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Line 277: − eIn May 8, 2008 Clashes erupted as Hezbollah chief [[Hassan Nasrallah]] claims 'War' <ref>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/middle_east/jan-june08/lebanon_0508.html</ref>, clashes between Hezbollah and Druze continued in Lebanon for the 5th day, it erupted in Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli, as fighting between the Hezbollah militia and its rivals grew. <ref>http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1404713.php/17_dead_in_Lebanon_-_Druze-Hezbollah_clashes_break_out__2nd_Lead_</ref><ref>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/12/lebanon.violence/index.html</ref> The Lebanese army said it will intervene, it will use force from to stop fighting, which brough the overall toll to 81 dead and about 250 wounded. + Line 230:
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The 'Hezbollah's global finance network' includes "The Triple Frontier" (in South America) - "Argentina, Brasil & Paraguay." <ref>http://www.meib.org/articles/0201_l2.htm</ref>, <ref>http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HH03Aa01.html</ref>
The 'Hezbollah's global finance network' includes "The Triple Frontier" (in South America) - "Argentina, Brasil & Paraguay." <ref>http://www.meib.org/articles/0201_l2.htm</ref>, <ref>http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HH03Aa01.html</ref>
From a US statement in 1995 titled "Latin American Terrorism backed by Iran" <blockquote>"We believe that Hizballah activities, which include narcotics and smuggling as well as terrorism, are supported in the tri-border area of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. The organization is known to have cells in Colombia and Venezuela as well. Hizballah cells are concealed amidst the large Shia' Muslim population of Lebanese origin which has settled in the tri-border area."
<ref>http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/1995_h/h950928w.htm</ref></blockquote>
There's an extensive report on "Hezbollah and the Drug Trade in South America" - Hezbollah is active in the drug trade in Colombia, a web of criminality that extends from Lebanon to Africa to South America.
There's an extensive report on "Hezbollah and the Drug Trade in South America" - Hezbollah is active in the drug trade in Colombia, a web of criminality that extends from Lebanon to Africa to South America.
The [[Associated Press]] reported on "Blood diamonds fund Hezbollah" (2004): that Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrilla movement is systematically siphoning profits from West Africa's multimillion-dollar diamond trade, in part by threatening the Lebanese merchants who long have handled much of the region's diamond business, US diplomats in West [[Africa]] charge.
The [[Associated Press]] reported on "Blood diamonds fund Hezbollah" (2004): that Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrilla movement is systematically siphoning profits from West Africa's multimillion-dollar diamond trade, in part by threatening the Lebanese merchants who long have handled much of the region's diamond business, US diplomats in West [[Africa]] charge.
The pervasive claim is wider on organised and co-ercive Hezbollah profiteering from West Africa's diamond trade than most [[US]] officials have previously acknowledged.
The pervasive claim is wider --on organised and co-ercive Hezbollah profiteering from West Africa's diamond trade-- than most [[US]] officials have previously acknowledged.
"One thing that's incontrovertible is the financing of Hezbollah. It's not even an open secret; there is no secret," Larry Andre, deputy chief of mission for the [[US Embassy]] in diamond-rich [[Sierra Leone]], told The [[Associated Press]].
"One thing that's incontrovertible is the financing of Hezbollah. It's not even an open secret; there is no secret," Larry Andre, deputy chief of mission for the [[US Embassy]] in diamond-rich [[Sierra Leone]], told The [[Associated Press]].
<ref>http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Blood-diamonds-fund-Hezbollah-20040629</ref><ref>http://archive.wn.com/2004/07/02/1400/diamond/sale.html</ref>
<ref>http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Blood-diamonds-fund-Hezbollah-20040629</ref><ref>http://archive.wn.com/2004/07/02/1400/diamond/sale.html</ref>
T. Schure wrote in "Blood Diamonds: Still Bloody" (May 14, 2010)
T. Schure wrote in "Blood Diamonds: Still Bloody" (May 14, 2010) that West Africa is a well known transit center for smuggled diamonds, especially for Lebanese traders, with many sales funding criminal and terrorist groups including Hezbollah.
<ref>http://www.worldpress.org/Africa/3543.cfm</ref>
<ref>http://www.worldpress.org/Africa/3543.cfm</ref>
<ref>D. Farah, "Digging Up Congo's Dirty Gems; Officials Say Diamond Trade Funds Radical Islamic Groups," Washington Post, 30 December, 2001 [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A40026-2001Dec29¬Found=true ][http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/182/33794.html ] [http://www.kongo-kinshasa.de/dokumente/divers/wp12-01.pdf ]
<ref>D. Farah, "Digging Up Congo's Dirty Gems; Officials Say Diamond Trade Funds Radical Islamic Groups," Washington Post, 30 December, 2001 [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A40026-2001Dec29¬Found=true ][http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/182/33794.html ] [http://www.kongo-kinshasa.de/dokumente/divers/wp12-01.pdf ]
qdt in:[http://books.google.com/books?id=luPNuThpx6QC&pg=PA86 ]</ref>
qdt in:[http://books.google.com/books?id=luPNuThpx6QC&pg=PA86 ]</ref>
==Character, racism, fascism==
==Character, racism, fascism==
A writer in the [[Christian Science Monitor]] explains that "Hizbullah's real goal is racist: To free the Middle East holy lands of Jews... Hizbullah's goal is not the "liberation" of Palestine. Its members are not Palestinian. They are Islamic extremists who want to "liberate" all Islamic land."<ref>http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0727/p09s01-coop.html</ref>
A writer in the [[Christian Science Monitor]] explains that "Hizbullah's real goal is racist: To free the Middle East holy lands of Jews... Hizbullah's goal is not the "liberation" of Palestine. Its members are not Palestinian. They are (Arab) Islamic extremists who want to "liberate" all Islamic land."<ref>http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0727/p09s01-coop.html</ref>
Its [[Al-Manar]] television is infamous for being [[racist]], Several [[European]] countries, including [[France]], [[Spain]], [[Germany]] and the [[Netherlands]], as well as [[Australia]], have also taken measures to block Al-Manar. In March 2005, the broadcasting regulators in the [[European Union]] agreed to ban satellite broadcasting of Al-Manar on the basis that the channel carried racist material and incitement. As a result, several satellite service providers, most of them European, dropped Al-Manar, making it unavailable in North and South America, Asia and Australia. Al-Manar, is, however, still available in Europe through Arab satellite companies and its Web site offers English, French and Spanish translations of its material.
Its [[Al-Manar]] television is infamous for being [[racist]], several [[European]] countries, including [[France]], [[Spain]], [[Germany]] and the [[Netherlands]], as well as [[Australia]], have also taken measures to block Al-Manar. In March 2005, the broadcasting regulators in the [[European Union]] agreed to ban satellite broadcasting of Al-Manar on the basis that the channel carried racist material and incitement. As a result, several satellite service providers, most of them European, dropped Al-Manar, making it unavailable in North and South America, Asia and Australia. Al-Manar, is, however, still available in Europe through Arab satellite companies and its Web site offers English, French and Spanish translations of its material.
<ref>http://www.adl.org/main_terrorism/hezbollah_overview.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_8 </ref>
<ref>http://www.adl.org/main_terrorism/hezbollah_overview.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_8 </ref>
<ref>http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/08/08/death_and_destruction_are_hezbollahs_goals/</ref>
<ref>http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/08/08/death_and_destruction_are_hezbollahs_goals/</ref>
It has been written in an article titled "Hezbollah's Nazi roots" that "Hezbollah's Nazi salute evokes memories of Hitler's support for Arab agitators such as the Grand Mufti ([[al-Husayni]]) of Jerusalem and the leaders of a pro-[[Nazi]] coup."<ref>http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=e3157f0d-21ad-41e9-b26e-a3c06a460e73</ref>
It has been written in an article titled "Hezbollah's Nazi roots" that "Hezbollah's Nazi salute evokes memories of [[Hitler]]'s support for [[Arab]] agitators such as the Grand Mufti ([[al-Husayni]]) of Jerusalem and the leaders of a pro-[[Nazi]] coup."<ref>http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=e3157f0d-21ad-41e9-b26e-a3c06a460e73</ref>
From the book, 'Planting hatred, sowing pain: the psychology of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict':<blockquote>
Palestinians are constantly exposed to cultural products that expouse classical anti-Semitic ideas. Fir example, a television series produced by Hezbollah, the south Lebanon Shiite militia group, titled Al-Shatat. This series is focused oin the old middle-ages myth of the blood libel (in which Jews --supposedly-- need the blood of Christian children for the Passover matzoth).
