Robert Fisk: Another truly brave man dies in Lebanon
I did not like Jibran Tueni, but he would have been my friend had we had the chance to be so
Published: 17 December 2005
There on the screen Jibran Tueni. "For ever and ever!" he shouts. He is talking about Lebanese freedom. And Katia Jahjoura's camera picks him up, throbbing with life. Only nine months later he will be dead. Not for ever and ever.
Tueni was the editor of An Nahar newspaper, a truly brave man who was killed on Monday morning in a car bomb explosion outside of Beirut.
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