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Subscribe to RSSHundreds were rushed to emergency rooms after an explosion left a 15-foot crater in one of Beirut's nicest neighborhoods. NBC's Stephanie Gosk reports.
Updated at 4:43 p.m. ET: BEIRUT, Lebanon -- A huge car bomb explosion in Beirut on Friday killed a top Lebanese security official whose investigations implicated Syria and Hezbollah in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri seven years ago.
The rush-hour bomb in the center of the Lebanese capital killed eight people and wounded about 80 others, heightening fears that Syria's war is spilling over into Lebanon.
Among the dead was Wissam al-Hassan, the head of a Lebanese intelligence agency who had also uncovered a recent bomb plot that led to the arrest of a pro-Syrian Lebanese politician, a Lebanese official said.
NBC's Paul Nassar describes the scene after a bomb killed 8 people in Lebanon Friday.
Al-Hassan was a close aide to Hariri, a Sunni Muslim who was killed in a 2005 bomb attack in downtown Beirut. Al-Hassan's investigation into Hariri's death uncovered evidence that implicated Syria and Hezbollah in the killing.
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It was also not clear if the explosion targeted any political figure in Lebanon's divided community but it occurred at a time of heightened tension between Lebanese factions on opposite sides of the Syria conflict.
Ambulances rushed to the scene in the Ashafriyeh district, a mostly Christian area, as smoke rose from the area.
The explosion ripped through the street where the office of the anti-Damascus Christian Phalange Party is located near Sassine Square.
Reuters
Phalange leader Sami al-Gemayel, a staunch opponent of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and a member of parliament, condemned the attack.
"Let the state protect the citizens. We will not accept any procrastination in this matter, we cannot continue like that. We have been warning for a year. Enough," said Gemayel, whose brother was assassinated in November 2006.
Several cars were set on fire by the explosion and the front of a multi-story building was badly damaged. Residents ran about in panic looking for relatives while others helped carry the wounded to ambulances, Reuters reported.
Reuters
Huge blast explodes in a central Beirut street injures dozens, kills at least eight.
Pope tells Christians in Beirut: 'Be peacemakers'
Security forces blanketed the area.
Witness Danny Rizkallah told NBC News the blast took place close to the headquarters of a Lebanese opposition political party with links to Syria rebels and close to the scene of the 1982 assassination of then president-elect Bachir Gemayel. The affluent, largely Christian, district is also home to the American University of Science and Technology (AUST).
He said he was having lunch nearby when the blast lifted him from his chair. “It was an incredibly powerful explosion,” he said. “I knew immediately it was a bomb because it has such a different sound to shelling.”
“I rushed around the corner to see what happened there were lots of people injured by broken glass from the windows of nearby stores. It did a great deal of damage to nearby buildings and there was a lot of glass.
Hasan Shaaban / Reuters
Burning cars and damages are seen at the site of an explosion in Ashafriyeh, central Beirut, October 19, 2012.
“For this to happen is shocking because we really thought this sort of thing had stopped in Beirut, and for it to happen in the Christian district is also very unusual. I really don’t know who is behind this, or why. Our politics is very messed-up.”
The last bombing in Beirut was in 2008 when three people were killed in an explosion that damaged a U.S. diplomatic car.
U.S. officials are condemning the attack "in the strongest terms," calling the blast a terrorist attack.
"We condemn this act of terrorism," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.
"There is no justification for such violence," she added. "We obviously express our heartfelt sympathies for the families and the loved ones of those who were killed and injured, and we stand by the people of Lebanon and renew our commitment to a stable, sovereign, and independent Lebanon."
National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said in a statement there is "no justification for using assassination as a political tool." He says the U.S. will stand with the Lebanese government to bring to justice those responsible "for this barbaric attack."
Sunni-Shiite tensions
Tension between Sunnis and Shiites has been rumbling in Lebanon ever since the end of the 1975-1990 civil war but reignited after the Syria conflict erupted.
It reached its peak when Hariri, a Sunni, was killed in 2005. Hariri supporters accused Syria and then Hezbollah of killing him -- a charge they both deny. An international tribunal accused several Hezbollah members of involvement in the murder.
