Hezbollah Is Facing Blowback

Blowback Is A Bitch -- Michael J. Totten, World Affairs

Hezbollah fears more suicide attacks. That’s the headline in NOW Lebanon after a suicide bomber blew himself and others to pieces outside the Iranian embassy in the Hezbollah-controlled suburbs south of Beirut.

And yet Hezbollah invented the Islamic suicide bomber. It seems like this scourge has always been part of the Middle East, but it wasn't used until the 1980s when Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, who has been described as Hezbollah’s “spiritual leader,” declared that suicide is not a sin after all if it is used as a weapon in war.

“This will present a threat to the security of the whole region,” a source close to Hezbollah said to NOW Lebanon. It wasn’t a threat to the whole region when Hezbollah first pioneered and then popularized this scourge of a tactic?

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My Comment: Hezbollah's leadership must know that as they become more involved in Syria's civil war .... they are going to be targets for Sunni extremists.My prediction to Hezbollah .... expect more bomb attacks and casualties.