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Hezbollah planning major attack on Beirut Airport
« on: May 02, 2008, 11:18:43 AM »

He noted that a shoulder-fired Russian Strella-M heat-seeking missile "would be capable of hitting a jetliner on the runway, for example."

Beirut - Lebanese majority leader Walid Jumblatt accused Hezbollah of planning a large scale attack on the Beirut International Airport, to assassinate another key politician. Jumblatt said that recently a container was found in the airport to which a surveillance camera was attached. He added that Hizbullah placed a container on a side road in the Ouzai district overlooking Beirut airport's western runway and placed a camera in it to monitor aircraft traffic along the facility. Jumblatt revealed that Hezbollah was specifically monitoring western runway number 17, which is used primarily for executive jets. In addition to Jumblatt, only a...

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