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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
LBC television on Monday quoted sources as saying that the apartment which some media reports said Internal Security Forces intelligence chief Wissam al-Hassan resided at in Beirut's Ashrafieh was a secret office. The apartment [some claimed] Hassan...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Lebanon First bloc MP Michel Pharaon said on Monday that there were more than 69 families who cannot return to their homes in Beirut's Ashrafieh following Friday's blast which killed a top security official. There are more than 69 afflicted families...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly visited on Monday the Hotel Dieu Hospital in Beirut's Ashrafieh and thanked the director and staff for their response to Friday's terrorist attack which killed three people and injured...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
UN Special Coordinator in Lebanon Derek Plumbly on Monday voiced the unequivocal condemnation of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council against any attempt to destabilise Lebanon through political assassination, and expressed their...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Future bloc MP Ammar Houri said on Monday that he and a number of MPs from his bloc received threats via SMS from a Syrian number. He said that he received a message before Internal Security Forces Information Branch chief Wissam al-Hassan was...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
The father of Lebanese citizen Jennifer Shedid, who was injured in the explosion that rocked the Beirut area of Ashrafieh, denied rumors that she died of her injuries. Earlier in the day, LBC television and a number of radio stations reported that...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Miqati voiced his sadness in remarks published on Monday over the attempt by a number of March 14 youths to attack the Grand Serail in a bid to topple his cabinet. [It is sad] that the [March 14's] slogan to [build] a...
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Taiwan News
| 7 months ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Website Editorial Staff 2012-10-22 10:04 AM Government forces and angry mourners clashed Sunday in a raging street brawl that dramatized how the conflict in neighboring Syria has...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Future bloc leader MP Fouad Siniora on Sunday called on Prime Minister Najib Miqati to resign from his post during the funeral for slain Internal Security Forces intelligence chief Wissam al-Hassan. Prime Minister [Miqati], we say it and we repeat it...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Kataeb Party leader Amine Gemayel said Sunday that the assassination of top Lebanese security official Wissam al-Hassan was linked to the case of ex-Information Minister Michel Samaha, adding that Syria did not conceal its involvement in the killing.
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Change and Reform bloc leader MP Michel Aoun said Sunday that Lebanese political factions should not take advantage of the latest assassination of Internal Security Forces Information Branch Chief Wissam al-Hassan. He added in a statement that...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Lebanese Telecommunication Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui said Sunday that Lebanon's Higher Relief Commission will compensate for losses incurred by residents of Beirut's Ashrafieh neighborhood where a massive bombing killed top Lebanese security official...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Bombing kills eight in Beirut, including top security official. (AFP) The spokesperson of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) Higher Military Council announced that Syria's rebels will launch a series of operations to avenge killings targeting people in Syria...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Maronite Patriarch Beshara Boutros al-Rai called for self-restraint to prevent any deterioration of the situation in Lebanon following the assassination of Internal Security Forces intelligence chief Wissam al-Hassan, the National News Agency...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
EU Ambassador to Lebanon Angelina Eichhorst extended her condolences to Prime Minister Najib Miqati for the death of Internal Security Forces intelligence chief Wissam al-Hassan, the National News Agency reported on Saturday. She also highlighted the...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
British Ambassador to Lebanon Tom Fletcher said that the bombing that killed Lebanon's top intelligence official was orchestrated by people who wanted Lebanon to turn into an anxious, divided and violent country. The people behind this attack want a...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Saudi Arabia condemned on Saturday the "terrorist" car bombing that killed a senior security official in Lebanon, and warned of chaos if the culprits were not caught. The kingdom, which is widely considered as the patron of the Sunni community in...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Beirut A protester in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon blocks a road with blazing tyres yesterday. Photograph: Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images The crisis in Lebanon following the assassination of Beirut's top police official appeared to be...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Miqati said on Saturday that he refrained from resigning his post until President Michel Suleiman holds consultations with members of the national dialogue committee, but added that his cabinet will sooner or later...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
The March 14 coalition on Saturday called on the Lebanese people to take part on Sunday in the funeral of slain Internal Security Forces intelligence chief Wissam Hassan. In a statement released following a meeting at Future Movement leader MP Saad...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Anwar Amro/AFP/Getty Images Lebanon 's prime minister, Najib Mikati, has offered to resign after one of the country's most senior intelligence officers was murdered in a car bomb attack that killed seven others and left scores injured in downtown...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Internal Security Forces Director General Ashraf Rifi said on Saturday that Internal Security Forces' Intelligence Chief Wissam al-Hassan's life had been threatened since the case file of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri was opened. Hassan's life...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai and Grand Mufti of the Lebanese Republic Sheikh Mohammad Rashid Qabbani on Saturday condemned the blast which killed Internal Security Forces' Intelligence Chief Wissam al-Hassan on Friday. Rai, who is...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Change and Reform bloc MP Youssef Khalil on Saturday condemned the blast which killed Internal Security Forces' Intelligence Chief Wissam al-Hassan in Beirut, the National News Agency reported. This terrorist attack aims at destabilizing the country,...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Lebanese Foreign Affairs Minister Adnan Mansour said in remarks published on Saturday that the assassination of Internal Security Forces' Intelligence Chief Wissam al-Hassan was a criminal act that threatened the country's security...This act is a...
