By Sam F. Ghattas, Associated Press BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Lebanese leaders pledged Thursday to press ahead with a divisive election for president, to be held in parliament in coming days, despite the car bombing assassination of an anti-Syrian lawmaker.

By Nada Bakri Hassan M. Fattah contributed reporting from Dubai and Christine Hauser and Graham Bowley contributed from New York.

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Lebanese leaders pledged Thursday to press ahead with a divisive election for president, to be held in Parliament in coming days, despite the car bombing assassination of an anti-Syrian lawmaker.

CAIRO _ The car-bomb assassination Wednesday of an anti-Syrian Christian legislator in Beirut is likely to raise tensions in Lebanon just days before political factions there are scheduled to meet to decide who will succeed the pro-Syrian president, Emile Lahoud.