21-22 November 2006

We fiddle while the cities burn. Pierre Gemayel, the third highest ranking member of the Lebanese cabinet, the scion of Lebanon's leading Christian political family, was gunned down today by Hezbollah-Al Qaeda-Syrian-Iranian supported assassins, and another cabinet member narrowly escaped a similar fate on Tuesday. And no attention is being paid at all here to what is clearly an effort by Iran and Syria to overthrow the democratic government of Lebanon as we speak, and replace it with a terrorist regime. It is no accident that this is happening. Mohammed Massoud, the leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, was killed by an Al Qaeda suicide bomber sent by Osama bin Laden on 9 September 2001, on behalf of the Taliban, two days before 9/11, and as a deliberate precursor to the infamous attacks of that latter day. I wonder, especially in light of what has been a major uptick in Internet "chatter" in Jihadist chat rooms. What is next?

Later.

--Belisarius II--