A'math after Sunday's attack on UN troops, cabinet mtg, Spanish Def Min arrives

Описание: (25 Jun 2007)
Khiam
1. Wide of sun rising over Khiam
2. United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) troops with sniffer dog searching field
3. Lebanese army blocking the road leading to the attacked Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC)
4. APC, zoom out to UNIFIL troops
5. Wide of APC
6. Various of UNIFIL troops driving past in APCs
7. UNIFIL troops searching field
8. Pan from Lebanese army troops to United Nations APC
9. UN Helicopter
Beirut
10. Traffic on Beirut street
11. Man reading newspaper
12. Newspaper's headline reading: (Arabic) "Spain will stay in the south despite the killing of six of its troops in the attack."
13. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic), Habib Kalakesh, resident
"We condemn this act, this will harm Lebanon. They came to achieve peace and we should save them as they are saving us."
14. Various of people reading newspapers
15. Spanish Defence Minister, Jose Antonio Alonso arriving at Beirut airport
16. Alonso shaking hands with officials
17. Spanish Civil guards on airport tarmac
STORYLINE:
The Lebanese army and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) continued their investigation on Monday into Sunday's attack in South Lebanon that killed six UN peacekeepers.
The deadly attack against the peacekeepers marked the first time that the UN Interim Force in Lebanon has come under attack since it was reinforced last summer after the conflict between Hezbollah guerrillas and Israeli forces in Lebanon.
In Beirut, Lebanese residents were shocked by the attack on UNIFIL.
"We condemn this act, this will harm Lebanon. They came to achieve peace and we should save them as they are saving us," said Habib Kalakesh.
Also on Monday, Spain's defence minister arrived in southern Lebanon to collect the bodies of those slain in the car bombing.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for the bombing on Sunday that killed six members of the Spanish contingent, including three Colombians, and seriously wounded two others.
But the anti-Syrian coalition in parliament blamed Damascus, despite its condemnation of the bombing.
Before flying to the Marjayoun area of southern Lebanon near the border with Israel where the contingent has its headquarters, Spanish Defence Minister Jose Antonio Alonso called the bombing a "premeditated attack" and said the most likely cause was a car bomb or device activated by remote control.
The peacekeepers were patrolling the main road between the towns of Marjayoun and Khiam, a few kilometres north of the Israeli town of Metulla, when the bomb struck their armoured personnel carrier.
Spain has 1,100 peacekeepers in Lebanon, part of the 13-thousand member UN Interim Force in Lebanon from 30 countries, which first deployed in Lebanon in 1978 and was reinforced in the last year.
UNIFIL, along with 15-thousand Lebanese troops, patrols a zone along the Lebanese-Israeli border.
The attack, the first since UNIFIL was reinforced following last year's 34 day conflict, came as the UN has become increasingly involved in highly divisive issues in Lebanon, including its tense relations with neighbouring Syria.
Media reports earlier this month said interrogations by Lebanese authorities with captured al-Qaida-inspired militants revealed plots to attack the UN force.
The warnings became more serious after fighting erupted May 20 between Fatah Islam and Lebanese troops at the Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in the north.
The militants have threatened to expand the battle to other parts of Lebanon.
In addition, al-Qaida's Number two, Ayman al-Zawahri, in videos broadcast in September, has denounced the reinforced UNIFIL.

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