<ref>''Planting hatred, sowing pain: the psychology of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict'', Moises F. Salinas, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007, p. 24 [http://books.google.com/books?id=9Tt9d6gnUkoC&pg=PR24]</ref></blockquote>
<font size=1>Related, from an [[ADL]] speech: <blockquote>In recent years, Jews were killed because they were Jews, something we have not witnessed since World War II, at the hands of jihadists. There was the Buenos Aires bombings of the Israeli embassy and the Jewish center; there was the kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl in Pakistan; there was the kidnapping and murder of Ilan Halimi in Paris; and there was the attack on the Seattle Jewish Federation. Hamas and Hezbollah do not want to kill for land, but to eliminate Jews and a Jewish presence.</blockquote><ref>http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Semitism_International/threat_islamic_extremism.htm</ref></font>
===Nasrallah & the Jews===
Within a month of Nasrallah's taking over as leader, Hezbollah (with the help of Iranian intelligence) bombed the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29 and injuring over 200. The next attack perpetrated by Hezbollah—again with Iranian help—was the bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, killing 86 and injuring over 200.
The widening arena of Hezbollah's attacks stemmed from Nasrallah's perception that Jews anywhere are legitimate targets. In fact, Nasarallah has said:
<blockquote>
If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide. (Daily Star, Oct. 23, 2002)<ref>http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_ID=1&article_ID=38204&categ_id=2#axzz0pYls8Frn</ref><ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/books/the-enemy-within.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2</ref><ref>http://www.adl.org/main_terrorism/hezbollah_overview.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_7</ref><ref>http://www.ajc.org/atf/cf/%7B42D75369-D582-4380-8395-D25925B85EAF%7D/HIZBALLAH_SPEAKS_092006.PDF</ref></blockquote>
Shiite scholar Amal Saad-Ghorayeb analyzed the anti-Jewish roots of Hezbollah ideology in her book Hezbollah: Politics & Religion. In it, she quotes Hassan Nasrallah describing his antipathy toward Jews:
<blockquote>If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli. (New Yorker, Oct. 14, 2002)<ref>''Nuclear logics: contrasting paths in East Asia and the Middle East'' by Etel Solingen, Princeton University Press, 2007 [http://books.google.com/books?id=dZc3udnvlbIC&pg=PA335]</ref></blockquote>
Nasrallah also incoroporates anti-Semitic rhetoric in speeches. For example, he has characterized Jews as the "grandsons of apes and pigs" and "Allah's most cowardly and greedy creatures." (MEMRI: Al- Manar, Feb. 3, 2006)
<ref>http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&x_issue=11&x_article=1158</ref><ref>http://www.jcpa.org/text/ahmadinejad2-words.pdf</ref>
In 1998, Ashura commemorations of Hessein's martyrdom coincided with Israel's fiftieth anniversary. Nasrallah used the occasion to lambaste Israelis as "the descendants of apes and pigs. "A few million vagabonds from all over the world, brought together..."
<ref>''Dreams and shadows: the future of the Middle East,'' Robin B. Wright, Penguin Group, 2008, ISBN 1594201110, 9781594201110, p. 180[http://books.google.com/books?id=nzXA7PZdO0AC&pg=PA180]</ref><ref>''Out of step: life-story of a politician : politics and religion in a world at war'' ,Jack Brian Bloom, Jack Bloom, 2005, p. 104 [http://books.google.com/books?id=Kr2gAAAAMAAJ&dq=hezbollah]</ref><ref>''The War Against the West: Crucial Conversations with the Most Informed Experts about Our Enemies, Our Defenses, Our Strategy and Our Leaders in the Long War Against Islamist Extremism'', Hugh Hewitt, Xulon Press, 2008, p. 200 [http://books.google.com/books?id=CFCHgaADriIC&pg=PA200]</ref>
==Iran's arm: "Big Satan, Little Satan" & martyrdom philosophy==
==Iran's arm: "Big Satan, Little Satan" & martyrdom philosophy==
Israel and the United States as Portrayed in the Doctrine of Hezbollah:
Israel and the United States as Portrayed in the Doctrine of Hezbollah:
Hatred of Israel (“that vile microbe”) and the Jewish people, --As an arm of Iran it regards, <ref>http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/3/30/204228.shtml?s=lh</ref> <ref>http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GC25Ak04.html</ref> <ref>http://www.ict.org.il/Articles/tabid/66/Articlsid/231/currentpage/10/Default.aspx</ref>
1) Hatred of Israel (“that vile microbe”) and the Jewish people, --As an arm of Iran it regards, <ref>http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/3/30/204228.shtml?s=lh</ref> <ref>http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GC25Ak04.html</ref> <ref>http://www.ict.org.il/Articles/tabid/66/Articlsid/231/currentpage/10/Default.aspx</ref>
<ref>http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3272498,00.html</ref>
<ref>http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3272498,00.html</ref>
<ref>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123093176783149767.html</ref>
<ref>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123093176783149767.html</ref>
<ref>http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/iran_hezbollah_e1b.htm</ref> and it seeks to-- Eradicating the 'Little Satan'
<ref>http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/iran_hezbollah_e1b.htm</ref> and it seeks to-- Eradicating the 'Little Satan.'
Hatred of the United States (“the big Satan”)
2) Hatred of the [[United States]] (“the big Satan”)
<ref>http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hezbollah.htm</ref>
==Death cult & suicide missions==
The doctrine of Hezbollah: Suicide attacks (“the shortest road to Allah”) are of supreme value.
The doctrine of Hezbollah: Suicide attacks (“the shortest road to Allah”) are of supreme value.
<ref>http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hezbollah.htm</ref>
<ref>http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hezbollah.htm</ref>
In May 2006, Nasrallah appeared on the network to explain that "our nation's willingness to sacrifice their blood, souls, children, fathers, and families" is an advantage over the Jews "who guard their lives."
<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/08/opinion/08iht-edlevin.2417146.html</ref>
To attack the multinational forces, Hezbolah invented a terrible new weapon--the suicide truck bomb. The group loaded several hundred pounds of explosives into a truck. A member of the group--someone prepared to sacrifice his or her life--would drive the truck in front of an embassy or into a military base.
The driver then set off the explosives with a control switch in the truck's cab. The detonation would instantly destroy the driver, the truck, and any buildings or people standing within several hundred feet.
Sheikh Fadlallah and Hezbollah never took credit for these attacks. As a Shi'ite cleric, Fadlallah knew that Islam would get tarnished by terrorism and the killing of innocent civilians. Fadlallah also claimed to be running the Hezbollah as a political, not a military organization.
However, as Many Islamic nation have declared jihads against enemies. For this reason, an organization calling itself the "Islamic Jihad" publicly claimed responsibility for terrorists acts in Lebanon. For several years, the United States and other governments tried to find out who was running the Islamic Jihad. In fact, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad were one and the same.
<ref>''International Terrorists'', profiles Series, profiles (Minneapolis, Minn.),
by Thomas Streissguth, The Oliver Press, Inc., 1993, ISBN 1881508072, 9781881508076, pp. 130-131 [http://books.google.com/books?id=vdKnY1vRKZkC&pg=PA130]</ref>
==Regional plans==
Amongst its stated objectives is the establishment of a Shiite theocracy in [[Lebanon]].
