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To: Bahbah

I am watching coverage of the SECOND car bomb on CNN Pipeline right now. Exploded in a rich area of East Beirut, called Verdun....

Ten wounded as bomb blast rocks Lebanese capital
By Agence France Presse (AFP)

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

BEIRUT, May 21, 2007 (AFP) - ten people were wounded as a bomb blast rocked an upmarket district west Beirut late on Monday, setting cars ablaze and damaging buildings, Lebanese police and medics said.

Police said the bomb placed under a parked car exploded outside the Russian cultural centre in the residential district of Verdun. Ambulances and firefighters with sirens blaring raced to the scene, covered by thick smoke.

Hospital sources revised an earlier casualty toll to 10 wounded, as police said the injuries were mostly light and caused by flying glass.

A fire also broke out on the fourth storey of a commercial centre, with shops on the ground floor and offices above. Windows were shattered in a wide radius of the high-security area which is home to several prominent figures.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb


2,966 posted on 05/21/2007 2:47:52 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: BurbankKarl

What happened to the cease fire?


2,967 posted on 05/21/2007 2:50:29 PM PDT by Bahbah (Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
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To: BurbankKarl
Lebanese tanks pounded the headquarters of a group with suspected links to al Qaeda in a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli Sunday after the northern city's worst clashes in two decades killed 22 soldiers and 17 militants.
2,968 posted on 05/21/2007 2:53:00 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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