- Title: LEBANON: BOMB ATTACK ON AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT CAMPUS
- Date: 27th October 1997
- Summary: BEIRUT, LEBANON (OCT 27, 1997) (RTV) 1. SLV NIGHT SCENES SECURITY MEN BEHIND CLOSED AUB GATE. 0.08 2. MV POLICEMEN WAVING CARS AWAY 0.14 3. SCU ADVERT "NIGHT SCHOOL VOLUNTEERS" 0.18 4. SLV POLICE JEEP DRIVING OUT OF CAMPUS PAN JOURNALISTS WAITING. 0.40 5. SLV AFTERMATH DESTROYED WALL/DAMAGED VEHICLE (2 SHOTS) 0.53 6. SLV WORKERS CLEARING BROKEN GLASS 1.04 7. SCU AUB SPOKESMAN IBRAHIM ALKHOURY SAYS: ELEVEN TO FIFTEEN UNKNOWN PERSONS THREW TWO STICKS OF DYNAMITE INSIDE THE CAMPUS. THE EXPLOSION LED TO BROKEN GLASS NOT MORE THAN THAT. WE ARE WAITING FOR THE RESULTS OF THE INVESTIGATION (ENGLISH) 1.24 8. SCU HOLE IN GROUND TILT UP TO DAMAGED VEHICLE AND CAMERAMEN 1.34 9. MV POLICE AND PRESS (2 SHOTS) 1.47 Initials S3 P3 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
- Embargoed: 11th November 1997 12:00
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- Location: BEIRUT, LEBANON
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- Country: Lebanon ASIA MIDDLE EAST
- Reuters ID: LVAUYHYF6DEDJ7UNC8VOTC8YEAG
- Story Text: - INTRO: Unknown motorcyclists have attacked the campus of the American University of Beirut (AUB) with dynamite, causing an explosion but no casualties.
Security sources at AUB said on Monday night (October 27) unidentified men riding motorbikes threw four sticks of dynamite just inside the university's campus wall into the parking area of faculty members.
The explosion occurred at around 10.50 p.m. (2050 gmt) inside the university's northeastern wall where three faculty buildings are located.
Earlier on Monday, the newly-appointed president of the American University, John Waterbury, -- on a visit to Beirut -- told Lebanon's top officials that he planned to live in the country. Waterbury's term as president starts formally at the beginning of 1998.
Americans have not been allowed to visit or live in Lebanon until U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright decided in July to let a 10-year travel ban on the country expire.
The university's palm-studded seaside campus was a target of Moslem militants waging an anti-Western campaign of bombings, assassinations and kidnappings during the civil war.
AUB, founded by missionaries in 1866, is one of the Arab world's most prestigious universities and has a student body of some 5,000.
AUB president Malcolm Kerr was killed by gunmen in 1984. His predecessor David Dodge was kidnapped on campus but eventually freed.
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