Bad Comparison

The Sharm el Sheikh bomb and the Monot one are done by different people for different reasons.

Naharnet did today the most ludicrous lumping of two separate pieces of news in one headline.

It is tempting to find similarities between yesterday’s two bombs: they both target places that could be construed as decadent and filled with tourists and they both occurred almost at the same time. But the bombings have two totally different signatures.
The Sharm El Sheikh bomb clearly has the signature of Al-qaeda sympathizers: Utter disregard for Human life and suicide bombing designed to maximize casualties and destabilize the ruling regime in the Arab world’s most populous country.

In Monot, Beirut, it was different. The explosion happened under a car in an unpopulated parking lot. It was clearly designed to cause maximum panic (and economic repercussions) with minimum casualties. This is consistent with the previous bombs that stroke Christian areas in Beirut and claimed minimum casualties but wreaked a lot of material havoc. MP Michel el Murr had concluded that local agents (who don’t want to hurt their families and friends) are behind the bombs.

The Beirut pro-Syria politicians accuse the “Islamists” of being behind the Beirut bombs, but the sharm el sheikh explosion clearly shows that they are way off. Naharnet should have been more responsible and not give credence to their argument.