lebanon incidents

Details still murky, but local reports are that it is an accident. But given the timing... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53656220 video https://www.businessinsider.com/videos-capture-massive-explosion-that-rocked-lebanons-beirut-2020-8

UN report today. Early reports are that it was ordered by Khamenei because he was too close to the Saudis. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4013827,00.html http://lawhawk.blogspot.com/2011/01/no-wonder-hizbullah-brought-down.html

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/wikileaks-expose-iran-used-ambulances-to-run-arms-into-lebanon-during-2006-war-1.327483 not good. very very not good. perhaps the Iranian Red Crescent should be expunged from the International Society of the Red Cross and Red Crescent.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/lebanon-sentences-extremist-sunni-cleric-to-life-imprisonment-1.324373 Nice job Lebanon. Its good to see Middle East democracies doing the right thing. The global war on terror is fought by Christians, Jews, Hindus...and Muslims.

In order to be clear on this subject before things get out of hand in the forum, this has just been reported: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3652649,00.html Israel did not start this attack. Someone is firing at Israel.

OK, I kid you not: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/818324.html Lebanon's official news agency claimed that South Lebanon was under attack from "poisoned balloons" dispersed by IDF aircraft. The Lebanese media reported that some civilians were hospitalized after inhaling the gas in the...

It was just announced that Pierre Gemayel, a Christian cabinet minister, was shot and killed in Lebanon. Some in the Lebanese government are accusing Syria of being behind it. More to come... :wackyno:

Hariri and 20 others were killed by a massive bomb in Beirut on Feb. 14th, 2005 (emphasis mine)... I believe Syria did assasinate Hariri because he was anti-Syrian and one of the most powerful men in Lebanon. The UN Security Council even went so far as to issue a statement calling on all...