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Lawmaker arrested for alleged murder of mistress 2007-7-16 A CHINESE lawmaker has been arrested in connection with the murder of his mistress with a car bomb earlier this month. Duan Yihe, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Jinan Municipal People's Congress, is alleged to have hired his nephew-in-law, a Jinan policeman, to plant the car bomb that killed Liu Haiping on July 9, according to a source with the Shandong Provincial Public Security Department. Police found remnants of the bomb in Liu's car after the blast, which killed her on the spot and also engulfed a nearby taxi in...

Explosion killed five in JiNanBy BoxunJul 11, 2007 - 8:57:22 AM At 5;30pm, July 9, Beijing Time, JiNan, capital city of Shandong Province, a car explosion killed at least five, according to a statement by witness. Boxun just released all the pictures received today.The witness said police grabbed a camera from a lady who took photos and smashed it. One reporter lost the tape and was forced to leave. Media have received order “not report this incident”.Witness said that at least five killed, it was from explosive not gas tank explosion. The license plate started “Lu0”, i.e. it is...

BAGHDAD - Leaders of a car-bombing ring believed responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Iraqis in the Shiite Sadr City enclave and elsewhere in Baghdad have been captured, the U.S. military said on Monday. The suspected bombers were rounded up last week by American forces during continuing security sweeps in Azamiyah, the Sunni stronghold in northern Baghdad, the military statement said. The U.S. command said one of the detained men, Haitham al-Shimari, was suspected in the "planning and execution of the majority of car bombs which have killed hundreds of Iraqi citizens in Sadr City." The reported "second-in-command" of...

Six car bombs exploded at dusk on Sunday in four crowded markets in a Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, and an Interior Ministry official and witnesses said the bombs killed at least 46 people, wounded more than 200 others and spurred Shiite militiamen to take to the streets. The powerful blasts set vehicles aflame in the Sadr City neighborhood and scattered body parts across city blocks. In the gathering darkness, with ambulances wailing through the streets, black-clad militiamen loyal to the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr raced among the debris and set up checkpoints. Firemen aimed their hoses at charred metal...

Foreign Al Qaeda militants waging a campaign of suicide car bombings in Iraq plan to send some fighters home in preparation for similar operations in their own countries, the Iraqi interior minister said. Interior Minister Bayan Jabor said documents found with Abu Azzam, said to be a lieutenant of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted man in Iraq, signalled a plan to send foreign Arab Sunni militants back home to widen the battlefield beyond Iraq. "We got hold of a very important letter from Abu Azzam to Zarqawi asking him to begin to move a number of Arab fighters to the countries they came...

Why the Car Bomb is King in Iraq by James Dunnigan June 26, 2005 Discussion Board on this DLS topic In Iraq, car bombs are becoming the principal, and most popular, weapon of the terrorists, In May there were 143 car bomb attacks (both suicide and remotely detonated), up from 145 in April, 69 in March, and an average of 20-25 a month for the year before that. The bombs are getting larger, and more often composed of explosives, and not 152mm artillery shells, or 120mm mortar shells, rigged with detonators. The larger, all explosives, bombs are more likely to...

BAGHDAD The Iraqi government announced Sunday it had arrested a suspected member of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s al-Qaida in Iraq, a man it claimed was responsible for building car bombs and carrying out more than 60 bombings around the capital. Musaab Kasser Abdul Rahman Hassan, known as Abu Younis, was arrested on May 26 during an operation in Baghdad, the government said in a statement. “The terrorist Abu Younis is one of the extremists who has close ties to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and is the mastermind of more than 60 terrorist attacks in Baghdad, targeting governmental officials and Iraqi army and...

... Continuing violence during the past days has claimed the lives of at least four children, two US soldiers and a Sunni Muslim cleric, underscoring the rampant, random nature of an insurgency that has killed at least 810 people since the April 28 announcement of Iraq’s new Shiite-led government. ... A new online posting purportedly by the al Qaida group in Iraq has declared the creation of a new cell of suicide bombers called the “al-Bara bin Malek Brigade,” and claimed it has already carried out a number of unspecified attacks. It wasn’t possible to verify the authenticity of the...

