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2005-09-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Car bomb explodes in Christian area of Beirut

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Posted by Jackal 2005-09-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Remember: R o P respects the "people of the book."

Also remember: Jihad is an internal struggle for self-improvement.

Yet another example of what one Harvard associate prof sees as Al-Qaeda's "operations."

Harvardâs Al-Qaeda Ventriloquist:
Who Needs Al-Jazeera When Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou Will Do Just Fine?

Posted by The Angry Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2005-09-17 11:52|| http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]">[http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com] 2005-09-17 11:52|| Front Page Top

#2 One overlooked possibility, "None Of The Above"

Individuals settling old scores and no government involved. That would explain the oddness of these boomings, each are individual.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2005-09-17 13:12|| 2005-09-17 13:12|| Front Page Top

#3 I was thinking that, as well. By process of elimination "none of the above" has an interest in stirring the pot for its own goals. The question is which "none of the above"?

Posted by Fred 2005-09-17 20:09|| 2005-09-17 20:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Fred, have you considered the possibility Hezbollah just isn't as organized into a unified command structure as a normal military, and someone at the bottom could go off half-cocked?

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-09-17 21:47|| 2005-09-17 21:47|| Front Page Top

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