Antoine Ghanim, a anti-Syrian Lebanese MP was killed in a car bomb attack.  Ghanim and at least three others died when his car exploded in Sin al Fil, a mainly Christian suburb of Beirut.  Ghanim is the seventh anti-Syrian figure to be killed since 2005.  Ghanim’s death occurs six days prior to when the Lebanese parliament is scheduled to elect a new president.

For more information please see:
BBC- Lebanese MP ‘killed in bombing’– 19 September 2007

The Daily Star- MP Antoine Ghanem killed in Lebanon car bombing– 19 September 2007