ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <!-- saved from url=(0130)http://www.thememoryhole.org/media/al-jazeera/topics/articlec508.html?cu_no=1&item_no=1055&version=1&template_id=263&parent_id=258 --> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Al Jazeera - objective and balanced global news coverage and analysis- main page</TITLE><!-- Mirrored from english.aljazeera.net/topics/article.asp?cu_no=1&item_no=1055&version=1&template_id=263&parent_id=258 by HTTrack Website Copier/3.x [XR&CO'2003], Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:12:08 GMT --> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=UTF-16"> <META http-equiv=Content-Type><LINK href="article-british-offices_files/style.css" type=text/css rel=stylesheet> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2722.900" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY leftMargin=0 topMargin=10 rightMargin=0> <DIV align=center xmlns:UDF="http://mycompany.com/mynamespace" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"> <CENTER> <TABLE style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" borderColor=#111111 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px" align=left><IMG src="article-british-offices_files/banner.gif"></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><IMG src="article-british-offices_files/mainheader.jpg"></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></DIV> <DIV align=center> <CENTER> <TABLE id=AutoNumber2 style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" borderColor=#999999 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=770 border=1> <TBODY> <TR> <TD> <TABLE id=AutoNumber3 style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" borderColor=#111111 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD class=dates id=hDate dir=ltr style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px" width="80%" bgColor=#cccccc></TD> <TD dir=ltr width="20%" bgColor=#cccccc></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE id=AutoNumber4 style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" borderColor=#111111 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=768 border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width=565> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD colSpan=2 height=5></TD></TR> <TR> <TD style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px" colSpan=2> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0 xmlns:UDF="http://mycompany.com/mynamespace" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD class=indicationLink2 vAlign=top><A class=indicationLink href="http://www.thememoryhole.org/media/al-jazeera/index.html">Homepage<IMG src="article-british-offices_files/spacer.gif" width=2 border=0></A><IMG src="article-british-offices_files/spacer.gif" width=3 border=0><IMG src="article-british-offices_files/spacer.gif" width=3 border=0>/ <IMG src="article-british-offices_files/spacer.gif" width=2 border=0><A class=indicationLink href="http://www.thememoryhole.org/media/al-jazeera/topics/index7237.html?cu_no=1&amp;template_id=263&amp;temp_type=42">main page<IMG src="article-british-offices_files/spacer.gif" width=3 border=0></A>/ </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR> <TR> <TD colSpan=3 height=6></TD></TR> <TR> <TD width=10></TD> <TD><INPUT id=item_cu_no type=hidden value=1 xmlns:UDF="http://mycompany.com/mynamespace" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"><INPUT id=item_no type=hidden value=1055 xmlns:UDF="http://mycompany.com/mynamespace" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"><INPUT id=version type=hidden value=1 xmlns:UDF="http://mycompany.com/mynamespace" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"><INPUT id=date1 type=hidden value=25/03/2003 xmlns:UDF="http://mycompany.com/mynamespace" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"><INPUT id=dateTime type=hidden value=" 6:42PM" xmlns:UDF="http://mycompany.com/mynamespace" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"><INPUT id=articalText type=hidden value="<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>An explosion damaged part of the British Council building in Beirut in the early hours of&amp;nbsp;this morning. One source claims that a small bomb weighing about 400 grams, was placed on one of the building's walls. </FONT></P>&#13;&#10;<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Police said&amp;nbsp;the explosion&amp;nbsp;caused&amp;nbsp;only light damage. They have begun&amp;nbsp;an investigation. </FONT></P>&#13;&#10;<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Security sources, however, said that an unknown assailant had thrown a stick of dynamite at the British building, located in the Ras Beirut district in the west of the Lebanese capital.</FONT></P>&#13;&#10;<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>“There was a small explosion in the wa &#13;&#10;<TABLE width=10 align=right border=0>&#13;&#10;&#13;&#10;<TR>&#13;&#10;<TD align=middle><FONT face=Arial><IMG height=122 src=_/mritems/images/2003/3/20/1_604_1_18.html width=170 border=0></FONT></TD></TR>&#13;&#10;<TR>&#13;&#10;<TD class=imgcaption id=Comment dir=rtl vAlign=top align=middle><FONT face=Arial size=1><STRONG>Lebanese students confront riot police&amp;nbsp;last week</STRONG></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>ll outside the British Council. There was a little damage in the wall outside, but no-one was hurt,” a British embassy official said.</FONT></P>&#13;&#10;<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>A Reuters photographer said the blast left a small hole in the pavement and smoke had blackened the walls.</FONT></P>&#13;&#10;<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tuesday morning’s attack was the first on British assets in Lebanon since the two countries began their invasion of Iraq.