“Every time he goes out we all watch the television, listen to the radio, listen for the sound of a bomb. When he comes home it’s, oof, a relief,” says Anne Franjieh of her husband Samir, a member of parliament for Lebanon’s ruling anti-Syrian March 14 movement.

Security is topmost in her mind in the aftermath of the killing on Wednesday of Antoine Ghanem, the fourth anti-Syrian MP to die in an attack since the elections in May 2005. Mr Franjieh’s name has appeared on purported lists of anti-Syrian politicians who have been slated for assassination.