozo-non.  Could&#8217;ve been the Iranians, who&#8217;re hip-deep in things there.  Might&#8217;ve been rival falangists, but that&#8217;s doubtful.</p>
<p>Then again, it might&#8217;ve been Santa Clause, delivering early on little Hassan&#8217;s wish of a dead rival for Christmas.  &#8220;&#8230;an&#8217; I wanna pony, an&#8217; I wanna Flexible Flyer, an&#8217; I wanna botulism toxin lab, an&#8217; I want more missles, an&#8217; I wanna dead Christian falangist, an&#8217; I wanna GI Mohammed with jihad-grip&#8230;&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8230;but that last one could just be me&#8230;after too much coffee&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Entelechy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Entelechy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Any ideas why Drudge might consider this insignificant?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Any ideas why Drudge might consider this insignificant?</p>
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		<title>By: Jaibones</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jaibones</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bob, 

Exactly. Apparently some snipers actually stand next to your car while the &quot;snipe&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bob, </p>
<p>Exactly. Apparently some snipers actually stand next to your car while the &#8220;snipe&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: The American Pundit</title>
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		<dc:creator>The American Pundit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Anti-Syrian Christian Assassinated in Lebanon...&lt;/strong&gt;

An anti-Syrian, Chrisitan member of Lebanese parliament has been assassinated in an Beiruit suburb, according to the Associated Press and Fox News. The Parliament member, was beleived to have been assassinated by the pro-Syrian Hezbullah group. In resp...</description>
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<p>An anti-Syrian, Chrisitan member of Lebanese parliament has been assassinated in an Beiruit suburb, according to the Associated Press and Fox News. The Parliament member, was beleived to have been assassinated by the pro-Syrian Hezbullah group. In resp&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Bob Owens</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bob Owens</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>RE: &quot;sniper&quot; fire. It simply didn&#039;t happen that way. EFG is correct.

His vehicle was pinned by two cars in the hit team, and those shots thorough the driver&#039;s side window were clustered in a way that highly suggests fully automatic weapons fire (probably from an AK) at close range, measured in feet, not yards.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>RE: &#8220;sniper&#8221; fire. It simply didn&#8217;t happen that way. EFG is correct.</p>
<p>His vehicle was pinned by two cars in the hit team, and those shots thorough the driver&#8217;s side window were clustered in a way that highly suggests fully automatic weapons fire (probably from an AK) at close range, measured in feet, not yards.</p>
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		<title>By: Confederate Yankee</title>
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		<dc:creator>Confederate Yankee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Crude Messages...&lt;/strong&gt;

As you probably already know by now, the political story of the day is that another Lebanese politician has been assassinated. Lebanons industry minister Pierre Gemayel was driving in Jdeideh when he was boxed in by two cars. the first......</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Crude Messages&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>As you probably already know by now, the political story of the day is that another Lebanese politician has been assassinated. Lebanons industry minister Pierre Gemayel was driving in Jdeideh when he was boxed in by two cars. the first&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: The Sundries Shack</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Sundries Shack</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Another Lebanese politician has been killed. This time, it&#8217;s a member of the Lebanese cabinet. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Another Lebanese politician has been killed. This time, it&#8217;s a member of the Lebanese cabinet. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Webloggin - Blog Archive &#187; Democracy - Syrian Style</title>
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		<dc:creator>Webloggin - Blog Archive &#187; Democracy - Syrian Style</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Now that Syria has resumed diplomatic relations with Iran we just happen to witness the presumption of political assassinations. These are the two countries that Democrats and talking heads in the media think we should invite to the table to sit down and break bread with. That tells you all you need to know. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Now that Syria has resumed diplomatic relations with Iran we just happen to witness the presumption of political assassinations. These are the two countries that Democrats and talking heads in the media think we should invite to the table to sit down and break bread with. That tells you all you need to know. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: William Amos</title>
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		<dc:creator>William Amos</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And it starts also on the BBC board. &quot;Its all BUSH&#039;s and the Israelis fault they are behind this assassination to discredit Hezbullah&quot;

The Islamos do speakith

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?sortBy=1&amp;threadID=4792&amp;start=15&amp;tstart=0&amp;edition=2&amp;ttl=20061121192630&amp;#paginator

Only very naïve people would believe that this is a job done by Syrians or Hezbollah. They have nothing to gain from this as they didn’t with the Hariri’s murder!! This is done to stop Hezbollah’s from gaining support and more power in Lebanon, to revive the anti-Syrian and Hezbollah movement that lost its momentum after the war with Israel and to get the international community to put Syria &amp; Hezbollah under the anti-terror microscope. This is so staged beyond belief!!

Rez, Leicester, UK 

Hmm, stance to Syria in the West has to be eased because of US mid-term results. Swiftly another event occurs which can be blamed on Syria. This is all getting a bit obvious Mossad, don&#039;t you think?

