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	Elias Murr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elias Murr is the current Lebanese Defense Minister.
		He is the son of former Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Michel Murr and the son-in-law of the current President Emile Lahoud.
		Murr was wounded in a bombing in Beirut on July 12, 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elias_Murr (125 words)

	Dossier: Michel Murr (June 2003)
		Murr simultaneously served as minister of municipal and rural affairs, a position that allowed him to barter vital government services for political support at election time (so joined at the hip were these two ministries under Murr's control that they were later integrated into the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities).
		Murr's periodic remarks that his ministry was investigating cases of people who were granted citizenship "by mistake" ensured that these hapless souls did not disappoint him on election day.
		Elias issued a brazen reminder to the public that the use of curtains in the voting booths was "optional." He and his father were so confident of Myrna's victory that she had hardly campaigned at all.
	www.meib.org /articles/0306_ld.htm (2012 words)

	Profile: Elias Murr: pro-Syrian minister who replaced his father
		Murr made his name "in the shadow of Syria, his father and his father-in-law, (pro-Syrian) President Emile Lahoud," said one political analyst who declined to be named.
		Murr was hated by his fellow Christians because he was considered a Damascus loyalist, and he instigated an anti-Syrian clampdown on Christian anti-Syrian groups in 2001.
		Murr was also hated by the drug smugglers in Lebanon as he launched a campiagn against them between 2003-2004 which led to the arrest of several smugglers.
	news.monstersandcritics.com /middleeast/printer_1033449.php (573 words)

	Lebanonwire.com \| De Mistura says Israeli overflights did not violate Blue Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Murr TV owner Gabriel Murr, the only official candidate running for the Metn by-election in June, accused Interior Minister Elias Murr on Thursday of “introducing the authorities as a faction in these elections,” as the key Qornet Shehwan Gathering delayed taking a stance in the poll.
		He was responding to Elias Murr’s comments on Wednesday in which he criticized Gabriel Murr’s nomination, insinuating that it was made in defiance of the Murr family.
		Elias Murr had also argued in his Wednesday comments that the Murr family was already represented in Parliament by his father, Michel.
	www.lebanonwire.com /0204/02042606DS.htm (493 words)

	Middle East Online
		Murr, considered a Damascus loyalist is Lebanon’s defence minister and is from mountain clan.
		BEIRUT - Lebanese Defence Minister Elias Murr, who was wounded in a car bomb attack Tuesday, is a Christian politician who made his name in the shadow of Syria and of his father-in-law, President Emile Lahoud.
		Murr's father survived an assassination attempt in 1985, for which Christian militia leader Samir Geagea is currently serving life in prison.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english?id=13989 (430 words)

	USATODAY.com - Car bomb wounds pro-Syrian Lebanese minister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Elias Murr is the fifth person targeted for assassination over the past year but the first pro-Syrian among them to be hit.
		Murr, 43, was driving his own car in his motorcade through the northern Naqash district — a neighborhood of embassies and diplomatic residences — when a vehicle packed with up to 132 pounds of explosives detonated next to it.
		Murr said he tried pulling the men from the car but the doors were locked.He managed to climb out a broken window before ambulances arrived to ferry him and the others to hospital.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-07-12-lebanon-blast_x.htm?csp=34 (745 words)

	Naharnet Newsdesk - Elias Murr's Agony Between Father and Uncle Over Btighrin Ambush
		Interior Minister Elias Murr says the recent ambush to prevent opposition leaders from entering his hometown of Btighrin has sharpened his determination to snuff out the "war of brothers" for political supremacy in the Metn district, which pits his father Michel Murr against his uncle Gabriel Murr.
		Saturday's ambush saw gunmen widely described as Michel Murr's henchmen shooting from behind barricades over the roof of a motorcade carrying prominent opposition leader and presidential aspirant Nassib Lahoud and his wife, Abla, to a luncheon at Gabriel Murr's villa in Btighrin.
		Murr also fired the commanding officers of the police stations in Btighrin and Bekfaya for failing to promptly advise him of the ambush.
	www.naharnet.com /domino/tn/Newsdesk.nsf/Story/61B993550E64199C42256D71003CC224?OpenDocument&PRINT (346 words)

