Christian politician assassinated.(Lebanon)(Pierre Gemayel)(Brief article)

Catholic Insight | January 1, 2007 | Copyright

Beirut -- The violence of the Lebanese summer never really went away--it just went underground. On November 21, it erupted again in an episode where history repeated itself.

Pierre Gemayel, a cabinet member in the pro-Western government of Fouad Siniora, was shot and killed by three gunmen who rammed his car in a Christian neighbourhood of Beirut.

Gemayel, 34, was a member of one of Lebanon's most prominent Christian Maronite families and the nephew of politician Bashi Gemayel, who was killed by a truck bomb in 1982. His grandfather was the founder of the ...

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