Three Suicide Bombings In Iraq Kill 17 Associated Press June 2, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq - Three suicide car bombings killed 17 people in northern Iraq on Thursday, including a top municipal council leader and a bodyguard of Iraq's Kurdish deputy prime minister, police said. Continuing violence during the past days has also claimed the lives of three children, a U.S. soldier and a Sunni Muslim cleric, underscoring the rampant, random nature of an insurgency that has killed more than 780 people since the April 28 announcement of Iraq's new Shiite-led government. At least 10 people were killed and 40 wounded...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Three suicide car bombings struck within an hour and two parked motorcycles exploded in northern Iraq on Thursday, while gunmen in speeding cars opened fire on a crowded market in Baghdad in a wave of attacks that killed at least 38 Iraqis.

Iraqi police hurled insults at US soldiers after two suicide car bomb blasts in Baghdad killed at least seven people and left 19 wounded, including policemen. "It's all because you're here," a policeman shouted in Arabic at a group of US soldiers after the latest in a bloody wave of attacks that have rocked Baghdad this month. "Get out of our country and there will be no more explosions," he told the uncomprehending Americans staring at the smouldering wreck of a car bomb. The explosion wounded three policemen as they stood guard at the entrance to the River Police compound...

SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who founded a humanitarian group to aid civilian casualties in Iraq has died in a car bombing in Baghdad, officials said Sunday. Marla Ruzicka, founder of Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, died Saturday in the blast, which also killed an Iraqi and another foreigner, officials said. She had been in Iraq conducting door-to-door surveys trying to determine the number of civilian casualties in the country. Ruzicka, 28, founded CIVIC in 2003 to "mitigate the impact of the conflict and its aftermath on the people of Iraq by ensuring that timely and effective life-saving assistance...

All was pretty quiet in Iraq for most of last week. But Saturday, after Terrorists prayed in Mosques on Friday, was the day for Terrorists to start a series of car bombings. There are lives that might be saved if INTELS outsmart me and the TERRORISTS at this point -- it seems there could be things done. Also, the military leadership in Iraq could be taking Counter-Measures for the weekend. I hope our INTELS are awake. This also continued somewhat into Sunday -- a little as I remember. Or maybe the information was just able to get to the US...

We are reeling from the most frontal terrorist act in our recent history. Because this is what the assassination by a bomb in the car of Danilo Anderson, prosecutor extraordinaire, is. Of course it is too early to draw any conclusion as to whom, and why, though people interested in such a death and benefiting from it are scores, from all sides, from here and abroad. Perhaps a little listing might help.

Sep. 26, 2004 20:58 | Updated Sep. 26, 2004 21:08 Analysis: Striking outside the ball park By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN The assassination of a key Hamas operative in a foreign capital will likely lead to Hamas carrying through with its threat to change its policy and strike at Israeli and Jewish targets around the world. Until now, the staunchly disciplined Hamas organization, while responsible for scores of suicide bombings and attacks, has limited its strikes to Israel and the territories. Analysts believe that the Hamas Pandora's box is not empty and they do have the network and capability of launching deadly...

Sep. 26, 2004 12:01 | Updated Sep. 26, 2004 20:45 Damascus: Car bombing is 'Israeli state terrorism' By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN Hamas leader Izz El-Deen Al-Sheikh Khalil, in 1994 Photo: AP (file) Car bomb in Damascus Nine hours after a car bomb exploded in the Syrian capital on Sunday killing top Hamas terrorist Izz El-Deen Al-Sheikh Khalil, the Syrian government called the assassination "an Israeli act of state terrorism in the heart of Damascus", a statement by the Syrian government said. The Syrian Interior Ministry said in a terse statement carried by the official news agency, SANA, that Khalil had not...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Attackers detonated a car bomb near police and government buildings in the western city of Haditha on Thursday, killing 10 Iraqis, in a second day of violence that underscored just how little regard insurgents have for the new government. In an attempt to stem such attacks, Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Thursday that the country will create a new security service to tackle the nearly 15-month-old insurgency. The new service, the General Security Directorate, "will annihilate those terrorists groups, God willing," Allawi said during a news conference. Following the Haditha car bombing, officials apparently thwarted...

