| Crowds gathered in Beirut on Friday for the funeral of an anti-Syrian Christian legislator whose assassination has fueled tensions ahead of Lebanon's bitterly contested presidential election. Antoine Ghanem, 64, was the target of a car bomb attack in east Beirut on Wednesday that also killed four others. He was the seventh anti-Syrian leader to be slain since the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri. Ghanem's allies in Lebanon's anti-Syrian governing coalition blamed his death on Damascus, which condemned the attack. |