Who assassinated Bachir Gemayel?
Habib Shartouni
Yasser Arafat
Michel Aoun
Yitzhak Shamir
Answer
The assassination of Bachir Gemayel, the Maronite Christian leader and President-elect of Lebanon, was carried out by Habib Shartouni, a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP). Shartouni detonated a powerful explosive device as Gemayel was giving a speech during a rally on September 14, 1982.
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