Father sacrifices his own life to save hundreds of people from Suicide bomber

[RedStar]

http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-11-...-during-bombings-beirut-saved-countless-lives

As a second suicide bomber moved toward onlookers clustering at the scene of the explosion, Termos rushed the suspect.

"He tackled him to the ground, causing the second suicide bomber to detonate," says blogger and physician Elie Fares, who lives in Beirut. "There are many many families, hundreds of families probably, who owe their completeness to his sacrifice."

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the twin suicide bombings that took an estimated 45 lives. More than 200 people were wounded.

Fares says when similar bombings occurred in Beirut in years past, Lebanese were quick to view the events through the prism of sectarian politics.

"The street is still divided by political and sectarian lines, but this time around the sense is that these are people, period," Fares says. "They're dead because of something they had absolutely no role in ... They died because of some demented, twisted politics."

Fares says it would be wrong to call the victims martyrs.

"Calling them martyrs is a sort of Lebanese way to not only dehumanize them, it's to sort of make ourselves feel better that, yeah, it's okay, they died, but they're martyrs which means they're in heaven and they're in a better place," he says. "But the fact of the matter is it's just sort of a label to make ourselves feel better, and maybe their families feel better because the label of 'victim' means there's a sort of accountability to the process."

The two blasts hit during the evening rush hour, and devastated a commercial strip of southern Beirut.

Lebanon shares a border with Syria and hosts more than one million refugees from throughout the region.

It's a shame this hero didn't get the media coverage he deserves. May Allah have mercy on him.

 

[John Michael]

Wow I totally missed what happened in Lebanon. I didn't even know this happened,

AUN

 

[bored]

It's really fucked up how these attacks almost always have second wave bombers for maximum collateral. In Xamar they wait for the ambulances, police and crowd to arrive before doing secondary bombings too, caku.

 

[Kaafiye]

And people say I'm excessively harsh for advocating for the immediate execution of anyone who has links to these sort of groups. Whether it's in Somalia or some other country.

Wallahi I don't care if the terrorists are 15 years old or 50; I would deal with them in the same exact manner and that is immediate execution.

 

[nambarA]

And people say I'm excessively harsh for advocating for the immediate execution of anyone who has links to these sort of groups. Whether it's in Somalia or some other country.

Wallahi I don't care if the terrorists are 15 years old or 50; I would deal with them in the same exact manner and that is immediate execution.

Would you do the execution personally?