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del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 16:36 08/10/2007 Lebanon arrests 30 for allegedly plotting bombings in Beirut By The Associated Press Authorities have arrested some 30 Islamic militants who allegedly plotted to bomb the main police headquarters in Beirut and attack Arab and European ambassadors in Lebanon, court and security officials said Monday. The 30 militants were detained nearly two months ago in and around the southern port city of Sidon when the Lebanese army was engaged in fierce f Advertisement ghting with militants of the al-Qaida-inspired Fatah Islam group in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon. Some of the arrested belong to Fatah Islam and the rest are members of another al-Qaida-inspired group, said the security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. Interrogation of the detained militants showed that they planned to blow up the headquarters of the Internal Security Forces with an explosives-laden military vehicle, the officials said. Police have since tightened security around its headquarters in Beirut. Concrete blocks have been set up around the building and people living in the vicinity have been barred from parking their cars. Officials said some of the militants were linked to a roadside bomb that struck a UN jeep in the village of Qassimiyeh in July near the southern port city of Tyre, causing damage to the vehicle but no casualties. The group was also planning to help some 200 Fatah Islam members and 50 other al-Qaida-inspired militants escape from the central Roumieh prison east of Beirut, according to officials. Prison security guards, backed by a group of army commandos, foiled an escape attempt last Thursday when relatives of the prisoners tried to storm the prison, the officials said. Separately, Lebanese authorities charged 20 suspected militants, 16 Palestinians and four Russians, with terrorism Friday for alleged membership in Fatah Islam. The Russian nationals were the first non-Arabs charged by authorities with being among the Fatah Islam fighters who the Lebanese army finally crushed on Sept. 2 after a three-month siege that destroyed large parts of the Nahr el-Bared camp near the northern city of Tripoli. In the past weeks, Lebanese authorities charged more than 330 people of different nationalities with terrorism and belonging to Fatah Islam Bookmark to del.icio.us The Last Klezmer Ra'anana will host a concert celebrating the life of musician Leopold Kozlowski. Dignity or Liberty In the case of drug addicts, a person's dignity takes precedence over liberty.   1.   as indrajaya said all of them 16:51  |  scanadu 08/10/07   2.   scanadu #1 You took the words out of my mouth! 17:33  |  Dakkar 08/10/07   3.   Could it be? 17:58  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 08/10/07   4.   Arrests 18:05  |  Abu Yusuf 08/10/07   5.   Abu Yusuf_What he Said 21:08  |  Free the World 08/10/07   6.   Chop off ther noses!! 22:31  |  Natallie Durson 08/10/07   7.   Lebanon the beautiful 23:02  |  Uzi 08/10/07   8.   Durston = Abdullah Muhammed 23:25  |  James Kevin O`Leary 08/10/07   9.   Natallie#6 - are your eyes poked out? 01:37  |  William 09/10/07   10.   Sure ! There is a part of truth in each of Nathalie and William 22:05  |  Maurice from Lebanon 09/10/07

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