Mar 30, 8:04 AM ESTOne Dead, Seven Hurt in Iraq Car BombingBy DANIEL COONEYAssociated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- A suicide bomber blew up explosives in his car outside the house of a police chief south of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing himself and wounding seven others, officials said. The attack came after the head of a U.N. team said better security is vital if Iraq wants to hold elections by a Jan. 31 deadline.In Ramadi, west of Baghdad, a U.S. Humvee was hit with a rocket-propelled grenade Tuesday, setting it on fire, witnesses said. Four soldiers who were in...

ANKARA, Turkey - A car bomb exploded Tuesday outside an office used by U.S soldiers in northern Iraq, private CNN-Turk television reported. Several people were reported wounded, but it was unclear if Americans were among them. The wounded included Iraqi Kurdish guards and children from nearby houses. Firefighters rushed to the scene. U.S. military officials said they could not immediately confirm the report. Authorities in Irbil, the administrative capital of Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq about 200 miles north of Baghdad, called to residents over loudspeakers to donate blood for the wounded, CNN-Turk said. Northern Iraq has been the most stable part...

Iraqi security personnel have arrested 12 Iranian intelligence agents in Baghdad. The Iranians were preparing to conduct bombing attacks in Baghdad, the Arabic newspaper Al-Ahd al-Jadid, or The New Era, reported Aug. 21. The Baghdad newspaper calls itself a "democratic, liberal independent" newsweekly whose editor is Abd-al-Basit al-Naqqash. The director of security patrols in the Al-Sulihiyah district of Baghdad arrested the Iranians at the offices of the Al Mashriq Money Exchange Company, the newspaper reported. The Iranians were carrying counterfeit dollars and hotel and bank cards. They also had visitor cards identifying them as with the Al-Sharq Al-Awsat Vehicle Trading...

NAJAF, Iraq (AP) - Political and religious authorities in the Shiite holy cities south of Baghdad had demanded from the start of the U.S.-led occupation that Marines in the region keep a low profile and stay away from sacred Muslim shrines. Both sides were proud of the peace that prevailed as a result. No U.S. Marine has been killed in Iraq since April 12, despite the force having taken control of a huge area in the south-central part of the country. By comparison, there have been 68 combat deaths among American soldiers in the rest of the country, primarily in...

<p>DUBAI (CNN) -- The Arabic television channel Al Jazeera aired an audio tape Monday purportedly from former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein saying he was not involved in the deadly bomb attack outside a mosque in Najaf, Iraq.</p> <p>Friday's car bomb killed at least 83 Iraqis, according to the city's governor, including one of Iraq's most prominent Shiite clerics, Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim.</p>

<p>September 1, 2003 -- Two Saudis arrested moments after the massive car-bombing in An Najaf last week were picked up when passers-by noticed them sending an e-mail that read, "Mission accomplished: The dog is dead."</p> <p>According to The Times of London, the two suspects went to an Internet cafe after the blast to send the e-mail.</p>

CAR BOMB ATTACK THWARTED Security forces have arrested two men outside a mosque in the Iraqi city of Kufah after finding two cars laden with bombs. The arrests came amid warnings from clerics that Saddam Hussein loyalists or al-Qaeda members will strike over the next two days. The men were arrested outside the Masjed al-Kufah mosque, 180 kilometres south of Baghdad. "We found the seats (in one car stopped on Sunday) were not well designed and had new covers. This raised our suspicion and we searched the seats and found them filled with bombs," a policemen said. "Yesterday we seized...

JEDDAH, 1 September 2003 — Saudi Arabia said yesterday there was no proof that any of its citizens was involved in the Najaf car bomb blasts, challenging those who made such claims to come up with the evidence. “Some sources in Iraq have claimed that Saudi citizens were involved in the terrorist attack which killed prominent Shiite cleric Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer Al-Hakim,” a Foreign Ministry spokesman said. “These sources did not provide any proof for their claims. The government of Saudi Arabia hopes these sources will reveal the information they have and pass it on to the government of the...

