Detonators, Explosives, and Bombs...Oh My

Three caches of bomb-making material were found in Beirut on Thursday:

[The] first discovery was made by a scrap collector, identified only as 'Malek,' who found 19 sticks of TNT - a total of about 9 kilograms - in the capital's Achrafieh neighborhood. The explosives were inside in a wooden box placed in a dumpster on Hikmeh Avenue leading to Corniche al-Nahr, facing the Murr Television Station and the Mont Liban Radio building

...Half an hour later, some Sukleen employees found an aluminum box packed with 13 detonators about 200 meters away from the first discovery.

...Then, at 6:30 p.m., eight bombs were found on the road leading to the Kesrouan village of Ghbaleh."

Added to the bomb found inside a tire on Tuesday, we have the makings of a veritable trend. Two of the caches were found in the Christian neighborhood of Achrafieh. During the Cedar Revolution, a series of bombs went off in Christian neighborhoods around Beirut. They were an attempt to goad the Christians into reprisals against Muslims, and thereby derail the movement. The Christians didn't take the bait.

In the past ten days, Lebanon has experienced the bus bombings near the Christian village of Bifkaya, and now this. Time will tell whether the Christian population will have the same restraint that it did last time.