Lebanon's army says it has arrested the head of a network blamed for a series of bomb attacks on fast food restaurants and other Western targets. Lebanese authorities launched a campaign of arrests and charged over 30 people with belonging to a "terrorist" group, after a car booby-trapped with 55 kilograms of explosives was discovered outside a Beirut McDonald's in April. A smaller bomb went off inside, causing light injuries. That incident is the most spectacular in a string of attacks on restaurants identified with the United States.The United States is the target of considerable hostility in Lebanon for attacking Iraq and supporting Israel, which invaded Lebanon in 1982. "On May 3, 2003, the intelligence directorate - with help from Syrian security - was able to arrest the head of the network which carried out the bombing," the army said in a statement. It says the detained man is being interrogated. The frequency of the attacks picked up after US-led forces invaded Iraq in March. Since then, the Beirut offices of the British Council have been bombed and a man armed with a grenade stormed a branch of the HSBC bank in the capital.
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