Mike R, London, United Kingdom 

This dirty game of Cat &amp; Mouse has caused another waste of Human Life (a high profile one). It is obvious that either Israel or pro is behind this killing, on the contrary of anyone else says. And the reasons are just to divert the attention of the Media from Iran Summit for absolute solution to the Iraq &amp; Mid East problems as well stir civil disorder in Lebanon so as to elaborate why the government in Beirut has failed Lebanon, which is due to Western interventions.

ahmed 

I think this is more consequences from Bush&#039;s failure to engage in middle east talks when he first became president. The administrations domestic and foreign policies were conceived by the axis of idiots (Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld). I presume Blair is waiting for Bush to make a formal statement so he will know what to say...

Nick Mason, Biloxi, Mississippi USA</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And it starts also on the BBC board. &#8220;Its all BUSH&#8217;s and the Israelis fault they are behind this assassination to discredit Hezbullah&#8221;</p>
<p>The Islamos do speakith</p>
<p><a href="http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?sortBy=1&amp;threadID=4792&amp;start=15&amp;tstart=0&amp;edition=2&amp;ttl=20061121192630&amp;#paginator" rel="nofollow">http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?sortBy=1&amp;threadID=4792&amp;start=15&amp;tstart=0&amp;edition=2&amp;ttl=20061121192630&amp;#paginator</a></p>
<p>Only very naïve people would believe that this is a job done by Syrians or Hezbollah. They have nothing to gain from this as they didn’t with the Hariri’s murder!! This is done to stop Hezbollah’s from gaining support and more power in Lebanon, to revive the anti-Syrian and Hezbollah movement that lost its momentum after the war with Israel and to get the international community to put Syria &amp; Hezbollah under the anti-terror microscope. This is so staged beyond belief!!</p>
<p>Rez, Leicester, UK </p>
<p>Hmm, stance to Syria in the West has to be eased because of US mid-term results. Swiftly another event occurs which can be blamed on Syria. This is all getting a bit obvious Mossad, don&#8217;t you think?</p>
<p>Mike R, London, United Kingdom </p>
<p>This dirty game of Cat &amp; Mouse has caused another waste of Human Life (a high profile one). It is obvious that either Israel or pro is behind this killing, on the contrary of anyone else says. And the reasons are just to divert the attention of the Media from Iran Summit for absolute solution to the Iraq &amp; Mid East problems as well stir civil disorder in Lebanon so as to elaborate why the government in Beirut has failed Lebanon, which is due to Western interventions.</p>
<p>ahmed </p>
<p>I think this is more consequences from Bush&#8217;s failure to engage in middle east talks when he first became president. The administrations domestic and foreign policies were conceived by the axis of idiots (Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld). I presume Blair is waiting for Bush to make a formal statement so he will know what to say&#8230;</p>
<p>Nick Mason, Biloxi, Mississippi USA</p>
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		<title>By: Church and State</title>
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		<dc:creator>Church and State</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Christian Leader Assassinated in Lebanon...&lt;/strong&gt;

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		<title>By: Blaise</title>
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		<dc:creator>Blaise</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Editor...reading Kos again, eh?

The sad thing is that someone, somewhere, sometime will be advancing that idea. Jokes become leftie positions.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Editor&#8230;reading Kos again, eh?</p>
<p>The sad thing is that someone, somewhere, sometime will be advancing that idea. Jokes become leftie positions.</p>
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		<title>By: Jaibones</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jaibones</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>On a more parochial level, here&#039;s this odd statement by newsman Mike Scott at &lt;strong&gt;WIND radio &lt;/strong&gt;in Chicago:  &quot;...it is the first assassination of an anti-Syrian politician in Lebanon since December, 2005...&quot;

I am awaiting response from Scott and the GM at WIND to the question &lt;em&gt;&quot;WTF are you talking about?!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;

This station airs Prager, Medved, Ingraham, Hewitt, and (the apalling) Savage.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On a more parochial level, here&#8217;s this odd statement by newsman Mike Scott at <strong>WIND radio </strong>in Chicago:  &#8220;&#8230;it is the first assassination of an anti-Syrian politician in Lebanon since December, 2005&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>I am awaiting response from Scott and the GM at WIND to the question <em>&#8220;WTF are you talking about?!&#8221;</em></p>
<p>This station airs Prager, Medved, Ingraham, Hewitt, and (the apalling) Savage.</p>
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		<title>By: The Autopsy</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Autopsy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Anti-Hezbollah PM is killed by Unknown Gunmen...&lt;/strong&gt;

I fully expect this to backfire. We saw how Lebanon responded to Hariri&#039;s killing. It will respond the same way to Gamayel&#039;s killing. This time they should oust Hezbollah-- take the parliamentary seats away and label Hezbollah an illegal group. Leban...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Anti-Hezbollah PM is killed by Unknown Gunmen&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>I fully expect this to backfire. We saw how Lebanon responded to Hariri&#8217;s killing. It will respond the same way to Gamayel&#8217;s killing. This time they should oust Hezbollah&#8211; take the parliamentary seats away and label Hezbollah an illegal group. Leban&#8230;</p>
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