<ref>http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/pubs/rn/2002-03/03rn42.htm</ref>
Hezbollah's goal is the establishment of an Islamic state encompassing Lebanon and Israel.
<ref>http://www.adl.org/terrorism/symbols/hezbollah.asp</ref>
Many in the [[Lebanese]] [[Christian]] diaspora, beyond the reach of Hezbollah intimidation, speak out forcefully against turning Lebanon into a [[Shia]] [[theocracy]] emulating Iran.
<ref>http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/08/08/death_and_destruction_are_hezbollahs_goals/</ref>
==Global Plans==
==Global Plans==
==Violence, Bloodshed==
==Violence, Bloodshed==
Their known spreading of violence & bloodshed includes:
===Regional: Lebanon, Israel===
===Regional: Lebanon, Israel===
====Kidnappings, torture====
====Kidnappings, torture====
Among the notorious victims were: William Francis Buckley, Terry Anderson, William Richard Higgins.
Among the notorious victims were: William Francis Buckley, Terry Anderson, William Richard Higgins.
In March, 1984, Hezbollah operatives kidnapped William Francis Buckley, the CIA's station chief in Lebanon. He was whisked to Damascus and on to Tehran, where, after 15 months of torture, he succumbed to a heart attack.
In March, 1984, Hezbollah operatives kidnapped William Francis Buckley, the CIA's station chief in [[Lebanon]]. He was whisked to [[Damascus]] and on to [[Tehran]], where, after 15 months of torture, he succumbed to a heart attack.
<ref>Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad By Andrew C. McCarthy, Encounter Books, 2008, p. 97
<ref>Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad By Andrew C. McCarthy, Encounter Books, 2008, p. 97
[http://books.google.com/books?&id=5dgoAQAAIAAJ&dq=buckley]</ref>
[http://books.google.com/books?&id=5dgoAQAAIAAJ&dq=buckley]</ref>
Feb. 17, 1988: The group kidnaps Col. William Higgins, a U.S. Marine serving with a United Nations truce monitoring group in Lebanon, and later murders him.
Feb. 17, 1988: The group kidnaps Col. William Higgins, a [[U.S.]] Marine serving with a [[United Nations]] truce monitoring group in Lebanon, and later murders him.
The [[United States]] asserts that top Hezbollah military commander who was one of America's most wanted men, accused of involvement in a string of bombings, hijackings and kidnappings during the 1980s and 1990s, Imad Mughniyeh, was also behind the torture and murder of William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, in 1984; the kidnapping, torture and murder of Lieutenant Colonel William Richard Higgins of the Marines, who was on peacekeeping duty in Lebanon in 1988; and, through the Islamic Jihad Organization, the seizure of Western hostages in Beirut during the 1980s.
The [[United States]] asserts that top Hezbollah military commander who was one of America's most wanted men, accused of involvement in a string of bombings, hijackings and kidnappings during the 1980s and 1990s, [[Imad Mughniyeh]], was also behind the torture and murder of [[William Buckley]], the CIA station chief in Beirut, in 1984; the kidnapping, torture and murder of Lieutenant Colonel William Richard Higgins of the Marines, who was on peacekeeping duty in Lebanon in 1988; and, through the Islamic Jihad Organization, the seizure of Western hostages in Beirut during the 1980s.
<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/world/africa/13iht-syria.4.10025106.html?pagewanted=all</ref>
<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/world/africa/13iht-syria.4.10025106.html?pagewanted=all</ref>
<ref>Lightning out of Lebanon: Hezbollah terrorists on American soil By Tom Diaz, Barbara Newman, p. 64 [http://books.google.com/books?cd=4&id=waboAAAAIAAJ&dq=torture ]</ref> <ref>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/jul/20/20060720-081459-2509r/</ref>
<ref>Lightning out of Lebanon: Hezbollah terrorists on American soil By Tom Diaz, Barbara Newman, p. 64 [http://books.google.com/books?cd=4&id=waboAAAAIAAJ&dq=torture ]</ref> <ref>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/jul/20/20060720-081459-2509r/</ref>
From a legal claim against [[Iran]]:<blockquote> In the instant case the evidence once again discloses that Iran provided Hezbollah with funding, direction and training for its terrorist activities in Lebanon, including the kidnapping and torture of Terry Anderson hezbollah kidnapping torture and his imprisonment as a hostage for 2,454 days.</blockquote>
From a legal claim against [[Iran]]:<blockquote> In the instant case the evidence once again discloses that Iran provided Hezbollah with funding, direction and training for its terrorist activities in Lebanon, including the kidnapping and torture of Terry Anderson hezbollah kidnapping torture and his imprisonment as a hostage for 2,454 days.
<ref>Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act: Congressional Hearing, Bill McCollum, DIANE Publishing, 2002, p. 24 [http://books.google.com/books?id=XB4lFqK_2SgC&pg=PA24]</ref>
<ref>Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act: Congressional Hearing, Bill McCollum, DIANE Publishing, 2002, p. 24 [http://books.google.com/books?id=XB4lFqK_2SgC&pg=PA24]</ref></blockquote>
Dec. 31, 1986: Under the alias Organization of the Oppressed on Earth, Hezbollah announces it had kidnapped and murdered three Lebanese Jews. The organization previously had taken responsibility for killing four other Jews since 1984.
Dec. 31, 1986: Under the alias Organization of the Oppressed on Earth, Hezbollah announces it had kidnapped and murdered three Lebanese [[Jews]]. The organization previously had taken responsibility for killing four other Jews since 1984.
<ref>http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=118&x_article=1148</ref>
<ref>http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=118&x_article=1148</ref>
The 1985 Hezbollah torture-murder of Isaac Tarab, 63, and Chaim Halala Cohen, 39, the 1986 Hezbollah's torturing to death of Ibrahim Benesti, aged 54, of Beirut, and his elderly relatives, Yehudah and Yosef, Benesti's family – like many Lebanese [[Jews]] – had been in [[Lebanon]] since 2,000 B.C. (before the birth of [[Mohammed]]), described as a charitable and kindly candy store owner who gave free candy to children of all religions. All these crimes were motivated for no other reason than for the victims simply being Jewish.<ref>http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=11798</ref>
The 1985 Hezbollah torture-murder of Isaac Tarab, 63, and Chaim Halala Cohen, 39, the 1986 Hezbollah's torturing to death of Ibrahim Benesti, aged 54, of Beirut, and his elderly relatives, Yehudah and Yosef, Benesti's family – like many [[Lebanese]] [[Jews]] – had been in [[Lebanon]] since 2,000 B.C. (before the birth of [[Mohammed]]), [described as a charitable and kindly candy store owner who gave free candy to children of all religions]. All these crimes were motivated for no other reason than for the victims simply being Jewish.<ref>http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=11798</ref> See: [[Character, racism, fascism]].
The [[Time]] had a detailed piece by William Dowell in May 23, 1988 titled: "Three Years in the Belly of Beirut": <blockquote>"They weren't human or inhuman. They were nonhuman." That was how French Journalist Jean-Paul Kauffmann, quoting fellow hostage Michel Seurat, , described the pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad terrorists who held him hostage for three years. The wrenching account of his kidnaping, captivity and release appeared last week in L'Evenement du Jeudi, the French newsmagazine Kauffmann worked for when he and French Researcher Seurat were abducted in May 1985.
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The two men became hostages by chance after missing a Beirut airport bus and deciding to take a taxi. When a Mercedes pulled alongside and ordered them to stop, they expected a robbery. Instead they were forced into the back of the gunmen's car. What followed was three years of intimidation and psychological torture.