  United States Department of DefenseNews ReleaseOn the web: http://www.dod.mil/releases/2003/nr20030829-0419.htmlMedia contact: media@defenselink.mil or +1 (703) 697-5131 Public contact: http://www.dod.mil/faq/comment.html or +1 (703) 428-0711   No. 642-03 IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 29, 2003 Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld Statement on An-Najaf Bombing I offer my condolences to the people of Iraq for this vicious attack at one of Islam's holy shrines. I particularly want to express my sympathy to the family and followers of Ayatollah Sayid Muhammed Baqir al-Hakim for their grievous loss.The perpetrators of this act want the opposite of what the Iraqi people, the Iraqi Governing Council, the...

<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq - Khawla Ahmed, a gentle-natured elementary school teacher, struggled Saturday to find a diplomatic way to express outrage at what life has become in Iraq. As she rattled off the mounting horrors of thieves prowling the streets, sabotage knocking out power and, now, deadly terrorist attacks, her anger became a venomous barrage.</p> <p>"America considers itself the superpower of the world, but here, it is powerless to keep any semblance of order," she said. "The Americans fired our police and our army. Now, there is no security, and foreign terrorists are coming across our borders."</p>

NAJAF, Iraq (AP) - Police have arrested 19 men - many of them foreigners and all with admitted links to al-Qaida - in the car bombing of the Imam Ali shrine in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, a senior Iraqi investigator told The Associated Press on Saturday. Two Iraqis and two Saudis grabbed shortly after the Friday attack gave information leading to the arrest of the others, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. They include two Kuwaitis and six Palestinians with Jordanian passports with the remainder Iraqis and Saudis, the official said, without giving a breakdown. Initial...

Al-Qa'eda fighters admit bombing By Damien McElroy in Najaf (Filed: 31/08/2003) Iraqi police claimed yesterday to have arrested four men, including two Saudis, all with links to al-Qa'eda, who they said had admitted to the bombing that killed the prominent cleric Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim and at least 80 worshippers on Friday. A senior police official said that the four were caught at a checkpoint at a crossroads a few miles from the scene of the bombing at Iraq's most holy Shi'ite Muslim shrine. Haydir Mahdi, the governor of the southern city of Najaf, said 1,500lb of explosives in two...

19 with al-Qaida ties arrested in Iraq bombing Associated Press Aug. 30, 2003, 3:25PM NAJAF, Iraq -- Police have arrested 19 men -- many of them foreigners and all with admitted links to al-Qaida -- in the car bombing of the Imam Ali shrine in the holy city of Najaf, a senior Iraqi investigator told The Associated Press today. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said two Iraqis and two Saudis grabbed shortly after the Friday attack gave information leading to the arrest of the others. They include two Kuwaitis and six Palestinians with Jordanian passports. The remainder were...

NAJAF, Iraq (AP) - Al-Qaida-linked terrorists - two of them Saudi - organized the car bombing at the Imam Ali shrine in the holy city of Najaf, the third in a string of deadly attacks apparently aimed at undermining the U.S.-led occupation, police said Saturday. At least 11 suspects have been arrested in the attack, and four confessed to having links to Osama bin Laden's terror network, a high-ranking Iraqi police official in Najaf told The Associated Press. There was no immediate confirmation from U.S. officials. The blast during noon prayers Friday killed 85 people, hospital officials said, including top...

NAJAF, Iraq - Iraqi police have arrested four al-Qaida-linked suspects in the bombing of Iraq's holiest Shiite Muslim shrine, a senior police official told The Associated Press on Saturday. The official, who said the explosion death toll had risen to 107, said the men - two Iraqis and two Saudis - were caught shortly after Friday's car bombing. The attack killed one of the most important Shiite clerics in Iraq, Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, who had been cooperating with the American occupation force. On Saturday, 4,000 mourners chanted for vengeance in Najaf. In Baghdad, about 3,000 Shiites protested peacefully for...

