McDonald’s Bombed Amid Anti-U.S. Feeling
From Times Wire Reports
A small bomb exploded in a McDonald’s restaurant in the Beirut suburb of Dora, wounding five people and highlighting the rising anti-American sentiment in Lebanon due to the Iraq war.
The blast also damaged the restaurant, officials said. Police said they later found a car in the restaurant’s parking lot that contained 121 pounds of TNT but had not exploded because the detonator failed.
There have been several pro-Iraq demonstrations in front of the U.S. and British embassies in Beirut since the war began.
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