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WASHINGTON | Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:50pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday said it strongly condemned the killing of an anti-Syrian Lebanese lawmaker and that it seemed to fit a pattern of other such killings.

The lawmaker, Antoine Ghanem of the Christian Phalange party, was killed by a car bomb a Christian district of Beirut. At least 19 other people were wounded.

"There's been a pattern. This would seem to fit into the pattern," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said.

Ghanem was killed as Parliament was due to convene on September 25 to elect a successor to pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud.

Perino said there had been a pattern of killings in the past few years of people "who publicly sought to end Syria's interference in Lebanon's internal affairs."
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