Posted in Lebanon by Fox on the December 17th, 2005

December 12 2005, a bomb blast was heard in Mkalles, a suburb of Beirut. The target was Lebanese Journalist, Gebran Tueni. Police says 40 kg of explosives caused the blast which caused the death of Tueni, a friend and his driver. Several foreign workers were also injured.

Gebran Tueni was an international known journalist, issued from a family of prominent Lebanese journalists, founders of daily newspaper An-Nahar, leading arabic newspaper in Lebanon for the last 71 years. Tueni also was a member of the Lebanese Opposition during the Syrian occupation of the country. He was elected, earlier this year - May 2005 - member of Parliament of Lebanon, following the “Cedar’s Revolution”.