Bomb explosion

Bomb Explosion Near Tarik Jedideh Police Station, No Casualties (from Naharnet, Lebanese newspaper)
A bomb exploded near a police station in Beirut Sunday night on the eve of a dialogue session among Lebanon’s rival leaders to consider Hizbullah calls for a government of national unity, security sources said.
They said no one was hurt in the bomb that went off in a parking lot near the Tarik Jedideh police station in Beirut. No other details were given.

Witnesses said the bomb exploded under a vehicle parked in the parking lot, causing damage.

Unknown gunmen fired a rifle grenade at the Helou police garrison in Beirut on Wednesday, causing minor material damage but no casualties.

The grenade explosion was the second on the Helou garrison in nearly three weeks.

Sunday’s blast was part of a series of assaults aimed at destabilizing the security situation in Lebanon.

Five similar security incidents took place in Beirut last month.

The Lebanese government recently decided to set up a network of surveillance cameras in Beirut and its suburbs, two years after the start of a spate of bombing attacks that mainly targeted figures who opposed Syrian domination.

Among those targeted was former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who was killed by a massive car bomb in the capital in February 2005. (Naharnet-AFP) (AP photo shows a Lebanese soldier taking evidence from the scene of the explosion)