Red Cross ambulances evacuated at least a dozen casualties, after a powerful explosion tore through rows of parked cars, near a major highway overpass, targeting a top Lebanese police investigator.Firefighters worked feverishly to douse the blazing wreckage of twisted automobiles, as thick plumes of acrid black smoke choked the air. Lebanese security officials say top police investigator Wissam Eid, the apparent target of the blast, died immediately.
Charles Ayoub, the Editor of Lebanon's Ad Diyar newspaper told al Arabiya television that at least 30 to 40 kilos of a TNT were used in the bombing.Lebanese investigators, using sniffer dogs, combed through the rubble of the explosion, looking for clues, but sources say that water used to douse the blaze was making the search extremely difficult.
BEIRUT, Lebanon
"البطريركية هي المرجعية الوطنية والروحية في اوقات الازمات الحادة" الخازن: التاريخ سيذكر بعض الموارنة الذيــــن اضاعوا البوصلة المركزية – اسف النائب الدكتور فريد …
"لبنان دخل مرحلـــــة التدويل منذ سنوات عدة" الخازن: صدور قرار دولي غير وارد ولا آلية لتنفيذه المركزية – رأى عضو تكتل "التغيير والاصلاح" …
daily star BEIRUT: Several pro-government delegations visited Bkirki Thursday to express solidarity with Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir after Marada Movement leader Suleiman Franjieh launched a verbal attack on the prelate. "Father forgive them for they don't know what they are doing," Sfeir said Thursday in an apparent response to Wednesday's attack on him by Franjieh.
Late Wednesday Franjieh lashed out again at Sfeir and urged him to resign. He told NBN television he was expressing the thoughts and opinions of most Christians, "including bishops close to the prelate." "Sfeir is changing his positions very often. First he was against amending the Constitution, but he suddenly changed his mind after meeting with US Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman ... One day he speaks of sovereignty and independence and another day he speaks about internationalization," Franjieh said.
"The patriarch should have resigned at the age of 74. He is 90 now and whenever he is told something, he forgets about it after one hour. The clerics around him ask us to be patient with him, but I think it is about time he gets some rest," he added. The Marada leader criticized Sfeir for saying that Syria had its "tools" in Lebanon. "We are not tools. The patriarch is repeating what the ruling coalition says about us and for this he deserves to be criticized," Franjieh said. The opposition leader asked why parliamentary majority leader MP Saad Hariri's adviser Daoud Sayegh visits Sfeir only at the beginning of every month, indirectly accusing the patriarch of being employed by Hariri.
Population Movements to Keserwan - The Khazens and The Maans
ما جاء عن الثورة في المقاطعة الكسروانية
ثورة أهالي كسروان على المشايخ الخوازنة وأسبابها
Origins of the "Prince of Maronite" Title
Growing diversity: the Khazin sheiks and the clergy in the first decades of the 18th century
Historical Members:
Barbar Beik El Khazen [English]
Patriach Toubia Kaiss El Khazen(Biography & Life Part1 Part2) (Arabic)
Patriach Youssef Dargham El Khazen (Cont'd)
Cheikh Bishara Jafal El Khazen
Patriarch Youssef Raji El Khazen
The Martyrs Cheikh Philippe & Cheikh Farid El Khazen
Cheikh Nawfal El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Hossun El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Abou-Nawfal El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Francis Abee Nader & his son Yousef
Cheikh Abou-Kanso El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Abou Nader El Khazen
Cheikh Chafic El Khazen
Cheikh Keserwan El Khazen
Cheikh Serhal El Khazen [English]
Cheikh Rafiq El Khazen [English]
Cheikh Hanna El Khazen
Cheikha Arzi El Khazen
Marie El Khazen