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Evil International Plans

"These two terrorist explosions come as a translation of the criminal plot that seeks to sow the seeds of discord among the Lebanese and drag the country to internal strife under the headline of sectarianism and religious differences. It is meant to benefit "the evil regional international plan that wants to break up our region and drown it in oceans of blood and fire."
Hezbollah

How's that for purple prose, prose that mendaciously denies that the Shia terrorist group would ever conduct surgically precise operations targeting Sunni mosques, or their clerics who preach to the Sunni faithful that they have an obligation to support the Sunni insurgency in Syria attempting to remove their Shia Alawite tyrant. Hezbollah of course, fighting alongside Syrian military to defeat the rebel insurgency, would have no interest whatever in destroying Sunni infrastructure.

Not even, god forbid, to exact vengeance on the Sunni jihadists who have recently targeted Hezbollah strongholds full of Shia civilians in southern Lebanon. The country's former prime minister Fuad Saniora a leader in the anti-Hezbollah coalition in Lebanon, has demanded that Hezbollah withdraw from Syria immediately. Its decision to become fully involved in the Syrian conflict has effectively invited terrorist incursions into Lebanon.

The car bombs that exploded outside two Sunni mosques at opposite ends of Tripoli, a mixed-Shia/Sunni population, just as the faithful were beginning to end their prayers, killed dozens and wounded hundreds more. Just as sectarian violence has consumed Syria for two and a half years resulting in a hundred thousand dead, Lebanon once again hears the trumpet call of its own sectarian violence rising in clear, brassy tempo to an inviting crescendo.

"The Tripoli crime is an additional indicator that the situation in Lebanon has reached a very dangerous level", observed the country's prime minister-designate. The Taqwa and Al-Salam mosques were hit in early afternoon Friday, just as worshippers were preparing to leave their confines. According to the Lebanese Red Cross 29 people were killed, over 500 wounded.

When the Taqwa mosque was impacted, cars and nearby buildings were set alight, windows shattered. The second blast close by the al-Salam mosque blasted a similar deep hole metres into the asphalt, shattering windows of apartment buildings along the block. Sheik Salem al-Rafel was well known to speak disparagingly of Hezbollah, while supporting Syria's Bashar al-Assad.

Tripoli is becoming a reflection of the divisions of murderous loathing taking place between Syrian Sunnis and their Shia counterparts where each no longer views the other as fellow Syrians and co-religionists but criminals and heretics. And the mass psychosis of slaughter and revenge that has folded Syria into a failed state is creeping inexorably into Lebanon, a country which has never healed from its own crisis paroxysms of sectarian and tribal slaughter.

Labels: Conflict, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Societal Failures, Syria

posted by Pieface @ Monday, August 26, 2013