Blast rocks Beirut waterfront

[sabra]

Source: Reuters

BEIRUT, Lebanon - An explosion rocked Beirut's waterfront on Wednesday, and a security source said at least four people were killed and six were wounded.

Television pictures showed a car ablaze near an amusement park on the waterfront road in the western half of the city.

It was the sixth blast to hit Beirut and the surrounding areas in less than four weeks. Two people have been killed in the five previous blasts, all caused by bombs.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19207460/

[Eugene]

1. Beirut blast kills anti-Syrian Lebanese MP - source

Source: Reuters

Beirut blast kills anti-Syrian Lebanese MP - source
13 Jun 2007 15:35:50 GMT
Source: Reuters

BEIRUT, June 13 (Reuters) - A blast in Beirut on Wednesday
killed anti-Syrian MP Walid Eido, one of his sons and two other
people who were with him, security sources said.

Eido was a member of Saad al-Hariri's majority bloc in parliament.


Link: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L13887588.htm

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Original headline: LEBANESE ANTI SYRIAN MP WALID EIDO KILLED IN BEIRUT BLAST -- SECURITY SOURCE

Update: DEATH TOLL FROM BEIRUT BLAST RISES TO EIGHT -- SECURITY SOURCE - Reuters AlertNet

[ohio2007]

2. death toll reaches eight

http://wap.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L13888262.htm

Who benefits most with these political killings?

http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/world/2007/05/31/newton.lebanon.battle.affl&wm=10

[maddezmom]

3. Anti-Syrian MP killed in Beirut blast, 10 dead and 11 wounded

By Tom Perry and Yara Bayoumy

BEIRUT, June 13 (Reuters) - Lebanese anti-Syrian parliamentarian Walid Eido was killed on Wednesday, with at least nine other people, when a bomb ripped through his car in western Beirut, security sources said.

One of Eido's sons was among the dead by the blast on Beirut's seafront which also wounded at least 11 other people, they said.

Eido, 64, was a member of the majority anti-Syrian parliamentary bloc of Saad al-Hariri, which controls the Beirut government.

"His car was targeted by an explosive device," a security source said.

Eido had been a vocal opponent of Syrian influence in Lebanon and an ally of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri before his assassination by a massive car bomb in February 2005.

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L13888262.htm

[Swede]

4. Lebanese MP reported dead in Beirut blast

Source: the Guardian

An anti-Syrian Lebanese MP was among at least four people killed today in a bomb explosion that hit the waterfront area of western Beirut, according to reports.
Walid Eido, an MP for the Future Movement organisation, was killed in the blast, the Reuters news agency cited unnamed security sources as saying. A total of four people were killed, the agency said.



Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2102227,00.html

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Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.

[ck4829]

5. Wait, the Hariri Court starts up...

And an Anti-Syrian MP dies.

Why do Anti-Syrian Lebanese officials die at these most convenient moments?

:tinfoilhat:

[ohio2007]

8. Lebanese liberals have 2 options

Lebanese liberals have 2 options - emigrate to free countries, or fight to the death with bloodthirsty fanatics.

From Toronto, Canada, I have made my choice.

Just a reply left in this 'biased' bloggers comment section on the subject;



http://www.beirutbeltway.com/beirutbeltway/2007/06/assad_regime_ta.html#comments

[oberliner]

6. Beirut shaken by loud explosion, MP Walid Eido Killed

BEIRUT, June 13, 2007 - A loud explosion was heard on Wednesday afternoon in Beirut's Manara district, residents said.

The blast between the Long Beach and Sporting Club swimming facilities in the area demolished a car and wounded an undisclosed number of people.

A car was in flames and black smoke was seen rising from a narrow street off the main waterfront in Manara. The Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. TV station said the explosion came from a bomb-rigged car, a method that has been used to assassinate opponents of Syria over the past two years.

MP Walid Eido, his eldest son and four other people were killed in a seafront blast in the Lebanese capital on Wednesday, his party's television station said.

Eido, the chairman of parliament's defence committee, his eldest son Khaled, his two bodyguards and two civilians were killed, said Future Television.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/articlebr.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=82981

[BootinUp]

7. Thats bad. n/t