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Error in Detonating Tyre Bomb Saved UNIFIL Soldiers
[An Nahar] The bomb that targeted the French unit in the United Nations...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Interim Force in Leb on Friday exploded a few moments before the soldiers arrived at the scene, reported the daily An Nahar on Sunday. Security sources told the daily that casualties may have taken place had the bomb been detonated at the appropriate time, given the size and method in which it exploded. They explained that an error may have occurred and therefore the bomb went kaboom!at the wrong time. Five French soldiers and two civilians were maimed on Friday by a powerful roadside kaboom that targeted a UNIFIL patrol in the southern coastal city of Tyre. The explosives were placed in a garbage bin in the area of al-Nabaa on the road that leads to Burj al-Shamali in Tyre. The blast left a one-meter deep crater and caused damages to nearby houses. MTV on Saturday reported other security sources as saying that the bomb was remotely detonated with the assailant being located some 150 meters northwest of the blast site. "The kaboom took off a few meters before the French unit reached the bomb, meaning the attacker had committed a mistake in the detonation," they explained. Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. It smelled phony... Prime Minister  Najib Miqati said on Saturday that French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe's statements that such attacks will not intimidate his country's UNIFIL troops is a sign of La Belle France's commitment to the international force.A French U.N. patrol was attacked on July 26 and Italian peacekeepers were targeted on May 27. UNIFIL Force Commander Major-General Alberto Asarta Cuevas denounced the attack but vowed it would not deter his troops from fulfilling their mandate. Posted by: Fred 2011-12-12 |
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