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Same number of casualties in car bomb explosions, different media effects? And Maria Jawhari.
Posted on: January 22, 2014
Same casualties in car explosions, different media effects…
How powerful are media?
“This is the third explosion I escaped. I don’t know if I will die in the fourth one”. Tweeted the 18-year old Maria Jawhari.
And her apprehension was fulfilled this time around.
Last year generated over 290 car explosions, many kamikaze-type, around the world, resulting in over 3,500 killed, and five fold of injuries.
Iraq experienced about 3 times more car explosions than in 2012: 92 compared to 35.
Syria witnessed about 27 explosions.
Shall I mention the calamities in Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mali, Libya, Tunisia…?
Countries under foreign occupations experienced only 35% of the total explosions in 2013.
How powerful are the media?
Lebanon witnessed 3 explosions last year, mainly in the last two months.
This year has started with another 3 explosions.
Onset of the explosion
لحظة الإنفجا OTV Lebanon – otv.com.lb
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If this trend continues, Lebanon might outpace Iraq, assuming that
1. Iraq continues to crack down hard on the hot zones or sources of terrorism in the cities of Ramadi and Falluja in the Anbar province by the Syrian borders.
2. Syria manages to liberate the large towns of Yabrod and Deir Zur from the ultra Wahhabi Islamists, funded by Saudi Arabia, the people in Kuwait and the Arab Emirates…
3. The town of Qusair stays freed from these Al Nusra Front terrorists…
The first car bomb exploded in Haret Hrik in Dahiyaa. The media covered intensively this first since it took place in Hezbollah stronghold. The second one in Dahiya generated lukewarm reactions in the Lebanese media.
The third explosion targeted Iran embassy.
The fourth car explosion generated tons of comments… in Lebanon and abroad, describing the death of Mohammad Shateh https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2013/12/27/beirut-explosion-exclusive-photos-and-the-death-of-mohammad-shateh/
and the selfie kid Mohammad Sha3ar https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2013/12/29/lebanon-tragic-selfie-of-2013-rip-mohammad-hassan-al-sha3ar/
(Mind you that this car explosion is supposed to be targeting Al Mustakbal sympathizers of the Hariri clan)
The successive explosions generated none. And all these car explosions resulted in the same numbers of killed and injured. What give?
Maria Jawhari, the 18 year old who was killed in today’s#HaretHreik #explosion had this to say before she died:
pic.twitter.com/ebgwu1E1HL
رَد إعادة تغريد تفضيل المزيد
رابط دائم للصورة المُضمّنة
رَد إعادة تغريد تفضيل المزيد
رابط دائم للصورة المُضمّنة
Maria el Jawhari was reported as one of at least 4 victims of a bombing in southern Beirut on Tuesday. Netizens shared this image of a January 2 post from Facebook reading,
The car bomb attack was claimed by the Nusra Front in Lebanon and was the second blast in less than a month in the Shia-dominated Haret Hreik. Read more: http://ow.ly/sO3gD
“This is the third explosion I escaped. I don’t know if I will die in the fourth one”.
Adonis Diaries 