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Evangelist's killing raises fears of anti-Western resurgence By Robert Fisk - 22 November 2002 http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=354564 She had been warned. Her friends had told Bonnie Weatherall that Christian evangelism in the rigidly religious Sunni Muslim city of Sidon could be dangerous. Lebanese friends had suggested a missionary role in this part of southern Lebanon – where thousands of Palestinians in the city's huge refugee camp have now allied themselves to Islamist movements – could be a very perilous occupation for the young American nurse. And, yesterday morning, someone shot her three times in the head outside the clinic she helped to...

BEIRUT, Nov 21 (Reuters) - An American woman missionary was found shot dead in southern Lebanon in the infirmary where she worked, a security offical said on Thursday. "The missionary, she was killed. She was hit by shooting," the official said. "They are investigating it." The official said the woman was 30 years old. She was shot when she entered the clinic in the southern port city of Sidon. He said no motive was known for the shooting.