</FONT></P>&#13;&#10;<P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>Several heated demonstrations have taken place near the US and British embassies in Lebanon to protest against the US-led war that began five</FONT> <FONT face=Arial>days ago. Some of the demonstrations have led to clashes with security forces.<BR>&amp;nbsp;<BR>Security has been boosted around the two embassies, as well as around those of Gulf Arab countries which are hosting US and British military forces which are attacking Iraq, particularly Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar.</FONT></FONT></P><FONT face=Arial size=2>&#13;&#10;<P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;>A bomb has also been thrown at Britain's honorary consulate in the port city of </SPAN><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;>Guayaquil in Ecuador in what may&amp;nbsp;be a possible protest against the war in Iraq, </SPAN><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;>officials said today.</SPAN></P>&#13;&#10;<P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;></SPAN><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;><SPAN style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;>&amp;nbsp;</SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = &quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office&quot; /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>&#13;&#10;<P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;>The explosive, which caused little damage, was thrown at </SPAN><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;>Britain's honorary consular offices at about 0430 GMT Monday, a spokesman at the British </SPAN><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;>embassy in Quito told Reuters. No one was injured in the </SPAN><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;>blast.<SPAN style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;>&amp;nbsp;</SPAN>An investigation is underway.</SPAN></P>&#13;&#10;<P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-layout-grid-align: none&quot;><B><SPAN style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-QA&quot;>&amp;nbsp;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>&#13;&#10;<P class=MsoNormal dir=rtl style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;><SPAN dir=ltr><FONT size=3><FONT face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot;>&amp;nbsp;<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>&#13;&#10;<P></FONT>&amp;nbsp;</P>&#13;&#10;<P><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&amp;nbsp;</P>&#13;&#10;<P><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&amp;nbsp;</P>" xmlns:UDF="http://mycompany.com/mynamespace" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"> <TABLE id=AutoNumber5 style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" borderColor=#111111 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0 xmlns:UDF="http://mycompany.com/mynamespace" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD> <TABLE id=AutoNumber5 style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" borderColor=#111111 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD dir=ltr width="100%"><A href="http://www.thememoryhole.org/media/al-jazeera/xml/topics/printarticlec508.xml?cu_no=1&amp;item_no=1055&amp;version=1&amp;template_id=263&amp;parent_id=258"><IMG hspace=5 src="article-british-offices_files/print.gif" align=right vspace=5 border=0></A><IMG onmouseover="this.style.cursor = 'hand' ;" onclick=SendByEmail(); onmouseout="this.style.cursor = '' ;" hspace=5 src="article-british-offices_files/email.gif" align=right vspace=5 border=0></TD></TR> <TR> <TD height=5></TD></TR> <TR> <TD class=articalTitle>British offices bombed in Lebanon and Ecuador</TD></TR> <TR> <TD height=15></TD></TR> <TR> <TD id=artical vAlign=top></TD></TR> <TR> <TD height=12></TD></TR> <TR> <TD width="100%" background=article-british-offices_files/h-dotedline-bg.gif><IMG height=1 src="article-british-offices_files/spacer.gif" width=1></TD></TR> <TR> <TD height=10></TD></TR> <TR> <TD dir=ltr width="100%"><A href="http://www.thememoryhole.org/media/al-jazeera/xml/topics/printarticlec508.xml?cu_no=1&amp;item_no=1055&amp;version=1&amp;template_id=263&amp;parent_id=258"><IMG hspace=5 src="article-british-offices_files/print.gif" align=right vspace=5 border=0></A><IMG onmouseover="this.style.cursor = 'hand' ;" onclick=SendByEmail(); onmouseout="this.style.cursor = '' ;" hspace=5 src="article-british-offices_files/email.gif" align=right vspace=5 border=0></TD></TR> <TR> <TD height=5></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <SCRIPT language=JavaScript1.2 xmlns:UDF="http://mycompany.com/mynamespace" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"> if(document.all.artical) document.all.artical.innerHTML = document.all.articalText.value ; </SCRIPT> </TD> <TD width=10></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD> <TD dir=ltr width=1 bgColor=#cccccc><IMG height=1 src="article-british-offices_files/spacer.gif" width=1 border=0></TD> <TD vAlign=top width=202> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD colSpan=3 height=10></TD></TR> <TR> <TD width=10></TD> <TD><A href="http://www.thememoryhole.org/media/al-jazeera/index.html"><IMG src="article-british-offices_files/homepage.gif" border=0></A></TD> <TD width=10></TD></TR> <TR> <TD colSpan=3 height=8></TD></TR> <TR> <TD width=10></TD> <TD></TD> <TD width=10></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></DIV><!-- Mirrored from english.aljazeera.net/topics/article.asp?cu_no=1&item_no=1055&version=1&template_id=263&parent_id=258 by HTTrack Website Copier/3.x [XR&CO'2003], Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:12:09 GMT --> <SCRIPT language=JavaScript1.2> if( document.all.date1 ) { docDate = document.all.date1.value ; } </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language=JavaScript src="article-british-offices_files/HomeMenu.js"></SCRIPT> </BODY></HTML>