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For more than a year, the hostages never saw daylight. Their only diversion was reading the handful of books provided by their jailers; Kauffmann read War and Peace more than 20 times. At one point, he and Seurat listened while their Shi'ite captors spent eight days torturing an Arab suspected of being a spy. When it was over, Kauffmann's jailer joked, "I damaged him a little. He had two broken ribs. We broke both his legs. Finally he talked, and we set him free." Freedom, Kauffmann learned, was a euphemism for death.
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In one of the most bizarre episodes, Seurat was allowed a brief visit in August 1985 with his wife and daughters in Beirut, and then returned to the cell loaded down with sociology books. It was the last time he saw his family. A month later, he was deathly ill with hepatitis. A Lebanese Jewish doctor, Elie Hallat, who was also a hostage, pleaded in vain for Seurat's release. As his condition worsened, a Shi'ite commander volunteered a transfusion. "You are becoming a Shi'ite," joked a captor after Seurat was given blood. In fact, the researcher was dying. By then French Hostages Marcel Carton and Marcel Fontaine had been added to the group. "So I am going to die," Seurat told his friends.
<br>
In March 1986, the Islamic Jihad announced that it had "executed" Seurat. It seems likely, however, that he succumbed, at 39, to his disease. But the jailers told the hostages he was alive and recovering in a hospital. Kauffmann later learned from a radio newscast that Hallat, doomed by his captors' rabid anti-Semitism, had been executed. Kauffmann, Carton and Fontaine were continually moved from apartment to apartment. At one point Kauffmann was wrapped in bandages like a mummy, sealed in a metal box and bolted under the chassis of a truck. When he banged on the side, he was told he would be shot. "Kill me," he snapped back. "It doesn't make any difference."
<br>
At another point Kauffmann and Fontaine were tied together and placed in a coffin. When they were let out for a moment, Fontaine peered under his blindfold and saw that they were near a cement factory. "They're going to kill us here, put our bodies in cement and dump us in the sea," said Fontaine. Later Kauffmann and Fontaine were put in a new cell and chained like animals to a spike in the floor.
<ref>Time, Volume 131, Issues 18-26 By Henry Robinson Luce, Time Inc., 1988, p. iv [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,967469,00.html]</ref></blockquote>
At a 2008 proisoner swap-deal, Israel was forced to make with Hezbollah, Bradley Burston wrote "The pleasure that Hezbollah takes in torture."<blockquote>
At a 2008 proisoner swap-deal, Israel was forced to make with Hezbollah, Bradley Burston wrote "The pleasure that Hezbollah takes in torture."<blockquote>
Smadar Haran would later recall, "By the time we were rescued from the crawl space, hours later, Yael, too, was dead. In trying to save all our lives, I had smothered her."
Smadar Haran would later recall, "By the time we were rescued from the crawl space, hours later, Yael, too, was dead. In trying to save all our lives, I had smothered her."
Two weeks ago, in an act of heroism that is beyond imagination, Smadar Haran spoke publicly of coming to terms with the impending release of the monster who turned her life into a waking nightmare. "Samir Kuntar isn't, nor has he ever been, my private prisoner," she told a news conference. "His fate must be decided now according to Israel's needs and ethical interests." ...Kuntar... his elevation to the status of hero and martyr to the Palestinian struggle or the Lebanese resistance.
Two weeks ago, in an act of heroism that is beyond imagination, Smadar Haran spoke publicly of coming to terms with the impending release of the monster who turned her life into a waking nightmare. "Samir Kuntar isn't, nor has he ever been, my private prisoner," she told a news conference. "His fate must be decided now according to Israel's needs and ethical interests." ...Kuntar... his elevation to the status of hero and martyr to the <i>Palestinian struggle</i> or the <i>Lebanese resistance</i>.
<br><br>
<br><br>
For Israelis, even after all these years, the release of Kuntar is a form of self-inflicted torture. So heinous, so unpardonable were his crimes, that American Jewish author and journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, himself a veteran of the [[IDF]], wrote on The Atlantic Monthly's Website... "As unbelievable as this sounds, Israel is actually thinking of swapping Samir Kuntar in a prisoner exchange with Hezbollah. Kuntar is perhaps the most terrible person held in an Israeli prison, a man who crushed the skull of a Jewish child against a rock."</blockquote>
For Israelis, even after all these years, the release of Kuntar is a form of self-inflicted torture. So heinous, so unpardonable were his crimes, that American Jewish author and journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, himself a veteran of the [[IDF]], wrote on The [[Atlantic Monthly]]'s Website... "As unbelievable as this sounds, Israel is actually thinking of swapping Samir Kuntar in a prisoner exchange with Hezbollah. Kuntar is perhaps the most terrible person held in an Israeli prison, a man who crushed the skull of a Jewish child against a rock."
<ref>http://www.haaretz.com/news/bradley-burston-the-pleasure-that-hezbollah-takes-in-torture-1.249790</ref>
<ref>http://www.haaretz.com/news/bradley-burston-the-pleasure-that-hezbollah-takes-in-torture-1.249790</ref></blockquote>
====Terror attack on US embassy====
====Terror attack on US embassy====
<ref>http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/02/14/2008-02-14_hezbollah_terror_thug_behind_83_lebanon_.html</ref>
<ref>http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/02/14/2008-02-14_hezbollah_terror_thug_behind_83_lebanon_.html</ref>
A US federal judge found (in 2003) Iran liable for the 1983 bombing of a US marine barracks. <ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2951938.stm</ref> <ref>http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/05/30/iran.barracks.bombing/</ref>
A US federal judge found (in 2003) Iran liable for the 1983 bombing of a US marine barracks. <ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2951938.stm</ref> <ref>http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/05/30/iran.barracks.bombing/</ref>
The Beirut mission started out as an effort to stabilize a fragile peace in a war-torn country. Lebanon had been in turmoil since the Palestine Liberation Organization, having been expelled from Jordan, took refuge there in the 1970s. In 1975, a panoply of Christian and Muslim militias, turned what had been a Middle East oasis into a no-man's land of urban warfare.
The situation fell apart quickly. Islamic Militia leaders began to view the [[United States]] and its allies as favoring the Christian-led forces of the Lebanese government. <ref>http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/terror.htm</ref>
====Targeting Israeli civilians====
====Targeting Israeli civilians====
Hezbollah has been '''targeting Israeli civilians, for years.''' since the 1980s, (Which prompted Israel in 1996 to conduct a defensive operation "Grapes of Wrath." <ref>http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=118&x_article=1148</ref>) its main weapon - firing missiles into residential areas.<ref>http://www.haaretz.com/news/barak-to-un-hezbollah-arms-target-israeli-civilians-1.266260</ref><ref>http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3275609,00.html</ref>
Hezbollah has been '''targeting Israeli civilians, for years.''' since the 1980s, (Which prompted Israel in 1996 to conduct a defensive operation "Grapes of Wrath." <ref>http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=118&x_article=1148</ref>) its main weapon - firing rockets, missiles into residential areas<ref>http://www.haaretz.com/news/barak-to-un-hezbollah-arms-target-israeli-civilians-1.266260</ref><ref>http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3275609,00.html</ref>
<ref>http://www.haaretz.com/news/eight-hurt-as-record-number-of-rockets-hits-northern-israel-1.194063</ref>
<ref>http://www.haaretz.com/news/eight-hurt-as-record-number-of-rockets-hits-northern-israel-1.194063</ref>
<ref>http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=37034</ref>
<ref>http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=37034</ref>
<ref>http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/7/24/154609.shtml</ref>
<ref>http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/7/24/154609.shtml</ref>
<ref>http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/8956/hezbollah-rocket-attacks-hurt-19-israelis-in-kiryat-shmona/</ref>
<ref>http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/8956/hezbollah-rocket-attacks-hurt-19-israelis-in-kiryat-shmona/</ref>
<ref>http://www.mfa.gov.il/NR/exeres/9EE216D7-82EF-4274-B80D-6BBD1803E8A7,frameless.htm?NRMODE=Published</ref>
<ref>http://www.mfa.gov.il/NR/exeres/9EE216D7-82EF-4274-B80D-6BBD1803E8A7,frameless.htm?NRMODE=Published</ref>. Though there were also other methods like in Apr 2001 – A 42 year-old Israeli woman was stabbed to death in Haifa. Her murder was the initiation rite of a terrorist cell, whose members were apprehended in July. Six members of a Hezbollah-linked Palestinian terrorist cell responsible for the murder, originally thought to be criminally motivated, were arrested in July. The murder was the initiation rite of one of the terrorists into the organization.
