2008 Tripoli Lebanon car bombing occurred on September 29 , 2008 in the morning in Tripoli , Lebanon targeting a military bus carrying soldiers , killing 7 and injuring 30 people . Lebanese officials said the blast came after a car parked by a busy roadside was detonated by remote control . The attacks came on the heels of another in the city the preceding August ; that attack killed 15 people including 10 soldiers . Two days previous came another attack , this one a bombing in neighbouring Syria . There was a quick chorus of condemnation and denunciation from local politicians , who said it was targeted at the army . Former Prime Minister of Lebanon Najib Mikati told a local radio station , " This is a direct targeting of the military institution . " Beginning in May , Tripoli saw some of its worst sectarian battles , pitting Sunni groups which support the Western-backed Lebanese Government against the Arab Democratic Party ( ADP ) of the city 's Alawite community . ADP is a part of the opposition , and has close links to the Alawite-dominated regime in Damascus . A formal reconciliation was reached in September , 2008 , between the feuding factions in north Lebanon . Rifaat Eid , the son of the leader of the ADP , accused Saudi Arabia of funding Salafi jihadists in north Lebanon , blaming them for the violence . " The Salafis are like kittens when they are weak , but when they are strong they are like tigers . " Salafist leaders in Tripoli insisted that the threat of jihadist militancy is exaggerated . Sheikh Omar Bakri , a Salafist preacher , said " They say we are fanatics and cite what is happening in Iraq , but this is just propaganda to weaken the Sunnis in Lebanon . " In August , Bashar al-Assad , the Syrian President , gave warning that Islamic extremists were destabilising north Lebanon . Later , at the beginning of September , thousands of Syrian troops deployed along the north Lebanon border , triggering fears in Beirut of a possible military incursion .
bombing in neighbouring Syria
2008 Damascus car bombing
2008 Tripoli, Lebanon bombing