Nice title by the way.

Not.

Isn't the implication that the possibly Shi'ite bombers aren't Lebanese? As a political stab?

Dear MH,

Spoken in the current situation, one day before the commemoration of Hariri's assassination, AG's sentence aims to avoid internal hatred. He knows that everybody knows that he knows & remembers the past three decades.

Btw, Klaus, one rarely hears Shi'ites being accused to be behind any bombings/assassinations. Syrians & Israelis, of course, ... then their local "allies" (whoever that is supposed to be) ... then "other members of the group who got attacked in order to exacerbate tensions" ... etc.pp.

You'd be surprised how many people think that the March 14 people were killed by OTHER March 14 people in order to "create martyrs".

--MSK

"You'd be surprised how many people think that the March 14 people were killed by OTHER March 14 people in order to 'create martyrs'."

Well it's not all that unreasonable since that isn't an unheard of tactic in Lebanon. After all, March 14 supporter and Christian Samir Geagea once bombed a church to make it look like Hezbollah was targeting Christians.

Djuha,

that had nothing to do with "trying to make it look like HA".

And, btw, it's by no means clear if Geagea was the one responsible. Yes, he got convicted for it, but that doesn't mean he actually did it.

--MSK

About that bombing, whatever happened to the other guy who was convicted for it? Gerges Khoury? I can't imagine he's still in jail, but I didn't hear anything of his release either. Did he die in there?

Don't listen to cruel, cruel eerie. That post title made me laugh.

First she exiles my puns to a trifling corner of 'Aqoul, and then, with pitiless fury, she gives no quarter and follows me here with her little jeer-had. No shame. No shame.

They're all high in Libnan, it seems. Check out this quote from Nasrallah (from haaretz):

Nasrallah said "we have plenty of weapons ... and we have the right to transport our arms to combat Israel."

Nasrallah said the arms transfers are carried out in secret in order "to hide them from the Israeli enemy."

The Hezbollah chief added that his group has no intention of disarming, and intends to maintain its forces in southern Lebanon. "The resistance will always stand by the Lebanese Army in southern Lebanon, with our weapons, men and blood... to defend Lebanon," he said.

Hezbollah is "ready to give the army all the arms it needs," but will not forgive anyone who confiscates even a single bullet, Nasrallah added.

In my uninformed-ness I am going to ask if anyone - possibly of importance - has thought of formalizing the de facto Hizbollah state within Lebanon?