"So long as the head of the spear, the head of the snake is in Baabda [pro-Syrian president Emile Lahoud], assassinations will continue," Opposition leader Walid Jumblatt said in an interview.

An-Nahar's General-Manager Gibran Tueni was on the scene, urging members of the opposition to re-unite, "These elections are meaningless, all differences over the elections are meaningless when we see journalists and freedom in Lebanon assassinated."

Tueni held Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime "responsible from head to toe." Members of the opposition condemned the assassination, calling on pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud to resign.

"Bashar Assad should not be allowed to have a single intelligence operative lingering in Lebanon," said Tueni, who was elected on Sunday as part of Saad Hariri's domination of the Parliamentary elections in Beirut.

"The Syrian regime is responsible from head to toe for this horrific terrorist crime. Lebanon's opposition should promptly close ranks anew to have every Syrian intelligence cell left behind in Lebanon ruthlessly smashed," Tueni said.

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Source: Ya Libnan