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Officials: Blast kills 4 (Spanish) peacekeepers in Lebanon
Associated Press via MSNBC ^ | June 24, 2007

Posted on 06/24/2007 2:25:24 PM PDT by Levante

BEIRUT, Lebanon - A bomb apparently targeting U.N. peacekeepers exploded by the side of a road in southern Lebanon on Sunday, killing four Spanish troops and injuring at least four, a senior Lebanese security official said.

The senior official in Beirut said a mine may have caused the explosion, but another security official based in southern Lebanon said a bomb detonated at the side of a road about four miles north of the Israeli border town of Metulla. The officials spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: explosion; lebanon; peacekeeping; spain; spanishtroops; terrorism; un; unifil; unpeacekeepers
Terrorists targeting the UNIFIL. How delightful (sarc).
1 posted on 06/24/2007 2:25:27 PM PDT by Levante
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To: Levante

Spain will immediately withdraw from the area.


2 posted on 06/24/2007 2:27:00 PM PDT by Flightdeck (If guns kill people, then spoons make Rosie O'Donnell fat...)
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To: Levante

those terrorists are sure quaking in their caves now. a stern and condemning resolution is on the way.


3 posted on 06/24/2007 2:27:50 PM PDT by Cinnamon
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In a statement on its television station Al-Manar, Hezbollah denounced the attack, calling it a "suspicious act."

Translation, It's the Joos!

4 posted on 06/24/2007 2:33:15 PM PDT by rocksblues (Just enforce the law!)
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To: rocksblues

Exactly. These asses always blame the Jews. Freaking damn subhuman terrorist filth.


5 posted on 06/24/2007 2:39:59 PM PDT by Levante
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To: Cinnamon

The clowns running the EU and the UN are a bunch of flaming cowards. And the terrorists know it.


6 posted on 06/24/2007 2:40:57 PM PDT by Levante
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To: Cinnamon

Nah they’re going to wait till Condi throws more money their way.


7 posted on 06/24/2007 2:41:32 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Flightdeck

“Spain will immediately withdraw from the area.”

I wouldn’t doubt it, considering the arrogant panty-waist faggot (”there’s no Al-Qaida in Iraq”)running Spain.


8 posted on 06/24/2007 2:43:14 PM PDT by Levante
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To: Levante

It’s all George Bushs fault!


9 posted on 06/24/2007 3:48:52 PM PDT by Valin (History takes time. It is not an instant thing.)
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