Snapped Shot

Always Watching the All-Seeing Eye

 

Amongst Friends

A Palestinian Islamist militant member of Jund al-Sham group teases reporters in Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp, south Lebanon, June 6, 2007. (Ali Hashisho/Reuters)


Update: Aussie Dave has more on Big Bicep Guy... who seems to definitely be getting along splendidly with the local wire photographers.
 

FOURTH bombing in Lebanon!

Abu Kais is reporting that another bomb has exploded in Beirut, this time onboard a bus outside of an abandoned building. No word on the damage or casualties yet - I'll be following up when I learn more.

Update: According to LBC, 7 were injured, none are reported dead. Still waiting on details.

Update: Sometimes, you have to hit faraway sources to get the news. I still haven't seen word one about this bombing on CNN, nor on the front pages of Google or Yahoo news.

But in the evening a bomb ripped through a public bus in Christian east Beirut wounding at least seven of the people on board, a security source said.

The explosion in the mixed residential and industrial district of Sed al-Baushrieh was the fourth to rock Lebanon since the clashes between the army and the Islamists broke out on May 20.

Footage broadcast by Lebanese television showed that the bus had been burned out by the force of the explosion.

Several parked cars and the facade of a nearby shopping centre were also badly damaged.


AFP's on the story, at least. Still waiting for the photo wires to catch up.

Update: Photos are starting to come in. I'll be posting them shortly.

Lebanese police and paramedics stand at the site of a bus explosion in Bouchrieh, east Beirut June 4, 2007. A bomb exploded next to an empty bus in a Christian suburb in east Beirut on Monday, lightly wounding seven people, a military source said. REUTERS/George Abdallah (LEBANON)


Update (5-Jun): The latest pictures have been added from the wire. Continue reading »
 

Cause and Effect

When a society teaches its children nothing other than death, it will be the only thing that society will ever know.

A young Palestinian girl walks past a mural depicting conflict with Israel in the Bedawi refugee camp where many residents of the besieged Nahr el-Bared refugee camp have sought shelter, near the city of Tripoli in Lebanon Saturday, May 26, 2007. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)


More on this phenomena from The Elder of Ziyon. Continue reading »
 

THIRD EXPLOSION IN LEBANON

Abu Kais is reporting that there has now been a THIRD explosion in Lebanon, this time in the heavily Druse area of Aley!

Somebody is trying real hard to crack Lebanon up. I wonder who that could be...?

More on this latest terror attack as soon as it hits the wires.

A Lebanese policeman looks out over the scene of a bombing in Aley near Beirut in Lebanon Wednesday, May 23, 2007. The explosion hit one of Lebanon's most important mountain resorts late Wednesday, wounding at least five people, according to police. Residents of the area are known to be loyal to Druse anti-Syrian leader Walid Jumblatt who had warned on Tuesday of stepped-up violence and explosions across Lebanon. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)


Update: The photos are starting to come in. Fortunately, nobody was killed in this latest attack, although 5 people were injured.

UPDATE: Michael Totten speaks, I listen. And I humbly suggest that you do, too.

See-also:

Here are some other news agencies covering this story, until I'm able to get back to it:

Ya Libnan
The Guardian
Reuters AlertNet
IHT

Previously:

Second Terror Attack: Verdun (Sunni)
First Terror Attack: Ashrafieh (Christian)
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Happy "Stand With Terror" Day

The Associated Press has no problems transmitting the propaganda of terrorist entities like Hezbullah. Just don't try to pass anything pro-Western over their wires!

Hezbollah's supporters release balloons, with images of their family members attached, who they say are being held prisoner in Israel, as they mark the Lebanese Prisoner's Day in the village of Khiam near the Israeli border, Lebanon, Wednesday, May 23, 2007. Khiam was known for a notorious prison, where hundreds of Lebanese were held and tortured by Israel's allied militiamen during its 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon that ended in 2000. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)


I am not holding my breath to wait for Mohammed Zaatari to condemn the SYRIAN occupation of Lebanon in such soulful tone. Or anyone else at the Associated ANTI-WESTERN Press. Continue reading »
 

Lebanon "Hudna" Day 2: Still Embedded with the Enemy

Our press is still hard at work today, presenting the terrorist point-of-view from the Palestinian human shield "refugee" camps in Lebanon.

A masked fighter from the Fatah Islam group, stands at the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr el-Bared, in the north city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Wednesday May 23, 2007. About 15,000 of Palestinian civilians trickled out of the besieged refugee camp Wednesday after a truce in the fighting overnight, as a senior Islamic militant who goes by the name Abu Hureira and identified himself as Fatah Islam's deputy leader, vowed Wednesday that fighters holed up in the Palestinian refugee camp besieged by Lebanese troops will never surrender or leave and will fight to the death if attacked. (AP Photo / Hussein Malla)


I'll be tracking the photos as they come in, so be sure to check back periodically for new updates. Continue reading »