Why Killing Of Lebanese Party Official Has Raised Specter Of New Sectarian Strife – Analysis

By Najia Housari

Almost five decades since the Lebanese civil war of 1975-1990 began, reactions to the kidnap and subsequent murder this week of Pascal Suleiman, an official of the Lebanese Forces, show the country’s fragile peace remains on a knife edge.

Suleiman, a political coordinator in the Byblos area, also known as...