 Lebanon's anti-Syria opposition has called for the resignation of President Emile Lahoud, an ally of Damascus, after the killing of a prominent journalist. The opposition "demands by democratic means the resignation of the president as he is the effective leader of the security/intelligence regime," said Elias Atallah, a senior official in the Democratic Left movement. "Once again the hand of terrorism, under the protection of the president and the joint Lebanese-Syrian intelligence agencies and what is left of the regime, targets a symbol of the free press," Atallah said, reading a statement after an emergency meeting of the opposition on Thursday. Samir Kassir, who wrote anti-Syrian articles for Lebanon's leading An-Nahar newspaper, was killed when a bomb planted under his car exploded in a neighbourhood of mainly Christian east Beirut earlier on Thursday. |