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08:18, July 07, 2007 |
A radical Palestinian guerrilla group has allegedly played a role in the assassination of Lebanese former Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, local Naharnet news website reported on Friday.
The report, citing reliable sources informed on the investigation in Gemayel''s killing, said the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) was suspected of involvement in Gemayel''s death.
According to the report, a car used in the assassination, a Honda VRC, was stolen from the mountain resort of Brummana in October 2006 and taken to an area in the northern sector of the eastern Bekaa valley where car bandits operate.
Shortly after that, a member of the PFLP-GC approached the gang and bartered the car for a quantity of weapons, the sources said.
The car was used in the Nov. 21 assassination of Gemayel in Suburban Jdaideh, almost a month after it was stolen from Brummana, the sources added.
The vehicle was later driven to Syria, which expelled it back to Lebanon in December 2006 in line with a warrant issued by the Interpol, said the sources.
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