{"id":26560,"date":"2013-07-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/26560\/in-beirut-its-like-a-bomb-never-went-off"},"modified":"2023-08-30T07:23:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:23:16","slug":"in-beirut-its-like-a-bomb-never-went-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/26560\/in-beirut-its-like-a-bomb-never-went-off\/","title":{"rendered":"In Beirut, It&#8217;s Like a Bomb (Never) Went Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/26542-8-250x188.png\"><br \/>  (Photo via @LarissaAounSky on Twitter)<\/p>\n<p>  A car bomb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/26542\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">rocked<\/a> the Beirut southern suburb of Dahiyeh&#8217;s Bir el Abed neighborhood  on Tuesday morning shortly after 11:00 a.m. The blast set several cars on fire and wounded 53 people, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljadeed.tv\/MenuAr\/news\/DetailNews\/DetailNews.html?id=74850\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the minister of public health<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  Incredibly, just a few hours after the incident, media coverage across Lebanon&#8217;s major networks returned to normal. Even Al-Manar TV, a station funded by Hezbollah, returned to its regularly scheduled programming just three hours after sending out initial reports about the blast. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>\u0627\u0644\u0622\u0646 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0646\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0641\u0636\u0627\u0626\u064a\u0629 \u0641\u064a\u0644\u0645 \/ \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0633\u0627\u0644\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u062e\u064a\u0631\u0629:\u0627\u0644\u0631\u0633\u0627\u0644\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u062e\u064a\u0631\u0629 14:30 2013-07-09 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cihQyXydP9\">https:\/\/t.co\/cihQyXydP9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 almanarnews (@almanarnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/almanarnews\/statuses\/354561531318501376\">July 9, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>  In fact, by 5:00 p.m., news reports said everything had pretty much <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NOW_eng\/status\/354597831899758593\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">returned to normal<\/a> in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>  So let&#8217;s just go over all of this one more time: A car bomb goes off on a hot summer day in the parking lot of a mall, the day  before Ramadan (when everyone is out doing last-minute food shopping and preparations) and no one, not a single person, was killed.<\/p>\n<p>  Speaker Nabih Berri called this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/News\/Politics\/2013\/Jul-09\/223087-beirut-blast-aimed-for-death-and-destruction-berri.ashx#axzz2YRGn1pdT\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;divine intervention&#8221;<\/a> in a speech earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>  I call this a typical Lebanese reaction. &#8220;Alla satar,&#8221; y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n<p>  Wait a second&#8230; wait&#8230; can you hear that? Shhhh&#8230;.. Do you know what that sound is?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>  It&#8217;s silence. <\/p>\n<p>  It&#8217;s a strange, unwavering muteness. Awful silence, dead silence, deathlike silence.<\/p>\n<p>  The blast today represents a major security breach for an area that is tightly-guarded by Hezbollah. And except for the July 2006 War when Israel bombed out the area, today&#8217;s incident marks the greatest destruction to have been incurred on the Dahiyeh since the March 1985 assassination attempt at Mohammad Husein Fadlallah, which killed 80 people.<\/p>\n<p>  A lot went down today. It feels like the calm before a storm. Two men were reportedly taken into custody as suspects in connection with the bombing, but there are no new reports to confirm that information.<\/p>\n<p>  The only thing we can know for sure is that the will of the people in Dahiyeh cannot so easily be shaken. This Tweet says it all:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Dahieh citizen on Manar: This is not even a bomb. It&#8217;s just a firework. We&#8217;re used to more &#038; will go on supporting Hezbollah no matter what.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sara Assaf (@SaraAssaf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SaraAssaf\/statuses\/354534941423443968\">July 9, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo via @LarissaAounSky on Twitter)<\/p>\n<p>A car bomb rocked the Beirut southern suburb of Dahiyeh&#8217;s Bir el Abed neighborhood  on Tuesday morning shortly after 11:00 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