Hizballah’s founder Hassan Nasrallah has said, “If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.”
Hizballah is “the most dynamic political and social organization in Lebanon.” — Reza Aslan
“U.S. warned Europe of Hezbollah operations before terror attacks last year,” by Shaun Waterman for The Washington Times, May 31 (thanks to David):
The United States warned European governments about an “increased operational tempo” by Hezbollah there months before a wave of global terror attacks by the Lebanese extremist group last year, a senior administration official said Friday.
“We were already in the spring of 2012 having numerous conversations with European governments about the danger that Hezbollah was posing, and that was on the basis of information we were aware of that indicated an increased operational tempo in Europe,” the official said, requiring anonymity even though he was speaking on a conference call for reporters organized by administration press officers.
“So we were not surprised ultimately when we started to see that play out” during the summer, when Hezbollah blew up an Israeli tourist bus in Bulgaria, and hatched plots that were foiled for similar attacks in Cyprus and Thailand, he added.The official said the administration was aware of Hezbollah operational networks in Europe and elsewhere dating back to the 1990″s. In its 2012 annual terrorism report published Thursday, the State Department noted an increase in terrorist activity by Hezbollah last year, “to levels not seen since the 1990″s.”
The existence of operational networks in Europe was “not new to us, not surprising,” said the official Friday, because during the 1990″s the group had carried out attacks in “multiple parts of the world.”
At the same time, the official said, “We don’t have any evidence of [Hezbollah] operational networks “¦ in South America or Central America or Mexico,” although “We know that Hezbollah as an organization does benefit from fundraising activity or commercial activity” in the region….