N.O.R.F Posted June 14, 2007 Passions run high as region's hotspots ignite Gulf News Report Dubai: The Middle East was literally on fire yesterday as a senior Lebanese MP was killed in a car bomb that also claimed nine other lives in Beirut, hours after saboteurs destroyed two minarets of a holy Shiite shrine in Iraq, site of a 2006 bombing that shattered its golden dome and unleashed a wave of sectarian violence. In Gaza, the power struggle intensified between rival movements Hamas and Fatah. At least 22 people were killed yesterday. The chaotic scene is likely to inflame religious and political tensions in the region. Analysts also warned the Arab world was descending into a "systematic collapse." In Lebanon, an explosion, apparently from a bomb-rigged car, rocked Beirut's seafront, killing prominent lawmaker Walid Eido, his son and eight others. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- He was a senior aid to former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who was also killed in a car blast in 2005. Eido, a former Sunni judge, is the seventh politician to be killed since Hariri. Eido's murder would further fuel tensions between the government and the opposition led by Hezbollah. The blast was the latest in a series to hit Lebanon in the last three weeks as Lebanese troops battled militants in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr Al Bared. Following the killings, Lebanon's parliamentary majority leader Sa'ad Hariri blamed Syria for Eido's murder and called for the Arab League to "boycott the terrorist regime" targeting his country. Hours earlier, a group said to belong to Al Qaida in Iraq blew up two minarets of Samarra's Al Askari shrine. The assault stirred fears of a new explosion of sectarian bloodshed. To try to ward off an upsurge in Iraq's unending cycle of violence, Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki swiftly imposed an indefinite curfew on traffic and large gatherings in Baghdad. Before the curfew took hold, arsonists set fire to a Sunni mosque in Baghdad, and another Shiite shrine was blown apart north of the capital. The Interior Ministry said members of "a terrorist group" had been arrested and were being interrogated. Mousa convenes meeting The White House promised an all-out effort to prevent the attack from sparking a surge in violence. "What we're hoping is that there won't be a new wave" of clashes, said spokesman Tony Snow, who blamed Al Qaida for the attack. In Gaza, Hamas fighters and forces loyal to Fatah movement battled for control of the strip in an escalating Palestinian supremacy struggle described by Gazans as a civil war. At least 22 people were killed yesterday, raising the death toll since the current surge of bloodshed began to 70, hospital officials said. "This cycle of violence threatens the future of the entire region," Dr Abdul Khaliq Abdullah, a UAE professor of politial science told Gulf News last night. Mainly extremist parties and religious terrorists are "trying to undermine stability and prevailing regimes," he added. Late last night, Al Jazeera TV quoted officials as saying that Arab League chief Amr Mousa had convened an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers to discuss the worsening violence in the region. gulfnews.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar Posted June 14, 2007 I see Yahuud intelligence fingers in Lubnaan. Baasaasiinta meeshaas ku sugan ka faa'ideysanaayo isku dirka walaalahaas. Then Suuriya ayaa la blame gareynaa iyo xulafadooda, sida Xisballaah. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
N.O.R.F Posted June 14, 2007 Meesha Lunaan iyo Philastiin waxbaa ka so socda. Yahuuduna want to fix their failings of last summer. They are eager and need the right excuses. Watch this space,,, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
N.O.R.F Posted June 14, 2007 Three Sunni mosques burned in Iraq Agencies Baghdad: Three Sunni Muslim mosques were attacked and burned south of Baghdad on Thursday, Iraqi police said, in apparent reprisal attacks after suspected Al Qaida militants blew up the minarets of a revered Shi'ite shrine at Samarra. Tens of thousands of Iraqi and US soldiers were on the streets of Baghdad and other cities enforcing curfews imposed after Wednesday's bombing at Samarra's Al Askari mosque toppled its two golden minarets. An attack on the same mosque in February 2006 unleashed waves of sectarian violence in which tens of thousands of people were killed, tipping Iraq close to all-out civil war between majority Shi'ites and minority Sunni Arabs. The latest Samarra attack, condemned by US President George W. Bush and other world leaders, immediately raised fears of similar retaliatory violence. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Police said unidentified gunmen on Thursday attacked the al-Mustafa and Huteen mosques in the town of Iskandariya, where the Sunni Grand Mosque was destroyed on Wednesday. The al-Bashir mosque in nearby Mahaweel was also attacked. The streets of Baghdad rang with gunfire overnight as gunmen attempted to attack a major Sunni mosque in the centre of the city, residents said. The mosque attacks south of Baghdad happened a day before US commanders have said all American troop reinforcements would be in place as part of a security crackdown in the capital involving 28,000 extra US soldiers. The crackdown is aimed at securing the capital so Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki's government can reach political targets set by Washington aimed at promoting national reconciliation. gulfnews.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Allamagan Posted June 14, 2007 I think we are fast approaching to the end of the world and the raise of the ummah. What we are witnessing today is war! Every coner of the globe we see war, killings, climate change [natural disasters], oppression, illegal occupations, bullying all these are everyday life in today's world and no one will be save from this I say. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jacaylbaro Posted June 14, 2007 When one's domination reaches its highest level ,, it is must to go down Now, the world started to go back coz there is nowhere it can pass from this point ,,,, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
