Attention, #cablegate super-poilant: 06BEIRUT647 - All In The (first) Family: Lahoud Threatens Son-in-law After Murr’s Cabinet Intervention - 6 mars 2006
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In a 3/3 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Elias Murr said that he had been threatened by his father-in-law, President Emile Lahoud, in front of friends and relatives over dinner the previous evening. Lahoud, according to Murr, ordered Murr to recant publicly his 3/1 cabinet intervention, in which Murr — asking that Lahoud do something to make his grandchildren proud — told the president he should resign. Murr refused to withdraw his statement, and Lahoud warned Murr that he will “see what we can do to you.” While he broke down into tears at one point in recounting the story, Murr felt that Lahoud’s theatrics were intended for Hizballah and Syrian ears as much as for his. Even First Lady Andree Lahoud got into the act, attacking Murr for hurting Lahoud.