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DUBAI: The Al Jazeera satellite channel said Sunday that its crew in Beirut had received a threat from an unknown caller who vowed to “blow up” its offices in the Lebanese capital for its coverage of an overnight explosion. “The Al-Jazeera office located in front of the seat of the government in downtown Beirut has received threats ... in a telephone call,” said Ghassan bin Jeddo, the Doha-based channel’s Lebanon bureau chief. “He threatened us and threatened the office where we are located that ‘if you do not shut up and if you continue to cover (events) in such a...

DOHA (Reuters) - Popular Arabic television Al Jazeera said Sunday it had received a bomb threat against its Beirut office over its coverage of a Beirut blast, which included interviews with leading anti-Syrian politicians. "The Saturday evening phone call warned that the central Beirut office would be bombed if the television channel did not stop its coverage of the recent explosions in Beirut," Al Jazeera said. It said the caller did not identify himself. The Qatar-based television interviewed several Lebanese opposition leaders after a car bomb wounded at least eight people in Christian east Beirut Saturday. It said security had...

      Easter Bomb Shows Syria Leaving Lebanon a Scorched Earth   A bomb blast set off huge fires in an industrial estate on Beirut's northeastern outskirts, killing two Indian janitors and injuring five other people in the third such attack in eight days. Opposition leaders said Syria was delivering on a threat to turn Lebanon into scorched earth before evacuating it.Police said Sunday the dead Indians worked as janitors in a complex of printing presses at suburban Dikwaneh, where the bomb exploded Saturday night. But updated media reported quoted police officers on the scene as saying the final...

BEIRUT, Lebanon - A loud explosion was heard in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Saturday, witnesses and security officials said. The nature of the explosion was not immediately known. Witnesses said the blast occurred in the eastern Beirut suburb of Dikweneh and flames were seen in the area. Ambulances were heard rushing to the scene.