Explosions Target Hotel, Liquor Store in Tyre

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Twin bomb blasts targeted a hotel and a liquor store in the southern city of Tyre at dawn Wednesday, causing extensive damage but no casualties.

The first explosion ripped through a restaurant of the three-story Queen Elissa hotel which lies on the coast around 5:00 am. Several vehicles were damaged in the blast.

Voice of Lebanon radio station (93.3) said a UNIFIL official was at the hotel when the bomb went off.

A similar explosion tore through the liquor shop a few minutes later.

But Interior Minister Marwan Charbel denied that UNIFIL was the target of the explosions, saying the attacks were perpetrated by certain parties who oppose the trade of liquor in the area.

A military expert said the explosives that targeted the hotel weighed around 3 kilograms while the bomb that hit the liquor shop was 1 kilo.

LBC TV network reported that security forces have a suspect and are trying to find him.

Two liquor shops were targeted in southern villages in July and others have been forced to shut down.

There have also been several attacks against U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon in the past years, most recently in July, when a roadside bomb blew up next to a U.N. convoy carrying French peacekeepers.

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Default-user-icon Warheart (Guest) 16 November 2011, 07:38

Poor Queen Dido, she must be really proud of the scum that populate these areas

Default-user-icon Piotr (Guest) 16 November 2011, 07:44

The Syrian regime started fooling around i guess...

Default-user-icon free citizen (Guest) 16 November 2011, 07:54

This is wilayat al faqih rule Mr General Aoun, these are your fanatic allies

Thumb geha 16 November 2011, 08:10

This is hizbushaitan democracy and taking over the country's laws.

Default-user-icon Anonymous TX USA (Guest) 16 November 2011, 08:10

Welcome to Hizbalistan
To anyone who is still delusional about how Hizbullah conducts its business, take a good look...they only know one way..terrorism
Lebanon will turn into a wilayat el fakih kind of theocracy that will be intolerant to any minority rights and freedoms...anyone who disagrees gets bombed.

Default-user-icon may 7 (Guest) 16 November 2011, 09:52

march 8 and syria only know one way.

Thumb geha 16 November 2011, 09:58

What is funny is they say they are a resistance and their weapons are aimed at israel :)

Default-user-icon Someone (Guest) 16 November 2011, 11:02

LOL....March 14 posters are funny! I dare one of 'em to go to a conservative SUNNI area in Tripoli and open a liquor store and see what happens. Idiots.

Default-user-icon Stavros (Guest) 16 November 2011, 12:12

Wait till they start doing the same in Ashrafieh.. its only a matter of time, if thye win this struggle for power..But its fine, who needs booz when GA is president.. his glory would be enough for us all

Default-user-icon Mustapha (Guest) 16 November 2011, 12:24

for Someone Who posted a cheesy comment about tripoli, looks like you havent paid a visit to tripoli, its a free city, and there is bars all the mina, and all over tripoli, We are free prospered city .. Thank You :)

Default-user-icon Le Phenicien (Guest) 16 November 2011, 12:36

As "Someone" explained the explosion was in the Christian quarters in Tyre but that's not important , as the Ayatollah taught SHN who taught us alcohol makes the man weak and should be illegal if the Resistance is to remain strong , as should music . This is just another step into reclaiming what learned historian SHN called this Muslim land usurped by Christian imported to be a thorn in the side of us Muslims . Caveat lector , if you want to live here you have to follow our divine ways .

Default-user-icon MUSTAPHA O. GHALAYINI (Guest) 16 November 2011, 14:00

shater hassan is not shater anymore... its the beginning of the end.nobody can go against the will of the people.
LONG LIVE BILAD EL ARZ.

Default-user-icon MUSTAPHA O. GHALAYINI (Guest) 16 November 2011, 14:03

sheers... double double on the rocks.jhonny is walking.

Default-user-icon Anonymous TX USA (Guest) 16 November 2011, 14:29

A civilized party that has an issue with liquor stores could have resorted to legal ways to impose a ban, or they could have went through city council to do so.
The reality is that they don't have the majority of the population backing such a ban. But that doesn't stop them from imposing their ban through terrorism/criminal acts.
That why The Hizb is dangerous to Lebanon because they completely disregard the rule of law, people's rights, and democratie whenever it doesn't serve them
Oh and what a lame excuse we get from the govt to justify such a crime
Reminds me of same lame excuse they gave for the misfired dbayeh bomb couple of month ago

Thumb Marc 16 November 2011, 15:14

Many of the wine bottles are still standing..... How powerful was this explosion.. Or was it a message by the terrorists that no liquor stores should be around. In all cases, it is time for all Lebanese to rise and kick those extremists out......

ارطة زعران

Default-user-icon Muhamad (Guest) 16 November 2011, 15:22

This is the work of the joint underground Zionist and Syrian regime to create trouble across the region by using radical elements from culture and society, enable to accomplish their evil policy

Default-user-icon Gabby (Guest) 16 November 2011, 16:07

Everyone knows who did it. It won't work. We are not afraid of Syria, their Hezz accomplices, or any of their agents any more.

Thumb thepatriot 16 November 2011, 16:13

Dear owner of the liquor store. I shall have a drink tonight, and shall raise my glass to you, and hope that you will find the means and courage to re-open very soon!
Cheers!

@ Le Phenicien
Go get a drink man. Seems like you need one...or two!

