Lebanon officials have announced 11 arrests in Beirut over the weekend, all in connection with last Thursday’s terrorist attacks, which resulted in the deaths of 44 people, reported Yahoo! “Their death was but an irrelevant fleck along the global news cycle, something that happens in those parts of the world”.
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So today most of us will write, tomorrow we hope and after tomorrow we get up and fight again.
After nearly 17 months of calm, Lebanon’s capital Beirut was again the scene of suicide bombings with more casualties than the previous series of attacks. ISIS also appeared to claim responsibility in a statement posted on social media. Still, monuments around the world lit up to display the colors of the French flag, but not the Lebanese flag, while Facebook offered users a one-click option to put a blue, white and red filter over their profile pictures in support of the French, but did not offer the same service for the colors of the Lebanese flag. He told authorities that he and three other attackers arrived in Lebanon from Syria two days ago, the source said.
After all, Beirut is barely 100 kilometres from the worst violence in Syria, where more than 200,000 people have been killed since 2011. The heroics of one fearless man Adel Termos, who had witnessed the first bomb go off, jumped into action.
Dozens, possibly hundreds, of people are still alive thanks to his bravery.
One terrorist survived the attack and claimed the group was an ISIS cell sent from a Syrian stronghold.
With the media bringing this discrepancy to the attention of the masses, let’s take a look at the extent of media coverage for both attacks in Paris and Lebanon – what happened in both places and what world leaders have said about both attacks. CNN hasn’t confirmed the authenticity of the statement. He said the Syrians were detained in a Palestinian refugee camp located in Burj al-Barajneh and a flat in the capital’s eastern district of Ashrafieh that had been used to prepare the explosive belts.
This is not only about Paris and Beirut. It is a effect of many wars, fear of secularism, strongarm dictators, overthrown tyrants, power vacuums, colonialism, and foreign interests.
While media agencies are competing with each other for live updates and breaking news on the Paris attacks, the news reporting on the Beirut attacks is drastically lower. Why must the Arab world shoulder its burden alone, even as the entire world – including Muslims – once again unite in solidarity with France, just as we did in January, the last time the country was targeted? The suicide vests had been stuffed with the bearings and when the vests had exploded, thousands of these small, glistening ball-bearings had ripped the life out of more than 40 people and injured close to 200.
Mazloum and daughter, who sustained non-critical injuries, were in the “wrong place at the wrong time”, a family member told the Detroit Free Press.
The Lebanon-based, Iran-backed Shiite militia has a strong presence in the area where the blasts occurred.
“These have been two frightful nights”, he said of the attacks in Paris and Beirut on his Hummus for Thought blog.
In addition to the human toll, the explosions damaged at least four nearby buildings. An attack such as this isn’t an opportunity to take others down and introduce a greater amount of hate.
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First explosion: Happens outside Stade de France near entrance D about 9.20pm as France plays Germany in a soccer match, executed by a suicide bomber.
