Jiro Ose

Crisis in Lebanon

Woman mourns as the funeral procession of slain anti-Syrian lawmaker Antoine Ghanem and his body guards in a Christian suburb of Beirut Friday, September 21, 2007. They were killed on Wednesday, September 19,2007 with a massive car bomb blast, a week ahead of Presidential election. She is holding a photo of Tony Gaou, one of the body gurards. Flags in the photo are of Lebanon and Phalangist Christian Party. Ghanem's death means the ruling and pro-western alliance of Sunni, Christian and Druze factions has slim majority of 68 in the 128-member parliament against a Shi'ite-Christian opposition that includes Hezbollah which is backed by Syria and Iran. After the July War, conflict between Hezborah and Israel, Lebanon has been plagued with crisis such as political stand-off with pro-western bloc with slim majority and Syria and Iran backed opposition, accompanied by political assasinations and the fight between Lebanese army and Suni fandamentalist group in a palestinian camps.
Woman mourns as the funeral procession of slain anti-Syrian lawmaker Antoine Ghanem and his body guards in a Christian suburb of Beirut Friday, September 21, 2007. They were killed on Wednesday, September 19,2007 with a massive car bomb blast, a week ahead of Presidential election. She is holding a photo of Tony Gaou, one of the body gurards. Flags in the photo are of Lebanon and Phalangist Christian Party. Ghanem's death means the ruling and pro-western alliance of Sunni, Christian and Druze factions has slim majority of 68 in the 128-member parliament against a Shi'ite-Christian opposition that includes Hezbollah which is backed by Syria and Iran. After the July War, conflict between Hezborah and Israel, Lebanon has been plagued with crisis such as political stand-off with pro-western bloc with slim majority and Syria and Iran backed opposition, accompanied by political assasinations and the fight between Lebanese army and Suni fandamentalist group in a palestinian camps.