Reports: Fundamentalist Groups Likely behind Dahieh Attack
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Fundamentalist groups were probably responsible for the attack on the Bir al-Abed neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburb on Tuesday, reported the Central News Agency on Wednesday.
Security sources denied to the agency that a Hizbullah official was the target of the blast, revealing that the security agencies have some leads that can direct them to the perpetrators.
March 14 sources meanwhile said that such an attack on a Hizbullah stronghold was expected seeing as the party is involved in the fighting in Syria.
Its involvement has paved the way for several groups to exploit the situation and work on creating chaos in Lebanon, they added.
They also did not rule out the possibility that the attack could have been a set up to pin the blame on a certain side, when in fact another power may have been behind it.
At least 53 people were wounded in the explosion that was caused by a booby-trapped vehicle in the Bir al-Abed neighborhood, which is a Hizbullah stronghold.
On Wednesday evening, LBCI television reported that “an olive-green Kia entered the Bir al-Abed area at 10:45 a.m. and its driver parked it at the parking lot of the Islamic Cooperation Center before leaving the street to an unknown destination.”
“At 11:00 a.m., exactly 15 minutes after the car was parked, the explosion went off,” it added.
Security sources told the TV network that "reports in some newspapers and media outlets -- especially about intercepting phone calls between inmates in the Roumieh prison and the plotters of the attack – cannot be verified as long as the judiciary overseeing the probe has not been informed of the details and has not yet received the surveillance cameras and the footage from the main political party (Hizbullah) in Bir al-Abed.”
“In the wake of the blast, members of Hizbullah removed the surveillance cameras that were installed in the area surrounding the parking lot and retrieved the footage from the businesses and shops,” the sources added.
“All possibilities are being considered, although most of the fingers are being pointed at Takfiris,” the sources said.
LBCI revealed that “Hizbullah has recently received information that Dahieh might be targeted by car bombs or suicide attacks and that one of them might be carried out by a man disguised as a Shiite cleric."
"Hizbullah is on alert in Beirut's southern suburbs, monitoring and investigating any suspicious behavior, but it seems that the Bir al-Abed blast exceeded its expectations,” LBCI added.
10 July 2013, 18:07
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Is it also expected that M14 be hit by terror attacks since they were also involved in Syria? I wonder if they will have the same philosophy if it happens to them...
10 July 2013, 18:17
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M14 has been hit by terror attacks long before syria.
The murders of Hariri, Tueni, Kassir ... (long list) ... by Hezbashar ?
No not terror attacks at all ... not to your standard ... it cannot be terror attacks when you celebrate these murders with baklava. Those a joyful events in your criminal mind!
You have seen M14 philosophy after over 20 bomb explosions and murders ...
You have also seen Hezbollah philosophy drawing red lines and murdering anyone getting close to exposing them. (And you will blame some israeli ghost of making it look like it was hezbollah).
10 July 2013, 18:51
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RFT : I wasn't aware Mowaten was capable of conveying any ideas at all. He speaks Farsi to me and I really can't get Google Translate to get me the accurate translation...
So if I understand correctly. According to M8 sympathisers, you have 2 types of attacks :
Free Sugar : Attacks on M14 are all done by "Israel" and cannot be called terror attacks
Sugar Free : Attacks on M8 are also done by Israel and are called terror attacks
10 July 2013, 18:56
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Give us some proof that M14 are involved in Syria combats. There are Lebanese Islamists and salafists that are involved by they are not M14. M14 has condemned all intervention in Syria and is against any weapons held outside the army. Unfortunately, there are some M14 politicians in Tripoli that have justified holding weapons against the alawits which is a big mistake.
10 July 2013, 19:13
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we never celebrated with baklavas, this is lame propaganda "real" mowaten. again cheap attempt at inciting hatred. i wonder how you sleep at night
10 July 2013, 19:22
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greatpierro you were given proof but you chose to ignore it:
oqab saqr was caught on tape, first admitted, then fled the country, then made a miserable fake tape where he inserted new dialogues to twist the original meaning (the differences between the original dialogue and the inserted one is clearly visible on the sound waves)
and you chose to still believe him.
on the other hand, HA wasnt involved for two years in syria, but you chose to believe nusra's baseless accusations, and let them use it as justification to keep massacring people in border villages, shell hermel, kidnap people just because they're shia, and destroy religious shrines.
