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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve kammerer who wrote (8853)	3/18/2005 6:02:17 AM
From: Chas.	Respond to of 32591

Once we control their minds their bodies will follow... we will eventually win, it is in our best interest... regards

To: steve kammerer who wrote (8853)	3/18/2005 6:40:37 AM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 32591

who said there was a point? a frequently overlooked aspect of the Al Kayda network is that it finds its roots in Egypt.

To: steve kammerer who wrote (8853)	3/18/2005 10:04:37 PM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 32591

WAR on TERROR has a new (old) stage: LEBANON Eight people injured in Beirut explosion By The Associated Press BEIRUT - A car bomb wrecked the front of a building in the northern suburbs of the Lebanese capital early Saturday, wounding eight people, police said. It was not immediately clear what was the target of the bomb, but it left a crater two meters deep and shattered windows for several blocks in the city's New Jdeideh neighborhood, a predominantly Christian district. The local legislator, Pierre Gemayel, called it an act of terrorism that could be an attempt to destabilize the country. "This has been the message to the Lebanese people for a while - to sow fear and terror among Lebanese citizens," Gemayel told Al-Jazeera satellite television. The message is "if there is a Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon, look what Lebanon will face," said Gemayel, a member of the Christian opposition bloc in parliament and the son of former President Amin Gemayel. Some witnesses said the car attempted to stop in front of a bingo saloon, but security guards asked its driver to move along. The driver then parked the car a short way down the road. Minutes later it exploded. People were playing bingo in the saloon at the time of the blast. Other witnesses said the car belonged to a local resident. Police on the scene said they were trying to determine the motive. A police general would only say it was a bomb in a Datsun sedan. A man rushed up screaming: "Where is my mother?" He was told by soldiers she was with the Red Cross. Some of the casualties were injured by shattered glass. The bomb devastated the ground floor of the adjacent building, and blew off the facades of the first and second stories. It also damaged parked cars and shop shutters in the street, a commercial area of shops and boutiques on the ground floor with apartments above. The force of the explosion threw the bomb car 20 meters across the street, reducing it to a contorted bundle of metal. The explosion came amid major political turmoil in Lebanon in the wake of the Feb. 14 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and the subsequent withdrawal of Syrian troops to east Lebanon and Syria. Demonstrations and counter-demonstrations, although largely peaceful, have kept tension high between the pro-Syrian and the anti-Syrian camps. Shaken residents, many in their pajamas and night gowns, came out into the street and stood outside the damaged building behind a police cordon. "We were sleeping when it happened," said a white-haired man, wearing blue pajamas, who lives on the second floor of the building. "We don't know what and why. No one important lives here," he added. The man declined to give his name and broke into tears when a neighbor kissed him and asked about his children. "The two children were taken to hospital with glass cuts, but they're fine" he replied. An white-haired woman sat in a chair next to him, looking dazed. Bomb explosions had been rare since Lebanon's civil war ended in 1990, but Hariri was killed in a massive explosion that ripped through his motorcade in downtown Beirut. It is still not known whether the blast, which killed a total of 18 people, was caused by a car bomb or explosives planted under the road. In October, a car bomb in Beirut seriously wounded an opposition legislator, former Economy Minister Marwan Hamade. His driver was killed