Clashes over Syrian conflict in Lebanon leave ten dead
Hezbollah's political opponents, who have for months accused it of aiding Assad's forces -- have warned that its involvement in Syria could ignite sectarian tension of the civil war.
At least nine people die as Sunni Muslims and Alawites fight for a second day. NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin reports.
However fighting had broken out this year between supporters and opponents of Assad in the northern city of Tripoli.
Reuters, The Associated Press and NBC News' Paul Nassar contributed to this report.
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They will not find the bomb was made by anyone other then radical, hardline Muslim factions. That's just what they do best -- blow things up.
Just so long as the U.S. isn't sent back in to Lebanon on a futile mission to find out who did it...
The U.S. has been in an open period of war since 1990. That's 22 years of overspending on military budgets and amassing far too many veterans for Middle Eastern conflicts that we should have never been messing around with in the first place.
The U.S. is NOT the world's peacekeeper, we are NOT the ultimate police force, and we CANNOT afford to waste our money, our military personnel and our time and energy trying to fulfill those roles. Particularly now, at a timewhen our own country and our own people can't even be properly taken care of.
Disgusting!
Where are the "Peace Loving Muslim Followers"? This is another Bosnia/Croatia. Iran may be part of this but most certainly it is likely it may be pinned on the radical followers of islam. Funny how the uprising in Syria is the problem of the people of Beirut and Turkey? Is this a share the blame sort of thing? The world worries about Iran and Israel erupting. If I was a ruler in Saudi Arabia I'd probably be biting holes in the seat of my bed sheets. If Iran were playing it's cards correctly, it would divert the attention on it's real objective by presenting the threat to Israel when Saudi Arabia would be the smart play. Imagine becoming the new ruler of the Middle East.
What's THIS??? Sectarian/religious violence in the Middle East??....amongst the peace-loving Muslims???
Nah,....can't be!
These type of attacks only show the population what type of people want to control their country. No one wants to live a life without hope, and the ability to survive day to day activities. Russia and China will happily help anyone who kills their own people, but sooner or later they are gonna have to realize that the world is getting sick and tired of these murderers.
Doesn't the name Mohammad have the word Ham in it...And they don't eat pork, huh imagine that!
"“For this to happen is shocking because we really thought this sort of thing had stopped in Beirut, and for it to happen in the Christian district is also very unusual. I really don’t know who is behind this, or why. Our politics is very messed up.”"
Lebanon was great when Muslims formed less than 40 percent. Just see the unending genocides of non-Muslims when they form a large percentage.
We see Muslims inventing problems in most of the non-Muslim nations.
Even in the US, we can notice these actions!
When Muslims form more than five percent, downhill march starts.
Muslims are inventing problems in Myanmar, Thailand, Philippines, India and other places.
When they form more than 30 percent then it is Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Lebanon (few decades back)
In Muslim majority nations, they kill each other!
Better wake up before it is too late on inventions of problems by followers of Islamic cult!
BMette
I know....its hard to believe...guess that is why it made headlines. I still have my doubts.....hopefully there will be a follow-up story and correct this "obvious" error
What a surprise. A bomb explosion in Beruit. I remember an SNL commercial once that said" Come to Lebanon, where every day is the 4th of July", while a song in the background played, "come to Lebanon, we still your friend....".
Must be that f****** video. Couldn't be Al-Qaida. Obama & court jester Joe Lieden told the people Al-Qaida was no more...Lying while people are dying. The court jesters new bumper sticker, we just can't give these fools 4 more.
ROMNEY/RYAN 2012
Me I cannot have a president that only cares about half the country. And no Im not voting for Obama cuz I aint voting at all. No one worth my time these days. If the country only has about a 20% turn out at the polls that would make washington sweat. Then maybe they would start to clean their act up. Im sure some of these morons we vote in have some good intentions going in but they all come out corrupt.
I wonder what Romney is going to say about this. Do you think he'll blame this on Obama and us (spelled with lower AND upper case) leading from behind...
