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=Iranian, Syrian Backed: Arab Islamic Hezbollah Global Terrorists=
=Iranian, Syrian Backed: Arab Islamic Hezbollah Global Terrorists=
Huzbollah is a radical Shi’a Muslim organization fighting against Israel and “western imperialism” in Lebanon, and has advocated since its beginning (1982) for an Islamic State, Tehran style<ref>http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=2082</ref>. The group does not recognize the legitimacy of the State of Israel. Hezbollah refers to itself with multiple titles including the “Organization of the Oppressed on Earth” and the “Revolutionary Justice Organization.” Its main goal is the establishment of an Islamic government across the Arab world that will “liberate” Jerusalem and the entire area of the present-day State of Israel.
It is financed and armed by Iran and enjoys full backing from Syria. Hezbollah was founded with the help of Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
Syria backs Hizballah morally and has also supplied it with money and arms. In return, Hizballah protects Syria’s political and military interests in Lebanon.
<ref>http://www.adl.org/israel/advocacy/glossary/hezbollah.asp</ref><ref>http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/hizbollah.html</ref>
The two major leaders of Hezbollah are Secretary General Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and the organization's spiritual chief, Sheikh Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah, both named "specially designated global terrorists" by the U.S. government.
<ref name=emerson>http://www.steveemerson.com/4281/blood-money-hezbollahs-revenue-stream-flows</ref>
It was founded and continued, and still is marked by violence, locally and worldwide, though, recently, it tries to portray itself as a mere "political" party.
It has been said that: "The very year Hezbollah was founded it became the most lethal terrorist organization in Lebanon" & "neither had ever managed to spill so much blood in a single incident."
<ref name=elieberman>''Radical, Religious, and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism'', Eli Berman, MIT Press, 2009, p. 50 [http://books.google.com/books?id=R7jvDS3OiAUC&pg=PA50]</ref>
==Funding==
==Funding==
<ref>http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/11/hezbollah_financing_through_cr.php</ref>
<ref>http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/11/hezbollah_financing_through_cr.php</ref>
====South America====
====Latin America====
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>
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.
<ref>http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/testimony/313.pdf</ref>
<ref>http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/testimony/313.pdf</ref>
Douglas Farah wrote in 2006 on "Hezbollah’s External Support Network in West Africa and Latin America" that Hezbollah, has the largest financial structure in Latin America and it is similar to that in of the organization’s Africa structure, that is to say, structured along family/clan lines. These clans have family members across the continent’s main free trade zones of Panama, (Venezuela's) Isla Margarita and the TBA (tri-border area), allowing for multiple opportunities to launder funds by over invoicing stocks, under invoicing merchandise and thtough the use of little-monitored electronic money transfer systems and bulk money smuggling. The first study of this overlapping clan structure spread across broad geographic areas was not undertaken until 2004.
The TBA has for years drawn attention as a center for contraband smuggling, drug trafficking and large-scale money laundering, in part because all of the countries whose borders are involved profit from the illicit trade. It is also an easy place to hide and move money. Estimates of the amount of drug money alone laundered through the two main urban centers in the TBA, Foz do Iguacu and Ciudad del Este, range as high as $12 billion a year.
<ref>http://www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.118/pub_detail.asp</ref>
From a 2003 research on Hezbollah "Hezbollah: A Case Study of Global Reach":
Hezbollah is also active in Chile, Venezuela, Cuba, Panama and Ecuador.
<ref>http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/print.php?template=C07&CID=132</ref>
Counter terrorism expert Steven Emerson wrote in 2007 in an article titled "Blood Money: Hezbollah's revenue stream flows through the Americas":<blockquote>A New Front. Hezbollah operatives have frequently sought out sympathetic members of the Lebanese Diaspora to assist them, several of whom have owned and operated Lebanese restaurants. Salim Boughader Mucharrafille, owner of Cafe La Libanesa in Tijuana, Mexico, was arrested in December 2002 for running a ring that allegedly smuggled at least 200 Lebanese compatriots into the United States , including an employee of Al- Manar, Hezbollah's television station. Although it was never confirmed, Boughader was suspected of having helped Kourani to slip over the border. Last May, a Mexican judge sentenced Boughader to 14 years in prison for organized crime and human smuggling.
