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'Not Like Every Time:' Beirut Blast Victims Want the Truth

Associated Press

   BEIRUT - Days after a massive explosion ripped through Beirut's port
   and disfigured the Lebanese capital, family members of some of the 211
   people killed in the blast demanded an international probe.

   It was a swift vote of no confidence in the authorities' ability to
   investigate one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history and
   one of the nation's most traumatic experiences.

   The skepticism was justified. Lebanon, a country wrought by political
   violence and assassinations, has a history of unfinished prosecutions
   and buried secrets.

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