Murder in Beirut

BEIRUT – On Fri­day, a dou­ble mur­der shocked Lebanon and made a tense sit­u­a­tion even more taut. Here’s the story I filed for the San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle:

The sec­ond anniver­sary of Syria’s with­drawal from Lebanon in the face of huge pop­u­lar protests after the assas­si­na­tion of for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Rafik Hariri ended in two grue­some killings Thursday.

The bod­ies of Ziad Qabalan, 25, and Ziad Ghan­dour, 12, two Sun­nis with ties to the Pro­gres­sive Social­ist Party, a polit­i­cal party led by anti-Syrian Druze leader Walid Jum­blatt, were found by police in the south­ern coastal vil­lage of Jadra three days after they were kid­napped off a Beirut street. The bod­ies report­edly showed signs of torture.

Since then, we’ve had con­do­lences upon con­do­lences, but no fight­ing, thank­fully. This might be the one oppor­tu­nity for Lebanese squab­bling war­lords cum politi­cians to step back from the brink. No one wants to see more dead 12-year-olds, I don’t believe.

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