Lebanon – Cruelty Arrives With Two Bombs

23 Friday Aug 2013

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One of the bombs exploded near the Taqwa mosque as worshippers spilled out of the religious center following Friday prayers. Minutes later a second explosion struck the Salam mosque in the Mina area near the waterfront.

Al Akhbar. “Twin bombing hits Lebanon’s Tripoli.” August 23, 2013.

Address it, air it, channel it, deal with it, work with it: the “passions” — the underlying programming in social grammar — that surfaces in the sadism implied in the above-quoted description arrives without conscience or humanity. Throughout the range of the Islamic Small Wars, the same would seem to serve as its most familiar motif.

What could be more cruel, more of the devil, more evil, and more inhuman than to deploy a weapon among innocents away from the field of battle and close by the sanctuary afforded by a space built and sustained on faith in God and the human relationship with the All? Casualties of a war alive inside the hearts of killers — truly, the “warfare” of interest leaks from poisoned minds obsessed alternatively with power and hiding — today’s dead and injured in Tripoli had gone into their mosques for prayers and been made to come out at the Gates of Hell.

Additional Reference

AFP/Reuters. “Tripoli bomb blasts ‘kill at least 27 and injure hundreds more’.” ABC News, August 23, 2013.

AP and Times of Israel Staff. “Twin blasts kill 27 in Lebanese city of Tripoli.” The Times of Israel, August 23, 2013.

Charara, Nasser. “From Tripoli to Saida, a Map of Lebanon’s Battlegrounds.” Al Akhbar, June 24, 2013.

From earlier this year:

Jawad, Rana. “Tripoli: French embassy in Libya hit by car bomb.” BBC News, April 23, 2013.

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Putin Volunteers Russian Cooperation in Boston Investigation

16 Tuesday Apr 2013

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MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered his country’s assistance in investigating bombings in Boston that killed 3 and injured more than 140 people.

Putin said in a condolences note published on the Kremlin’s website Tuesday that the international community should come together to fight terrorism.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/boston-bombings-investigation-russia_n_3091560.html

Take Putin seriously.

The Colonel President has been squeezed westward by U.S. – Saudi – Sunni opposition in Syria, that old Russian client state the Kremlin seemed to have forgotten or neglected or sustained, lol, at the end of the Cold War Era. In fact, Syria seemed to have been left to squat as it had been shaped by the Soviet experience. Continuing state-to-state contracts and relationships probably seemed okey dokey all the way to the “Arab Spring.”

Today, Syria is not so “okey dokey” and it’s more Russia’s role than NATO’s to pick up the slack. I think that’s why the politics look so upside-down from the American right side perspective: Obama has spun out some reverse psychology Over There, putting the U.S. in the old socialist’s position and casting the post-Soviet socialist and KGB-experienced scion as a defender of “domestic tranquility” and other slogans of the western faith.

Ah, the curse of living in “interesting times” — it is ours.

Muslim Dread in Wake of Boston Bombing: “Please Do Not Let the Culprit Be Arab or Muslim”

16 Tuesday Apr 2013

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“I instantly thought of my friend who ran the Marathon upon learning of the explosions. However, concern for loved ones was superseded by a distinctly Arab and Muslim-American psychosis: “Please do not let the culprit be Arab or Muslim.”

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/04/201341681629153634.html

I picked up on this theme with Facebookers reporting similar statements on Twitter.

Take it is a great sign.

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“Please don’t be a Muslim” is a good statement. It tells that the “heat” is on Islam, put there by news of the same stupid things — assassinations and bombings — daily across a host of Muslim-majority states, and this time some — the general targets of the anti-Jihad — are begging out. Want the next step, e.g., joining the ranks of helpful volunteers (that’s probably already happening, I’m not sure anyone’s looking), make them welcome in their repudiation of Islamic motivation as regards this sweeping class of related political crime.

America’s governments will try to slow the pace on the Boston Marathon Massacre, but they have been handed a big wrench for dividing Muslims who no longer wish to be “those Muslims” from Muslims who would — and do — plan and execute such crimes.

Sura 9:29 will go, sooner or later, and much too congruent with it, and this expression — “may it not be one associated with me” — seems a first step on the path to it.

We all know the culprits might be beer guzzling loons with a jones for the jogging set; angry taxpayers making a statement on the due date; black powder gun nuts getting a little attention.

Maybe.

But those have not been making the news daily, weekly, along the arcs of the Islamic Small Wars from Afghanistan to Somalia.

By The Way . . . About Those Pesky TSI Regulations

15 Monday Apr 2013

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The Obama administration has quietly rewarded the Middle Eastern country that produced most of the 9/11 hijackers with a special travel privilege that allows its nationals to bypass normal passport security controls at major U.S. airports.

Only a handful of U.S. allies—including Canada, Mexico, South Korea and the Netherlands—currently enjoy the perk while other American partners like Germany and France are still excluded. Incredibly, the Obama administration has cut a deal with Saudi Arabia, which produced 15 of the 19 hijackers in the 2001 terrorist attacks, to enjoy the privilege under a program called Global Entry.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2013/03/u-s-lets-saudis-bypass-regular-airport-security/

I’ve been on this bandwagon, and I have been off of it, and I would rather be off it.

Nonetheless, as predicted just a little earlier, Islamic exceptionalism is in for exceptional scrutiny no matter how the story of the Boston Marathon Bombing plays out.

The Facebook buddy who posted the March 2013 item from Judicial Watch also has on his page inside-the-line documentary photos of the bombing, and they are horrific.

I won’t re-post.

CNN reported about 30 minutes ago that the explosives used involved black powder, ball bearings, and other shrapnel moving out of the blast at about 7,000 feet per second.

With that in mind, watch the now famous first footage again.

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“Expedited clearance” was on my mind by 11 a.m. on 9/11, so I’m not surprised by the appearance of the method and technology, but now in light of this latest attack, it doesn’t look good, does it? One face, two signals — one cooperating, the other treacherous — is how that’s going to be interpreted for years to come.