A car bomb rocked a predominantly Christian neighborhood in northern Beirut early Saturday, destroying part of a building and wounding at least seven people, police said.
The explosive left a seven-foot-deep crater in the roadway and shattered windows for several blocks in the New Jdeideh neighborhood.
...At least seven people were treated for injuries as ambulances and fire trucks converged on the scene.
Witnesses said the car attempted to stop in front of a bingo hall, but security guards asked its driver to move along. The driver then parked the car a short way down the road. Minutes later it exploded.
The bomb blew off the first and second story facades of a building. It also damaged parked cars and shops in the vicinity.
Shaken residents, many in their pajamas and night gowns, came out into the street and stood outside the damaged building behind a police cordon.
"We were sleeping when it happened," said a white-haired man, wearing blue pajamas, who declined to be identified. "We don't know what and why. No one important lives here...."
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And so it begins. Earlier this week a White House official was quoted as saying "we're only ten car bombings away from a civil war in Lebanon." This was the first; it will not be the last.
Just as the people of Iraq have had to endure Baathist terror in order to gain their freedom, so too for the people of Lebanon. In Iraq the terrorists were unable to foment civil war. I hope that it will be the same in Beirut.
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