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News 24
| 7 months ago
Lebanese security officials say angry protesters have closed roads around the country to protest the bombing that killed a top security official and seven other people. Lebanon's government declared a national day of mourning Saturday for the victims...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton condemned Friday's deadly car bombing in Beirut that killed a top security official linked to the anti-Syrian camp in Lebanon and seven others, and said the perpetrators must be pursued and brought to justice. ...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Miqati said that the Friday assassination of the intelligence chief of Internal Security Forces General Wissam al-Hassan has necessitated his cabinets' taking appropriate decisions following their session scheduled for...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Arab Tawhid Party leader Wiam Wahhab said it was unlikely that Syria was involved in the assassination of the Intelligence Chief of the Internal Security Forces, General Wissam al-Hassan, adding that he thought Israel was behind it. I think Israel...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Future Movement leader MP Saad Hariri said on Friday evening that threats targeting General Wissam al-Hassan, the intelligence chief of the Internal Security Forces, were made by the allies of the Syrian regime in and outside Lebanon prior to his...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
A cleric was killed on Friday night in the northern city of Tripoli after clashes erupted following the assassination of the intelligence chief of Internal Security Forces, General Wissam al-Hassan, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Protestors cut off roads in the southern city of Sidon on Saturday to protest the assassination of Internal Security Forces' Intelligence Chief Wissam al-Hassan, the National News Agency reported. Young men gathered at Al-Nijmeh Square and closed the...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 7 months ago
Eight people, including a high ranking Lebanese security official, have been killed and 78 injured as a car bomb exploded in a Christian-dominated neighbourhood of Beirut, a security source says. The blast took place in Ashrafiya, near Sassine Square,...
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BBC
| 7 months ago
Eight die in Beirut car bombing 19 October 2012 Last updated at 11:51 ET A huge car bomb has killed at least eight people and injured 78 in central Beirut, Lebanese officials say. The explosion occurred in a busy street in the predominantly Christian...
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Indian Express
| 7 months ago
A large bomb exploded in the heart of Beiruts Christian section on Friday, killing a top Lebanese security official and at least seven others, wounding dozens and spreading panic in a city where memories of sectarian violence from Lebanons long civil...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
A car bomb in the Ashafieh district of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday killed three and injured at least 94, Lebanon's health minister said. Minister Ali Hasan Khalil said the death toll from the explosion -- which rocked the largely Christian area of the...
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Inquirer.net
| 7 months ago
A powerful car bomb in Beirut killed a senior official linked to the anti-Damascus camp in Lebanon on Friday, officials said, further raising tensions over the war in the neighbouring country. The rush-hour bombing in a busy square of the...
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Al Jazeera
| 7 months ago
47 A prominent Lebanese security official is among the dead in a car bombing in the capital Beirut that has killed at least eight people and wounded up to 80 others. Wissam al-Hassan, head of the Information Branch of the Internal Security Forces (...
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Epoch Times
| 7 months ago
IsraelLess than 2 hours after a car bombing in Beirut, Lebanon that left 8 dead and at least 78 injured, social media sites were ablaze with photos and firsthand information about the attacks. Media reports, led initially by the BBC , continued to...
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Associated Press
| 7 months ago
Lebanon's state-run media says a senior security official was killed in Friday's car bomb attack in Beirut. The National News Agency said in a statement that it "announces the martyrdom" of Maj...Wissam al-Hassan, the head of the national police...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 7 months ago
A huge car bomb exploded in central Beirut during rush hour on Friday, killing eight people, wounding about 80 and raising fears of renewed sectarian violence in a country still scarred from a long civil war. The explosion did not appear to target...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 7 months ago
The blast took place in Ashrafiya, near Sassine Square, a business centre full of banks, shops, universities and cafes. The explosion took place a few metres away from the offices of the March 14 political group and those of the Christian Phalange...
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Qatar English Daily
| 7 months ago
A powerful car bomb ripped through a street in mainly Christian east Beirut on Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding scores, as tensions grow in Lebanon over the war in neighbouring Syria. The National News Agency, citing civil defence...
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Boston.com
| 7 months ago
A car bomb ripped through eastern Beirut on Friday, killing at least eight people, shearing the balconies off apartment buildings and sending bloodied residents staggering into the streets in the most serious blast the Lebanese capital has seen in...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Beirut and Scene of the car bomb blast in Beirut that killed eight and injured at least 78 others. Photograph: Nabil Mounzer/EPA As many as eight people have been killed and more than 78 injured after a rush-hour car bomb tore through a middle-class,...
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Sky News
| 7 months ago
At least eight people have reportedly been killed and 80 wounded by a car bomb in Lebanese capital Beirut...Citing civil defence figures, the agency said the blast in the mainly Christian east Beirut was only 200 yards from the headquarters of the...
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Russia Today
| 7 months ago
27 A car burns at the site of an explosion in Ashrafieh, east Beirut, October 19, 2012. (Reuters) (9.0Mb) embed video At least eight are dead and 78 wounded after a car bomb rocked the Lebanese capital of Beirut, MTV quotes civil defense sources as...
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Al Jazeera English
| 7 months ago
10 At least two people have been killed and 15 wounded by a huge bomb that exploded in a street in central Beirut on Friday, witnesses and a security source have said. A reporter with the Reuters news agency witnessed at least one body at the scene...
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Fox News
| 7 months ago
Lebanon Lebanon's state-run news agency says a massive blast in east Beirut was caused by a car bomb and that there are casualties. An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw bloodied people being helped into ambulances and heavy damage to what...
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Inquirer.net
| 7 months ago
Christian east Beirut on Friday, Lebanon's National News Agency reported. An AFP photographer saw two apartment buildings devastated by the bombing near Sassin Square. One building was ablaze as Red Cross workers evacuated bloodied casualties.
