- Title: LEBANON: ROCKET ATTACK EGYPTIAN EMBASSY FOILED.
- Date: 22nd December 1977
- Summary: 1. GV Saudi Arabian peace keeping troops outside Egyptian embassy. ZOOM INTO old damage. 0.18 2. CU TROOPS dismantling timing mechanism. 0.18 3. SV Troops examining wiring TILT UP TO Egyptian embassy, showing rockets pointing towards it. (3 shots) 0.34 4. CU & SV Troops examining rocket with others looking on. 0.38 5. SV PAN FROM Rockets TO soldier holding timing mechanisms. 0.54 6. CU Cameramen filming as rockets are taken away. 1.09 Outside the embassy, scarred by an earlier attack, the troops defused two rockets minutes before they were set for automatic firing. Soldiers on patrol near the embassy became suspicious when they saw men running from a car which had stopped outside the half-completed shell of a nearby building. The troops fired on the building, and when there was no reaction they went inside and found the rockets. Other soldiers belonging to the Arab Deterrent Force, ADF, in Lebanon had the previous day, defused two rockets and explosives which had been concealed in a vegetable cart left near the embassy. The Egyptian Charge d'Affarires in Beirut, Mr. Izzat Buhairi, has appealed for more protection for the embassy and other Egyptian institutions. According to Reuter, informed sources say that Egypt is expected to send extra security men to the Lebanon within a few days, after the few diplomats left in the embassy sent out an urgent appeal. Initials VS 19.20 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 6th January 1978 12:00
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- Location: BEIRUT, LEBANON
- Country: Lebanon
- Reuters ID: LVA5HCGI22AYZB9VNLVZ0ZDFRMR2
- Story Text: Lebanese security forces have foiled the third attempt in three days to attack the Egyptian embassy in Beirut with rockets and time-bombs.
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