Default-user-icon Mohammed Safa (Guest) 16 November 2011, 16:51

@ Phenicien: You are already following the Western way of life without you knowing it. The shows you watch on TV, your clothes, the car you drive (if Allah allows you to drive) etc...so my friend, if you are to be a proper Muslim, you must stop following the Western divine ways of life. If you are reading this it means you are using the web, a powerful western weapon, there you're probably already a big kafer. Don't distort the image of Islam by throwing useless comments. My advice to you, conitnue working hard in claiming a land which was never yours actually! (Besides, education would be great for you)

Default-user-icon Anonymous TX USA (Guest) 16 November 2011, 17:04

Nice try Mowaten
But ur argument is futile
The reasons we are positive that Hizb is behind it are the following:
1- the minister said it "certain party in the city doesn't want liquor".
2-bombs are not available in your local grocery store
3-bomb experts are not found meandering in local coffee shops
4-article refers to scores of other similar previous attacks which concededly occurred in Hizb strongholds.
5-when the party is not involved culprits are usually swiftly apprehended by police
6-more importantly the people in those areas have been advised by the Hizb that any liquor store operator should expect such treatment.

Default-user-icon cheers (Guest) 16 November 2011, 17:05

Let's drink to the hard working people
Let's drink to the lowly of birth
Raise your glass to the good and the evil
Let's drink to the salt of the earth!!

Default-user-icon Analyanalou (Guest) 16 November 2011, 17:10

Mowaten: Instead of telling people they should not rush to conclusions and condemn a certain group so quickly, you may want to analyze why people are behaving this way. Is it because they are tired of being told that a certain group has never ever made a mistake? Is it because that certain group is holier than thou, purer than thou and more honest than thou? Is it because that group makes up the flimsiest excuses - excuses that hardly anyone believe - to justify extremist behavior?

Then and only then, will you understand why the great majority of people posting in this forum are tired and fed up of a certain group.

Missing applesandoranges 16 November 2011, 18:34

It is ironic how March 8th cronies( mowaten, lephenicien and the likes) resort to moderation in their arguments " this country is yours as well as ours" or "we all have equal rights in Lebanon" and the best one "let justice take its course before jumping to conclusions" right after crimes evidently committed by their own people.

Missing peace 16 November 2011, 19:07

seems that talibans have come to lebanon....

Missing peace 16 November 2011, 19:32

"saying the attacks were perpetrated by certain parties who oppose the trade of liquor in the area."

could he name them? or is he afraid? or he doesn t want to say a thing in order not to arrest the perpetrators and let them free?

Thumb mrbrain 16 November 2011, 20:58

27 Comments over a well known conspiracy that we know it from the civil war...
Again the Lebanese version of democracy is twisted and destructive...The moderator of this biased blog should be replaced by an Intelligence officer..Anyone who encourages sectarian hatred should be questioned by the intelligence...Fouad Chehab you were the True Lebanese leader who established a secular rule and enforced it ...Give a monkey freedom and he will ruin everything and that is the case of the Lebanese …You idiots do you know who is behind this attack ? Of course not because you simply think like monkies…
Pfffffffffffffffff

Default-user-icon Anonymous TX USA (Guest) 16 November 2011, 22:04

To mrbrain (though I have serious reservations about that)
No one is enticing civil strife. Since when does the Hizb represent the whole honorable Lebanese Shiite community.
Everyone is condemning this criminal act by a party that has no respect to the rule of law and to individual rights and resort to such terroristic tactics in it's daily business
How do we know the Hizb is behind it. Just because it has the ability, it has a precedence of doing the same in other areas under it's control, and most of all it is the onlyone capable of getting away with it. The interior minister's justification is another indicator.

Default-user-icon Kamboi (Guest) 16 November 2011, 22:49

I am so saddened by this as I was just there 3 weeks ago, and thought that area of Tyre will be popular as it is. Aptly named Nabih Berri Avenue, were it's jam packed with people cars, cafes, hotel, etc.. Why can't these barbarians let us live in peace. Oh I am a shiite from a town 20 minutes from Tyre.

Default-user-icon Lebanese trying to get rid of the passport (Guest) 16 November 2011, 23:10

As the world advances, Lebanon is becoming a worse jungle and I wish I was never born to see it... However I discovered better countries and people. I hate that I was born Lebanese... I'm sick of the dirt, the corruption, the ignorance, the people who smoke with no respect to non-smokers, the polution, the direspectful politicians on tv. the crime rate and no one knows who killed who, the freaking filthy 100 religions that don't respect one another, the dirty sea, the worse customer service, the most expensive stuff compared to the minimum wage of an average citizen, the fake women and plastic surgeries, the worse singers...it's freaking hell, why would someone go back to lebanon? so they see smoke at the airport or get to pay tips to security forces? or need to pay 10K at Sky Bar or need to know someone who knows someone to go to Pier 7 ? screw Lebanon. I'm selling my citizenship if anyone wants it.. FREE

Default-user-icon neutral (Guest) 16 November 2011, 23:52

I was in lebanon in 1994 and was at a restaurant in the bekaa valley having some food and yes was drinking arak when 6 people from Hezballah showed up and treatned to kill us and called us names. because we were drinking . plus they told the owner that they will blow his place soon.
its ok to kill people its ok to rob people for them all is ok. what a country. but this time its assads thugs who are trying their best to start a war in lebanon so the world turn their heads away from them. that will never work ya bashar rouh khayyit beghayr msally. your end is near . dont you think there is a God? wait and see. saddam moubarak kaddafi and soon kariban ala hazehi el shasha basshar assad 's army split tanks surrounded his home and he was arrested. him and his followers. the alawite army withdrew to kordaha .