Anti-Syrian Lebanese editor assassinated in car bombing

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Journalist and lawmaker Gibran Tueni, a relentless critic of Syria who spent months in France fearing assassination, was killed Monday in a car bombing -- only a day after returning to his homeland.

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