Lebanese Lawmaker Killed
CNN reports:
A member of the Lebanese parliament was killed in an explosion Wednesday outside a Beirut military sports club in what hospital sources called an assassination.
Lawmaker Walid Eido, known as a foe of Syrian involvement in Lebanon, his son, Khalid, and two of his bodyguards were killed, Lebanese media reports said.
At least six other people died and 11 were wounded in the explosion, believed to be from a car bomb, in the seaside neighborhood of Manara, according to Lebanese security sources.
Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, an outspoken critic of Syria, blamed Eido’s killing on Damascus, calling it an attempt to reduce the anti-Syrian majority in the Lebanese government.
Well that is obviously quite possible. The entire world knows (probably better to say ’strongly suspects’) that Syria is behind Hariri’s death. ‘Strangely’ enough, “Eido was a vocal supporter of the U.N. tribunal investigating Hariri’s killing, approved earlier this month by U.N. Security Council.”
Combine this with the violence in the Palestinian refugee camps and… a scary picture slowly but surely emerges.
Well, not that slowly, but very surely at least.
Lebanon is in the very real danger of, once again, falling into a civil war. This has to be prevented against just about all cost. I propose that the West gives the Lebanese government all the money and military support it needs to fight Hezbollah and other terrorists, especially Syria’s agents.
If you have any doubts that Syria was behind Hariri’s assassination and the recent spate of political murders, then you have no understanding of Lebanon.
I worked at the US Embassy there studying Arabic and afterward in Foggy Bottom was a member of the Lebanon Working Group.
Syria has been pursuing a campaign of political terrorism in spite of the UN, the US, and is encouraged when fatuous airhead politicians come to Damascus to pay court to the Assassin-in-Chief. Especially when the petitioner is wearing a burka, if you catch my drift.
This murder campaign will not be covered extensively in the US mainstream media because that would embarrass the Democrats and their “soft-on-terror” policies in the Middle East.