	Lebanese Forces : Battle of Metn threatens to break out anew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Elias Murr reportedly told his father that he needed to make further legal consultations on the issue before getting back to him, which he never did.
		Michel Murr is expected to contest the results by arguing that rectifying the Qaaqour mistake the votes were counted twice did not fall under the prerogatives of the Interior Ministry.
		Elias Murr has not yet declared Gabriel Murr’s victory, but has said that rectifying the Qaaqour mistake would be to his uncle’s advantage a move that leaves the results open to a possible challenge.
	www.lebaneseforces.com /news1june72002.asp (1084 words)

	ABC News: Lebanese Official: Syria Threatened Me (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The allegation by Elias Murr, who is also deputy prime minister, was the first time that a traditionally pro-Syrian politician in Lebanon has accused Syrian officials of playing a role in the mysterious series of bombings that have occurred in the past year.
		Murr said that last year, while he was interior minister, he had an argument with Syria's intelligence chief in Lebanon, Brig.
		Murr did not identify the source of the threats, but the context made clear he was referring to Ghazale.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1164473 (515 words)

	SLIDESHOW - Comcast.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Lebanon's defense minister, Elias Murr, says Syrian intelligence officials in Lebanon threatened him months before an attempt was made to kill him in a car bombing in July.
		The allegation by Elias Murr, who is also deputy prime minister, was the first time that a traditionally pro-Syrian politician in Lebanon has accused Syrian officials of playing a role in the mysterious series of bombings that have occurred during the past seven months.
		Speaking by telephone from Switzerland where he is recovering from the car bombing, Murr told LBC television channel he had decided to speak out because he has "had enough" after the bombing on Sunday that maimed the well-known TV anchorwoman May Chidiac.
	www.comcast.net /data/news/photoshow/html/int_news/230148.html (123 words)

	NEWS - Comcast.net
		Elias Murr, who is also the outgoing defense minister, was slightly wounded in the blast, said one police officer at the scene.
		Murr is the fifth person to be targeted for assassination in the last year - but he is the first pro-Syrian among them to be hit.
		Murr is strongly pro-Syrian - the son-in-law of President Emile Lahoud, Damascus' staunchest ally in Lebanon.
	www.comcast.net /news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2005/07/12/176304.html (550 words)

	Bomb hits pro-Syrian official in Beirut / Defense minister injured in attack on his motorcade
		Murr, burned and bloodied by the blast, told Lebanese television from his bed at Serhal Hospital that, as fire seared his car, he had climbed through the shattered driver's window and hailed a passing car for help.
		Murr is the son of Michel Murr, a prominent politician and Syrian ally.
		The younger Murr also served as deputy prime minister and as interior minister in an earlier government, where he was renowned for a fondness for the limelight.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/13/MNGGTDN37T1.DTL (780 words)

	Nur al-Cubicle: Biography of Elias Murr (al-Mur)
		Outgoing Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr was wounded today, Tuesday July 12th, by a carbomb targeting his convoy in the Rabiyé of northeast Beirut, not far from his residence.
		A career law practitioner and the offspring of a family of politicians hailing from the Christian-populated mountains of Metn outside Beirut, Elias Murr also holds the post of Vice Premier and is at the helm of several banking, real estate, tourist and civil construction firms in Lebanon and outside the country.
		Elias Murr got his feet wet in politics in 2000 when he replaced his father, Michel Murr, as Minister of Interior in the cabinet of Rafik Hariri.
	nuralcubicle.blogspot.com /2005/07/biography-of-elias-murr-al-mur.html (677 words)

	RedOrbit - General - Lebanon bomb kills 2, wounds pro-Syrian minister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The officials said Murr suffered facial wounds and a broken hand and was rushed to hospital along with one of his aides, who was badly wounded in the attack.
		Although Murr is regarded as pro-Syrian, his father has forged a political alliance with Michel Aoun, a Christian former general who returned in May after 14 years of forced exile for leading a revolt against the Syrian military presence.
		"Murr had access to information about movements and terrorist organizations in the country and he was definitely exposed to such an attack," Aoun said.
	www.redorbit.com /news/display?id=171319&source=r_general (473 words)

