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From the Jerusalem Post: "Sleeper Hizbullah cells overseas have 'reawakened'"
Hizbullah "sleeper" terror cells set up outside Lebanon with Iranian assistance have been put on standby The Jerusalem Post learned on Sunday, and are likely planning attacks against Jewish and Israeli targets throughout the world.
The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) confirmed to the Post Sunday night that it had instructed embassies, consulates and Jewish institutions it was responsible for abroad to raise their level of awareness in light of the conflict in the North.
The assumption within Military Intelligence is that Hizbullah would only attack targets abroad if it felt pushed into a corner. According to this thinking, the Islamist group hesitates to carry out such attacks because it does not want to be associated with Global Jihad and al-Qaida.
That's a dangerous assumption -- then again, most are, in a military context. The conclusion that follows is equally unhelpful, as it draws an artificial distinction between the jihad waged against Israel and that which the rest of the world faces. (And is Hizballah really concerned with "brand recognition" at this point?) One unifying factor is the ideological basis; they're all reading the same Qur'an, of course, and following the example of Muhammad. Another is Iran, which never mentions just Israel when speaking of this conflict, but also at least the US, if not the UK and others.
Hizbullah has attacked Jewish and Israeli targets abroad in the past. The organization is believed to have been behind the attack on the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires in 1992 during which a suicide bomber drove a pick-up truck filled with explosives into the building, killing 29 people and wounding 242, following Israel's assassination of the group's leader at the time, Sheikh Abbas Musawi.
Hizbullah is also thought to have been responsible for the attack on the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association building in Buenos Aires in 1994, when an explosives-laden van rammed into the structure and killed 85 people.
Another attack attributed to the group was the 1985 hijacking of TWA flight 847. One passenger was murdered; the remainder of the hostages were released over a two-week period.
Posted by Marisol at July 23, 2006 4:01 PM
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l think l am getting more cynical, when the meaing of a sleeper cell is any muslim not awake yet.
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at July 23, 2006 4:50 PM
I thought yesterday one might have awoke. I was leaving the grocery store and an arab male was walking in wearing a LEATHER coat! It was 118 degrees outside, so I know he wasn't chilly. Several patrons stopped midtracks and from the looks and stares, everyone had the same thought run through their minds.
Posted by: freewoman at July 23, 2006 5:09 PM
...only attack targets abroad if it felt pushed into a corner...
The IDF is really good at doing that.
Remember those Arab men who boarded a school bus a couple of months ago because they wanted to improve their English skills?
Posted by: limes at July 23, 2006 6:12 PM
It can't possibly happen in Australia. We have very strict tests before we accept migrants, alleged refugees and asylum shoppers from the ME. They have to tell us that they'll be good citizens and we allow them in. How's that for a tough test of character? And we have been reassured by Howard, Costello, Ruddock et al that the silent majority of muslims will help us when we ask them. That is when the silent majority of muslims aren't holding street rallies supporting hezbollah.
Western leaders and the UN have delivered us into the hands of these terrorists.
Posted by: Salad_In at July 23, 2006 6:45 PM
It may not be their choice, to activate or not to activate. Thousands of trained Hez operatives are in Syria now, plus more getting trained. I am not an expert in Syria, yet generally a situation like that would be pregnant with a coup. I doubt Syria has a degree of control just to execute "excess" of fighters - so they need either to send them to Iraq to fight Kurds, or to EU/US as refugees, and the second option is much less likely to cause a revolt.
Posted by: Terry Crane at July 23, 2006 11:29 PM
Support for such terrorist groups as Al Qaeda, Lashker-e-Toiba, Gemaa Islamiyah, Hamas, Hezbollah, Ansar al-Islam, and a hundred others, when they have been officially designated as terrorist groups, should be grounds for prompt deportation. If further legislation is needed, draft and pass -- at once -- that legislation.
The police and FBI should be taking pictures at every rally in support of Hezbollah. The same should be done in Canada, in Australia, and in the countries of Western Europe. For that matter, rather than videotape crowds and then try to recognize this or that ringleader, the police have a perfect right to arrest all those who show up to express their support for terrorist groups, and thus to identify them. Non-citizens can be promptly deported, and citizenship stripped -- if legislation is necesary, pass that too -- from those who have obtained it through what are likely to have been perjured oaths (ask them, question them closely, about their views at the time they took the oath of citizenship).
Why is this not being done? Why is this obvious measure -- would Nazi sympathizers have dared to meet or hold rallies during World War II? Would supporters of Soviet Communism have openly held rallies during the Cold War? What would the FBI and the police have done then? No one deplored, everyone supported, the round up of Nazi syumpathizers -- save those who were Nazi sympathizers themselves. No one deplored, everyone supported, the round up of active members of the Communist Party, in which membership was outlawed. Why should Muslims think they are permited to openly support Hezbollah right outside the Government Office Building in Boston? Or in San Francisco? Or in New York? Or in London, or Paris, or anywhere else in the Infidel world? Terrorism is not the only, or even main, weapon of Jihad. But it is easy for the public to understand why trhsoe supporting terrorist groups should be deported, just as it is easy for us to comprehend by deporting such people helps cramp the style of the other major weapons of Jihad -- in this case, Da'wa (and pro-Islamic propaganda) and demographic conquest. Deport a few thousand , and how things will calm down.
Don't stop there. But begin there.
Posted by: Hugh at July 23, 2006 11:29 PM
Suggested Sections for Inclusion in the Upcoming ‘Comprehensive Immigration Reform’ Bill
1. Immigration applications by citizens of nations identified as state sponsors of terrorism shall be endorsed by a Senator of the United States.
2. It shall be a crime to be a member or supporter of identified terrorist groups. Congress has the authority to define membership and support thresholds in accordance with the current threat environment. Individuals alleged to be in violation of the Section shall be identified as a battlefield combatant and be tried by military tribunal (this will be challenged in the courts under the equal protection clause but it would be an enlightening debate). Persons found guilty by the tribunal shall be immediately deported to their Country of Origin’s government.
Add your own…
Posted by: limes at July 23, 2006 11:52 PM
To all American dimwhits who believe the war on terror is a mistake and we should just leave the Muslim terrorists alone---REMEMBER 9/11---
Well it may just occur again, Look for 8/22
Posted by: exsgtbrown at July 24, 2006 8:10 AM
FROM ABOVE
"Remember those Arab men who boarded a school bus a couple of months ago because they wanted to improve their English skills?"
yES I DO. That incident disturbed me and should have disturbed the authorities. These Muslims should have been deported on the spot. Their actions did not seem to set off alarms and whistles.
I believe this was a trial run for a possible suicide bomber. The death of a bus load of school children ranks high on the Muslim terror lists.
Posted by: exsgtbrown at July 24, 2006 4:37 PM
Muhammedans have murdered.
Muhammedans are still murdering.
Muhammedans will murder again.
Deliver us all from Islam. Amen.
at July 24, 2006 11:30 PM
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