<ref>Chronologies of modern terrorism, Barry Rubin, Barry M. Rubin, Judith Colp Rubin, M.E. Sharpe, 2008, ISBN 0765620472, 9780765620477, p. 218</ref><ref>http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Palestinian+terror+since+2000/Victims+of+Palestinian+Violence+and+Terrorism+sinc.htm</ref>
====Use of its civilian population in war====
====Use of its civilian population in war====
<ref>http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060730-093558-9976r.htm</ref>,
<ref>http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060730-093558-9976r.htm</ref>,
<font size=1>(copying the Arab-Palestinian tactics routine [http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Hamas+war+against+Israel/Hamas+exploitation+of+civilians+as+human+shields+-+Photographic+evidence.htm ]
<font size=1>(copying the Arab-Palestinian tactics routine [http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Hamas+war+against+Israel/Hamas+exploitation+of+civilians+as+human+shields+-+Photographic+evidence.htm ]
[http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Nov22/0,4670,PalestiniansHumanShields,00.html ] [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,227222,00.html ][http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0901/04/sm.03.html ][http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6166998.stm ][http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/05/israel.gaza/index.html ][http://www.pmw.org.il/latestBulletins.htm ][http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/08/hamas-palestinian-victims/print/ ][http://article.wn.com/view/2010/03/15/Israeli_report_Hamas_used_civilians_as_human_shields_in_Gaza/][http://www.iris.org.il/blog/archives/2102-Palestinians-Brag-About-Using-Human-Shields-for-Terrorists.html ][http://www.peacewithrealism.org/headline/gaza02.htm ][http://www.peacewithrealism.org/headline/admit.htm ][http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=1304 ][http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23431&only&rss ])</font>, this crime has been categorized as a "Hezbollah specialty" <ref>http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer072806.php3</ref>, even using the [[U.N.]]<ref>http://www.drudge.com/archive/83811/hezbollah-used-un-human-shields</ref>, in their initiated war with Israel, A.) to cause casualties among their own Arab population, especially among children, in order to generate sympathy and an outcry in the Arab world. B.) Hated Israelis' image get tarnished, an "important" goal in it of itself to make the Zionists look as "killers." C.) To cripple Israel's humane army to respond, thus enables them to come out as "heroes." <ref>http://www.telospress.com/main/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=112</ref> & saviours against the Zionist enemy."
[http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Nov22/0,4670,PalestiniansHumanShields,00.html ] [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,227222,00.html ][http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0901/04/sm.03.html ][http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6166998.stm ][http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/05/israel.gaza/index.html ][http://www.pmw.org.il/latestBulletins.htm ][http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/08/hamas-palestinian-victims/print/ ][http://article.wn.com/view/2010/03/15/Israeli_report_Hamas_used_civilians_as_human_shields_in_Gaza/][http://www.iris.org.il/blog/archives/2102-Palestinians-Brag-About-Using-Human-Shields-for-Terrorists.html ][http://www.peacewithrealism.org/headline/gaza02.htm ][http://www.peacewithrealism.org/headline/admit.htm ][http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=1304 ][http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23431&only&rss ])</font>, especially was publicized - Hezbollah's use of "Christian villages as shields in missile attacks." witnesses: "If Israel does nothing Hezbollah will continue to fire rockets from inside Lebanon shockingly using Christians as human shields actually." "Hezbollah is hiding among civilian populations and launching attacks behind human shields." <ref>http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/17528670.html</ref>
<ref>http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/hezbollah_uses_christian_villages_as_shields_in_missile_attacks/</ref>, this crime has been categorized as a "Hezbollah specialty" <ref>http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer072806.php3</ref>, even using the [[U.N.]]<ref>http://www.drudge.com/archive/83811/hezbollah-used-un-human-shields</ref>, in their initiated war with Israel, A.) to cause casualties among their own Arab population, especially among children, in order to generate sympathy and an outcry in the Arab world. B.) Hated Israelis' image get tarnished, an "important" goal in it of itself to make the Zionists look as "killers." C.) To cripple Israel's humane army to respond, thus enables them to come out as "heroes." <ref>http://www.telospress.com/main/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=112</ref> & saviours against the Zionist enemy."
====Subjugation, persecution====
====Subjugation, persecution====
The writer W. Phares explains on the suffering of civilians, especially since Hezbollah's take over in 2000: <blockquote>Such takeover by the Jihadist militia was expected to provoke an exodus by thousands of civilians who would have been subjected to Hezbollah’s persecution. However suddenly on May 23, the Israeli Government then under Prime Minister Ehud Barak ordered a quick pull out from the security zone without waiting for the local force, at the time known as ‘South Lebanon Army’ (SLA) to be transferred under the United Nations or to operate as a local force to stop Hezbollah until the UN would decide what to do.
The writer W. Phares explains on the suffering of civilians, especially since Hezbollah's take over in 2000: <blockquote>Such takeover by the Jihadist militia was expected to provoke an exodus by thousands of civilians who would have been subjected to Hezbollah’s persecution. However suddenly on May 23, the Israeli Government then under Prime Minister Ehud Barak ordered a quick pull out from the security zone without waiting for the local force, at the time known as ‘South Lebanon Army’ (SLA) to be transferred under the United Nations or to operate as a local force to stop Hezbollah until the UN would decide what to do.
The population of the “security zone” was about 150,000 counting the district of Jezzine; and its local forces were about 3,000 strong. the make up of the population was Christian, Shia and Druse with some Sunni villages to the East. To their north Hezbollah had massed its forces backed by Iranian Pasdaran advisors. Between 1984 and 2000 Hezbollah launched several offensives against the SLA positions but was unable to overrun them permanently.</blockquote>
The population of the “security zone” was about 150,000 counting the district of Jezzine; and its local forces were about 3,000 strong. the make up of the population was Christian, Shia and Druse with some Sunni villages to the East. To their north Hezbollah had massed its forces backed by Iranian Pasdaran advisors. Between 1984 and 2000 Hezbollah launched several offensives against the SLA positions but was unable to overrun them permanently.
<ref>http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.6309/pub_detail.asp</ref>
<ref>http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.6309/pub_detail.asp</ref></blockquote>
====Civil war====
====Civil war====
"Rival factions return to arms as Lebanon stares into the abyss" in Nov 2007.<ref>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article2926154.ece</ref>
"Rival factions return to arms as Lebanon stares into the abyss" in Nov 2007.<ref>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article2926154.ece</ref>
In May 8, 2008 Clashes erupted as Hezbollah chief [[Hassan Nasrallah]] claims 'War' <ref>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/middle_east/jan-june08/lebanon_0508.html</ref>, clashes between Hezbollah and Druze continued in Lebanon for the 5th day, it erupted in Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli, as fighting between the Hezbollah militia and its rivals grew. <ref>http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1404713.php/17_dead_in_Lebanon_-_Druze-Hezbollah_clashes_break_out__2nd_Lead_</ref><ref>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/12/lebanon.violence/index.html</ref> The Lebanese army said it will intervene, it will use force from to stop fighting, which brough the overall toll to 81 dead and about 250 wounded.
