Policy

FBI Team Heading to Lebanon

Set to investigate Beirut bombing

|


[Updated at 1:33 p.m. ET] A team from the FBI is going to Lebanon to assist in the investigation, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Monday.

[Posted at 9:13 p.m. ET] Lebanon's top intelligence official was going to be briefed about threats made my text message, a member of parliament told CNN on Monday.

The meeting was scheduled for the afternoon. But Wissam Al-Hassan never made it. He had been killed in a Beirut car bombing.