Posted on 07/17/2006 12:34:54 PM PDT by LSUfan
(AXcess News) New York - While many US government officials are deeply concerned over Iran's nuclear program, according to recent reports, investigations by the FBI and the Justice Department revealed last May that the Lebanon-based terrorist group, Hezbollah, may be plotting attacks. These attacks may be launched by their sleeper cells in New York and several other US cities.
According to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the Jewish organization B'nai B'rith, Hezbollah's largest headquarters outside of the Middle East is located in Toronto.
In a story on Fox News, law-enforcement and intelligence officials were quoted as saying that though there is no imminent threat of any attacks, security has been stepped up after the reports of a meeting between Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and leaders of Hezbollah and other terror groups during his recent visit to Syria.
The Iranian Mission to the United Nations in New York City is being kept under surveillance by federal and local intelligence officers, according to Fox. The New York City Police Department possesses one of the largest intelligence divisions in the world.
Hezbollah, or God's Party, grew out of the Lebanese civil war in the early 1980s and quickly became the region's leading radical Islamic movement. Their primary goal was to drive Israeli and American troops out of Lebanon.
For many years, Hezbollah was synonymous with terror, suicide bombings and kidnappings. In 1983, militants who went on to join Hezbollah's ranks carried out a suicide bombing attack that killed 241 US marines in Beirut, which lead to President Ronald Reagan's withdrawal order for all US military peacekeepers.
In May 2000 -- due to the success of the party's military arm -- one of its main aims was achieved. Israel's military was forced to end almost 20 years of occupation in southern Labanon. Hezbollah now serves as an inspiration to Palestinian factions fighting to liberate more territory. The party has embraced the Palestinian cause and has said publicly that it is ready to open a second front against Israel in support of the intifada.
Hezbollah's political rhetoric's central theme is the total annihilation of the state of Israel. Its definition of Israeli occupation has also encompassed the idea that the whole of Palestine is occupied Muslim land and it has argued that Israel has no right to exist. Hezbollah's spiritual head Sheikh Fadlallah is close to Iranian government and is believed responsible for the vitriolic speeches of the Iranian president.
Hezbollah is funded, armed and trained by the Iranians and given free reign by Syria's ruling Ba'athist Party. Its international network, according to terrorism analysts, is believed to include at least 15,000 operatives in cells in the US, Canada, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, most of Western Europe, Indonesia, Malaysia, and throughout Africa. Western intelligence sources estimate Hezbollah's annual budget to be approximately $400 million, including almost $100 million annually from Iran.
Other sources of funding include Syria, charitable organizations, individual donations, legitimate business, and illegitimate businesses such as illegal arms trading, cigarette smuggling, currency counterfeiting, credit card fraud, theft, operating illegal telephone exchanges, and drug trafficking. Recently two men were convicted of running a criminal operation that helped to fund Hezbollah.
Hezbollah's growing international terrorist activity has raised concerns that the terrorist group may be emerging as a more serious threat than previously considered. Its global terrorist reach has serious policy implications for Democratic countries. However, there are international organizations that continue to insist that Hezbollah is a legitimate political party in Lebanon and that it does not warrant the designation of "terrorist group."
Doesn't that call for a pic of "you know who?"
it will never happen, the federal courts would never allow it. hell, they are giving geneva rights and US criminal trial right to captured terrorists.
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I think killing 3000 of our own on our own soil is a pretty good first punch.
Maybe the first..not the last. Do these sleeper cells not understand that our citizens are armed? That we would not have to kow-tow or depend upon our "government officials" if they became truly (every-day) active within these borders? That we will and CAN defend ourselves, our neighbors, our property?
When they learn THAT, they will "Self-Deport".
That seems to be the only solution to ensure our safety.
Remove all Muslims from the USA. We cannot co-exist!
I think Hezbollah is the group you're thinking of. And there are cells all over the US--yesterday there was an article about some cigarette smugglers who sending the proceeds to Hezbollah. Many Hezbollah in place in the US--and I'm hoping none are "sleeper cells" but obviously some could be.
Doesn't really matter. These days, they're all working together against a common enemy--the West.
Bloomberg will declare it a safe haven and say the city will crumble without arab terrorists
Maybe that's why a lot of them are in the liberal cities, where the liberals have convinced the populace to disarm.
I agree, I really do... but the world as a whole would not. Al-Qaida hit us that day, not Hezbollah. We hit Al-Qaida pretty hard after that...
We'll still have to take a sucker-punch from Hezbollah.
Yep, Liberals giving a foothold to terrorists. I hope they like living under Islamic guidelines in those liberal areas until the rest of USA throws them out.
LOL! bet that would shut up a bunch of liberal fools.
Seems to me they have already gotten in a half dozen sucker punches or so with no payback. Oh...and they have been providing explosives training to Al Qaeda since 1998.
Prayers that this won't happen..
Al-Quds
Unlike al Qaeda, al Quds is not a nationless, renegade band. It’s a highly organized strike force now operating in Iraq under the control of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard.
And unlike al Qaeda, al Quds doesn’t have to beg for refuge or financing. It gets all the protection it needs on Iranian soil ... and all its funding from the Iranian treasury, which, in turn, is liberally lubricated with oil money.
Moreover, al Quds (meaning “Jerusalem”) is not an upstart band.
For about two decades, al Quds has been operating in Lebanon, providing military guidance and support for terrorist attacks against Israel, especially those carried out by Hezbollah and other Islamic terrorist organizations.
For many years, al Quds has also been operating as an elite international hit squad, responsible for political assassination in Europe and the Middle East.
Most disturbing of all, al Quds is joined at the hip with the most powerful militia currently operating in Iraq — the Badr Brigade. Consider the facts:
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These islamic terror groups have committed enough international murders, mayhem and destruction that we would not be the "bad guys" for going after them in all-out war. It's just that no leader in the West has the b@!!s for doing that yet.
Now that would be COMPLETELY stupid on their part. We know where they are. They saw what happened to the Talian. And, they pretty much have their hand full with Israel right now. Could they really be stupid enough to try something like that?
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