	Sympatico / MSN : News : CTV.ca: Lebanon deputy premier wounded in car bombing
		Murr, who's also the outgoing defence minister, was slightly wounded in the blast.
		Murr's the fifth personality to be targetted for assassination in the last year, but he's the first pro-Syrian among them to be hit.
		Under Murr's watch as interior minister, a Muslim militant who was allegedly linked to a plot to blow up foreign embassies was killed in police custody last year.
	sympaticomsn.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1121162432408_29?hub=TopStories (354 words)

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		Murr, who was slightly wounded, later released an audiotape from the hospital saying his was alright.
		Murr's father, longtime politician Michel Murr, said his son had suffered wounds in the face and burns in his legs and arms and was currently in the operating room.
		Murr is the fifth personality to be targeted for assassination over the past year - but the first pro-Syrian among them to be hit.
	www.bangladesh-web.com /news/view.php?hidDate=2005-07-13&hidType=RIN&hidRecord=0000000000000000052249 (1051 words)

	"Murr Feud Flares Again" (July 2003)
		For his part, Elias Murr declared within hours of the incident that "the war of the brothers that has ruined Metn will have to be brought to an end and I am going to bring it to an end."
		He said that the traffic jam, which opposition figures have said was created by Murr's supporters, was due to busses and cars parked "as usual" in the village square.
		Murr's supporters had evidently parked them there during the press conference in order to validate his explanation.
	www.meib.org /articles/0307_l3.htm (976 words)

	June7
		Naharnet -Interior Minister Elias Murr says he is resigning in protest of Premier Hariri's intervention that made opposition-backed Gabriel Murr winner of the Metn by-elections over Myrna Murr, the minister's sister who ran on a platform of support to President Lahoud's regime.
		Minister Murr absented himself from the regular weekly session of the cabinet Thursday evening, which was marked by a stinging attack president Lahoud waged against the chaos that shrouded the ballot-counting and result declarations of the by-elections.
		Elias Murr has not yet declared Gabriel Murr's victory, but has said that rectifying the Qaaqour mistake would be to his uncle's advantage - a move that leaves the results open to a possible challenge.
	www.free-lebanon.com /LFPNews/June_2002/June7/june7.html (5681 words)

	June11
		Myrna Murr and political heavyweight, MP Michel Murr, who is the her father and an ex-interior minister, met President Emile Lahoud on Sunday night, following a flurry of top-level contacts, including a Saturday night meeting between Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and Interior Minister Elias Murr, who is the brother of Myrna Murr.
		Interior Minister Murr had again declared his sister Myrna Murr winner of the race on Friday, revoking an earlier announcement that his uncle and political rival, the opposition figure Gabriel Murr, was the new Metn representative in Parliament.
		The Interior Minister, Elias Murr, threw the electoral saga into disarray when he accused in an interview with the daily al-Nahar newspaper on Friday Premier Hariri of intervening with a judge to declare the opposition candidate, Gabriel Murr, a winner.
	www.free-lebanon.com /LFPNews/June_2002/June11/june11.html (5234 words)

	Michel Murr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michel Murr is the former Lebanese Minister of the Interior.
		He was born in Bteghrine, Lebanon in 1932.
		His son, Elias Murr, is the outgoing Lebanese Deputy Prime Minister.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michel_Murr (61 words)

	The Head Heeb: A day of bombings
		Murr, however, is very much an establishment figure who has not only held several ministries under Emile Lahoud's presidency but is Lahoud's son-in-law.
		Yet another possibility is that Murr may have been targeted to send a message to Lahoud, who has taken a confrontational attitude toward premier-designate Fouad Siniora and threatened to veto any cabinet in which he doesn't have a blocking minority.
		Murr himself is blaming the state security forces, so even if he wasn't going to turn before, he might well do so now.
	headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/028841.html (699 words)

