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Car bomb explodes in Christian area of Beirut | |
2005-09-17 | |
A powerful bomb went off in a Christian neighborhood of eastern Beirut late Friday, wounding at least three people and sending soldiers scrambling to the scene. The blast detonated just before midnight near a bank, completely destroying a car. But it was not clear if the bomb was placed in the vehicle, under it or near it. Two other cars were also damaged. At least no one appears to have been killed. The explosion was the latest in a series of blasts that have shaken Beirut, some killing or wounding prominent politicians and others hitting public areas and causing panic. It came days after a U.N. investigator visited Damascus to set up interviews with top Syrian officials over the most notorious of the bomb blasts — a Feb. 14 explosion that killed former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 20 other people. The U.N. team has already accused four senior Lebanese security officials who carried out Syrian policy in the country. Many in
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Posted by:Jackal |
#4 Fred, have you considered the possibility Hezbollah just isn't as organized into a unified command structure as a normal military, and someone at the bottom could go off half-cocked? |
Posted by: Phil Fraering 2005-09-17 21:47 |
#3 I was thinking that, as well. By process of elimination "none of the above" has an interest in stirring the pot for its own goals. The question is which "none of the above"? |
Posted by: Fred 2005-09-17 20:09 |
#2 One overlooked possibility, "None Of The Above" Individuals settling old scores and no government involved. That would explain the oddness of these boomings, each are individual. |
Posted by: Redneck Jim 2005-09-17 13:12 |
#1 Remember: R o P respects the "people of the book." Also remember: Jihad is an internal struggle for self-improvement. Yet another example of what one Harvard associate prof sees as Al-Qaeda's "operations." Harvard’s Al-Qaeda Ventriloquist: Who Needs Al-Jazeera When Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou Will Do Just Fine? |
Posted by: The Angry Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2005-09-17 11:52 |