[Slonopotam845]

And of course CNN mourns him.

http://backspin.typepad.com/backspin...ted-a-lot.html

Octavia Nasr, CNN's senior editor of Middle East affairs, is going to get a lot of grief over this tweet about the death of Hezbollah's Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah.

What is it about Fadlallah's record that earns Nasr's respect?

• Fadlallah's approval of the Hezbollah manifesto, which describes "the necessity for the destruction of Israel?"
• Fadlallah's links to the 1983 truck bombing of the US Marine barracks, the 2008 Mercaz HaRav Kook massacre, and his support for the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran?
• A fatwa to boycott Israeli and USA products?
• Holocaust denial?

As far as all-time sympathy for the devil goes, Barbara Plett's tears for Arafat still tops the list.
Related reading: Hizbullah in Lebanon
(Hat tip: dejerusalem)

[S.T.D.]

I blame Sean Penn...

[brraverishhh]

Fadlallah Died Authorizing Suicide Bombings

Earlier this week, I blogged that Hezbollah's Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah died condemning Israel.
I wasn't completely correct.
Turns out Fadlallah died authorizing suicide bombings.
One of Fadlallah’s last acts before he died was to issue a fatwa authorising the use of suicide bomb attacks. The mystery here is why he waited so long. For as a founder member of Hizbollah – he sat on the organisation’s ruling council – Fadlallah gave his personal approval to the massive suicide truck bomb attacks that levelled the American Embassy and Marine compound in Beirut in 1983, killing more than 300 people, including the then CIA station chief. Fadlallah gave his personal blessing to the suicide bombers before they left for their deadly mission. Octavia Nasr, where are you?

[Fegasderty]

Good riddance, and may many more follow.