Lebanon`s Intelligence Chief Killed In Beirut Bombing



Bomb Blast Kills At Least 8 Including Top Security Official -- New York Times

BEIRUT, Lebanon — A large bomb exploded in the heart of Beirut’s Christian section on Friday, killing a top Lebanese security official and at least seven others, wounding dozens and spreading panic in a city where memories of sectarian violence from Lebanon’s long civil war have been resurrected by the conflict in neighboring Syria.

The security official, Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, was apparently the intended target of the explosion, which ripped into buildings, upended cars and shattered windows for blocks in the most serious bombing to hit Beirut in at least four years. He was officially declared dead a few hours after the blast in an announcement on Lebanese television.

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