<ref>http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL12505038200805</ref>
<ref>http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL12505038200805</ref>
<ref>http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-05-12-clashes-bring-lebanon-death-toll-to-81</ref>
<ref>http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-05-12-clashes-bring-lebanon-death-toll-to-81</ref>
<ref>http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=2389</ref>
<ref>http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=2389</ref>
===Attack on US, French embassies in Kuwait===
===Global violence===
Hezbollah is another example (like Al Qaeda) of an Islamist insurgency that is both local and transnational.
<ref>''Heads we win: the cognitive side of counterinsurgency (COIN)'', David C. Gompert, RAND Corporation, 2007, p. 27 [http://books.google.com/books?id=xLDuAAAAMAAJ&q=hezbollah]</ref>
====Attack on US, French embassies in Kuwait====
Hezbollah's responsible for [[U.S.]] and [[French]] embassies attacks in [[Kuwait]] in 1983
Hezbollah's responsible for [[U.S.]] and [[French]] embassies attacks in [[Kuwait]] in 1983
In Kuwait, 17 people were arrested and convicted for participating in the attacks. One of those convicted was Mustafa Youssef Badreddin, a cousin and brother-in-law of one of Hezbollah's senior officers, [[Imad Mughniyah]]. After a six-week trial in Kuwait, Badreddin was sentenced to death for his role in the bombings.<ref>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/etc/cron.html</ref>
In Kuwait, 17 people were arrested and convicted for participating in the attacks. One of those convicted was Mustafa Youssef Badreddin, a cousin and brother-in-law of one of Hezbollah's senior officers, [[Imad Mughniyah]]. After a six-week trial in Kuwait, Badreddin was sentenced to death for his role in the bombings.<ref>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/target/etc/cron.html</ref>
===Hijacking Kuwaiti planes===
====Hijacking Kuwaiti planes====
A year after the 1983 attacks (on US, French targets), Kuwait Airways flight 221 was hijacked wherein the hijackers demanded the release of Islamic militant: 'Al-Dawa 17.' Two US passengers were killed and Iranian police freed the hijackers in [[Iran]] where the plane had been diverted. Imad Mugniyah and Hezbollah were accused by US authorities in the hijacking and killings.
A year after the 1983 attacks (on US, French targets), Kuwait Airways flight 221 was hijacked wherein the hijackers demanded the release of Islamic militant: 'Al-Dawa 17.' Two US passengers were killed and Iranian police freed the hijackers in [[Iran]] where the plane had been diverted. Imad Mugniyah and Hezbollah were accused by US authorities in the hijacking and killings.
The plane was diverted to Cyprus where two young [[Kuwait]]is aged 20 and 25 were tortured and then shot. Their dead bodies were dumped on the tarmac of the [[Cyprus]] airport.<ref>http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=MTM4NTY5MTEwMA==</ref><ref>http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/ct_130208e.htm</ref><ref>http://www.esisc.org/documents/pdf/en/note-hezbollah-eng.pdf</ref>
The plane was diverted to Cyprus where two young [[Kuwait]]is aged 20 and 25 were tortured and then shot. Their dead bodies were dumped on the tarmac of the [[Cyprus]] airport.<ref>http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=MTM4NTY5MTEwMA==</ref><ref>http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/ct_130208e.htm</ref><ref>http://www.esisc.org/documents/pdf/en/note-hezbollah-eng.pdf</ref>
===Iraq===
====Iraq====
Already in November 24, 2003, The [[New York Times]] elaborated in an article: "A region inflamed, the hand of Tehran," Hezbollah, in Iraq, that Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite group, has established a significant presence in Iraq.<ref>http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFDE113BF937A15752C1A9659C8B63</ref>
Already in November 24, 2003, The [[New York Times]] elaborated in an article: "A region inflamed, the hand of Tehran," Hezbollah, in Iraq, that Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite group, has established a significant presence in Iraq.<ref>http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFDE113BF937A15752C1A9659C8B63</ref>
In May, 2010, the [[US]] said that [[Syria]] must curb arm shipments to Hezbollah, top US diplomat has urged [[Syria]] to do more to prevent arms shipments to the militant [[Lebanese]] Hezbollah and stem the flow of militants into [[Iraq]].<ref>http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h9Pa9-v36WUhm6_Mqn4inXf_J8iAD9FQL82O0</ref>
In May, 2010, the [[US]] said that [[Syria]] must curb arm shipments to Hezbollah, top US diplomat has urged [[Syria]] to do more to prevent arms shipments to the militant [[Lebanese]] Hezbollah and stem the flow of militants into [[Iraq]].<ref>http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h9Pa9-v36WUhm6_Mqn4inXf_J8iAD9FQL82O0</ref>
===Somalia===
====Somalia====
The [[New York Times]] reported on Hezbollah in [[Somalia]]. <ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/world/middleeast/15nations.html</ref>
The [[New York Times]] reported on Hezbollah in [[Somalia]]. <ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/world/middleeast/15nations.html</ref>
<ref>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6493083</ref>
<ref>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6493083</ref>
===Afghanistan===
====Afghanistan====
Hezbollah Link in the war in Afghanistan have been found. <ref>http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=116544</ref>
Hezbollah Link in the war in Afghanistan have been found. <ref>http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=116544</ref>
===Sudan===
====Sudan====
The Hezbollah, reportedly, is very supportive of Al-Bashir's genocide in the [[Sudan]].
The Hezbollah, reportedly, is very supportive of Al-Bashir's genocide in the [[Sudan]].
<ref>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews+articleid_2432545&title=Lebanese_Hezbollah_Holds.html</ref>
<ref>http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews+articleid_2432545&title=Lebanese_Hezbollah_Holds.html</ref>
===Egypt===
====Egypt====
In 2009, the [[BBC]] reported that [[Egypt]] was 'hunting Hezbollah suspects'<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7996665.stm</ref>, prosecutor accused Hezbollah of plotting attacks in Egypt, of sending operatives to [[Egypt]] to carry out attacks in the country and to smuggle weapons.<ref>http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1469836.php/Prosecutor_accuses_Hezbollah_of_plotting_attacks_in_Egypt__Roundup</ref>
In 2009, the [[BBC]] reported that [[Egypt]] was 'hunting Hezbollah suspects'<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7996665.stm</ref>, prosecutor accused Hezbollah of plotting attacks in Egypt, of sending operatives to [[Egypt]] to carry out attacks in the country and to smuggle weapons.<ref>http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1469836.php/Prosecutor_accuses_Hezbollah_of_plotting_attacks_in_Egypt__Roundup</ref>
Analysts said that the Egypt-Hezbollah standoff dents Egypt-Iran relations.<ref>http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/13/content_11180887.htm</ref>
Analysts said that the Egypt-Hezbollah standoff dents Egypt-Iran relations.<ref>http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/13/content_11180887.htm</ref>
===Azerbaijan===
====Azerbaijan====
Hezbollah plotted embassy attack' in Azerbaijan - was revealed in 2009. A trial under way in Azerbaijan of two Hezbollah members and four Azeris, where prosecutors drew a link between Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror missions.
Hezbollah plotted embassy attack' in Azerbaijan - was revealed in 2009. A trial under way in Azerbaijan of two Hezbollah members and four Azeris, where prosecutors drew a link between Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror missions.
<ref>http://www.ijn.com/ijn-news/international/1017-iran-hezbollah-plotted-embassy-attack-in-azerbaijan</ref><ref>http://jta.org/news/article/2009/05/31/1005514/hezbollah-plot-to-bomb-azerbaijan-embassy-foiled</ref>
<ref>http://www.ijn.com/ijn-news/international/1017-iran-hezbollah-plotted-embassy-attack-in-azerbaijan</ref><ref>http://jta.org/news/article/2009/05/31/1005514/hezbollah-plot-to-bomb-azerbaijan-embassy-foiled</ref>
===Europe===
====Europe====
====Hijacking TWA flight====
=====Hijacking TWA flight=====
Among the highlighted terror crimes of the Hezbollah is the: [[TWA]] Hijacking, June 14, 1985: A Trans-World Airlines flight was hijacked en route to [[Rome]] from [[Athens]] by two Lebanese Hizballah terrorists, (the two terrorists were brandishing grenades and pistols) and forced to fly to Beirut. The eight crew members and 145 passengers were held for seventeen days, during which one American hostage, a [[U.S.]] Navy sailor, was murdered. After being flown twice to [[Algiers]], the aircraft was returned to [[Beirut]] after Israel released 435 Lebanese and [[Palestinian]] prisoners.
