“Hezbollah’s fighters have been supporting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a war against mostly Sunni Muslim rebels.” And so the Sunnis have struck back, and the Shi’ites will strike them again to repay them for that strike, and so on and on in an endless cycle of revenge.
“Suicide bomber hits Hezbollah in Lebanon,” AFP, September 21, 2014 (thanks to Kenneth):
BEIRUT — A suicide bomber killed a number of people Saturday at a Hezbollah checkpoint near Lebanon’s border with Syria Saturday, hours after news that the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda had executed a Lebanese soldier.
Lebanon has long been on edge over the three-and-a-half-year civil war in Syria. Violence frequently spills over into the country and troops have been battling jihadists in eastern Lebanon sporadically since August.
Hezbollah’s fighters have been supporting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a war against mostly Sunni Muslim rebels.
A security official in the Lebanese city of Baalbek said Saturday a suicide bomber blew himself up near a Hezbollah checkpoint in the Khraybeh area in the Bekaa Valley.
“The Hezbollah fighters at the checkpoint were all killed” and a number more nearby were wounded, he added, without saying how many there were in total.
Lebanon’s National News Agency said three people had been killed at the checkpoint, without specifying that they were fighters.
Earlier, the government announced that a soldier had been executed by Al-Nusra Front, the Syrian affiliate of al-Qaeda.
The soldier “was killed by terrorist groups who threatened to kill other hero soldiers in captivity,” Defense Minister Samir Moqbel said after meeting security officials.
One of Al-Nusra’s Twitter accounts announced that the group had killed the soldier it was holding hostage….
Huck Folder says
One can only hope that THE RELIGION OF PEACE are at each other’s throats ad infinitum, until not one is left.
Someone get cair on TV and ask them which side they support.
harbidoll says
arms industry making big money!
umbra says
No big money is small arms and explosives unless they are sole in very large quantity. These terrorists types go the cheap option with their preferred artillery – suicide bomb. So, the arms industry is not making any real money out of them. However, some arms dealers are making some money. That said, the arms industry is making money from countries that are arming themselves against and/or fighting against these terrorists.
Average cost for an assault rifle is probably around $1000. After market versions are much cheaper (e.g. the ubiquitous ak-47). Price is also not an issue with explosives, but availability. Modern plastic explosives are difficult to source or manufacture. Most explosives deployed by these terrorists are either scavenged from ordnance weaponry or taken/bought from looted armouries (some perhaps as far back as the soviet era).
For comparison, average cost for a modern 4++/5 generation fighter plane (european, Russian, US) cost between 50M-100M per unit. Modern MBT cost 4M-8M per unit. SPA (e.g. M-109) cost a few Million per unit, field artillery pieces (e.g. M-198) are few $100K per unit. Aerial precision guided munitions cost between a few thousand to $100K per unit.
Each western airstrike with guided bombs or missiles cost thousands of dollars per bomb/missile. Each suicide bomb probably cost a several hundred dollars (man portable) to a several thousand dollars (car/truck).
paddy says
Bottom line Harb…megabucks
John Kerry says
Indeed.
Ivan Bogdanov says
Right on Paddy.
mortimer says
Sunnis and Shi’ites are very adapt at murdering one another without blaming “The West” or “America”.
Each side thinks the other are all heretics to be slaughtered.
David says
No, they will blame the West or Israel or both.
Oliver says
Mortimer,
i read somewhere (I think JW) that there are SEVENTY THREE types (? branches? not sure of the correct word, in this instance) of Islam, and SEVENTY TWO ARE FRAUDS (or some synonymous word).
(Look at Syria- Assad’s group is a form of one of them; or Pakistan, where everybody kills some other group.).
So, let us hope that all 73 get their people in a big circle and start shooting ( each other).
Angemon says
Oliver posted:
“i read somewhere (I think JW) that there are SEVENTY THREE types (? branches? not sure of the correct word, in this instance) of Islam, and SEVENTY TWO ARE FRAUDS (or some synonymous word).”
It’s a hadith. It’s something along the lines of “the Jews are divided into 71 sects, the christians into 72 and the ummah in 73, and 72 of those 73 will burn in hell”.
Oliver says
Thank you;
And may those 72 go to burn in hell sooner rather then later; and the 73rd so weakened that the west get some testicles and finish them off.
Kepha says
Hizbullah and ISIS killing each other? Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of neighbors. 黑吃黑.
Phil says
“Stealing from thieves”? Very apt. How appropriate that the Shiat’Ali who perfected the art of ‘suicide-bombing’ should now be on the receiving end.
Marty says
Perhaps Sarah Palin is correct: let Shiites and Sunnis have at it and allow Allah to sort it out. The test of us can enjoy the show.
Jay Boo says
That Sunni was probably one of the moderates that Obama wants to give millions of dollars to in order to fight ISIS.
Oliver says
Personally, I find this article sickening and disheartening. THREE PEOPLE KILLED.
