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The car bombing of an American Embassy car, which killed at 3 Lebanese, did not hurt any Americans. It is reminiscent of a string of previous bombings except for this time America was the target. Did it have anything to do with George Bush's tour of the Middle East? Tim Butcher of the Telegraph things so. […]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2008/01/15/wleb115vid.jpg