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PaxLibano
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 Posted - 09/19/2005 : 12:40:18 PM
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AFP - Beirut 9/19/2005:
A grenade exploded at the Kuwaiti embassy's information bureau in Beirut's commercial thoroughfare of Hamra on Monday, killing one Lebanese security employee. Two other Lebanese editorial staffers were hospitalized with shrapnel wounds.
Police investigators on the scene were quoted as saying Lyass Alaili was toying with a hand grenade he brought into the office at midmorning when it went off in his hands. He was rushed to the American University Hospital, where he died shortly afterwards.
The two other injured man and woman from the blast were identified as Hussam Jamal and Mirna Mogharbel. Police rushed them to the AUH, where they were being treated. The incident was described as an accident without any political background.
"The incident is not a terrorist act," said Kuwait's Ambassador Ali Suleiman Al-Saeed after inspecting the scene. "It was an accident." The Agence France Presse (AFP) quoted a police officer as saying "the explosion occurred when the victim was handling the grenade."
The question now becomes, why would an employee bring a grenade to work and toy with it? Was the grenade initially at work or did he bring it from home? Is Kuwait smuggling grenades inside Lebanon? Is the Kuwaity embassy behind the series of explosions in East Beirut? A more thorough investigation is needed. |
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Truth Squad
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Posted - 09/19/2005 : 2:19:51 PM
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Interesting story by the officials and interesting observation:
I did not know that employees of foreign embassies in Beirut play with hand grenades during their spare time.
Do you know if they keep those at home, bring it from home to work on a daily basis, or does their employer distribute hand grenades for them to play with for leisure?
I think they must take the world and the Lebanese people for stupid: An accident says the Kuwaity ambassador!!! No one seems surpirised about the fact that the grenade made it inside the embassy offices! Unless it originated inside...perhaps like the other granades that exploded in Ashrafieh, Zalka, Jounieh and the Voice of Love (Sawt el-Mahabbeh).
So yes Pax, your question is right on point. Is the Kuweity embassy in Lebanon stacking on explosives? If yes why? Is it behind the roaming wave of explosions (at least some of them) in Beirut? Why? Kuweit did take sides in the civil war in Lebanon in 1975-76; fueling Arafat with money and arms. So may be something is brewing again in that direction. Does Kuweit stand to benefit from a civil war in Lebanon if that calms the unrest in Iraq and shifts the war to Lebanon? Certainly these questions warrant a more thorough investigation into this "accident" as the Kuweity ambassador called it. |
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Jean
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Posted - 09/26/2005 : 2:29:56 PM
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I think it is Syria and all the pro-Syrian groups and parties in Lebanon: The Baath Party, the Syrian Nationalist Socialist Party, Some Palestinian elements and some Islamic fundamentalists with ties to terrorist organizations.
Where does money come from? Maybe the Kuwaity embassy is infiltrated with terrorists. I do not know. |
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Is Kuwait behind the explosions in Beirut?
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