“Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah. One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect.”

That was the execrable tweet that has been hung around Octavia Nasr’s neck like a slain Twitter albatross, as CNN wasted little time in sacking her. After all, how on earth could anyone have expressed any condolences upon the death of “Hezbollah giant” Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah who was implicated, albeit insubstantially, to the Beirut barracks bombing of 1983 that resulted in the deaths of 299 American and French military personnel?