NAJAF, Iraq (AP) - Iraqi police have arrested four men in connection with the bombing of Iraq's holiest Shiite Muslim shrine, and all four have connections to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network, a senior police official told The Associated Press on Saturday. The official, who said the death toll in the Friday bombing had risen to 107, said the four arrested men - two Iraqis and two Saudis - were caught shortly after the car bombing on Friday. The bombing killed one of the most important Shiite clerics in Iraq, Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, who had been cooperating with...

Mosque slaughter was 'worse than American air raids' By Justin Huggler in Baghdad 30 August 2003 Twisted fragments of cars, rubble and human remains marked the spot where a leading Shia cleric was killed by a car bomb yesterday. A severed ear could be seen in the wreckage. The car bomb was massive. It blew a crater three feet wide in the street, leaving at least 80 people dead, more than three times the toll in last week's attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad. Hours after the blast, there was still pandemonium in the holy city of Najaf as...

WASHINGTON, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi blamed former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and other Baathists for the explosion which killed the top Iraqi Shi'ite politician and dozens of others in the city of Najaf on Friday. Chalabi, a Shi'ite who heads the Iraqi National Council, said: "There's no doubt in my mind. It's Saddam, remnants of the Baathists and their new allies from across the border, the fundamentalists coming across to participate in these things." Saddam's Baath party was the main vehicle for his dictatorial rule. The explosion in Najaf killed Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim, leader...

<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A car bomb at the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf killed at least 17 people, including the Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, the Shiite leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, according to a Shiite spokesman.</p>

At least nine people have been killed and 15 wounded in a car bomb attack in the Iraqi town of Najaf. The explosion was outside Shiite Islam's holiest mosques, it is reported. Sky's foreign affairs editor, Tim Marshall, says it is likely the attack was as a result of in-fighting between Shiite Muslims rather than an attack on Coalition trrops

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A member of Iraq's US-appointed Governing Council called on Friday for internal security to be handed over to Iraqis following the killing of top Shiite leader Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer al-Hakim in a devastating car bombing in the holy city of Najaf. Ahmad Chalabi, leader of the Pentagon -backed Iraqi National Congress (INC), blamed remnants of Saddam Hussein's regime and supporters of the al-Qaeda terror network for the attack, which came a little over a week after another deadly bombing wrecked the UN headquarters in Baghdad. "This is not an inter-Shiite affair," Chalabi told AFP, flatly rejecting the...

NAJAF, Iraq, Aug. 29 — A massive car bomb Friday at Iraq’s holiest Shiite shrine killed 75 people, including one of the country’s most important Muslim clerics, Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the chief doctor at the city’s central hospital reported. He said a survey of all the city’s medical facilities indicated that 140 people were wounded, many seriously. DR. SAFAA AL-AMEEDI, who determined the death toll in telephone calls to local hospitals, said medical facilities were mobbed by people looking for relatives and loved-ones. He said the car bomb outside the Imam Ali mosque was detonated as thousands were...

Official Documents     - Org Chart Budget and FinanceProgram Review Board   Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III     - Bio    - Speeches    - Press Conferences CPA Regions CPA North CPA SouthCPA South-Central Baghdad Central Press Room Press ReleasesTranscripts Multimedia Media Queries SolicitationsRequests For Information    ArabicPress Release Recent Statement by Ambassador Bremer 29 August 2003 The bombing today in An Najaf shows again that the enemies of the new Iraq will stop at nothing.   Again, they have killed innocent Iraqis.   Again, they have violated one of Islam’s most sacred places.   Again, by their heinous action, they have shown the...

<p>NAJAF, Iraq — A massive car bomb exploded at the Imam Ali mosque during Friday prayers in this holy city, killing 75 people, including one of Iraq's most important Shiite clerics, a hospital official said.</p> <p>Medical facilities were jammed with people looking for relatives who may have been hurt in the bombing, which occurred as thousands were pouring out of the mosque, he said.</p>

NAJAF, Iraq (AP) - A car bomb exploded at the Imam Ali mosque during Friday prayers in this holy city, killing 75 people, including one of Iraq's most important Shiite clerics, authorities said. The blast destroyed nearby shops and dug a crater about 3 1/2 feet wide in the street in front of the shrine, Iraq's holiest. People screamed in grief and anger as they searched the rubble for victims. Nearby cars were torn into twisted hunks of metal by the explosion. A survey of Najaf's medical facilities counted 75 dead, with 140 wounded, including many who were seriously hurt,...

