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| Angry Lebanese mourners vow dire revengeâ„¢ over Damascus bus blast |
| 2015-02-03 |
| [Beirut Daily Star] DOUEIR/BEIRUT: Angry masses mourning the deaths of six Lebanese Shiite pilgrims killed in a Damascus bus blast vowed Dire Revenge Monday during funerals across Leb. "The Lions of Islam are delusional if they think we will fall back quietly," the father of Chadi Houmani, one of the blast victims, told The Daily Star during a funeral for his son in the south Leb town of Doueir. "We have days where we will win, and the [terrorists] will have days where they will win, but their days are numbered." Sunday's attack is believed to be linked to the ongoing conflict between Hezbollah and Islamist gunnies who have been targeting Lebanese Shiites over the past two years over Hezbollah's involvement in the Syrian war. A Twitter account associated with the Nusra Front, Syria's Al-Qaeda affiliate, grabbed credit for the blast, saying a Saudi member of the group identified as Abu al-Ezz al-Ansari went kaboom!inside the bus. Syrian media and the trip's organizers, however, said the blast was caused by an bomb planted on the bus. The bereaved father stressed that terrorist attacks will not deter Shiite pilgrims from worshipping at the highly revered Sayyida Roqaya shrine and the Sayyida Zeinab shrine in southeast Damascus, which the pilgrims were visiting Sunday, as he vowed to take Dire Revenge against the killers. "We will miss you Chadi, we will take Dire Revenge," the victim's seven siblings yelled as they approached his casket. The bereaved mother said: "May God not forgive these killers that have kept me from you," addressing a portrait of her son that she pressed against her chest as she wept. "You fell as a martyr while visiting the family of the prophet." The anger reverberated across a sea of mourners who chanted: "Death to takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... s. Death to Nusra and ISIS." Draped in a Hezbollah flag, Houmani's casket was carried through the town before being placed on a stage. The climate was also saturated with anger and grief in a separate funeral procession in the Beirut suburb of Burj al-Barajneh. The sound of machine guns filled the air as friends and relatives of a 24-year-old carried his coffin through the streets. Angry young men armed with automatic rifles |
| Posted by:Fred |