	Middle East Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		BEIRUT -- Lebanon's outgoing pro-Syrian defense minister Elias Murr was wounded on Tuesday in a car bomb explosion in a Christian suburb north of Beirut that also killed at least one and wounded six others, police said.
		The explosion was caused by a car parked on the road taken by the minister who was driving from his home as part of a convoy in the Christian suburbs around 10 kilometers (six miles) north of Beirut, police said.
		Murr, the son-in-law of pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud and deputy prime minister, was taken with superficial burns to Serhal hospital, where an employee said that his condition was "good".
	www.metimes.com /articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050712-064641-2150r (535 words)

	Lebanon's deputy PM survives assassination attempt - Robert Fisk: 13 July 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Mr Murr was wounded but not killed by the bomb which exploded as his convoy - smaller than the convoy in which the former prime minister Rafiq Hariri was murdered along with 20 others on 16 February - was travelling on a narrow lane in the eastern suburb of Rabieh close to his home.
		Mr Murr, a Christian, regularly drove through here, often at the same time each day: assassins like people who are regular in their routes home.
		In September, Mr Murr said he found a plot to blow up the Italian and Ukrainian embassies in Beirut - this was news to the embassies - and he arrested 10 Islamists allegedly close to Osama bin Laden.
	www.robert-fisk.com /articles518.htm (419 words)

	Dar Al Hayat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		On 22 September 2004, Defense Minister Elias Murr, who was Interior minister at the time, announced that he had frustrated a plot by Salafist radicals linked to al-Qaida to destroy the Italian Embassy in Beirut, to protest Italy's participation in the war against Iraq.
		Without knowing it, Elias Murr thwarted the first, or original plot to assassinate Rafik Hariri, which had it succeeded, would have done away with the country's entire future, by striking at the Beirut Central District, the symbol of Lebanon's recovery.
		But the damage was done, and before the denial Murr had moved his rifle from one shoulder to the other, as the saying goes.
	english.daralhayat.com /opinion/OPED/11-2005/Article-20051102-519ffebd-c0a8-10ed-002d-80aee5aeee52/story.html (2204 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Lebanese minister hit by car bomb
		Elias Murr, who is also the caretaker defence minister, was slightly wounded in the explosion, a police officer at the scene said.
		Police said explosives packed in a car were detonated as Mr Murr's motorcade passed, leaving a two metre-wide crater in the pavement and flinging the booby-trapped vehicle over the wall of an adjacent villa.
		Although Mr Murr is regarded as pro-Syrian, his father has forged a political alliance with Michel Aoun, a Christian former general who returned in May after 14 years in forced exile for leading a revolt against the Syrian military presence.
	www.guardian.co.uk /syria/story/0,13031,1526915,00.html (420 words)

	Chercheuse d'or: The question is, why did Murr survive?
		I have no love lost for Elias el Murr, but it is unfair to imply that he was deliberately left unharmed.
		i mean, elias murr himself has a number of enemies, and there are - as mustapha has pointed out - a whole lot of more-or-less-likely scenarios.
		I guess Michel Murr was targeted in the 80s or 90s when he was minister of something.
	chercheusedor.blogspot.com /2005/07/question-is-why-did-murr-survive.html (1179 words)

	CNN.com - Beirut bomb targets deputy PM - Jul 12, 2005
		According to a general with the Lebanese Army, Murr's injuries were not life-threatening and were suffered when a car bomb detonated as his convoy passed.
		Murr is also the country's acting defense minister and is a former interior minister.
		Murr later released an audiotape from hospital saying he was not seriously injured.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/07/12/beirut.bomb (514 words)

	Assassination attempt fails \| Chicago Tribune
		Elias Murr, who is also defense minister, was slightly injured when a powerful bomb in a parked car exploded as his motorcade drove through a Beirut suburb.
		In September, Murr announced that Lebanese security forces had uncovered a plot to bomb the Italian and Ukrainian embassies in Beirut, assassinate Western diplomats and attack Lebanese government buildings.
		"The assassination attempt against Murr could be an act of revenge for his disrupting the al-Qaida plot, or for the death of the ringleader," said a Lebanese security official who asked not to be named.
	www.chicagotribune.com /ny-woleba134341476jul13,0,2538242.story (584 words)

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