Also see: Israel's Dirty Games
"Beirut blast kills ten"
"This morning at 10:00 am Lebanon time, a car bomb exploded in a Christian neighborhood of Beirut, killing ten people. (Some news sources say only five were killed).
Pro-Israel factions in the Lebanese government blamed it on Syria. Israel blamed it on Hezbollah. Bush blamed it on “al Qaeda.”
The blast occurred in the Furn al-Shebbak neighborhood of Hazmieh, on the eastern (Christian) edge of Beirut. It exploded on a main highway leading out of Beirut, in an area of office buildings and parking lots. The blast set dozens of vehicles ablaze, and ripped a five-meter (16 foot) wide crater into the asphalt. An AFP correspondent said he saw eight bodies and at least 20 wounded people.
Police gathered body parts near the crater. Firemen sprayed water over blazing cars and smoking debris. A charred corpse was visible in one car. Body parts were strewn on the road. Dozens of vehicles were damaged. Windows of buildings and houses were blown out within a 500-meter radius.
THE TARGET?
One of those killed was Capt. Wissam Eid, a senior police intelligence official with the ISF (Lebanese state police). He was an investigative engineer handling files connected with terrorist bombings in Lebanon. His police intelligence department is close to pro-Israel coalition leader Saad al-Hariri (the son of assassinated premier Rafiq Hariri). Mr. Eid took up his post after his predecessor was wounded in a similar attack eight years ago. Today's blast killed him in his car.
Interior Minister Hassan Sabei said there were two previous attempts to kill Eid.
(There has been no claim of responsibility so far. Perhaps it was a false flag. The zio-media frames it this way…” A senior intelligence officer investigating killings largely blamed on Syria was slain with nine other people…” This makes it seem that Syria was behind it, which is nonsense. Or perhaps Mossad wanted to silence him. Eid had investigated the 2005 assassination on of Rafig Hariri, and had given much information to the UN. Perhaps he was about to expose someone big.)
Eid's bodyguard also was killed, plus four civilians. Twenty people were wounded.
Several cars were set on fire in a blackened area some 20 yards wide, near a highway overpass. Firefighters struggled to put out the flames. Dozens of cars were also wrecked in a nearby parking lot.
TV footage showed at least three bodies, one slumped behind the wheel of a delivery truck that was ripped apart. Two more bodies were on the ground under a highway trestle.
Today’s blast came a day after a labor strike that was largely peaceful, and 10 days after a car bomb aimed at a U.S. Embassy car killed three bystanders. In December, a car bombing killed a top general in the army.
It was the second attack against the police intelligence department in less than two years.
During the latest three years, Lebanon has been rocked by a series of blasts, starting with the Oct. 1, 2004 assassination attempt against Telecommunications Minister Marwan Hamade.
The bomb that killed former Premier Rafik Hariri in February 2005 also killed 22 other people.
On Sept. 5, 2006, Lt. Col. Samir Shehade, deputy head of the intelligence department in Lebanon's national police force, was wounded when bombers targeted his convoy in the town of Rmeileh, just north of the southern city of Sidon. The explosion killed four people in his convoy.
In early December 2007, an explosion in Beirut's Christian suburb of Baabda killed Brig. Gen. Francois Al-Hajj, the head of operations for the Lebanese army, and his body guard.
Ten days ago (15 Jan 08) a U.S. Embassy vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in the Christian neighborhood of Dora (northern Beirut), killing three persons and wounding 21 others.
While attacks have continued, their targets have become more diverse in the past few months, with the killing of a top army general close to the opposition and the recent attack on the U.S. Embassy vehicle."
I'm smelling a Mossad stink, readers!
CUI BONO?
