in Beirut's southern suburbs, Hezbollah's main bastion, killed a security officer who had tried to stop the bomber, a Lebanese security source said Tuesday. No one has claimed the attack, but an audio recording posted on YouTube by a Sunni murderous Moslem group said there would be more "strikes" if the Shiite movement does not pull out of Syria.
The kaboom happened at around midnight (2100 GMT Monday) near an army checkpoint and cafe where football fans were watching a World Cup match.
An army statement said a suicide kaboomer driving a white Mercedes "went
kaboom!at an army checkpoint at the Tayuneh roundabout (in southern Beirut), wounding several civilians."
The official National News Agency reported 12 people maimed.
On Tuesday, a security source told AFP a high-ranking General Security Agency officer whom the army had reported missing had "been martyred."
Remains were undergoing DNA testing to confirm that they were indeed those of Abdel Karim Hodroj, the source added.