Posted on 12/11/2005 11:47:25 PM PST by jmc1969
BEIRUT - A powerful explosion struck a Christian suburb of the Lebanese capital on Monday, apparently targeting an official convoy, residents said. A local resident said the blast took place on the road from Beit Mery to the capital, near Mansuriyeh. "I overtook the convoy of a senior official in Mansuriyeh and the explosion occurred two minutes later," he said.
"An explosion rocked the building where I live," said a journalist in the east Beirut suburb of Hazmiyeh.
bttt
yep.
:-)
A car bomb kills anti-Syria MP
Maybe they are hoping for chaos, in which the pro-Syria faction can take power. Or maybe they are trying to save face from losing it- only to see it head toward democracy *the horror*. The Arab world is not pleased with this, you can bet. Bashir Assad has probably felt the heat to do something about it.
Hmmm....Lebanese Arabs inciting fights with Christian Aussies and sending text messages calling all Arabs in Australia to arms and Arabs bombing Christians in Beruit. Sounds a bit too coincidental.
Chicago?
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Syrian leaders use the USSR model for how they run a government. Its a thuggish dictatorship that is part commie and part mob family.
Bashir Assad is not even in charge in that country. He's simply a figurehead who was brought in to keep the family's bloodline in power.
His dead fathers relatives and generals are who run that country and call the shots. The Sapranos comes to mind when trying to describe the government structure of Syria. A dysfunctional mob family.
So then there would be no telling who ordered this 'hit'?
Syria's economy depends on billions of laundered money from organized crime and terrorism that flows through Lebanese banks and ends up in Syrian government coffers and pro-syrian government officials in Lebannon.
Without this money, Syria would be bankrupted overnight.
Want to know how deep this goes, check this out. Explains a lot about the past couple years and why anti-Syrian leaders keep getting whacked:
http://www.meib.org/articles/0401_l1.htm
Spot on with your description, I'd say...
Bashir Assad's main goal is likely self preservation, and the best way to succeed at that is not to make waves with the company he keeps. He knows what THAT kind of 'poison venom' will do to a person. hhhssssss---<
It's just business...
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