If there was only a 20% turn-out, the folks in DC would cheer (behind closed doors, of course). Getting people to give up participation is exactly what they want, it makes holding power and manipulation all that much easier.
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Jarrod, if you don't vote, it is the same as voting for Obama....is that what you really want, to support Obama thru non-participation?
Jonathan ......... muslims are inventing problems in......You forgot Dearborn, Michigan and San Diego, California.
I find it very ironic that all of the world's unrest, atrocities, senseless inhumanity and wanton murder is being caused by "God People".
"With the gift of intelligence often comes the great epiphany that you could be wrong about your beliefs". I see muslims don't seem to be in any danger of this happening to them at this time.
Interesting. Obama in 2008 promised prosperity, bi-partisenship, the love of the whole world returning to us. AND then he praised and helped in his "Arab Spring." How is all of this working out for us????
IS THIS BECAUSE OF THAT VIDEO THAT YOUNG MAN MADE ABOUT THE PROPHET MOHAMMAD???
VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN 2012 . . . FOR WORLD PEACE!!!!
This was al-Assad's revenge before he falls from power.
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Bin Laden is dead, and it seems no one in the Middle East really cares.
Let's go get involved! This seems right up our alley! All we need to do is say the leader of this country is a terrorist and bingo! Authorization!
I came to this board because someone mentioned bacon or ham. Mmmmmmm. Bacon.
---------- Sorry, it just mentioned mohammad. I'm out of here.
"I came to this board because someone mentioned bacon or ham. Mmmmmmm. Bacon."
Bacon..........WHERE? Bacon, Bacon, Bacon, BAAAAAAAAAAACON. There ya go bein' a tease again:) Cuz I'm a Dork for that Pork:)
"---------- Sorry, it just mentioned mohammad. I'm out of here."
Ruh Roh.............. Later Gatorz color me gone tooooooooooooooooooo.......
@Jonathan-1982062,
You can add Australia to your list and at ONLY 2.25% of the population they (Sharia Extremists) have become a total PITA. http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/2071.0main+features902012-2013
Check out http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/2012/09/20/film-protests-were-extremism-says-australian-prime-minister for a lovely and charming beheading sign ;)
""My attack is on the Prime Minister of Australia," he said yesterday. "I hate the parliament in Canberra. I want to go straight for the jugular vein and advise the parliament that they have no right to legislate. They should immediately step down and let the Muslims take over."
"A masters graduate in architecture from the University of Technology Sydney, Siddiq-Conlon formed Sharia4Australia last year. He said he had three objectives. The first is to persuade Muslims they must hate "taghoot", the worship of any God other than Allah, which includes democracy."
"One day Australia will live under sharia; it's inevitable," he said. "If they (Australians) don't accept it, that's not our problem. We hope, and our objective is to have a peaceful transition, but when you look at history that has never been the case. There's always been a fight. It is inevitable that one day there will be a struggle for Islam in Australia." - stated Siddiq-Conlon - He is the self-anointed leader of a group called Sharia4Australia.
www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/pm-go-and-let-the-muslims-take-over/story-e6frg6nf-1225991362018
Honey Boo Boo and Larry the Cable Guy 2012 - They'll make em "Hollah for their Allah"
This is not surprising given that Hezbollah had previously threatened to kill those associated with the investigation if it implicated Hezbollah
Actually we are the world's peacekeeper. Bosnia, Korea, Eastern Europe, Israel/Arabs - just how stable of a world economy do you think we'd have if the United States suddenly withdrew and abruptly ended its influence in these areas.
Folks moan about the price of keeping a relatively stable world order (even though they've sacrificed nothing aside from a few extra tax dollars) as if a steady inflow of resources and open/safe trade lines were just naturally occuring states-of-affairs.
This was not a terrorist attack. It was a manufacturer defect on the car. Or maybe it was a case of work place violence. Or maybe road rage.
For those of you who think bin Ladin's death ended al Qaida you are wrong. When bin Ladin died, he was just a figurehead in a maze of al Qaida franchises that didn't listen to him and that he did not what to be associated with. He fought to keep from associating with the Somali franchise which associated with al Qaida soon after bin Ladin's demise.
