Awkar! There had been "an incident"!

(AFP)- SIDON, "Lebanon — A group of angry Lebanese youths on Saturday threw stones and bottles at a group from the US embassy in Beirut visiting the southern port town of Sidon, a security official said. A spokesman for the US mission confirmed there had been "an incident."

"The embassy can confirm that a group of employees went to Sidon today on a tourism trip. An incident occurred, and the group returned back to the embassy. No injuries," he said, without elaborating. Local media had spoken of the presence in the group of the embassy's political charge d'affaires. "A group of youths intercepted a US embassy delegation as they left a restaurant and insulted them before throwing stones and empty glass bottles at them," the security source said. Lebanese security forces accompanying the US group intervened on Saturday, but stones continued to be thrown, breaking car windows. The army then arrived and arrested three of the attackers, the security official said. ... A group of men blocked roads into the Sunni majority city with burning tyres for an hour before the army dispersed them."