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Frustration over Dragnet Thrown Around Haret Hreik Blast Site
Security and judicial authorities have intensified their investigation into the mysterious Saturday night explosion that targeted a Hamas office in Beirut's southern suburbs amid criticism of the media and judicial dragnet thrown by Hizbullah around the scene of the blast
An Nahar said Tuesday that military court judge Rahif Ramadan arrived to the scene of the explosion 20 minutes after the blast went off during which Hizbullah members had thrown an airtight security dragnet and prevented anyone from approaching the site in Haret Hreik.

However, Ramadan denied he was stopped by Hizbullah and said he got the approval of the military police and opened an investigation at 12:30 am Sunday.

He said, however, it was difficult to move in the area as a result of rubble and power cuts but was able to search the scene at 4:00 pm Sunday.

According to information made available to An Nahar, the blast site was tampered with after SUVs were seen coming out of the area following the explosion.

Reports on reasons behind the explosion also differed with An Nahar saying that a car-bomb was being defused when the blast went off.

However, according to al-Akhbar daily, the explosion was either the result of a bomb planted in the area to target Hamas members or explosive materials stacked in the area.

Al-Akhbar said that a Hamas member was probably moving the explosives or the movement's members were training on making the bombs or defusing them when the blast went off.

The newspaper said security forces arrested a suspect after hearing the testimonies of several witnesses. However, official security sources denied such information.

A Hamas movement official in southern Lebanon told Agence France Presse on Monday that the cause of the blast was a booby-trapped fundraising box sent to Hamas representative in Lebanon Osama Hamdan.

Security sources also told pan-Arab daily al-Hayat that police were investigation how the box reached the area and who sent it.
 

Beirut, 29 Dec 09, 09:36
 
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