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A senior instructor of Hizbullah's guerrillas escaped an assassination attempt Friday night when a bomb blew up his car seconds after he got out of the vehicle, Lebanese police said.
damn
The explosion in the eastern city of Baalbek caused no casualties, a police official said Friday.
"missed him by that much"
Hizbullah blamed Israel for the "treacherous assassination attempt" and warned that it will retaliate.
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| "We shall have Dire Revenge!™" |
"The Zionist enemy is fully responsible for the operation's planning and execution," Hezbollah said in a statement broadcast on its Al-Manar Television. "The Islamic resistance will fully shoulder its responsibility in this regard and do what is necessary," the statement added. The IAF denied any involvement in the incident.
"We know nothing - perhaps he should ask Pencilneck"
Neither Hizbullah nor the police would identify the official who drove the car, a Mercedes. Al-Manar said he was a member of the group's military wing, and the police said he was in charge of training guerrillas.
| Doubt if it's Mugniyeh. He's probably in Teheran, where it's safe from this sort of thing. For now. |
Al-Manar said the explosion took place near the house of Sheik Mohammed Yazbek, who sits on Hizbullah's Shoura Council, its top decision-making authority. A reporter for The Associated Press said the bomb exploded 300 meters from Yazbek's house. A small crowd quickly gathered at the scene. Police tried to stop media from taking pictures and threw a tarpaulin over the wrecked vehicle.
no car swarm!
The type of bomb was not immediately clear, the police official added.
| My guess is it was a car bomb. What's yours? |
A series of mysterious bombings have taken place in Lebanon since former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was killed with 20 other people in February. The attacks have often targeted journalists and politicians known to be opposed to Syrian influence in Lebanon. Nobody has been arrested for the explosions, and the government has acknowledged that it is nowhere close to detaining the culprits.
| Yasss... The culprits, and those behind them, remain such a mystery... |
It was not clear whether Friday's bombing was related to this series of explosions or the latest attempt to kill a senior member of Hizbullah's military wing. Two Hizbullah military personnel have been killed by car bombs in the past two years.
| Perhaps in retaliation for other car bombs? |
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