10 July 2013, 19:25
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eventually HA fought back, in quseyr, and you're so happy now to create excuses for nusra to keep on killing more people just on basis of religion.
had they killed HA fighters it would be possible to "respect" them, fighter to fighter, mano a mano but blowing up bombs in civilian areas is just cowardly and shameful and by cheering them you make yourselves even more miserable. keep it up you fan club of terrorist killers and throat cutters, i hope they will come to lebanon so that everyone, including moderate sunnis, christians, shias and other sects can discover what this scum is about.
10 July 2013, 19:27
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if they get here how long till you shoe-shiners beg hezbollah to eradicate them? how long till geagea begs, once again, syria to come save him?
you have no memory, no honor, you will always be nothing more than petty rubble, tools in the hands of foreign powers.
10 July 2013, 19:31
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Fighters to fighters you say ?
I'm sure all the children and women murdered in syria are all fighters.
Again, there is no excuse to what happened in Dahieh. There is no excuse to an attack on the Lebanese army.
But there is no way in hell Hezbollah commits the same crimes as any other extremist group and gets away with it. Khallas ba'a !
They invited this bomb with open hands ... they ASKED FOR IT. Is it ok to bomb ... no ... but it isn't ok either to play war games where it's none of your business. It's not ok to stockpile weapons for world war 3 ! It's not ok to murder people left and right and not get payback or justice.
10 July 2013, 19:48
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I'm a big fan of yours Roaring FT. You hit the nail each time you express yourself.
All we demand is justice, this attack being the last should be the last one investigated. I want to know who was behind the feb14 2005 attack and the ones that followed first. I want them judged and jailed for life, I DEMAND JUSTICE! People should go in the streets and block all roads until we get our answers.
10 July 2013, 19:50
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what women and children? quseyr had been evacuated a week before the attack started. what murders? you keep accusing HA for everything, including bad weather, but you never bothered to wonder if there was any proof.
as long as it's against HA you take it like gospel, if there ever is proof in favor of HA, then suddenly the proof isnt good enough, or it's fabricated or you just pretend you never saw it.
stop pretending to care about justice, you obviously are biased and prejudiced, you dont care about proof, you want pretexts for your hatred.
10 July 2013, 21:33
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FT : it took several years for the investigation to lead from bashar to the 3 hezbollah cells that have staged and planned the whole assassination.
Also, by partnering in the election, Saad prevented a civil war the same way you claim Aoun prevented a civil war by dividing christians and not dragging them into it.
10 July 2013, 21:43
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"Diverting a serious discussion into emotional melodrama"
Tlemiz Michel Aoun ... :)
Ok ... so FT, women and children happen to die in wars, they happen to be massacred by the hundreds.
Aoun himself says that anyone "who detonates a bomb in residential neighborhoods is a major criminal".
Hezbollah stormed, fired and detonated bombs in residential neighborhoods, villages, towns and cities in Syria.
It is acceptable for Hezbollah to do so (no condemnation whatsoever) and unacceptable for Syrian rebels ?
BOTH ARE UNACCEPTABLE ! STICK THIS IN YOUR LITTLE BRAIN !
BOTH SHOULD BE CONDEMNED.
As long as you don't understand this, you will never be a real mowaten and you will keep burning your country !
10 July 2013, 18:20
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Takfiri jihadist are responsible ?
Yes, they have stockpiled 40,000 rockets or more. Train armies all year long. Create their own state within a state. Murder politicians and journalists when they try to expose them. Steal land, build bases and prevent any lebanese from accessing them including Lebanese Army.
Takfiri Jihadist are the real threat to Lebanon ... a couple of hundred lost souls with kalashnikovs are scary compared to Papa Hassan and his Xmas presents.
10 July 2013, 21:57
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I don't understand what you are trying to say or how is it any relevant.
You see Takfiris armed to the teeth and with huge armies everyday in Lebanon? You see them control the country and infiltrate every single state institution ?
How the hell are they more threatening to Lebanon than Hezbollah ?
They are a plague but they don't reach the heels of HA in terms of power, influence and weight in society.
They are easy to get rid of. Hezbollah is not. And it's not even the point to get rid of Hezbollah. The point is getting rid of their weapons and all their paramilitary and terrorist activities. They don't even deny them so why do you ?
