Explosion rocks Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut

Gilos · Jul 9, 2013

Explosion rocks Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut
Also on Tuesday, al Arabiya reported a huge explosion rocked central Damascus overnight, hitting the al-Baramika area.
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http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/explosion-rocks-hezbollah-stronghold-in-beirut-1.534740

Syrian rebels felt jelous Egypt is rubbing the attention from them ?

How does King Abdullah feeling these days anyway ?

MGB ROADSTER · Jul 9, 2013

What's new ???

Maybe Alllla is trying to tell them something.. they are not listening ...

waltky · Aug 16, 2013

Blast in Beirut kills 22...

Deadly Lebanon blast in Beirut stronghold of Hezbollah claims at least 22
16 August 2013 > The death toll from a blast that ripped through a southern suburb of Beirut on Thursday has risen to at least 22.

The powerful car bomb detonated in a densely populated area of the Lebanese capital containing strongholds of the Shia militant movement Hezbollah. Heavy damage was reported to nearby buildings and cars. Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said officials were investigating if the van believed to be carrying the explosives had been driven by a suicide bomber. Among the dead were a father, mother and their three daughters killed in their car. The blast is being linked to the conflict in Syria, which has stoked sectarian tensions in Lebanon. The site of the blast is close to the Sayyed al-Shuhada complex, where Hezbollah often holds mass rallies.

Officials are investigating whether a suicide bomber carried out the attack

The explosion comes a month after another car bomb wounded more than 50 people in the same district of Beirut. A Sunni Islamist group said it had carried out that attack, promising more violence against Hezbollah. The bombings are being viewed as retaliation for Hezbollah's armed support for Syrian President Bashar Assad. Fighters from the militant group were instrumental in a strategic victory by Syrian government forces in Qusair, close to the border with Lebanon, in early June. Hezbollah politicians have denounced the latest bombing as a "terrorist attack" and called for restraint from their followers. A previously unknown group called the Battalions of Ayesha said it carried out Thursday's attack. In a video message posted online, they also implied they had been behind the Beirut bomb blast the previous month.

This is a densely populated area of Beirut

The group threatened to carry out more attacks, referring to Hezbollah strongholds as "colonies of Iran". Events in Syria are putting Lebanon's fragile peace in jeopardy, threatening the equilibrium which has held since the end of the civil war more than 20 years ago. Many Lebanese politicians blamed Israel in the wake of Thursday's blast, but Israeli President Shimon Peres denied culpability during a joint news conference with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. "I was surprised," Peres said. "Why should (they) look to Israel? (They have) a Hezbollah that collects bombs, that goes and kills people in Syria without the permission of the Lebanese government."

BBC News - Deadly Lebanon blast in Beirut stronghold of Hezbollah claims at least 22
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waltky · Nov 14, 2015

Mebbe we should just get outta the way an' let the Sunni's an' Shia have at each other an' then pick up the pieces of whatever's left over...

No. 1 Sunni Terrorist Group, ISIS, Claims to Target No. 1 Shiite Terrorist Group, Hezbollah, in Beirut
November 13, 2015 | The worlds most dangerous Sunni terrorist organization, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), claimed responsibility Thursday for lethal suicide bombings in southern Beirut, a stronghold of the worlds leading Shiite terrorist organization, Hezbollah.

The blasts, which Hezbollahs Al-Manar television station said cost at least 41 lives, was the deadliest expression yet of the spillover of the sectarian conflict in neighboring Syria, where ISIS and Hezbollah are among the groups fighting each other. Hezbollahs intervention in the Syrian civil war has made it a target back home of the type of terrorism for which it has itself been notorious for decades. Hezbollah and its Iranian sponsor are supporting the regime of President Bashar Assad, an adherent of the Shiite Allawite sect, while the mostly Sunni rebels trying to oust Assad include al-Qaeda affiliates and ISIS, the latter also fighting to expand its self-declared caliphate.

Lebanese soldiers and civilians near the site of a twin suicide bombing attack in southern Beirut

While Hezbollah was the declared target of the bombers according to ISIS claim of responsibility victims of the blasts in a busy shopping district were mostly civilians, including children, according to Lebanese officials. One Hezbollah security official, named as Hussein Yaghi (Abu Mortada) was reportedly among the dead. The attack, the deadliest in the Lebanese capital in many years, came after a year-long relative lull in bombings and attacks linked to the conflict in Syria. Previous large bombings, including several in Beirut in 2013 and 2014 targeting Hezbollah areas, the Iranian Embassy and an Iranian cultural center were claimed by an al-Qaeda affiliate.

This time ISIS claimed responsibility. In a statement circulated on online accounts associated with ISIS, the group said soldiers of the caliphate had detonated explosives in a Shiite area, the AFP news agency reported. After the apostates gathered in the area, one of the knights of martyrdom detonated his explosive belt in the midst of them, it said. The statement used a pejorative term extremist Sunnis use for Shiites, Rafidah (those who reject), saying at least 40 Shia had been killed in the attack on what it called the Hezbollah stronghold.

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Jim Rockford · Nov 14, 2015

It might to tough to blame this on the Joo's . I'm sure they will find a way.

Same Issues · Nov 14, 2015

Jim Rockford said: ↑

It might to tough to blame this on the Joo's . I'm sure they will find a way.
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Not sure they need to blame Israel for ISIL terrorist attacks; especially after the attacks in France. ISIL is probably increasing these attacks to overshadow their recent failures and setbacks on the battlefield.

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