I am glad he is dead, hell has a new resident. But we should have soaked him for more intel before. While not the leader of all these franchises he knew what was happening.
Incidentally, before he died he wrote a letter to his legions requesting a hit squad to kill Obama. In that communication he ordered them not to kill Biden because bin Ladin wanted Biden to assume the Presidency because he though Biden was incompetent. Interesting.
Seven followed by numbers
your rant on "God people" is quite tired , maybe you should spend a minute of moms internet time and look up the numbers for Stalin and Mao just to name a few Godless people , they dwarf anything you have come up with , and thanks for playing the game
"tru dat" Travis
Seven: I know about Dearborn, Michigan incidents too!
It was a pleasure to travel before 1991 and now it is torturous. More Muslims and more mosques, hate preaching and killer training centers, mean more troubles.
howard: I know about Sydney in Australia. I used to blog in Australian dailies too. It is another Lebanon or Pakistan!
Just shocking that the bomb blast would be in a predominately Christian area as the Muslims are known as the religion of peace and love and would never do something that would harm others as this is prohibited in the Koran. It is no doubt a plot by the evil infidels of the US to insult the name of Muhammad God's representative on earth.
Pope must be in his own world to imagine that non-Muslims can live in peace with Muslims, especially when they form more than 30 percent.
More peace loving Muslims at work.
Proof of this please?
It's freakin Lebanon. It's either a Muslim or Israel attack.
TV
Go over to Lebanon and look for proof! Take the King James Bible with you, than go on the Internet over there and let me know!
Lee,
I did go over there and I stuck out like a sore thumb with my blonde hair. And, I will tell you this, I couldn't have felt more welcome then I did during my two weeks there. They are wonderful people, Muslim and Christian alike. People like you just add fuel to the already rampant prejudices.
Been There: No you haven't but nice try. I'm familiar with your posts. You would find a role for the Jews and Israel even if this article was about e-coli in lettuce. And no doubt you'll return to apologize for implicating Israel once we learn who committed this act. Better yet, why don't you provide your typical conspiratorial rendition of events to justify your rationale for implicating Israel in this.
Better yet, why don't you provide your typical conspiratorial rendition of events to justify your rationale for implicating Muslims in this?
There is no evidence suggest either party did this, just rampant bigotry of a religion few try to understand or study.
There are extremists in every walk of religion.... the act of one does not condemn the entire group of people... if this was true all Christians are guilty of committing genocide because Nazi's practiced Christianity, not to mention the crusades before that. Using God to justify your evil deeds is not exclusive to any religion.
Mire: I have no conspiratorial rationale because it's fairly self-evident who did this. But lets just wait and see and meet back here once the results are in. If I'm wrong I'll be the first to admit it. But if you're wrong I expect you to do the same.
MV, NAZIs did not practice Christianity, they tried to destroy it from within by destroying it's Jewish roots and denying that Jesus was Jewish. NAZIs tried to replace Christianity with something they promoted as the German Church, which was a propaganda tool.
BTW Mire: A large minority of Muslims would readily commit atrocities to further ther political agendas. While there are certainly extremists in every faith, they do not nearly approximate the sheer number and depravity of Muslim extremists who still adhere to medieval forms of "justice," in keeping with Sharia law and the dictates of the Quran.
i dont think its religious motivated more of a feud between the hatfields and the macoys, greed never rest, the biggest problem of the world is greed and apperantly its seens to be winning,
the only way to end greed!!!
SHARING dam that so hard especially for the rich once you sink your teeth into that useless paper your hooked and thats when things go into the crapper
love thy neighbor and share
Unfortunately that is a fantasy.
Quite a few people in this world refuse to think that way.
interesting bomb goes off in a mostly christian area.... is it that wonderful peaceful muslim religion at work again
Stop being an ass. Muslims are peaceful people.
suuure...of course they are Rosso...just look at Iraq, Iran, Afganistan, 9/11, etc.....peace loving alright.
dont you mean peice-full rosso?
