Car bomb in Lebanon kills son of Palestinian military leader

Tuesday, May 21, 2002

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- A bomb placed under the driver's seat of a car exploded Monday, killing Jihad Jibril, a senior military chief of a group the United States lists as terrorist. He was the son of radical Palestinian guerrilla leader Ahmed Jibril.

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