6 people were killed.
People react as an ambulance arrives at the site of shooting in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Unknown gunmen opened fire on a funeral procession Saturday in a Sunni neighborhood of Beirut killing two and wounding six, a day after Shiite gunmen swept through the Lebanese capital's Muslim sector, police said. (AP)
Six people died when Hezbollah militants fired on a Sunni funeral in Beirut on Saturday.
NDTV reported:
Violence raged in Lebanon for a fourth straight day leaving 11 people dead on Saturday as tension gripped the country after Hezbollah seized control of west Beirut in what the West-backed coalition branded an armed coup.
The death toll from the fighting between mainly Sunni supporters of the ruling bloc and Shiite members of the opposition hit 29, prompting Prime Minister Fuad Siniora to announce an address to the nation as Lebanon teetered dangerously close to a new civil war.
Five people were killed in north Lebanon in clashes between the rival supporters, a security official said.
In the capital, six people were killed when gunmen opened fire at the funeral procession of a Sunni civilian killed in earlier clashes.
''We have six dead and 20 injured, six of them in critical condition,'' an official at Beirut's Makassed hospital said.
People carry an injured man on a stretcher, following a shooting at a funeral in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, May 10, 2008. (AP)
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora has said his country would not fall to Hezbollah in his first public speech since the Iranian-backed militant group started its military coup.
Barack Obama is getting flack in Lebanon for his empty words on creating "dialogue"- Here and here:
Barack Obama issued a statement mainly made up of standard American boilerplate regarding Hezbollah. However, given the running coup d'etat in the country, there is a bizarre focus on "work[ing] with the international community and the private sector to rebuild Lebanon and get its economy back on its feet." I am also outraged that he neglected to mention the pressing issue of civil marriage.Unfortunately, if Obama wins in the fall the world can expect to hear 4 years of empty statements like that one.
Lebanese blogger Failasoof makes this confession:
I was wrong....I am reposting this...
When I defended HA
I was wrong....
When I considered it a legitimate "resistance"
I was wrong....
When I went into endless argument that HA is one of us
I was wrong....
When I thought that the "Arsenal" will never be used against other Lebanese
I was wrong....
When I asked the whole world to condemn Israeli savage on Liban, and never mentioned HA
I was wrong,
When I had a small hope that one day, we can see a free Liban without having to go into bloody clashes with HA
To correct my mistakes, I want to say I'm sorry.
To correct my mistakes, I must call things by its name
HA: A Sectarian, fundamentalist, terrorist MILITIA.
We won't give up, we won't stop. Our dream of a free, democratic, independent Liban will come true. You can occupy us, you can kill us, but you will NEVER EVER take away our FREEDOM...
If you have not seen this video of a Lebanese child caught in a Hezbollah ambush in Beirut take a minute and watch this.
You won't forget it--
This is Hezbollah:
Charles Thurman at Pajamas Media has more on the trapped citizens in Beirut.
Michael Totten looks at the history of Lebanon to make predictions on its future and concludes, "There will be no real peace in Lebanon until Hezbollah is disarmed or destroyed."
And... The Iranian regime continues to blame Israel and the US for the violence.
Beirut Spring has a report from the ground in Beirut.
Atlas Shrugs blames Kerry, Pelosi and the other asshats who traveled to Syria to kiss some Assad a$$.
Previously:
A Gift From Tehran-- ARMED HEZBOLLAH THUGS Roam Beirut
CLASHES IN BEIRUT-- Hezbollah Declares Lebanese Army an Enemy!
HEZBOLLAH FIRES ROCKET-PROPELLED GRENADES-- 7 Dead in Beirut!
HEZBOLLAH TAKES WESTERN BEIRUT-- Rockets Hit Hariri's Home
As Expected... Iran Blames Israel For Hezbollah Rampage
Hezbollah Is Committing War Crimes in Beirut
AL QAEDA DECLARES WAR ON HEZBOLLAH
Child Caught in Hezbollah Beirut Ambush (Video)
Don't you always hate when someone says "I told you so."
ReplyDeleteWell, I told you so.
However, that's all past and the decisions you make today are the important ones.
The only thing I have to say is unite and fight them now or live with more regrets.
I hope it is Not over, but I fear the worst.
ReplyDeleteAnd now Israel has another Iranian satellite on its border.
And then there's this:
"work[ing] with the international community and the private sector to rebuild Lebanon and get its economy back on its feet."
Obama doesn't give a Damn that terrorists are now running the country, so long as things can be 'rebuilt' and he doesn't have to worry about it. Makes it SO much easier to throw Israel under the bus, when the time comes.
Holy crap. I had to cover my eyes in case the child was killed - thankfully, the little boy wasn't.
ReplyDeleteLet's face it - Obama doesn't have a clue.....not a bloody clue.
On the contrary...
ReplyDeleteHe has a very good clue.
Barak Hussein Mohammad Obama is an Islamofascist, period.
Barak Hussein Mohammad Obama actively supports Islamofascism and the terrorists who are trying to force it on the world.
