Lahoud Calls For Dialogue After Car Bomb Hits Lebanon's Capital: BBC

[Hissyspit]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4363325.stm

Car bomb hits Lebanon's capital
A car bomb has wounded at least eight people in a predominantly Christian suburb in the Lebanese capital Beirut.
The midnight (2200 GMT) blast created a two-metre deep crater, wrecked cars and blew off the front of nearby buildings.

After the attack, Lebanon's pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud invited political parties to crisis talks.

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" Lahoud calls on the sides... to live up to their historic responsibilities to protect the higher interests of Lebanon at this sensitive stage by opening an immediate and direct dialogue to lay out all the outstanding problems and reach a consensus in the interest of Lebanon," the statement said.

Car bombs were common during Lebanon's civil war from 1975 until the early 1990s.

[applegrove]

1. Oh shit! I know people who just moved back..thinking it would finally

be safe.

[Binka]

4. Me Too

The guy who used to cut my hair he is a great guy and such a kind soul. His entire family left and went to Sydney in 1982 but in 2004 they were going home to Lebanon.

Fuck Bush and the evil he has unleashed.

[regnaD kciN]

2. As they say...

Car bombs were common during Lebanon's civil war from 1975 until the early 1990s.

..."everything old is new again."

BTW, since the Bushistas were raving about how recent events "proved" that King George was right all along, and that our invasion of Iraq was leading to democracy throughout the Middle East, let's hear them take credit for the current results: the same pro-Syrians back in power, and a new resurgence of terrorist attacks aimed against the general populace. Take a bow, Boy King!

And, in the future, maybe we'll even get a Muslim/Christian civil war. Or, maybe "free elections"...which result in a Hezbollah-dominated government. Or...

:scared:

[izzie]

3. Lets hope they do not go back to blowing up that country

Seems for years they were doing that.

[applegrove]

5. And before all the wars.. Lebanon was the greatest place.. land of

milk & honey.