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LBC did an interesting background report on today’s explosion in Bir Abed. Turns out there was another huge explosion on the same street almost 30 years ago.
1985: 

2013:

 1985:

2013:

Some Lebanese leaders have indicated Israel could be behind today’s attack, but many Western and local journalists are not buying it. A report that just aired on CNN, for example, blamed the car bomb on the violence in Syria–with no mention of Israel as a possible suspect.
Back in 1985, Israel and the USA were also blamed but this charge was written off as a “Shia mindset” at the time.
It wasn’t until a few years later that journalist Bob Woodward revealed that then CIA chief William Casey and a Saudi prince helped arrange the bombing, which was an assassination attempt on cleric Mohammad Fadallah.  
Some 80 innocent civilians were killed instead. 
I wonder how many years it will take to find out who was behind today’s attack–if the truth ever does come out. 
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Habib Battah is an investigative journalist and founder of the news site beirutreport.com. Battah has covered Lebanon and the Middle East for over 15 years and teaches journalism and media studies at the American University of Beirut. He is a contributor to Monocle, The Guardian, BBC World, Al Jazeera and others, a former fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University and two-time recipient of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award. Battah's investigative work was recently recognized for outstanding local reporting by the Columbia University Oakes Award for Environmental Reporting. Battah earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Near East Studies and Journalism from New York University.

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