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The case of Rady Zaiter, a.k.a. David Assi Alvarez, is an example of drug-running activities designed to benefit Hezbollah, using a restaurant as a front. In June 2005, Ecuadorian police broke up an international drug-trafficking ring led by the owners of El Turco restaurant: Zaiter and his partner, Maher Hamajo. The restaurant in Quito served as the logistical center for the ring's activities. Drug mules carried cocaine in double bottomed suitcases bound for other countries in South America, as well as Europe and the Middle East. According to investigating authorities, Hezbollah received at least 70 percent of the drug money. Additionally, officials confiscated more than $150,000 and 2,000 euros. Further arrests were made in Brazil, Syria and the Dutch Antilles, bringing the total apprehended to 19 people. El Turco, like the Detroit-area restaurant La Shish that was recently allegedly linked to Hezbollah, was a very popular restaurant, appreciated by the locals.
<ref name=emerson>http://www.steveemerson.com/4281/blood-money-hezbollahs-revenue-stream-flows</ref></blockquote>
In 2008, Colombia smashed a drug ring tied to Hezbollah, Colombian authorities said that they had broken up a drug and money-laundering ring in an international operation that included the capture of three suspects from the Middle East who used profits from the drug trade to fund Hezbollah.
More than 100 suspects were arrested in Colombia and overseas on charges that they trafficked drugs and laundered cash for Colombia’s Norte del Valle cartel and outlawed paramilitaries, in a network that stretched from South America to Asia.
“The criminal organization used routes through Venezuela, Panama, Guatemala, the Middle East and Europe, bringing in cash from the sale of these substances,” the statement said.
<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/world/americas/22colombia.html</ref><ref>http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/a-13-2008-10-22-voa37-66602227.html</ref>
From 'Inside Homeland Security' 2009: <blockquote>Muslim businessmen operating companies in Panama “for many years” have laundered funds for Hezbollah, Hamas and the PLO.<ref>http://www.insidehomelandsecurity.com/articles/news/59/15/The-Rise-of-Islamist-Extremism-in-Latin-America</ref></blockquote>
====U.S.====
====U.S.====
America,' a 41-year-old businessman, was arrested at his Dearborn home on charges of smuggling funds to Hezbollah.<ref>http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20050519-092915-7312r.htm</ref>
America,' a 41-year-old businessman, was arrested at his Dearborn home on charges of smuggling funds to Hezbollah.<ref>http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20050519-092915-7312r.htm</ref>
In 2009, a grand jury in Philadelphia indicted four men in connection with a plot to support Hezbollah through schemes like buying machine guns.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/us/25philly.html?_r=1</ref>
In 2009, a grand jury in Philadelphia indicted four men in connection with a plot to support Hezbollah through schemes like buying machine guns.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/us/25philly.html?_r=1</ref>
Al-Mabarrat has a U.S.-based branch headquartered in Dearborn, Mich. Founded in 1991, the Al-Mabarrat Charitable Organization-USA, Inc., has repeatedly changed its name over the past 15 years. Although Al-Mabarrat acknowledges on its Web site that it works in conjunction with the Al-Mabarrat Association in Lebanon (whose logo it shares), it omits the fact that Al-Mabarrat Lebanon is run by Sheikh Fadlallah. Despite Al- Mabarrat USA's direct link to a Fadlallah-controlled organization, the U.S. branch continues to operate unfettered.
Hezbollah's use of Al-Mabarrat as a fund-raising front is a savvy strategic move, mirroring a tactic long exploited by terrorist groups operating on U.S. soil. By utilizing charities, terrorists can generate popular support by providing some legitimate services, attract contributions from donors both unwitting and aware, and attempt to obscure financial trails. But such operations extend far beyond the United States.
<ref name=emerson>http://www.steveemerson.com/4281/blood-money-hezbollahs-revenue-stream-flows</ref>
====Europe====
====Europe====
From a report on "Hezbollah Around the World" - Arabs, Muslims in [[Germany]] have been key fund raising center for Hezbollah. through crimes of: drug trafficking, weapons and people smuggling, document and currency fraud. <ref>http://www.adl.org/main_Terrorism/hezbollah_overview.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_7</ref> From a May 2010 report: 'Hezbollah funded by drug trade in Europe,' German police arrested Lebanese men who transferred millions of Euros to family connected to Hezbollah.
