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Samy Gemayel, Lebanese politician with the Kataëb Party

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Tit-for-tat kidnappings by Syrian rebels and Lebanese Shiite gunmen have escalated tensions inside neighbouring Lebanon. Samy Gemayel, a young Lebanese Christian politician, tells Annette Young how for many Lebanese, the kidnappings recall the dark days of their own civil war.

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