Congratulations Lebanon.

I just read this in Naharnet:

Interrogating Suspects In Bashir Gemayel’s Assassination Set for February

On Monday,the state security court set Feb. 1 a date to begin interrogation of two Lebanese citizens charged with involvement in the assassination of president-elect Bashir Gemayel 24 years ago. The date was set by judge Antoine Kheir, head of the Judicial Council, which is the court entrusted with cases related to state security. The brief statement said Habib al-Shartouni and Nabil Alam, both at large, should report to the court for interrogation on Feb. 1.Failing to do so, they will be tried in absentia. Gemayel was assassinated by a major blast that ripped through the Phalange Party office in Beirut’s Ashrafiyeh district in September 1982 before he took the oath to assume the presidency.

Shartouni, a member of the Syrian Social National Party (SSNP) was jailed pending trial until Oct. 13, 1990, when Syrian forces invaded the then Christian enclave. He mysteriously vanished from the central Prison in Roumieh and his whereabouts remain unknown.

Congratulations, Lebanon.