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It’s only been a few hours since today’s blast in Beirut and already the crime scene has become a local hangout.

The area doesn’t seem cordoned off very well and people are posing next to the mangled vehicles.

So where is CSI Beirut and shouldn’t they be carefully monitoring the site?

I asked this question during the last car bombing, which remains unsolved almost one year later. Will this attack be any different or will we eventually write off today’s events as yet another case of Lebanese mystery terrorism?

Before we begin speculating about ‘who done it’ this time, shouldn’t we also be asking who has done it last time and the time before that?

And will the real CSI Beirut please stand up?

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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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