The muslim factions, i.e. sunni vs @!$%#e has absoutely nothing to do with a peaceful religion. Seems like a plain old power struggle. Whoever wins rules with tyranny. We should have just left well enough alone and concentrated on wiping out those that messed with us and let the rest continue on as they have for centuries.
mathuin and William and others of like mind: I hope I'm wrong, but I've noticed a decline in the number of postings against Muslim extremism. I hope people are not becoming desensitized to such barbaric behavior. We must never allow the wanton, wholesale murder of innocents to become as routine as commuting to work. I believe that the first step in fighting this is to go after the Ayatollahs and the Mullahs who are conditioning the poor, ignorant, and parochial people to believe that indiscriminate violence is a means to extract themselves from their miserable existence.
I feel really bad for Lebanon as a whole. So much war and when it finally stops, they have to deal with bombings, terrorists provoking Israel, violently extreme factions and the list goes on.
I feel for the people that just want to live a good life in that country. I hope this ends someday. The real people of Lebanon deserve safety and peace.
@QE137 You couldn't have said it better ...
Yours is the first post I've read that doesn't come across like a sanctimonious a-hole. You've restored my faith in my fellow man.
At this point, who cares who did it! Our hearts should be with those that have died or are injured, and their families! These are real people!
KyEngineer: We need to care who did it to know how to rectify the situation once and for all. Empathy and sympathy are good first steps but insufficient as a solution. Also bear in mind that this venue is a form of psychotherapy, a means for people to express their frustrations without fear of retribution.
Basil you are just a stupid a$$. "Rectify the situation once and for all" so are you talking genocide or are going to give them Jeffersonian Democracy like we did in Iraq. It is all the same actors since the 70s and there is nothing that we can do EXCEPT maybe as an example keep religion out of our politics.
Basil you are just a stupid a$$. "Rectify the situation once and for all" so are you talking genocide or are going to give them Jeffersonian Democracy like we did in Iraq. It is all the same actors since the 70s and there is nothing that we can do EXCEPT maybe as an example keep religion out of our politics.
No Dan you are a stupid a$$ for suggesting that I was even remotely considering genocide. This is not implicated in my post. An alternative and more reasonable analysis of my post would be to encourage open dialogue with progressive Muslims and educating those disenfranchised Muslims that violence will get them nowhere. And yes, I'm also talking about putting the Ayatollah's and Mullah's who preach hatred to poor and uneducated Muslims on trial for murder. But interesting that your conclusion was that I was espousing "genocide." Are you projecting here? Because if these are inherently your thoughts than you are not only a dumb a$$ but also a psychopath.
BTW Dan: You could have first asked me to clarify my post before resorting to name calling. I wonder who the dumb a$$ really is.
Build a wall around the ME and let them fight it out themselves. If there is anybody left alive after 50 years maybe they will have enough sense to act like civilized people.
Just think ... if we had done that in the early days, we would still be considered the North and South. Freaking small-minded people.
I'm proud to be a Southerner... :)
It it was not for that warmonger Lincoln things would have been real good here!
LOL Max.
ha!, Max, too funny. Tell Maj Anderson how peace loving those Citadel Cadets were.
And to think the Lebanese tourisim minister gearing up to sue Showtime for depicting his homeland in Showtime's "Homeland" as dangerous and not as the Paris of the middle east that it really is. HA!
The Holy Koran at work yet again. That book like the bible causes more violence than any others. Assad and Hezbollah want to draw more fighters into the conflict and are murdering even more innocent civilians. Someone has to assassinate that dirt bag so his regime will fall. Send him a special gift, a massive truck bomb to his home.
If you kill him, them, whatever, then you will be feeding whatever....duh. Let it rage as long as its over there...simple right.
Disgusting!
Where are the "Peace Loving Muslim Followers"? This is another Bosnia/Croatia. Iran may be part of this but most certainly it is likely it may be pinned on the radical followers of islam. Funny how the uprising in Syria is the problem of the people of Beirut and Turkey? Is this a share the blame sort of thing? The world worries about Iran and Israel erupting. If I was a ruler in Saudi Arabia I'd probably be biting holes in the seat of my bed sheets. If Iran were playing it's cards correctly, it would divert the attention on it's real objective by presenting the threat to Israel when Saudi Arabia would be the smart play. Imagine becoming the new ruler of the Middle East.