Among the highlighted terror crimes of the Hezbollah is the: [[TWA]] Hijacking, June 14, 1985: A Trans-World Airlines flight '847' was hijacked en route to [[Rome]] from [[Athens]] by two Lebanese Hizballah terrorists, and forced to fly to Beirut. The eight crew members and 145 passengers were held for seventeen days, during which one American hostage, a [[U.S.]] Navy sailor, was murdered. After being flown twice to [[Algiers]], the aircraft was returned to [[Beirut]] after Israel released 435 Lebanese and [[Palestinian]] prisoners.
<ref>http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/terror_chron.html</ref><ref>http://www.fbi.gov/page2/jan06/longarm010506.htm</ref><ref>http://army.mil/terrorism/1989-1980/index.html</ref><ref>http://terrorism.grady.uga.edu/history/analysistwa.html</ref> <ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/30/newsid_2527000/2527337.stm</ref><ref>http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/10/20011010-1.html</ref>
<ref>http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/terror_chron.html</ref><ref>http://www.fbi.gov/page2/jan06/longarm010506.htm</ref><ref>http://army.mil/terrorism/1989-1980/index.html</ref><ref>http://terrorism.grady.uga.edu/history/analysistwa.html</ref> <ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/30/newsid_2527000/2527337.stm</ref><ref>http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/10/20011010-1.html</ref>
====Dowining of a French airline====
The plane was on a scheduled flight from Cairo to Athens. Hijackers --the two terrorists were brandishing grenades and pistols-- forced it to Beirut and twice went to Algiers before returning to Beirut releasing most of the (non-American) 152 passengers along the way, and murdering U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem, one of the passengers—beating him, torturing, shooting him in the temple and dumping his body on the tarmac of Beirut International Airport (June 15).
On June 30, Hezbollah released 39 American passengers they held captive for 17 days.
German authorities arrested [[Mohammed Ali Hammadi]] and convicted him of Stethem’s murder in 1987. Hammadi was paroled in 2005 and returned to Beirut, where he is believed to be living today (2009). <ref>http://middleeast.about.com/b/2009/07/01/robert-stethems-murder-on-twa-flight-847.htm</ref><ref>http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1994-07-17/news/1994198059_1_stethem-lebanon-officer-2nd-class</ref>
<ref>http://michellemalkin.com/2008/02/13/justice-for-robert-dean-stethem-the-marines-in-beirut-and-other-american-victims-of-hezbollah/</ref>
From a letter, Robert's brother Kenneth has sent to president George W. Bush in 2006 as Robert's murderer was released by the German government (and fled to Lebanon) in an apparent exchange for a [[German]] hostage in [[Iraq]]:<blockquote>While Robert was being dragged to the door, he knew that all he had to do in order to live was to cry into that transmitter, but he wouldn't do it. He would not give in to the demands of the terrorists. He would not allow the honor and dignity of America to be intimidated by the fear and pain that Hammadi and terrorists everywhere represent. Robert sacrificed his life in order to protect our liberty and defend our way of life.<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/09/opinion/main1190219.shtml </ref></blockquote>
=====Dowining of a French airline=====
The [[Los Angeles Times]] wrote in November 1, 1989 that a Palestinian group allied with Hezbollah is linked to a plane crash.<blockquote>
The [[Los Angeles Times]] wrote in November 1, 1989 that a Palestinian group allied with Hezbollah is linked to a plane crash.<blockquote>
Specialists have linked a terrorist bomb that destroyed a French airliner last month (Oct, 1989) in Africa to a Palestinian group allied with the pro-Iranian Hezbollah, the newspaper Figaro said... Working with fragments of a suitcase found in the wreckage of the airliner, specialists in Paris' central police laboratory found similarities to a terrorist bomb that exploded at a Paris department store almost five years ago. The February 1985 attack at the department store resulted in the arrest of Habib Maammar, a Tunisian member of a group directed by the Palestinian bomb maker Abu Ibrahim.</blockquote>
Specialists have linked a terrorist bomb that destroyed a French airliner last month (Oct, 1989) in Africa to a Palestinian group allied with the pro-Iranian Hezbollah, the newspaper Figaro said... Working with fragments of a suitcase found in the wreckage of the airliner, specialists in Paris' central police laboratory found similarities to a terrorist bomb that exploded at a Paris department store almost five years ago. The February 1985 attack at the department store resulted in the arrest of Habib Maammar, a Tunisian member of a group directed by the Palestinian bomb maker Abu Ibrahim.
<ref>http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1989-11-01/news/8911013269_1_hezbollah-bomb-police-in-paris</ref>
<ref>http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1989-11-01/news/8911013269_1_hezbollah-bomb-police-in-paris</ref></blockquote>
====Terror attack on French department stores====
=====Terror attack on French department stores=====
Paris' Boulevard Haussmann was targeted in 1985 and 1986 during attacks on [[Paris]] department stores, many of them claimed by the Lebanese Hezbollah militants, which left 13 dead and 303 injured.
Paris' Boulevard Haussmann was targeted in 1985 and 1986 during attacks on [[Paris]] department stores, many of them claimed by the Lebanese Hezbollah militants, which left 13 dead and 303 injured.
<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/world/europe/17paris.html</ref> <ref>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=aB8Ct9mWIdhw&refer=germany</ref>
<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/world/europe/17paris.html</ref> <ref>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=aB8Ct9mWIdhw&refer=germany</ref>
====Attempts of 'massive-attacks' in 2009====
=====Attempts of 'massive-attacks' in 2009=====
In 2009, there was a report of a "Massive Hezbollah Terror Attack Against Israeli Target In Europe," that has been thwarted. <ref>http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2009/01/28/report-massive-hezbollah-terror-attack-against-israeli-target-in-europe-thwarted/</ref>
In 2009, there was a report of a "Massive Hezbollah Terror Attack Against Israeli Target In Europe," that has been thwarted. <ref>http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2009/01/28/report-massive-hezbollah-terror-attack-against-israeli-target-in-europe-thwarted/</ref>
===South America===
====Latin America====
====Venezuela====
=====Venezuela=====
US designated two Hezbollah operatives in [[Venezuela]] as terrorists- Hezbollah has used the tri-border region between Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay to recruit, train, raise and launder money, and plot attacks.
US designated two Hezbollah operatives in [[Venezuela]] as terrorists- Hezbollah has used the tri-border region between Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay to recruit, train, raise and launder money, and plot attacks.
