WRAP Explosion rocks industrial suburb of Beirut, reax
Beirut -
12 December 2005
1. Wide of blast site showing crowd and security forces
2.
Pull out showing line of damaged cars
3.
Close up of a damaged windscreen
4.
Sniffer dog at the scene
5. Smouldering wreckage on the hillside
6.
Blast victim,
Gibran Tueni's wife, Siham Ossayli being led away
7. Set up of eye witness
8. SOUNDBITE (
Arabic)
Eyewitness (
Name unavailable):
"We were inside the printer. We saw something bright and then we heard a very big explosion. The glasses were shattered. We went outside and we saw the cars burning."
9. Wide of the blast site
10. Mid of investigators inspecting site
11. Telecoms
Minister Marwan Hamadeh arriving at the site
12. SOUNDBITE (
English) Marwan Hamadeh, Lebanese Telecommunications Minister and Tueni's uncle:
"There is no doubt that
Bashar Assad (
Syrian President) and his band of organised criminals are behind all these, this list of crimes"
13. Exterior of Hayek
Hospital
14. Close up of hospital
sign
15.
Various of wounded in the hospital
Beirut - 12 December 2005
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Marwan Hamadeh, Telecom Minister and Tueni's uncle:
"If the ministers' council doesn't call, during the coming hours, for an international investigation into all the assassinations that have occurred in
Lebanon, starting from my assassination attempt to this crime which happened today, as well as taking an immediate decision and informing the
UN security council that we are calling immediately for an international court in order to inquire in the crimes of the
Syrian regime against Lebanon, our bloc will leave the cabinet this evening."
17. Hamadeh walking away from podium
Beirut - 12 December 2005
18. Exterior shot of An-Nahar Newspaper office building
19. Mid of grieving people outside
20. Various of demonstrators marching towards the building, accompanied by soldiers
21. Various of people chanting slogans against
Syria and its
President Bashar Assad
22. SOUNDBITE (Arabic)
Ali Hassan Khalil, Lebanese
Member of Parliament:
"It is a crime that we condemn because it is against all Lebanon. Every Lebanese citizen feels shocked today for the assassination of the free word. Even if you disagree with it, you have to respect it. It is a loss, it is the assassination of freedom and the free press in Lebanon."
FILE - 14
March 2005
23.
Journalist Gibran Tueni speaking at a rally in Beirut
24. Pan of crowd at rally
STORYLINE:
Anti-Syrian journalist and lawmaker Gibran Tueni was killed on Monday by a car bomb that exploded as his motorcade passed through an industrial suburb of Beirut.
The blast occurred a day after Tueni returned from
France, where he had been staying periodically for fear of assassination.
Tueni's uncle, Telecommunications Minister Marwan Hamadeh, and leading Lebanese politician
Walid Jumblatt blamed Syria for the bombing - a charge that
Damascus promptly denied.
Police said Tueni was one of three people killed when the car bomb exploded as his motorcade drove through the suburb of
Mkalles.
Another 30 people were wounded in the bombing, which started a fire that destroyed at least 10 vehicles.
The blast shattered windows, wrecked at least 10 cars and caused a fire in factories and the nearby bush.
Tueni's wife was led away by police officers from the scene of the explosion, in tears.
The wounded were transported to the nearby Hayek hospital.
Marwan Hamadeh called on Monday for an international investigation into the attack.
He threatened to withdraw from the
Cabinet with two colleagues if the government did not demand a
United Nations investigation into the continuing series of bombings.
Syrian
Information Minister Mehdi Dakhlallah denied his government was involved.
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