From a report on "Hezbollah Around the World" - Arabs, Muslims in [[Germany]] have been key fund raising center for Hezbollah. through crimes of: drug trafficking, weapons and people smuggling, document and currency fraud. <ref>http://www.adl.org/main_Terrorism/hezbollah_overview.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_7</ref> From a May 2010 report: 'Hezbollah funded by drug trade in Europe,' German police arrested Lebanese men who transferred millions of Euros to family connected to Hezbollah.
<ref>http://www.haaretz.com/news/report-hezbollah-funded-by-drug-trade-in-europe-1.261091</ref><ref>http://www.thelocal.de/national/20100109-24465.html</ref>
<ref>http://www.haaretz.com/news/report-hezbollah-funded-by-drug-trade-in-europe-1.261091</ref><ref>http://www.thelocal.de/national/20100109-24465.html</ref>
Hezbollah has established several front charities, mainly operating from Great Britain and Germany, to raise funds earmarked to support the group's members in Lebanon . For example, the British-based Lebanese Welfare Committee, HELP Charity Association for Relief and Abrar Islamic Foundation are among the charities suspected of channeling funds to Sheikh Nasrallah and Hezbollah.
<ref name=emerson>http://www.steveemerson.com/4281/blood-money-hezbollahs-revenue-stream-flows </ref>
====U.S. Mexican border====
====U.S. Mexican border====
For at least since the early 1980s, Hezbollah had also raised some cash through the sale of diamonds from Sierra Leone, intelligence sources said. Bah, they said, was long suspected of brokering diamond deals through buyers connected to Hezbollah, assisted by sympathetic Lebanese businessmen across the region.
For at least since the early 1980s, Hezbollah had also raised some cash through the sale of diamonds from Sierra Leone, intelligence sources said. Bah, they said, was long suspected of brokering diamond deals through buyers connected to Hezbollah, assisted by sympathetic Lebanese businessmen across the region.
<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>
<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>
<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>
<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. <ref>http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Semitism_International/threat_islamic_extremism.htm</ref></blockquote></font>
===Nasrallah & the Jews===
===Nasrallah & the Jews===
<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>
<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"==
Israel and the United States as Portrayed in the Doctrine of Hezbollah:
Israel and the United States as Portrayed in the Doctrine of Hezbollah:
<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>
==Death cult & suicide missions==
==Death cult, suicide missions, martyrdom philosophy, inventing 'mass casualty' bombing==
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.
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."
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>
<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/08/opinion/08iht-edlevin.2417146.html</ref>
The modern, high-casualty suicide attack, which has changed our lives irreversibly, was invented by Hezbollah in Lebanon in 1982.
<ref name=elieberman>''Radical, Religious, and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism'', Eli Berman, MIT Press, 2009, p. 50 [http://books.google.com/books?id=R7jvDS3OiAUC&pg=PA50]</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.
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.
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>
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'', 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.
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></blockquote>
<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> See: [[Character, racism, fascism]].
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]].
7 Apr 2005 - Two [[Israeli-Arabs]] from the village of Rajar near the Israel-Lebanon border were kidnapped by Hezbollah operatives and held in captivity for four days. The men, identified as Muki Ben-Jamal and Nuef Maharj Ben-Ali, said they were interrogated by their captors who wanted information on [[Israel]].
<ref name=aijac-timeline>http://www.aijac.org.au/resources/hezb_00-06.html</ref>
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.
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.
<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>. 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>http://www.mfa.gov.il/NR/exeres/9EE216D7-82EF-4274-B80D-6BBD1803E8A7,frameless.htm?NRMODE=Published</ref>.
<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>
For example, in 24 Jul 2006 - Hezbollah fired more than 70 Katyusha rockets into Israel, several of which landed in Nahariya, Safed, and Kiryat Shmona. Medics treated at least 49 people who were lightly to moderately wounded. More than 2200 rockets have been fired at Israeli cities since July 12, killing 17 Israelis, all of them civilians. 20 Israeli soldiers were killed in other incidents.
