CIA: Hizbullah Cells in US Could Strike if Syria Pressed (up to 12 groups in USA)

World Tribune Breaking News ^ | April 22, 2003 | staff report

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U.S. Agencies have warned that Hizbullah has been recruited by Syria to prepare massive retaliatory attacks in any confrontation between Damascus and Washington.

U.S. Officials said that the Central Intelligence Agency and State Department have warned that Iran and Syria could employ Hizbullah to launch attacks against U.S. interests in Europe, the Middle East and North America.

They said the Shiite movement is seen as more entrenched in the West than Al Qaeda and could have up to 12 cells in the United States alone.

'It has a signifcant presence of trained operatives inside the United States waiting for the call to action,' Sen. Bob Graham, a former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said.

'In recent years they have been infiltrating this core into the United States-people who have gone through their training camps and have the skills of terrorist activity.'

[TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa]

Most of the areas look like gore areas. Maybe if we take a bribe from them, they'll stop.

[Dr. Frank fan]

In other words: Syria has placed paramilitary agents in our country with standing orders to attack and murder our citizens.

Sounds like an act of war to me.

[Consort]

Remove the 12 cells and press Syria. Next thread.

[Mr. Mojo]

Hizbollah's murder of 241 Marines in Beiruit (in '83) was an act of war (by Syria) as well, but we didn't do sh/t about it. ...Biggest mistake the Gipper ever made, by far.

[IvanT]

Man, and you guys worry about Canada? Looks to me you're up to you eyeballs in them.....

Why don't the FBI and the Mounties round up ALL of these buggers and just send them down to Guantanimo to rot, and stop letting in all immigrants from Lebanon, Syria et al. Simple. But of course, the PC crybabies in both countries will cry foul.

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What a shocker..

[Militiaman7]

I know I saw them in DC last spring at Patriot Rally I.

Its really a shame when we can't protect our own nation from terrorist trash that are already here.

[Happy2BMe]

"'In recent years they have been infiltrating this core into the United States-people who have gone through their training camps and have the skills of terrorist activity.'

Yep, and fully protected all the way up to the second they pull something like anohter 9/11.

We need action - sooner, rather than later.

[Munz]

After 9/11 I remember all the political leaders asking Americans not to view all middle easterners as the enemy. To treat them with respect and dignity and compassion.
It is time that they declared their allegiance to our country as we supported them.

If there is another attack on us from within then it is time to change up the rules. It will be time to take the gloves off and stop screwing around.
If the feces hits the rotary oscillator we should start showing that American’s aren’t going to take it anymore. Hold the middle eastern community in internment camps until this is done. Unfortunate to say but this is a war now and if the enemy choses to put us in this position and the people like CAIR don’t change their tune then I think it needs to be done.

The individual rights of terrorists / a national group of people unwilling to support the United States or the constitution are not equal to the safety of all our citizens.

[RightWhale]

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