Remember the the years when Beirut was considered the Paris of the Middle East. Then the Muslim radicals took over and it is now a @!$%# hole, like everything else they touch. They are truly the scourge of the earth.
Your so called "peace loving Muslims" are all over here eating, @!$%#ing, drinking, getting high on freedom. Its nice to see the elimnation of all radicals are been put to death via radicals.
“I knew immediately it was a bomb because it has such a different sound to shelling.”
Sounds like a good place to be from.................far from!!!
Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah: the new axis of evil
struck again, in a Christian neighborhood, of course.
"First we get the Saturday people, then we get the Sunday people" say the Islamists.
The script doesn't change, only more time passes. Just wait 'till Iran gets nukes, to see the results of our "very wise" foreign policy. Go ahead and vote for a continuation of no action foreign policy, very smart.
no action! u r an idiot. We entered a never ending war after 9-11. How much destruction and death do u need? Wake up dude. We can't win one war against these people let alone 10.
No thrill u r an idiot who would rather bury his face in the sand and let the rest of the world turn into a terrorist sh.thole all the while thinking it will not affect us. Taking the fight to the enemy on thier soil by diplomacy or force of arms, which is one way these peace loving terrorists understand..
truthbe Known I wish you live up to your name , Syria Iran Hezbollah axis of evil , so you think Hezbollah did that in Lebanon , Hezbollah is a resistance organization , they only fight Israel and never start trouble inside Lebanon , not unless they were attacked by the other factions , They are sitting silent while all the other Muslims factions bringing in weapons and Alqaida and the Muslims extremists into Lebanon and on to Syria , so they don't get weakened when Israel attack them , and you Israel , they will fing an excuse to attack , Hezbollah only retaliate when they are attacked by Israel , and they only want the Lebanese lands , the one Israel occupy back , they are not in the terrorists business unlike what you hear and our Medias feeds us all the time , they are not fanatics , they above all respect the Christian religion , unlike our Friends the Saudis and Qataris , and their army of thugs Alqaida and the Muslims brother hood , you know that's whats wrong with our foreign policy , we have no idea who are we dealing with and what they stand for , and its only going to get worse if Romney wins . the Lebanese Christians and all the Lebanese have had enough wars for years , I hate to see it flares up again . The Israeli's keep the turmoil going in that part of the world and NATO and the US help them , simply to protect Israel , but this time things going to get real ugly , especially now that the Saudis and Qataris and the Turks trying to over throw the Assad regime in Syria , things are going to get real nasty . I hope and pray that we do not get in the middle of that , Our troops have had enough , I just pray that our Generals will call the shot on that one , not our dumb civilians politicians .
Hezbollah, armed with more than 40,000 missiles aimed at Israeli civilians today is a pure terrorist organization. Sure, they also run hospitals and schools, but they keep their armaments close to villages, hospitals and schools so as to protect themselves and incur civilian casualties if Israel strikes back. By the way, the United Nations issued a report that Israel had withdrawn from all of Lebanese territory so your charge that they still occupy some is false.
You say they "only retaliate when they are attacked by Israel..." nothing could be further from the truth!
Do you read history at all? In 2006, they invaded and attacked Israel, killed and maimed innocent people,and took hostages, then set off a huge missile barrage aimed at civilians. In the 1990s they sent two separate death squads to Argentina to set off bombs at the Jewish cultural center and Israeli embassy. Even today, Interpol has arrest warrants outstanding for several Hezbollah members as well as the Iranian Minister of Defense for the Argentine attacks. Hezbollah and Amal set off bombs in Beirut in the early 1980s killing 241 US Marines and 40+ French troops. You might benefit by reading other sources than Al Jizera or other propagandist mouthpieces.
my turn states: "Hezbollah only retaliate when they are attacked by Israel." You must be kidding. All you need to do is ask the Christian Lebanese about Hezbollah. It is true that they provide social services to their own people but they are as involved in murderous Sharia law with no tolerance for other faiths as the other deranged Muslim factions. And you say that Israel is currently occupying Lebanese land? That's news to me. I don't know in what time period you live but here is a NEWSFLASH for you: Israel left South Lebanon in 2000.
myturn - and your pro-muslim radical propagandas. You certainly have no credibility while consistently on every blog try to defend Iranian, radical muslim and terrorist murderers atrocities.
