Antoine Ghanem was a Lebanese politician and an MP in the Lebanese Parliament.
11 Facts About Antoine Ghanem
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Antoine Ghanem was murdered on 19 September 2007 in a car bomb explosion in the Sin el Fil suburb of Beirut.
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Antoine Ghanem was the eighth anti-Syrian figure assassinated since the assassination of Rafik Hariri on 14 February 2005.
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Antoine Ghanem joined the Kataeb Party in 1961 and later became head of its Baabda District.
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In 2000, Antoine Ghanem was elected to the Lebanese Parliament for Baabda constituency, running on the list of Druze leader Walid Jumblat.
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Antoine Ghanem actively participated in the Cedar Revolution after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.
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Antoine Ghanem was re-elected in 2005 to his post of deputy and seat to the political council of the Kataeb Party, after the reunification of this party and the reconciliation between Gemayel and Pakradouni.
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Antoine Ghanem returned to Beirut from Abu Dhabi on 16 September 2007, just two days before the assassination.
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The car-bomb that killed him along with at least six others, including his two bodyguards, one of whom is Antoine Ghanem Daou, exploded at a junction of a main street filled with rush hour traffic in the densely populated and mostly Christian neighborhood of Horsh Tabet in Sin el Fil.
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Kuwaiti newspaper Al Seyassah reported that the Antoine Ghanem assassination was a direct result of Syria re-opening its borders with Lebanon on 17 September 2007, two days before the assassination.
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Antoine Ghanem's body was buried in the Beirut suburb of Tohwita.