this day,1985; A car bomb in Beirut kills dozens

The bomb went of at least 45 people were killed and wounded 175 in a car bomb explosion in Beirut, just off the outside of an apartment building and close to the mosque as worshipers were gathering for prayers on Friday night in the suburb of densely populated Shiite Muslim. This is the worst attack in the Lebanese capital since November 1983 when 61 people were killed in a suicide car bomb in the southern port bomb exploded Tyre.The a large crater in the street and destroyed two of the seven-storey blocks of apartments, a mosque and a cinema. Many of the dead were bystanders by.The explosion brought gunmen running into the streets firing guns into the air to clear the way to broadcast stations ambulances.Radio appeals for blood donations, firefighters and civil defense workers trying to remove bodies from under the jam rubble.Fleets of ambulances at the entrance The main hospital in west Beirut. Was soon packed with bomb wounded and dead.The exploded near the home of a leading fundamentalist Shiite Muslim cleric, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah and believes that he may have been the target - although he was not hurt in attack.Sheikh Fadlallah, accused at a time later Israel and the "internal allies" of being behind the blast, and gave a warning to "all those who are playing with fire" on their hands that will be "burned by the flames."The blast comes at a sensitive time, especially the Israelis are trying to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon. Anti-American sentiment also runs high. In the minds of the Shiites, and the United States has with Israel and its occupation of southern Lebanon.