@truthbe known
Then make sure your lilly coward a$$ is first in line to fight when America needs you ...and not behind a anonymous keyboard talking big bad talk. yeah right, spineless dolt!
@my turn; you obviously have little or no understanding of Lebanon. Hezbollah (created and financed by Iran) has always opposed Christians..they just are more selective in who 'disappears' these days.
Two years ago I spent a week in Beirut, followed by another week in Marjeyoun (largest Christian town right on the Israeli border) in the Hezbollah controlled security zone. The people I spoke with had a very different view from yours.
Get a clue, read the book 'Because They Hate' regarding the Lebanese civil war and it's politics..the author lived literally across the street from my wife, who came here in '89. The 'Religion of Pieces' is incompatible with other religions, at least for the past couple centuries, anyway.
Outzider,
I served proudly in the USAF late 60s, early 70s.
I WAS out doing something good for my country. Actions speak louder than words.
What have you done except sit on your "lilly coward a$$" and type on a keyboard?
trand be Known and Faridah Try Shbaah Farms that Israel occupy now , that's a Lebanese lands , and I don't know where you got that the UN declared that Israel out Lebanese lands, there are resolutions after resolutions calling for Israel withdrawal from Lebanese and Syrians Lands , I don't know where you all got your informations , and again Hezbollah and the two biggest Christians and some Sunnis groups in Lebanon are trying to keep the peace in the country , while the other Muslims groups that belongs to the Saudis and Qataris are starting trouble in the country , And for your informations , I hate Aljazeera , they are biggest liars and all their news are fabricated and there is no truth to it , and its belong to Qatar , and I think Qatar and the Saudis are the ones that finance Alqaida and the Muslims brother hood , and that's who we should have went after after 9/11 , because if you all remember 19 of the hijackers were Saudis and the Saudis till this day finance Alqaida , and how come nobody investigate that in our government drives me crazy . we are too busy investigating how Whitney Houston died , and what kind of drugs Charlie Sheen is on , and how many guys Brittany spears went with in one week , we need to get our priorities straight , we lost heroes and we still losing them , we need to find out who's behind all these terrible acts .
myturn - Do you comprehend at all? or just babble on with unrelated non sense? the subject is not saudis and 9/11, is not Qatar, charlie sheen or any other diversion you like to interject. This is about Irania backed, financed, trained and directed Hezbollah who are killing Lebanese now. Tell your masters to keep their bloody hands off Lebanon.
Go Farideh! You've got my vote.
I thought the subject was a bomb in Lebanon farideh , and you so much you dumb jerk I am a Lebanese Christian , and the problem is for you and others , I know what I am talking about , I am an American from christian Lebanese back ground , and this BS about my masters the Iranians and the Hezbollah , you tell your Israelis murdering army to stay away from Lebanon , when they bombed Lebanon , the Bombed the Christians , the Muslims Sunnis , the Muslims Shiites , the Mountains l, the bridges , the power plants and the water plants , so don't give that BS about killing and murdering , and now you have new countries that you love ,,The Saudis and Qatar , the Alqaida Masters , the thugs that attacked here on 9/11 , and in Libya and killing our troops in Afghanistan , you need to get your FING facts straight before you babble .
my turn: I doubt you are a Christian but perhaps I'm wrong. That being said, how about a balanced view on this. And what did the murderous hezbollah do to warrant such a response from Israel? Compare the number of indiscriminate murderous acts committed by Muslims all over the world against innocents just for the purpose of furthering their political agenda to aggressive/violent acts by Jews and Israel that were mostly committed in self-defense since 1948 and we can see very clearly who the aggressor is. And if you think that the issue is Shebaa farms, you are deluding yourself.
