Thanks to some excellent reporting and research by Michael Totten, we found that Lebanese MP Pierre Gemayel was not the only anti-Syrian minister targeted for assassination yesterday.
Gunmen in a white Suzuki opened fire on the office of Michel Pharaon, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs. Security forces cordoned off the area and nobody was injured. Pharaon is a Greek-Catholic MP from the bloc of anti-Syrian leader Saad Hariri.
Besides more bloodshed, what's the significance? It turns out that if two more ministers are assassinated, the cabinet is automatically dissolved, because it would lack the two-thirds + 1 it needs to be constitutional.
One wonders if the Lebanese are now reaping as they have sown in terms of abiding Hizbullah and collaborating with it.
This incident reminds me of one of the messages that the IAF would drop on Lebanon which read "Hizbullah, a friend in you presence, an enemy behind your back!"
Posted by: Garduneh Mehr | Nov 24, 2006 at 13:10