NAJAF, Iraq (AP) - Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim had just delivered a sermon calling for Iraqi unity, and prayers were under way at Iraq's holiest Shiite shrine when a car bomb exploded. Al-Haim, 64, was killed just months after the fall of Saddam Hussein enabled him to return to his native country after more than two decades in exile in Iran. For some, he represented hope for the establishment of Islamic rule in Iraq and power for Iraq's majority Shiites, long persecuted under Saddam Hussein. For others, he belonged to a generation on its way out and an influential family...

<p>A car bomb killed at least 82 people and wounded 229 others outside one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines in the central Iraqi city of Najaf, medical sources told AFP.</p> <p>The Najaf educational hospital reported 81 dead and 200 wounded from the bombing, said Doctor Ali Jawad, a senior resident at the medical facility.</p> <p>He added that 100 of the wounded were listed in serious condition.</p> <p>Another person was reported dead, as well as 29 wounded, at the city's general hospital, said Doctor Hussein al-Wan.</p> <p>The bombing killed Iraq's top Shiite political leader, Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer al-Hakim.</p>

The bomb attack on the holy city of Najaf in Iraq dealt a new blow to US hopes of bringing stability to the country as well as killing a key moderating influence on the Iraqi Shiite community, US experts said. Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer al-Hakim, a leading Shiiite Muslim cleric, was among at least 82 people killed in the car bomb set off outside the Tomb of Ali, one of the Islamic world's most important shrines. Coming barely 10 days after the truck bomb that killed 23 people at the UN offices in Baghdad, including the UN special envoy Sergio Vieira...

75 Reported Killed in Iraq Mosque Blast AP Prominent cleric among the dead in Najaf after car bombing at Iraq's holiest Shiite shrine Friday, August 29, 2003L. Paul Bremer (search), the top U.S. civil administrator in Iraq, issued the following statement on Friday:"The bombing today in An Najaf (search) shows again that the enemies of the new Iraq will stop at nothing."Again, they have killed innocent Iraqis."Again, they have violated one of Islam's (search) most sacred places."Again, by their heinous action, they have shown the evil face of terrorism."On behalf of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the American people and all friends of Iraq,...

The number of dead from yesterday's car bomb at a luxury hotel in the Colombian capital, Bogata, has risen to 32. Police are also saying more than 200 people were injured in the blast. As the death toll continues to climb, the Colombian Government has warned the lethal car-bomb was a hi-tech device. "This attack was much more sophisticated than those in the jungle," Justice Minister Fernando Londono said. The Government has blamed the left wing guerrilla group, known as FARC, for the bombing. The attack will throw fresh attention on the trial of three Irishmen accused of training the...

A powerful bomb exploded at an exclusive club in Bogota Friday night, killing more than 30 people, injuring more than 150 and setting the 10-story building on fire, according to an Associated Press report. The U.S. ambassador’s residence is behind the building, and the club is frequented by politicians and business executives. The blast showered bricks and mortar onto a busy boulevard, caving in the roofs of passing cars. A fire caused by the explosion burned for about two hours before it was brought under control. The bomb, packed with 330 pounds of explosives, was placed in a car in...

BEIRUT: A bomb exploded in a car south of Beirut early Saturday, killing a security official of the militant Hezbollah group, officials said. The explosion occurred on Hadi Nasrallah highway in Beirut's southern suburbs during the morning rush hour, the security officials said on condition of anonymity. The explosion tore apart the car and instantly killed its driver, Ali Hussein Saleh, the officials said. A passer-by was injured. The security officials earlier said the blast killed two people and injured several passers-by, but they later announced that Saleh was the sole fatality, while only one person was injured. Saleh, whose...