Lebanon buries slain lawmaker

September 21, 2007

Thousands of people turned out for the funeral of anti-Syrian lawmaker Antoine Ghanem, whose assassination has stirred fears of greater instability in Lebanon. Ghanem returned from self-imposed exile only on Sunday, and was killed in a car bombing along with four others on Wednesday. The Christian Phalange party member was the eighth anti-Syrian politician to be assassinated since the February 2005 murder of five-time prime minister and billionaire tycoon Hariri. A voiced AFPTV news report.