At Last Lebanon Muslims Find a New Target - Each Other

New York Times ^ | May 18, 2008 | Robert F. Worth

[JBGUSA]

For two and a half days, Hussein al-Haj Obaid lay on the floor of a darkened warehouse in west Beirut, blindfolded and terrified. Militiamen loyal to Hezbollah had kidnapped him at a checkpoint after killing his nephew right in front of him.

Throughout those awful days, as his kidnappers kicked and punched him, applied electrical shocks to his genitals....

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Those feelings are being echoed throughout Lebanon. After almost a week of street battles that left scores dead and threatened to push the country into open war, long-simmering Sunni-Shiite tensions here have sharply worsened, in an ominous echo of the civil conflict in Iraq.

Hezbollah’s brief takeover of Beirut led to brutal counterattacks in northern Lebanon, where Sunni Muslims deeply resented the Shiite militant group’s display of power. The violence energized radical Sunni factions, including some affiliated with Al Qaeda, and extremist Sunni Web sites across the Arab world have been buzzing with calls for a jihad to avenge the wounded pride of Lebanese Sunnis.

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A Terrifying Ordeal

On arriving in the city, he (Mr. Obaid) stopped at a checkpoint, where militiamen asked him where he was from.

He barely had time to answer, he said, before the men — who recognized him as a Sunni from his northern accent — opened fire on the car, riddling it with bullets and killing Mr. Obaid’s young nephew, Abdo.

Mr. Obaid got out and tried to run, but the men caught him and took him to a warehouse, where he endured two and a half days of torture. He took off his shirt to show a reporter the fresh scars.

“They did not even ask for my ID card, they just hear my voice,” Mr. Obaid said. “They treated us like animals, like animals.”

[JBGUSA]

The Muslims and the Christians, and the Muslims and Israelis have been at each other's throats calamitously for many years. Now, the violence, now Muslim on Muslim, is reaching a new crescendo. If anyone wants to know what a "Palestinian state" would look like, read on. One wonders how anyone, in their right mind, could wish for this.

[GeronL]

a lot of US and EU ‘intellectuals’ are wishing for it

[taxesareforever]

Ms.Gabriel’s book “Because They Hate” adds authenticity to it with situations like this.

[RayChuang88]

Interestingly, this could lead to the downfall of the Shi'a Hezbollah faction in Lebanon. Not only are they facing angry Sunnis, but they could end up facing the Druze, and that could result in a bloodbath against Hezbollah.

[cyberella]

The same kind of terrorist who did this support Barack Hussein Obama. Awesome video every American should see.
How quickly we have forgotten:

http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/