Why are you against the surrender of weapons of HA ? this implies that of all other political parties but they will never act without guarantees.
10 July 2013, 18:49
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News are coming out that 13 have been killed yesterday, a Hizbullah commander and his followers.
10 July 2013, 18:52
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Walla you have 100% facts to say who is responsible of this terrorist act? If so please give us your sources. Rather than using this act to condemn it, you use it to create more dissentions among Lebanese. M14 have condemned this attack. M14 have never aligned themselves with terrorists or Islamists. They are with the rebellion in Syria and against the regime but it does not mean that they support islamists.
10 July 2013, 19:13
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Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Bahrein, Tunisia, Libya and wherever else. Yet people tell me ISLAM IS THE RELIGION OF PEACE, or doe they mean PIECES ?
10 July 2013, 20:38
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Dear Phillipo, there is a dichotomy in Islam. The verses of the Coran revealed While the prophet Mohamad was in Mecca call for peace and tolerance. The verses revealed in Medina are much less tolerant.
10 July 2013, 21:08
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I'm not critisizing any other person's religion. As I am not up to scratch on the Koran, I take notice of what other people say, and so when I read when people say what they say, and I read it time after time, I finally realise that I can quote it as dogma, and that is why I purposely wrote "Yet people tell me...."
10 July 2013, 19:49
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they will cost us another civil war if druzes and christians dont wake up, even though some of them will benefit from a sunni-shia confrotation...
10 July 2013, 21:04
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they will cost us another civil war if druzes and christians dont wake up, even though some of them think they will benefit from a sunni-shia confrontation...
10 July 2013, 21:11
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-thewolf-
Once again you start "you been a Jew" - firstly in English you should have written "you BEING a Jew" - secondly, just because someone disagrees with your line of thought then they must be Jewish. What a strange way to think.
10 July 2013, 22:15
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Fundamentalists (Syrian) carried this attack against other Fundamentalists (Iranian in Lebanon). I guess this is a fundamental problem.
11 July 2013, 00:10
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Wonder how much phone taping and recording telecom minister
Nicolas Sehnaoui's conscience will allow him to reveal to the investigators given how keen M8 is on preserving people's privacy...
11 July 2013, 00:11
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I still don't get "Islamic" SECULAR resistance. How could an act or an organization be religious and, at the same time, secular, in that not specifically relating to religion or religious body. My comment is not specifically directed re. the legitimacy of H.A. business or affairs in Lebanon with or for Iran. If H.A. is an Islamic organization supported by Iran, a self proclaimed Islamic country, then say it as it is. We can't trust someone who speaks from both sides of his/her mouth. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then shouldn't it be a duck?
11 July 2013, 00:46
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The following statement from the above article is the one that if true is the most scary, otherwise absurd, signature work of a psychopath, Ludicrous, confusing, and the list goes on:
"They also did not rule out the possibility that the attack could have been a set up to pin the blame on a certain side, when in fact another power may have been behind it".
This is what our "Beautiful and Green Lebanon" has come down to, and the irony is most of us knew this was eventually going to happen watching the events unfold in the 70s. Religion, sectarianism belong in your homes and places of worship. Otherwise, once you take it out and make is something it is inherently not supposed to be, then you got "zblelleh" which this is what you have done to your religion and culture.
11 July 2013, 00:54
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I am surprised not to hear that Israel is behind this blast.
Nassrallah made a fool of himself trying to pin Hariri's assassination on Israel.
What a dramatic change!
11 July 2013, 06:41
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“In the wake of the blast, members of Hizbullah removed the surveillance cameras that were installed in the area surrounding the parking lot and retrieved the footage from the businesses and shops,”... that is called tampering with evidence.
11 July 2013, 07:22
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Ouffff when this blast happened ??? I was me and my wife at the caribbean sea.....poor u lebanese u never change...i hope all the country will be destroyed...and rebuilded again without any religion..
Aruba, Jamaica ooo I wanna take ya
Bermuda, Bahama come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego baby why don't we go
11 July 2013, 11:38
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when we see how efficient the ISF was, we better give them a little help instead of just waiting for it. how many bomb blasts since 2005 and not a single guy caught? enno, least of things would be to admit that they need some help.
and walla, it was really worth it to try to change the law to allow ashraf rifi to remain and rot in his chair even longer, the hero who never caught a single criminal.
