You have to have balls the size of coconuts to get into politics in Lebanon.
"It's an interesting coincidence that eight of the last political assassinations in Lebanon have all been conducted against anti-Syrian politicians," Bolton said. "One can follow the logic there."
But Imad Moustapha, the Syrian ambassador to the United States, said his government was "categorically not" behind Gemayel's killing. Moustapha suggested the killings were an attempt to damage movement toward closer cooperation between Washington and Damascus over Iraq.
"Isn't it strange that whenever the situation would become slightly, slightly toward engagement with Syria, every time this happens, immediately an assassination takes place?" he asked.
