Beirut (AFP) - Lebanon on Friday (click here) mourned 44 people killed in a Hezbollah bastion in south Beirut in a twin bombing claimed by the Islamic State group, the bloodiest such attack in years.
The Red Cross said at least 239 people were wounded, several in critical condition, in the blasts that hit a busy shopping street in Burj al-Barajneh, a neighbourhood where the Shiite Hezbollah movement allied to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is popular.
The attack harked back to a campaign against Hezbollah between 2013 and 2014, ostensibly in revenge for its military support of regime forces in neighbouring Syria's civil war.
But it was the largest attack ever claimed by IS in Lebanon, and among the deadliest bombings to hit the country since the end of its 1975-1990 civil war.
Hundreds of people attended funerals on Friday after hospitals started to hand over the bodies of victims to their families....
One victim, Adel Tarmous, was hailed as a hero in the newspapers for having prevented a bomber from entering a Shiite place of worship....
Exporting Terrorism from Syria. They aren't refugees or migrants. The attacks are for different reasons with the same result. France has freedom of speech and expression and received attacks for it's cartoons of Mohammad. Hezbollah was attacked because they are not Daesh sympathizers, they have loyalties to Assad.
So, while the result is the same in causing death, the motivations are different. It would not surprise me if Daesh is putting Texas in it's play book. Crackpot Cartoonists.
I don't think the attacks are as random as some may think. There is suppose to be a religious morality to inspire Islamists to act. France - cartoons, Lebanon - Shia and Assad. These Islamists don't view themselves as murderers. They see themselves as acting with their faith. There are motivations.
November 14, 2015
Eleni Chrepa
The Syrian passport (click here) found next to the body of one of the suicide bombers in Paris yesterday was registered on the Greek island of Leros, the Greek government said, suggesting that the holder came into Europe claiming to be a political refugee.
The passport was recorded by Greek officials on Oct. 3, Greek Deputy Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Toskas said on a statement posted on the ministry’s website Saturday. Toskas said he didn’t know whether the passport was later processed by other authorities elsewhere in Europe.
Don't be stupid about this stuff.
Exporting Terrorism from Syria. They aren't refugees or migrants. The attacks are for different reasons with the same result. France has freedom of speech and expression and received attacks for it's cartoons of Mohammad. Hezbollah was attacked because they are not Daesh sympathizers, they have loyalties to Assad.
So, while the result is the same in causing death, the motivations are different. It would not surprise me if Daesh is putting Texas in it's play book. Crackpot Cartoonists.
I don't think the attacks are as random as some may think. There is suppose to be a religious morality to inspire Islamists to act. France - cartoons, Lebanon - Shia and Assad. These Islamists don't view themselves as murderers. They see themselves as acting with their faith. There are motivations.
November 14, 2015
Eleni Chrepa
The Syrian passport (click here) found next to the body of one of the suicide bombers in Paris yesterday was registered on the Greek island of Leros, the Greek government said, suggesting that the holder came into Europe claiming to be a political refugee.
The passport was recorded by Greek officials on Oct. 3, Greek Deputy Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Toskas said on a statement posted on the ministry’s website Saturday. Toskas said he didn’t know whether the passport was later processed by other authorities elsewhere in Europe.
Don't be stupid about this stuff.
