Asarta: Investigators Have a Lot of Evidence on Attack on UNIFIL

UNIFIL Commander Major-General Alberto Asarta Cuevas has said investigators trying to determine who was responsible for a roadside bomb that injured six French peacekeepers have "a lot of evidence" that will hopefully lead to the perpetrators.

Speaking in New York, Asarta wouldn't speculate on who set off Tuesday's bomb near the southern port city of Sidon as a four-vehicle U.N. convoy was passing by.

"Al-Qaida and Islamic Jihad, why not? Palestinians, why not? Syrians, why not? Israel, why not? ... Or even an individual, look at what happened in Oslo some days ago," he said Wednesday.

Asarta told reporters after briefing the U.N. Security Council that three injured peacekeepers were flown back to France, including one with an eye injury.

Asarta was in New York along with other force commanders of U.N. peacekeeping missions to brief the Security Council.(AP-Naharnet)