<ref>http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/hp1036.htm</ref>
<ref>http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/hp1036.htm</ref>
[[Venezuela]]'s [[Hugo Chavez]] (Called a dictator & has close ties with the Mullahcracy theocracy dictatorship of the Islamic Republic of [[Iran]] <ref>http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor/adios-democracy</ref> <ref>http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/03/08/sean-penn-wants-reporters-jailed-calling-chavez-dictator/</ref>) has publicly supported a Hezbollah candidate for the Lebanese government, he was a supporter of Hezbollah during the 2006 war in Lebanon; afterward, the group placed signs in Lebanon proclaiming "Gracias, Chavez!" He openly invited Hezbollah members to live in Venezuela. Venezuela's embassies in the Middle East have been used to launder Hezbollah's dirty money, per investigation by the U.S. Treasury Dept
[[Venezuela]]'s [[Hugo Chavez]] (Called a dictator <ref>http://www.securityaffairs.org/issues/2006/11/fleischman.php</ref>
<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/americas/3341771.stm</ref><ref>http://www.davidbruceallen.com/strategyoped/2007/05/hugo_chavezs_fi.html</ref> & his regime a dictatorship <ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/04/AR2006080401768.html</ref>, and has close ties with the Mullahcracy theocracy dictatorship of the Islamic Republic of [[Iran]] <ref>http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor/adios-democracy</ref> <ref>http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/03/08/sean-penn-wants-reporters-jailed-calling-chavez-dictator/</ref>) has publicly supported a Hezbollah candidate for the Lebanese government, he was a supporter of Hezbollah during the 2006 war in Lebanon; afterward, the group placed signs in Lebanon proclaiming "Gracias, Chavez!" He openly invited Hezbollah members to live in Venezuela. Venezuela's embassies in the Middle East have been used to launder Hezbollah's dirty money, per investigation by the U.S. Treasury Dept
In January 2010, Israeli intelligence released information that Chavez shipped heavy arms to Hezbollah the year before; the ship originated in Venezuela, stopped in Iran and docked in Lebanon.
In January 2010, Israeli intelligence released information that Chavez shipped heavy arms to Hezbollah the year before; the ship originated in Venezuela, stopped in Iran and docked in Lebanon.
<ref>http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=20408</ref>
<ref>http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=20408</ref>
<ref>http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/21/venezuela-iran-terror-oped-cx_mr_des_0121rowanschoen.html</ref>
<ref>http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/21/venezuela-iran-terror-oped-cx_mr_des_0121rowanschoen.html</ref>
====Attack on Israeli embassy in Argentina====
<font size=1>(Worth mentioning [asides from Chavez's "personal" war with "imperialist" US] that Venezuela, has a large Lebanese-Arab community <ref>http://www.dawn.com/2005/05/14/int14.htm</ref>, many of them supported, financed Chavez's presidency.
There's also a significant concentration of this community in the area bordering with Colombia (Macau).
Jews have been attacked<ref>http://www.laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=10717&ArticleId=326963</ref> in that country.
From a (2000) report on "Antisemitism And Racism," responses to the intifada in the
media, in wall graffiti and by Arab organizations in Venezuela such as FEARAB
(Arab Federation for Latin America) were directed at de-legitimizing the State
of Israel, which was accused of causing the Palestinian tragedy. The radical
language used against Israel was not infrequently antisemitic, for example, the
comparison of Israeli soldiers with Nazis <ref>http://antisemitism.tau.ac.il/asw2000-1/venezuela.htm</ref>, described (in 2009) as "the New Hero in the Arab World." <ref>http://www.usnews.com/blogs/mideast-watch/2009/1/16/venezuelas-chavez-the-new-hero-in-the-arab-world.html?s_cid=etRR-0224</ref>, moreover, Hezbollah's Nasrallah said: Arabs have much to learn from Chavez.<ref>http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/7oi23/nasrallah_arabs_have_much_to_learn_from_chavez</ref>, he was even exhorting his countrymen to return to their "Arab roots," Chavez has paid
state visits to rouge-Arab-Islamic states like: Libya, Iraq and Iran and signed a series of mutual-cooperation.<ref>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_6_19/ai_98415813</ref>, it has been said that "The
Arabs have appreciated Chavez's declarations of support, and the Arab League has
promised to lobby in behalf of Venezuela in the United Nations."<ref>http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/23/MNG18K43KL1.DTL</ref>, a defector even accused: 'Chavez gave money to Al Qaeda.'<ref>http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30350</ref>
In an alarming report, the [[ADL]] wrote (2008) "Chavez's Venezuela: The Jewish Community Under Threat" on praise for Chavez
and his anti-Israel actions echoed across the Arab and Muslim, Chavez Fosters
Atmosphere of Intimidation and Fear for Venezuelan Jewish community.<ref>http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Semitism_International/Chavez_Venezuela_Under_Threat.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_10</ref>, and that the Chavez Regime is 'Fostering Anti-Semitism, hate and Supporting Radical Islamists, which led to a rise in Anti-Semitism in Venezuela.<ref>http://www.adl.org/main_International_Affairs/venezuela_anti_semitism_report.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_5</ref>, Intelligence sources say Chavez is withholding information on Arabs, some of whom were important financial contributors to terrorism.<ref>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_2_19/ai_96238181/pg_2</ref>, and has illegally given more than 270 Venezuelan passports to Arab
extremists. <ref>http://www.defenddemocracy.org/in_the_media/in_the_media_show.htm?doc_id=265102</ref>)</font>
=====Attack on Israeli embassy in Argentina=====
Hezbollah & Iran attacked the Israel's embassy in Argentina in 1992, in which 29 people were killed.
Hezbollah & Iran attacked the Israel's embassy in Argentina in 1992, in which 29 people were killed.
<ref>http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/argentina.html</ref>
<ref>http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/argentina.html</ref>
====Attack on a Jewish center (Amia) in Argentina====
=====Attack on a Jewish center (Amia) in Argentina=====
Hezbollah and [[Iran]] both are also charged, via clear evidence, by Argentinian court, with the (civilian building) [[Amia]] terror bombing which killed 85 and wounded 300. <ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6085768.stm</ref><ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3179861.stm</ref><ref>http://www.intelligence.org.il/eng/eng_n/argentina_e.htm</ref><ref>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20061026/ai_n16818404</ref>, furthermore, Argentina accuses Iran of meddling in probe of the 1994 Jewish center bombing<ref>http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/787765.html</ref>, the investigation finds [[Iranian]], Hezbollah and [[Syrian]] involvement. <ref>http://www.adl.org/Terror/terror_buenos_aries_attack.asp</ref>
Hezbollah and [[Iran]] both are also charged, via clear evidence, by Argentinian court, terror bombing on the (civilian building) [[Amia]] 'Jewish-Argentine Mutual Association Community Cente' which killed 85 and wounded 300. <ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6085768.stm</ref><ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3179861.stm</ref><ref>http://www.intelligence.org.il/eng/eng_n/argentina_e.htm</ref><ref>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20061026/ai_n16818404</ref>, furthermore, Argentina accuses Iran of meddling in probe of the 1994 Jewish center bombing<ref>http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/787765.html</ref>, the investigation finds [[Iranian]], Hezbollah and [[Syrian]] involvement. <ref>http://www.adl.org/Terror/terror_buenos_aries_attack.asp</ref>
[[Haaretz]] wrote in detail on "How Iran planned the Buenos Aires blast - 1994" <ref>http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=273898&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0:</ref>
[[Haaretz]] wrote in detail on "How Iran planned the Buenos Aires blast - 1994" <ref>http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=273898&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0:</ref>
=====Bombing in Panama=====
July 19, 1994 Panama, A suicide bomber reportedly linked to Hezbollah detonated a bomb on a commuter plane in Colón, [[Panama]], killing all 21 people aboard, including 12 [[Jewish]] businessmen, at least four of whom were [[Israeli]], and three [[U.S.]] citizens.
<ref>http://www.adl.org/main_Terrorism/hezbollah_overview.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_5</ref>
<ref>http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/1995_h/h950928w.htm</ref>
Earlier, on July 18, a bomb killed 95 people at a Jewish center in Buenos Aires,
Argentina. The next day, an explosion on a commuter plane in Panama killed all 21 people aboard, inclding 12 Jews. An anti-Israel group in Lebanon had indirectly claimed responsibility for both attacks.
<ref>''Asian bulletin, Volume 19, Issues 7-12'', Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League, Asian-Pacific Anti-Communist League, APLFD (Organization), APACL Publications, 1994, p. 71
[http://books.google.com/books?cd=10&id=pkonAAAAMAAJ&dq=panama]</ref>
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