1. THESE WERE HEZBOLLAH. Are they now considered people? They are, like ISIS, Hamas, etc. TERRORISTS. They hide behind women and children; attack civilians; attack children, etc.
2. THREE KILLED. If it were THREE HUNDRED– then it would be worthwhile. Three thousand (in one day) would be even better.
But three? Since it was a checkpoint –if he (or she) was in a car, a waste of a car. if not, oh well, 4 less terrorists (3 Hezbollah and the bomber). A start. (or, a continuation).
Don McKellar says
“…an endless cycle of revenge.”
That sums up Islam.
Wtf? says
Right I’ve cleared my head and not read Jihadwatch for a few days, especially after reading about the Muslims upset about being raided in Australia. Now let me see if I have this correct. Hezbollah who are Lebanese Shia Muslims and who in the past have fired rockets into Israel and therefore a terrorist group have been the victims of a terrorist attack by other Sunni Muslims. Correct me if I am wrong but this is a story where Muslims are actually “victims”? I just laugh at these pimped up Muslim morons , I think if he were alive today Mohommed would be the splitting image of most of these inbred goat herders. I agree with Palin let them kill each other then the free world can finish off the left overs.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
But if we let them kill each other off, who we gonna sell arms to? Buying weapons is the only discernable contribution Moslems make to the world economy, cuz we’re the ones who do the heavy lifting on producing and refining oil.
But, on the other hand, if the twelfth imam ever *does* rise up outta that well, we could be in trouble. The Shia make the Sunnis look like normal people, and that’s a mouthful.
Historically, the Persians always showed a propensity for upping the ante.
umbra says
If Iranians get the bomb, then they can up the ante. Anything else is just hot air. They are out gunned and out numbered by sunni countries.
fair_dinkum says
the one endearing feature of islam. the sunni/shia war.
and its splinter groups..
and something for thought. the sunni / shia war is raging in syria. it will be a huge factor in iraq, the country which has closest to even numbers of both.
and iran is shia. and before it goes any further than up to a certain point, they will front each other. and it will be a repeat of the iran/iraq war. i hope so anyway.
people forget that one. millions of lives lost on both sides. trench warfare in the 1980s. 5 years? i’ll have to check.
it was a sunni/shia war in essence. and atrocities in lebanon have been brutal on both sides. and the christians in lebanon have both suffered and inflicted. the brutal murder of every moslem within the christian section of beirut?
they massacred hundreds in reprisal kilings for a moslem S B killing some christians..
so its very possible, given the climate, that the christians (a hefty population) will also be dragged in.
harbidoll says
It isn’t good time for Christians in M East
duh_swami says
You kill my brother, and I kill your brother…
You kill my brother and I kill your father..
You kill my father and I kill your mother…
You kill my mother, and I kill your sister…
You kill my sister and I kill your cousin…
And then there were none, too bad, so sad…
Angemon says
This is how I like terrorists to be – across the globe and killing one another.
Keep up the good work guys 😀
Frederick Simunich says
How are Shi’ite and Sunni Muslims distributed among the nuclear club of nations?
Which western club members are allies more of the Shi’ite Muslims? Which other members are allies more of the Sunnis?
In other words, what is the geopolitical picture of this Shi’ite-Sunni Holy War?
Should more of us be reading the “Bulletin of Atomic Scientists” and checking its Doomsday Clock?
Dr. Kent Moors’ Website contributes significantly to the Holy War issue and links it as well to the global financial crisis.
While waiting for word from Pope Francis on this I’d be interested in your take on it, Robert.
Sign me Father Fred.
P. S. Are the risque photos on these pages really inevitable?
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
And so the Sunnis have struck back, and the Shi’ites will strike them again to repay them for that strike, and so on and on in an endless cycle of revenge.
The key here seems to be that they are breeding at a fast enough rate so that the cycle isn’t eventually stopped when both sides run out of supply of young males. That’s a shame. So the question is, what can we do to help them end the cycle, what can we do to help their supply of young males run dry? One thing to do is cut off the Infidel welfare pumped into what is now a Moslemized husk of Lebanon’s former self, back when it had Christians. Cut off the welfare and the gals will get crabby, and the Holy Ko-Ran prescribed wife beating will start, and pretty soon everybody in the house is pissed off and nobody’s getting laid.
Ivan Bogdanov says
The short cut to the nuclear club is to passively invade an existing European member as is currently happening under multi-culturism in the UK and France.
After 2 generations on welfare benefits and from 4-8 ‘wives’ producing 5-10 children each (all paid for by the indigenous people) the population balance shifts inexorably and unalterably in the mohamadán favor. In 30 years they gain political control of the country, democratically and without a shot fired.
You will then have at least 3 Nuclear armed mohamadán countries; UK, France and Iran and 2 of them are permanent members of the 5 member Security Council.
We think it is bad now? We are finished when this occurs.
More Later….
Evan says
Very real.