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A MASSIVE EXPLOSION ROCKING BEIRUT OVERNIGHT, KILLING A FORMER AMBASSADOR TO THE U.S., AND FOUR OTHERS.
THIS IS NEW VIDEO JUST COMING IN NOW.
THE BLAST ALSO WOUNDING DOZENS.
THIS IS THE LATEST IN A WAVE OF BOMBINGS OVER THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS AS TENSIONS MOUNT IN LEBANON OVER NEARBY SYRIA'S CIVIL WAR.
GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE, I'M GREGG JARRETT IN FOR BILL HEMMER HERE IN "AMERICA'S NEWSROOM." JAMIE: THEY SURE HAVE SEEN A LOT OF VIOLENCE AND TERROR THERE.
I'M JAMIE COLBY.
I'M IN FOR MARTHA MACCALLUM.
WE'RE HAPPY TO HAVE YOU HERE TODAY.
FIRST THE TOP STORY.
THE EXPLOSION WAS HEARD ACROSS THE LEBANESE CAPITAL, AND SENT A BIG BLACK SMOKE THROUGH A POSH DOWNTOWN DISTRICT.
THE ARMY LATER BLOCKING OFF THE AREA WHERE TWISTED WRECKAGE OF SEVERAL CARS ARE STILL SMOLDERING.
GREGG: CONOR POWELL IN THE MIDDLE EAST BUREAU WITH THE LATEST.
WHAT DO YOU KNOW SO FAR? >> Reporter: GREGG, AS YOU SAID AT LEAST FIVE PEOPLE WERE KILLED, MORE THAN 70 PEOPLE INJURED AS A MASSIVE EXPLOSION ROCKED AN UPSCALE NEIGHBORHOOD IN DOWNTOWN BEIRUT.
IT BREW OUT -- BLEW OUT WINDOWS FOR SEVERAL CITY BLOCKS, SENDING SMOKE ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA.
THE DEVICE APPEARS WAS DETONATED BY REMOTE.
VIOLENCE IS NO STRANGER TO BEIRUT.
IT APPEARS THE TARGET OF TODAY'S BLAST WAS A CONVOY OF A PRO-WESTERN FORMER LEBANESE MINISTER AMBASSADOR TO WASHINGTON.
HE WAS AN IMPORTANT ADVISOR TO THE HARIRI FAMILY, ONE.
MOST POWERFUL POLITICAL DYNASTIES IN ALL OF LEBANON.
THE FORMER PRIME MINISTER, RAFIK HARIRI WAS ASSASSINATED IN 2005.
SO OF COURSE HEZBOLLAH HAS -- THEY ARE THE LEADING TO BELIEVE, TO BEHIND THIS ATTACK, GREGG.
WELL, CONOR, WE KNOW THE AMBASSADOR WAS A VERY OUTSPOKEN CRITIC OF HEZBOLLAH OF THE THAT IS A PRETTY DANGEROUS THING TO BE DOING WHEN YOU'RE IN LEBANON.
IS THAT LIKELY WHAT COST HIM HIS LIFE? >> Reporter: SO THIS IS PLEASED TO BE A VERY PROFESSIONAL ATTACK.
THE TYPE THAT HAS HEZBOLLAH CARRIED OUT IN THE PAST AND HAS THE ABILITY TO CARRY OUT BUT BEIRUT'S BEEN ROCKED BY A LOT OF VIOLENCE IN RECENT WEEKS AND MONTH, PARTICULARLY AN ATTACK ON THE IRANIAN EMBASSY IN BEIRUT.
THERE ARE PLENTY OF GROUPS IN LEBANON THAT CAN CARRY OUT THESE TYPES OF ATTACKS.
SHATAH HAS BEEN OUTSPOKEN CRITIC OF HEZBOLLAH, AL QAEDA AND SYRIA'S ASSAD.
HE WAS ON HIS WAY TO AN ANTI-SYRIAN MEETING.
HE HAS MADE A LOT OF ENEMIES IN LEBANON AND ACROSS THE WIDER MIDDLE EAST.
HEZBOLLAH MAY BE THE EASIEST GROUP, GREGG, TO POINT THE FINGER AT BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE HOT COULD HAVE CARRIED THIS OUT.
ITS STILL TOO EARLY TO SAY IT IS HEZBOLLAH.
IT IS A VERY DANGEROUS COUNTRY IN A VERY DANGEROUS REGION, GREGG.
IT SURE IS.
CONOR POWELL LIVE FROM JERUSALEM.
WE'LL CHECK BACK IN WITH YOU.
BACK HERE AT HOME SOME 1.3 MILLION LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYED
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