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    Blast at south Lebanon hotel popular with UN staff

    By BASSEM MROUE | AP – Wed, Nov 16, 2011

    BEIRUT (AP) — A bomb exploded Wednesday at a hotel frequented by U.N. staffers in southern Lebanon, causing damage but no casualties, a Lebanese security official said.

    The official said the blast tore through the pub at the Queen Elissa Hotel in the port city of Tyre early in the morning. Rubble littered the pavement outside the hotel, and part of the ground floor was badly damaged by the blast.

    Another explosion minutes later damaged a liquor store in the city, also causing no casualties. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.

    The official estimated the hotel bomb weighed about 7 pounds (3 kilograms), and said a sample had been sent to Beirut to determine the type of explosives used.

    Andrea Tenenti, a spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping force known as UNIFIL, said in a statement that "there are no indications whatsoever that UNIFIL was targeted by the explosion."

    He said that two U.N. staff members were in the hotel but were not harmed, and that two U.N. vehicles were damaged. An investigation was under way, he said.

    Tyre is a predominantly Muslim city and serving alcohol is common at hotels and restaurants.

    There have been several attacks against U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon in the past, most recently in July, when a roadside bomb blew up next to a U.N. convoy carrying French peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, wounding at least five people.

    U.N. peacekeepers have been deployed in southern Lebanon since 1978 to monitor the border with Israel. The force was boosted to almost 12,000 troops after Israel and Hezbollah fought a war in 2006.

    Under the U.N. resolution that ended the fighting, the mission is monitoring a zone south of the Litani River where Hezbollah is banned from keeping weapons.

     
    • HOWARD
      HOWARD  •  6 mths ago
      UNICEF would rather condemn comics than bombings.
      • Hank Snow
        Hank Snow 6 mths ago
        it was probably some un staff helping to assemble a bomb they are part of the problem and pro muslim
    • Kathryn
      Kathryn  •  Irvine, United States  •  6 mths ago
      At first glance I thought the title was insinuating that the blast itself was popular with the UN staff. :/
    • Easy R
      Easy R  •  6 mths ago
      "Under the U.N. resolution that ended the fighting, the mission is monitoring a zone south of the Litani River where Hezbollah is banned from keeping weapons."
      Everybody at the UN knows that Hezbollah increased its arsenal South of the Litani River since the war, but the UN will never do anything to enforce that part of its own resolutions which would benefit the safety of Jewish civilians.
    • resident
      resident  •  6 mths ago
      How can that be??? The French "blue Liners" patrol that area every day and says there are no weapons in the area!!! Is France going to become a taget now? If only thee were no weapons in the area, Such a crying shame. France being targeted with no weapons in the area!!!
    • Doctor Hakeem
      Doctor Hakeem  •  Dearborn, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Had to be orthodox Jews opposed to drinking. If it had been Hez, there would have been lots of casualties. At the very least, the Hez bombers would have blown themselves up.
    • Michael Stone
      Michael Stone  •  Vineyard Haven, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Hezbollahs idea of a mint on the pillow
    • Jeff
      Jeff  •  6 mths ago
      All Palestinian organizations are terrorists, just read their chapters.
      Negotiation with the terrorists are rubbish.
      This farcical negotiations are meaningless, for example, Resolution 1701 which was supposed to bring stability to Lebanon after the 2006 war.
      Israel carried out its part of that bargain, but Hezbollah has continued, under very lax UN supervision, to violate the agreement and restore its ascendancy in Lebanon.
      Here, the law of the jungle that everyone finds so distasteful, unfortunately represents the reality.
    • Temujin
      Temujin  •  Philadelphia, United States  •  6 mths ago
      LOL.......hi, Dean.
    • Temujin
      Temujin  •  Philadelphia, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Hezbollah did it........kill them all
    • Marshall Law Cle OH
      Marshall Law Cle OH  •  Cleveland, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Definitely Hezbollah with an assist from the #$%$ offfff Syrians..
    • Marshall Law Cle OH
      Marshall Law Cle OH  •  Cleveland, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Definitely Lebanese Hezbollah with an assist by the #$%$ offfff Syrians.
    • Dan
      Dan  •  Los Angeles, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Partition Lebanon into a Christian Lebanon and a separate moslem one. Demographics in Lebanon now is Christian around 2 million and Moslems around 2.3 million. But overseas Christian Lebanese are around 14 million. Now who really are the majority.
    • vistavision2
      vistavision2  •  6 mths ago
      Jamil, MIddle East natives are Semitic Arabs "from the river Egypt to the great river, river Euphrates [GEN 15:18] and Islam is one of their religions.

      Hezbollah is a political society of two million Lebanese or 1/3 the population of Lebanon.
    • vistavision2
      vistavision2  •  6 mths ago
      Jeff, WTH are "Chapterrs" or Charters? Howard,UNICEF or UNESCO? Sionist toads, if your going to comment at least do your homework so your propaganda may have at least be plausible.
    • vistavision2
      vistavision2  •  6 mths ago
      Jeff, The citizens of the State of Lebanon are LEBANESE ; The citizens of State of Palestine are PALESTINIANS.
    • Temujin
      Temujin  •  Philadelphia, United States  •  6 mths ago
      drop pictures of Dean Haven's pedo goatee on them..........disgust them to death.
    • Temujin
      Temujin  •  Philadelphia, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Dean Havens.........coward about town
    • Temujin
      Temujin  •  Philadelphia, United States  •  6 mths ago
      it was Hezbollah..........kill them all
    • Temujin
      Temujin  •  Philadelphia, United States  •  6 mths ago
      MOSSAD in action.
      Jews dirty war has begun.
      Zionist israeli is so pathetic, they works for satan.
    • Temujin
      Temujin  •  Philadelphia, United States  •  6 mths ago
      It was fact.
      David Kelly and Sean Hoare.
      They all dead by Jewish Conspiracy.
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