[whataretheysaying] Mary Madigan: Syrian terrorism in Beirut

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Posted by Mary Madigan:
Syrian terrorism in Beirut
http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1181768322.shtml


   From [1]Michael Totten:

     Lebanese Member of Parliament and Chairman of Parliamentâs Defense
     Committee Walid Eido was assassinated in West Beirutâs Manara
     district, along with his son and four other people. This was just
     down the hill from my old apartment...

     Lebanon needs another tribunal, or something a little more
     muscular, if they donât want a regime-change in Beirut by process
     of one-by-one elimination. Eido (of course) belonged to the
     anti-Syrian March 14 bloc.

   According to the [2]Daily Star:

     MP Walid Eido, his eldest son and four other people were killed in
     a seafront blast in the Lebanese capital on Wednesday, his party's
     television station said.

     Eido, the chairman of parliament's defence committee, his eldest
     son Khaled, his two bodyguards and two civilians were killed, said
     Future Television.

     Pieces of flesh and splashes of blood stained the ground as relief
     workers rushed to transport the wounded to hospital and to treat
     passers-by for shock, an AFP correspondent on the scene said.

     Troops cordoned off the area where there are a number of popular
     cafes and beaches, including the military beach club.

     Eido is the third member of the parliamentary majority to be killed
     in a car bombing in the past two years.

   [3]Charles Malik was there:

     I was 50m from this attack.

     We were in a cafe next to Luna Park enjoying the late afternoon
     next to the sea after an intense day.

     Children were playing on the equipment under the setting sun.
     Mothers were holding their babies. Old men were smoking argile.

     BOOM!!!

     Everyone hit the floor, except the group of European tourists who
     just looked surprised. Waiters dived under the tables. Mother
     grabbed their crying babies.

     Human flesh landed in the children's play area.

     We didn't know what happened. All I knew was that a bomb went off
     in the passageway between the Nejmeh Football Club and the Luna
     Park, a children's amusement park on the Mediterranean coast.

   I'd hope that Syria could be fought the same way we are (or may be)
   fighting Iran - by weakening it. Destroying these regimes creates
   problems, it's better to slowly bleed them. Target their intelligence,
   their economy, disappear key members of their governing class...

   The US was able to defend the Kurds against Saddam's aggression for
   years without going to war. The Kurds had to provide some of their own
   defense, but the Lebanese seem to be more than willing to do that.

   They could also deal with Hezbollah's [4]nectarine factories.

References

   1. http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001463.html
   2. http://www.dailystar.com.lb/articlebr.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=82981
   3. http://lebop.blogspot.com/2007/06/assassination-at-nejmeh-i-was-there.html
   4. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6707499.stm