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| Lebanon Arrests Five in Anti-U.S. Bombings |
| 2003-04-09 |
| Lebanon said on Wednesday it had arrested five people in connection with a booby-trapped car discovered outside a McDonald's fast food outlet and accused them of planning attacks on Lebanon's Western embassies. "We have five detainees so far who have confessed to placing a booby-trapped Renault car at McDonald's," Interior Minister Elias al-Murr told a news conference. A booby-trapped Renault? That's enough a smoking gun for me, on to Paris! "The confessions showed that this terrorist group was also preparing for destructive acts on Western embassies," he said. It's in the job description "We confiscated from one of the detainees a rocket aimed at hitting some of the Western embassies, as well as hand grenades, pistols, machine guns and silencers." Just the sort of stuff you'd expect the turban set to have Murr said the Lebanese detainees confessed to parking a car loaded with explosives outside the fast food outlet on the edge of Beirut at the weekend. The explosives did not detonate. Security forces found the car, packed with 120 pounds of explosives, when they searched the restaurant parking lot after a small blast in the toilets injured three people. Security sources said at the time that the toilet blast may have been intended to lure people toward the much larger bomb, but that a malfunction prevented the car from blowing up. S.O.P. when you are going for a high body count. The minister said the detainees had also confessed to six other bomb attacks against U.S.-style food outlets in Lebanon over the past year. Part of the anti-obesity protest crowd? |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 a booby-trapped Renault... I owned a Renault. You wouldn't have to booby trap it. You'd just have to start it. Maybe we could hook these folks up with the "Ronald MacDonald Liberation Army" in Indonesia? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-04-09 15:29:06 |