"It's an arid piece of land," says Adib Farha, a former aide to Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and a native of the southern Lebanese village of Marjayoun. "Most Lebanese had never heard of it until Hizbullah brought it up in 2000" (Christian Science Monitor)
If the extremist Muslims lay down their weapons there will be peace. If the Israelis lay down their weapons there will be no more Israel.
Will this violence ever end? Yes Islam is such a peaceful religion..............NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sheryl it will end when people like you wake up and realize our government is using fear and terror to take r rights.
Excuse me? Just what do you mean "people like you"?
Not in this world.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Bombing in Lebanon. what else is new? nothing new here.
Interesting how this is a TERRORIST attack and Ft. Hood is not.
Zionist Israel is going to launch a false flag op to get us into a war with Iran! This is one of their false flag ops also! They use these types of attacks to have others do their dirty work.
actually you're greatly mistaken ,most in Israel wan't no part of a war with Iran, however, you should look no further than at those war mongers right here in the US, and you know who they are, who have lots of invested capital with American defense contractors, who will make big $$$$$$ on war with Iran, Syria, or anyone else that will do as they did in the misguided ME destabilizing war with Iraq.
You can't mix Religion and Politics!!
Religion has caused more wars the anything else!!
I'm right!! No I'm Right!! No I'm Right and the battle goes on!!!
There is nothing wrong with the world!! Just the people in it!!!!
You really are spooky......and a moron.
Israel is surrounded by people who want it's destruction and THIS is what you have to say.
Skull full of mush is SPOOKY.
With Barack Hussein Obama, it will be coming to a neighborhood near you!
These morons are suing Showtime for their series, Homeland, saying the series is a "serious misrepresentation" of Lebanon the "Paris of the Middle East".
Let's see how Iran and Arminajine would spin this.
Ex CIA ops are consultants to Showtime Homeland show. Under suggestion of their lawyers. A bomb in Beirut equals no case, ex CIA ops equals okay no problem, boom (insert funny Jewish cartoon bomb here), case closed.
the 'religion of peace'
when the enforcers of rules leave the scene, the lowlifes will take over.
if the Left has its way and the more America withdraws its might from the middle east, this terrorism will only grow.
the Left does not understand how to combat bullies, never did, never can, because they project their own values (or lack thereof) on the bullies. bullies don't want 'good' rules. once good people withdraw, bullies will take over. the ONLY way to combat and defeat/stop bullies is to PUNCH THEM IN THE FACE!! then and only then will they withdraw. only when the US and Israel and their western allies wipe out the savages, will peace exist, not until. caving in to bullies, trying to 'communicate' and 'reason' with them, has never and will never work. the Left does not understand this; they live in a utopian fantasy make-believe, the world should be what they 'hope for', world. which is why the Left needs to be defeated and replace in western power. until then, terrorism will only grow.
@ricardoh - So your solution to the violence in the middle east is to send in more and more of our people; to escalate the violence until there's no one left there to fight. That's just brilliant.
Meanwhile, a 15 year old girl gets shot for saying that girls should be treated like humans rather than property. All of the locals say what a great girl she is, and how terrible it is that she got shot, but they won't do a thing to stand up against the people who shot her. The only long-term solution for the middle east is for the people living there to stop tolerating the extremists, and to do something about it.
Every time we go stomping around, the locals that don't know our game plan see us as invaders and help the extremists. The children of those caught in the crossfire join the extremists (even when the extremists are the ones who killed the parents). There are just some things that we can't fix.
You mean like Libya that Congress never authorized????
Orrrr Iraq and Afghanistan that WAS authorized?
Let's call is something it's NOT a Kinetic Millitary Action.
Heres something that happened about 70 years ago. We could have more of this I reckon. Any takers? Stomach churning.
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I'll take as much of that as we can get. In the end, it will be humanity that wins.
Duhp! Guess I can't post links. google this image for a reminder of the difference between good and evil.
File:Kiev Jew Killings in Ivangorod (1942).jpg
A shame and let's hope the culprits are found and punished. Such a beautiful city. I can't help thinking if the headline read "Israel" instead of Lebanon, it would be hidden in a one sentence. It would be flashing in RED on the top of the page and not buried with common everyday news. I'm just saying..........................