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Lebanese President: ‘Latest Beirut car bomb has all the fingerprints of Israel’

21st Century Wire says…

Lebanon is under siege again this week, but not from its internal sectarian divisions as many would expect, but rather, from external forces it seems.

Yesterday’s blast in South Beirut may have killed 20 or more people and wounded 200.

Lebanese President Michel Sleiman believes this was a “terrorist act” that bore the fingerprints of Israel.

Back on July 9th, another violent blast from a car bomb also hit a southern suburb of Beirut populated mainly by Shi’ite muslims. Former Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, came out then and also condemned Israel for the alleged false flag terror attack on the Lebanese people.

Many now believe that both bombings were provocateured events, designed and staged by outside forces in order to cause a sectarian reaction inside Lebanon, with the ultimate goal of dragging a divided Lebanon into another civil war.

Accusing Israeli black-ops or its agents both these heinous acts is no light matter, and will not pass without some consequences, the most obvious being direct diplomatic pressure from the United States who themselves will be getting pressure from the powerful Israeli Lobby in Washington. If Israel is indeed the culprit, then one can expect that Washington’s reaction will simply be silence on the matter.

A timely motive for these events may also be a sort of collective punishment against Lebanon for not disarming Hezbollah after they have been allowed to grant some military assistance to the government of Bashar al Assad who is currently fighting a proxy war against western and gulf state-backed Sunni insurgents in Syria.

Beirut blast generates wide condemnation

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BEIRUT: President Michel Sleiman said the car bomb attack in the Beirut southern suburbs was a “terrorist act” that bore the fingerprints of Israel.

The car bomb attack in the Beirut southern suburb of Ruwaiss –  a stronghold of Hezbollah- claimed the lives of at least 16 people and wounded over 200. Security sources earlier put the death toll at 22.

“This is a criminal act that bears the fingerprints of terrorism and Israel and is aimed to destabilize Lebanon and deal a blow to the resilience of the Lebanese,” Sleiman said.

Hezbollah’s political rival in Lebanon, former Prime Minister Saad Hariri condemned the attack and called on the Lebanese not to be dragged to strife.

Hariri described the suburbs explosion as a “horrific crime” that targeted innocent civilians in the southern suburbs.

“The blast is part of a terrorist scheme that aims to sow strife and evil across Lebanon which is grappling  to stay at bay from the crisis in the region,” Hariri said in a statement released by his media office.

In a statement released by his media office, Speaker Nabih Berri blamed Israel for the massive explosion and urged the Lebanese to unite in the face of looming dangers.

“This crime only serves the Israeli enemy that is working on dealing a blow to the components of national unity in Lebanon,” Berri added.

Hezbollah that  has come under wide condemnation for fighting alongside the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad in several regions in Syria has yet to issue an official statement about the blast.

But echoing Hariri and Berri, Hezbollah MP Ali Fayyad told NBN TV that the explosion was a “very dangerous act” but highlighted that Hezbollah and its supporters will not be dragged to strife.

Fayyad said regardless of the perpetrators “in case it’s Israel or terrorist organizations” that stand behind the attack the Lebanese must unite. Several Syrian rebel groups issued threats against Hezbollah and vowed to target it.

Shortly after the explosion on Thursday, a previously unheard of group calling itself the “Brigade of Aisha, the Mother of the Faithful” claimed responsibility for the attack.

“I ask our supporters to remain calm,” Fayyad said. “We should all unite at this stage to find solutions to our problems.”

For her part, U.S. Ambassador Maura Connelly condemned the attack and called on Lebanese groups to remain calm and exercise self-restraint.

Syria’s Information Minister Omran al-Zoabi  “strongly condemned” the blast on the southern suburbs and passed on condolences to the victims’ families.

Lebanese political leaders from across the divide also condemned the car bomb attack in the Beirut southern suburbs – a stronghold of Hezbollah- which claimed the lives of 20 people and wounded over 120.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt condemned what he called the “terrorist attack” which targeted “innocent civilians.” He accused Israel of plotting the afternoon blast.

Jumblatt extended his condolences to the residents of the Beirut southern suburbs.  The Druze leader urged for a swift formation of a new national unity government government, where all political groups will be represented, in a bid to avoid the country further deterioration of the security situation.

Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam dubbed the attack as “barbaric and cowardly” adding that it could be confronted through the Lebanese people’s unity and their insistence to solve their divergences.

Hezbollah’s Christian ally Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun said  “extremist rhetoric” adopted by the majority of Lebanese groups stood behind the attack. “No one is innocent,” Aoun said.

Head of the Future Parliamentary bloc former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora also condemned the attack saying he felt “anger and compassion” for the victims.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said attacks on any specific region in Lebanon were tantamount to an attack on Lebanon as a whole. He called on security forces to exert necessary efforts  to uncover perpetrators.

READ MORE FALSE FLAG NEWS AT: 21st Century Wire False Flag Files

 

 

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