May 21, 2007

Violence in Beirut Continues

Naharnet reports (no link yet) that a "huge blast ripped through Beirut's Verdun district at 10:50 p.m. Monday, gutting several apartments and storefronts."

This, I believe, is the first time since Syria's withdrawal that a terrorist bomb has exploded in a Sunni area. The others have been in Christian areas.

Syria's U.N. Ambassador Bashar Jaafari laughably says the terrorists in Northern Lebanon -- who are still battling it out with the Lebanese Army -- are Al Qaeda and that they are fighting for the UN tribunal to punish the assassins of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. It will require a gullible mind indeed to believe Al Qaeda has taken up the cause of the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon.

Posted by Michael J. Totten at May 21, 2007 5:12 PM
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