On the heels of the asssination yesterday of Phalange MP Antoine Ghanem, members of the March 14th parliamentary majority have gone into hiding in order to avoid the same fate."There are instructions for us not to move, not to have a fixed agenda, not to use the same vehicles," said lawmaker Marwan Hamadeh, who survived an assassination bid in October 2004, the first in a string of attacks against prominent anti-Syrian figures in Lebanon. "We stay put, we don't go out, we only receive people, and everything is filtered," he told AFP. A special wing of the high-security luxury Phoenicia Hotel on the Beirut seafront has been reserved for about 40 MPs who began moving in after Wednesday's assassination of MP Antoine Ghanem, a source at the hotel told AFP. Vehicles have been banned from parking near the hotel wing, now an off-limits bunker subject to close security sweeps, said the source, who did not wish to be identified. I can't recall anything similar happening at...(Read Full Post)