Rocket Hits U.S. Embassy in Beirut
Arab radicals opposed to the Mideast peace conference fired a rocket at the U.S. Embassy compound in East Beirut on Tuesday.
The missile struck a wall but caused no injuries or serious damage to the building in the Christian suburb of Aukur, said Lebanese Defense Minister Michel Murr.
An anonymous caller to a Western news agency later claimed responsibility on behalf of the Arab Revolutionary Brigades, a previously unknown group.
The caller said the rocket was “a demonstration of rejection of the sellout by Arab regimes of the Palestinian cause at the Madrid conference.”
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