Khazen.org offers its condoleances to the family of MP Walid Eido and rejects this  horrific crime.

BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) june 13 -- A member of the Lebanese parliament was killed in an explosion Wednesday outside a Beirut military sports club in what hospital sources called an assassination. Lawmaker Walid Eido, known as a foe of Syrian involvement in Lebanon, his son, Khalid, and two of his bodyguards were killed, Lebanese media reports said. At least six other people died and 11 were wounded in the explosion, believed to be from a car bomb, in the seaside neighborhood of Manara, according to Lebanese security sources.

Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, an outspoken critic of Syria, blamed Eido's killing on Damascus, calling it an attempt to reduce the anti-Syrian majority in the Lebanese government. With this bunch of assassins in Damascus, they don't care about international justice," Jumblatt told CNN International.  Syria has denied any involvment in the assasination

Eido, a constitutional expert, was a member of a political bloc led by Saad Hariri, the son of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, whose assassination two years ago sparked widespread protests that led to the ouster of Syrian forces from Lebanon.Eido was a vocal supporter of the U.N. tribunal investigating Hariri's killing, approved earlier this month by U.N. Security Council..The impact of Wednesday's blast shattered the windows of nearby buildings, while bystanders sustained injuries from the shrapnel. CNN's Brent Sadler witnessed wounded people being carried out of one building

One of Eido's sons was also killed in the blast in which eight other people were killed and 11 were wounded.Here are four facts about Eido: * Born in 1942 in Beirut, he graduated in 1966 and became a magistrate a year later. In the late 1990s he was north Lebanon's public prosecutor. Eido won a seat in parliamentary elections in 2000 and 2005 and was a member of several parliamentary committees. * Eido was a Sunni Muslim and a member of the majority anti-Syrian parliamentary bloc of Saad al-Hariri, which controls Lebanon's Western-backed government..* Eido used to be a member of the Sunni Murabetoun militia during Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war.* He was an avid swimmer and the bomb exploded outside his favourite Beirut beach resort, Sporting Club.

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Golf news, Beirut: Lebanese Christians, wary of the rise of militant Islam in their country, will have to retaliate if they are targeted, a leading politician warned yesterday.The warning by former president Ameen Gemayel, also the leader of the Christian-dominated Phalange Party came as Lebanese soldiers and militants entrenched in a refugee camp fought gunbattles yesterday after at least 17 people were killed in an operation to storm rebel positions.

The army, which has encircled Nahr Al Bared, tried to push into the Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon and overrun positions held by Fatah Al Islam militants, which has snipers posted on rooftops.  "Are we in Kabul, or Fallujah or Gaza?" asked an angry Gemayel yesterday, referring to prominent strongholds in the region, as he addressed party supporters celebrating the creation of a UN tribunal to try suspects in the assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri and scores of others including Gemayel's son Pierre, the minister of industry, in a string of attacks over the past two years.

By HUSSEIN DAKROUB, June 11 Associated Press Writer, BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanese troops exchanged sporadic gunfire with Islamic militants holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon on Monday as the war against al-Qaida-inspired fighters entered its fourth week. The intermittent fighting came a day after heavy clashes erupted when the Lebanese army stepped up its bombardment of Fatah Islam militants barricaded in the Nahr el-Bared camp on the outskirts of the northern city of Tripoli. The leading An-Nahar newspaper reported Monday that "the Nahr el-Bared battle is headed toward a big escalation," saying the Lebanese military had brought in new reinforcements, including more effective artillery and additional naval forces, while pro-Syrian Palestinian factions had joined Fatah Islam militants in their fight.