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.: My Lebanon is being burned to ashes: Explosion near Horsh Tabet :.
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by angryindian | September 20, 2007 at 12:55 pm
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Lebanese Kataeb party member Antoine Ghanem was killed today in a huge bomb attack in Beirut. So far the body count is six dead and ten wounded. This will ripple into the refugee Palestinian community residing in Lebanon and it is far too early to say what will come of this attack. - The Angryindian
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.: My Lebanon is being burned to ashes: Explosion near Horsh Tabet :.: "At around 5:20pm, an explosion occured in approximity of Horsh Tabet, near Rond Point Al Hayek, no news available yet. I heard and saw the explosion from my work, it seems it is in a residential area. Update (6:30pm): 6 casualties and many wounded in this explosion. The explosion was targetting the convoy of Member of Parliament Antoine Ghanem, a member of the Phalange Party. The explosion caused a massive fire. It happened in Northern Matn, in Sin El Fil, near Al Hayeh roundabout. The explosion and assassination came 3 months after the last one which killed MP Waleed Eido and his son, and a week before the parliament session whose President Nabih Berri called for, in order to discuss the presidential elections."
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at 13:10 on September 20th, 2007
angryindian, I like this story. It's good stuff.
This is definitely a tense situation and another in a string of assasinations of Lebanese officials. I would be interested to find out what you think about this. Do you think it was done by the Syrians? What should the Lebanese government's reaction be? Can they even do anything. I definitely think that this is something that should get a lot more attention then it does.
This seems to me to be a coup.
at 14:04 on September 20th, 2007
I wish I could say for certain. But since war drums are beating in the West for a conflict I don't see the U.S. being able to afford financially or do effectively with enough manpower, the level of destabilisation these attacks leave in their wake is making confrontation nearly a done deal. Unless Bush and Co. decide to give the work to Blackwater or another mercenary contractor, I don't see the point, other than to force nations at odds with Israel to make the first move in order to justify a response. It reminds me of the 1980's when Israel hit Lebanon in an attempt to provoke them into a military retort. But on the other hand, with increased in-fighting between the U.S. and Israeli backed FATAH and Hamas with Hezbollah struggling to be seen and heard on the sidelines, it could really be any or all of these elements. I'm expecting, without much faith, for the UN to step up and lead if this is going to be stopped before things get completely out of control.