Barak Hussein Mohammad Obama supports genocide and gang rapes in Kenya all to support the Islamification of that country and the institution of the sharia.
Barak Hussein Mohammad Obama has been associated with such groups as the PLO, Fatah, Hezbollah, Hamas and just about every other Islamofascist "the Great and Little Satans must be destroyed" Islamist whack job. Yes, he wants to talk to Amadinejad, probably to get hints and tips on how best to deal with people who do not want to live under the sharia.
The Bush administration has spent $1.3 billion over the past two years to prop up Siniora's government, with about $400 million dedicated to boosting Lebanon's security forces."
ReplyDeleteWe are doing the same thing in Iraq, supporting the Iranian-backed Maliki gov't. What is wrong with us? Where are the real leaders of this country??? Why can't we admit our mistakes...
I will let a quote from Vanderleun be my reply to anonatard 11:09am.
ReplyDeleteFive years in and the fools in the streets multiply. They are tired of the war, but full of themselves.
Hear me now. This is my answer to you. This is my answer and this is my prophecy.
It is taking too long.| It will be with you, blowing hot and cold, for decades yet to come.
It is costing too much. | How much will it cost to rebuild a burned and irradiated Los Angeles?
Too many soldiers have died. Even one soldier's death is too much. | What is the nature and duty of a soldier? Is a soldier there only to come in and sandbag a flooded New Orleans? Bring you a Red Cross sandwich and a cup of weak coffee after a tidal wave?
We shall overcome. | Overcome who? Your fellow citizens? Certainly not the enemy. You'll not get over on this one with your Ghandiesque platitudes, unless you are ready to all go like lemmings over the cliff and onto the spikes. You don't strike me as the kind of people with that level of commitment. You strike me as the kind of people who like to prance, rant, and chant, and then go home for a nice chilled Chardonnay and a slab of grilled tofu. Then you spend an hour bitching about Bush before taking a bong hit and sucking up some MTV. I know you well. I was you.
We shall take our no balls and go home. | You will return when your children are slaughtered in their schools. You will return when one of our cities burns. You will return when your cities freeze in the winter, your drinks warm without ice in the summer, your iPods go flat as you walk streets with few lights, when your electricity is rationed, and the shelves of your store are bare. You will return when the crops fail and the trucks cannot run.
Look around you. Everything you have, everything, is there because of oil. The brute fact of the planet right now and into the next few decades is that without oil, the machine that enables you to be you runs on oil. If that oil runs out, your nation, any nation, will do all that it can to get it back. And you will be back not "with peace, but with a sword" of a terrible fire. In your name. In all our names.
It will not be our fault because we marched and spoke up. We moved on. | You have made a festival out of your foolishness if you are young, and, if you are old, out of a yearning for a lost youth you left behind on the last day of 1969. You have carried that yearning forward all your life. You re-enact that foolishness again because you know no other, and you know no better.
"We shall not/ We shall not be blamed." | If we leave because of your pouting and pique, we will return because of your stupidity. There will be blood after and blood later and fire to follow. That war will not take Five years. It will take an afternoon at best, but decades of digging out will follow. A million may die here but many millions will die there.
What follows will make the Great Depression seem a mild recession. History will unfold in ways we cannot now fathom. The American experiment, still young, may falter -- may fail.
Should America falter or fail other forces, not so sweetly congenial to freedom, shall rise. The utopian world you seek will be set back a century at the least. We will all have to bear the brand of that fire, but on your foreheads the brand will burn deep. And we will know you for what you are. Worse still, you will know.
Five years in and the only way out and out now would be to quit. Capitulation is not a policy. It is procrastination. There is a way out, but it is years away and many people, people who swoon easily in the sunlight of this "war lite," do not have the ability to endure any war; even so tepid a war as this. They do not have the simple patience.
It is in patience alone that our enemies outstrip us. After all, when you look at what they have made of their "civilization" what indeed do they have to lose?
Five years in and what do we have to lose should you force us to lose?
In time, everything.
Nahanni,
ReplyDeleteAs usual, you are clueless. I'm not the anonymous you responded to in the usual ignorant fashion, but I'll try to reiterate/clarify what that anonymous was pointing out.
His/her point is that we are propping up Maliki, who is wholeheartedly supported by Iran.
Get it?
We're giving $$$ to someone cozy with Ahmadinejad.
Doesn't that bother you? Are you truly that much of a neocon tool that you don't get the obvious irony in all that is being done in the Middle East?
We are propping up Maliki, who is being supported by Iran. Meanwhile, the insurgency is being funded by Saudi Arabia, which is cozy with America.
If you have even a modicum of intelligence, that should make your head spin and your stomach turn.
"His/her point is that we are propping up Maliki, who is wholeheartedly supported by Iran."
ReplyDeleteIf that's the point, you are clueless.
Maliki has a delegation in Iran to confront the Iranians with suspected involvement in Iraq with militias.
I'm sure bg will give you some links if you ask nicely.
Spending money in countries that are trying to form stable, democracies is a good investment for the future of the world.