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Thu 12 Dec 2005Tueni killers 'terrified of democracy'MIDDLE EAST: Tens of thousands of Lebanese gathered yesterday at the centre of Beirut to mourn legislator and newspaper publisher Gebran Tueni who, with two associates, Nicholas Flouti and Andre Mrad, was killed by a car bomb on Monday.People of every age, sect and station of life walked across the wide expanse of Martyrs Square in clusters, crocodiles, twos and fours. The elderly picked over the uneven ground with canes, babes bounced in prams.