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since i agree that this assassination can come from Christian side, it is very unlikely than Aoun is invloved, he had thousands previous opportunity/reason to remove Gemayel the last 30 years and i do not believe that this attack will strengthen his position.

BTW Gemayel was not an angel, i have not tears for him

by fredouil (fredouil@gmailgmailgmail.com) on Tue Nov 21st, 2006 at 07:34:34 PM EST
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I can't see what Aoun would stand to gain either - his position's already strong, he was looking towards elections not mayhem. In fact given the huge bitterness amongst Phalangist-etc. supporters about his alliance with Nasrallah (Lebanese comments-sites full of insults for months!), I'd have thought he was more likely to be assassinated than Gemayel.

Ah well, I clearly lack GeaGea's uncanny premonitory gifts.

"Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is really worrisome." Mohammed Khatami

by eternalcityblues (parvati_roma aaaat libero.it) on Tue Nov 21st, 2006 at 08:18:52 PM EST
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Aoun is a much harder target.  He lives in a fortress on top of a mountain outside of Beirut, and rarely leaves.

Also, depending on who's doing the killing, Aoun wouldn't necessarily be a target.  He is Hezbollah's key Christian ally, and we certainly can't rule out that they did this.  All this speculation is just that -- speculation.  Nobody knows a damn thing, and the different groups in Lebanon will believe what they want  to believe, probably regardless of what the evidence says.

Everyone thinks everyone is a target in Lebanon.  People have been predicting the imminent assassination of Walid Jumblatt for years.  (One of my friends, who was about 10 blocks away when the bomb killed Hariri, said that every single person in the room with him looked up when they heard the sound and said, "Hmmm, wonder if they finally got Jumblatt?")  And yet he still moves around with relative ease.  (I unexpectedly ended up four feet away from him last year as he arrived on foot at the big rally on the one-year anniversary of the Hariri assassination.)

by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Wed Nov 22nd, 2006 at 05:24:47 AM EST
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