<ref name=aijac-timeline>http://www.aijac.org.au/resources/hezb_00-06.html</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>, 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>
[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, in their initiated war with Israel, 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."
<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>, 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====
From [[NPR]] (November 15, 2006), the "[[U.N.]] Report ties [[Somali]] Islamists to Hezbollah," in an alarming report about the situation in Somalia.
From [[NPR]] (November 15, 2006), the "[[U.N.]] Report ties [[Somali]] Islamists to Hezbollah," in an alarming report about the situation in Somalia.
<ref>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6493083</ref>
<ref>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6493083</ref>
More than 700 Somali fighters are said to have gone to support and get training from Hezbollah..
<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6154690.stm</ref>
====Afghanistan====
====Afghanistan====
Workers at [[Printemps]] in December 1985 when Hezbollah bombs exploded on the ground floor there and in the Galeries Lafayette department store, recalled the attack which led to a bomb scare in Dec. 2008, when explosives were found there.
Workers at [[Printemps]] in December 1985 when Hezbollah bombs exploded on the ground floor there and in the Galeries Lafayette department store, recalled the attack which led to a bomb scare in Dec. 2008, when explosives were found there.
<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>
=====Network=====
Although Europe has recently been exempt from Hezbollah attacks, numerous intelligence experts and officials assert that the group's operatives maintain cells across the continent. German authorities, in particular, have expressed concern about the presence of several hundred Hezbollah members in their country.
Reports of an increase in Hezbollah recruiting have emerged in eastern European countries, specifically Slovakia, Bosnia and Russia . And over the past few years, Hezbollah has sent operatives with European identification papers to Israel in order to collect intelligence for future attacks. Efforts by European authorities to curtail Hezbollah's influence have included France 's 2004 ban of Hezbollah's television station and chief propaganda machine, Al- Manar, from that nation's satellite television providers. Spain and the United States have made similar moves.
<ref name=emerson>http://www.steveemerson.com/4281/blood-money-hezbollahs-revenue-stream-flows </ref>
=====Attempts of attacks between 1988-1996=====
Other attacks researchers have attributed to Hezbollah include an unsuccessful attempt to carry out attacks in Cyprus in 1988; a plot, foiled by Spanish police, to carry out attacks against Jewish targets in Europe in 1989; an unsuccessful attempt to detonate a car bomb outside a Jewish community building in Romania in 1992; and a planned 1996 attack, also foiled by police, on an Israeli institution in Paris.
<ref>http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=40451</ref>
=====Attempts of 'massive-attacks' in 2009=====
=====Attempts of 'massive-attacks' in 2009=====
====Latin America====
====Latin America====
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>
=====Venezuela=====
=====Venezuela=====
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.
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.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><ref>http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=40451 </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,
Earlier, on July 18, a bomb killed 95 people at a Jewish center in Buenos Aires,
<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
<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>
[http://books.google.com/books?cd=10&id=pkonAAAAMAAJ&dq=panama]</ref>
Experts on terrorism make the link, after the Lebanese newspaper An- Nahar published a communique from an organization calling itself Ansar Allah taking responsibility for the AMIA bombing as well as the bombing over Panama of an Alas Chiricanas passenger airliner.
As it turns out, the name Ansar Allah turned out to be one of the many fictitious names that Hezbollah has used to claim responsibility for its attacks. Moreover, experience has shown that Hezbollah has habitually adopted this method for the clear purpose of avoiding blame for the various actions it has carried out, except for those realized in Lebanon where the conflict has taken the form of a conventional war.
<ref>http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/argentina_amia_e.htm</ref>
From the [[LA Times]], Aug. 4, 1994 "Hezbollah: The Latin connection."<blockquote>Bombings in Argentina and Panama prompt concern over the radical group's growing presence in the region. Experts say lax security and porous borders create a prime base for terrorists.<ref name=latimes1994>http://articles.latimes.com/1994-08-04/news/mn-23412_1_porous-borders</ref></blockquote>
==References==
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