THE HOT JOINTS » Beirut http://www.thehotjoints.com Breaking News and Opinion Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:20:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Hezbollah Seizes Control Of West Beirut http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/05/09/hezbollah-seizes-control-of-west-beirut/ http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/05/09/hezbollah-seizes-control-of-west-beirut/#comments Fri, 09 May 2008 17:03:27 +0000 Chris Jones http://www.thehotjoints.com/?p=3562 Via AFP:

Hezbollah gunmen seized control of west Beirut on Friday after a third day of battles with pro-government foes in the Lebanese capital pushed the nation dangerously close to all-out civil war.

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An explosion targeted a U.S. Embassy vehicle Tuesday in northern Beirut, killing at least three Lebanese and injuring an American bystander and a local embassy employee.

The blast, which damaged the armored SUV and several other vehicles, took place just ahead of a farewell reception for the American ambassador at a hotel in central Beirut.

No Americans were in the car, which was carrying two Lebanese employees of the embassy.

The bombing, which came as President Bush and Rice toured the Mideast, was the first attack on U.S. diplomatic interests in Lebanon since the 1980s, when the country saw some of the deadliest terror attacks against Americans in U.S. history.

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