The Don
01-25-2008, 09:05 AM
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At least six people have been killed in a powerful car bombing in an eastern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut.
A senior member of the police intelligence unit and another officer were among the dead, police say.
Lebanese TV footage of Hazmieh, a mainly Christian suburb in eastern Beirut, showed a blackened crater and many tangled and burning cars.
Beirut has witnessed a string of bomb attacks since 2004, many targeting members of the anti-Syrian movement.
The dead police official, Wissam Eid, was a technical expert in the Internal Security Forces who had been investigating the past bombings, local media said.
SOURCE: BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7208458.stm)
At least six people have been killed in a powerful car bombing in an eastern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut.
A senior member of the police intelligence unit and another officer were among the dead, police say.
Lebanese TV footage of Hazmieh, a mainly Christian suburb in eastern Beirut, showed a blackened crater and many tangled and burning cars.
Beirut has witnessed a string of bomb attacks since 2004, many targeting members of the anti-Syrian movement.
The dead police official, Wissam Eid, was a technical expert in the Internal Security Forces who had been investigating the past bombings, local media said.
SOURCE: BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7208458.stm)