El terrorismo se ceba con el Líbano, tal como informa Daily Star desde Beirut

13 Febrero 2007

Daily Star Online edition staff. Tuesday, February 13, 2007.

Bombs exploded on two buses in a Christian area of Lebanon on Tuesday, killing at least three people and wounding 17, police said, a day before the second anniversary of ex-premier Rafik al-Hariri's assassination.

Security sources had earlier put the death toll at 11. A police spokesman said the report of three deaths was preliminary and the toll could rise.

Government sources said most of the casualties were on public buses carrying people to work in Beirut from the area around Bikfaya, home town of former President Amin Gemayel, whose son was assassinated by gunmen in November.

Pools of blood lay near a minibus with its roof torn off. Some passengers were blown apart and body parts were strewn near the buses, which were about 50 meters apart. When the first bomb exploded, the driver of the second bus stopped and got out before his own bus exploded, security sources said.

The driver of the first bus was killed. The driver of the second was wounded, the sources added.

Tension has been running high in Lebanon since street clashes last month between supporters and opponents of the Western-backed government in which nine people were killed.

Pro-government groups had planned a mass memorial for Hariri in Beirut's Martyrs Square on Wednesday, despite fears of friction with opposition supporters camped out nearby since Dec. 1 as part of a campaign to topple the anti-Syrian cabinet.
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Interior Minister Hassan al-Sabaa said early information was that the bombs had exploded inside the minibuses.

A government source said the possibility of suicide bombings had not been ruled out and investigators were at the scene, which was cordoned off by army troops and police.

Lebanon has seen 15 attacks on politicians, journalists and public places since Hariri's slaying on Feb. 14, 2005. Many Lebanese blame the attacks on Syria, which denies any role. A U.N. inquiry has yet to complete its investigation.

"This is a terrorist act of a new kind aimed at foiling the second anniversary of the assassination of martyr Hariri," parliamentarian Samir Franjieh said.

A leader of Gemayel's Phalangist Party, Karim Pakradouni, said it was time for Lebanese to unite.

"The curse cast on Lebanon has not yet been lifted. Political messages in the world are relayed verbally or in writing. In Lebanon, they are written in blood," he said.

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