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Hezbollah's involvement in the Syrian civil war continues to grow. Syria's main opposition group claimed Sunday that no less than 1,000Hezbollah
men have entered Syria
in the past 24 hours.
Originally posted by EvanB
I cant confirm this certain as I cannot vouch for the source, however it seems that Hizbollah have made inroads in Syria...
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Hezbollah's involvement in the Syrian civil war continues to grow. Syria's main opposition group claimed Sunday that no less than 1,000Hezbollah
men have entered Syria
in the past 24 hours.
If this is true then it marks an ugly escallation in an already bubbling cauldron....
Hezbollah's involvement in the Syrian civil war continues to grow. Syria's main opposition group claimed Sunday that no less than 1,000Hezbollah men have entered Syria in the past 24 hours.
Originally posted by mideast
Hezbullah is a group of people who defend the Lebanese people against Zionists.
ON FEB. 5, after more than six months of investigations, the Bulgarian government announced that it believed Hezbollah was responsible for the attack last July that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver and injured dozens more in the resort town of Burgas. This report is significant because a European Union member state, Bulgaria, explicitly pointed a finger at Hezbollah and lifted the veil on the group’s continued terrorist activities. Europe can no longer ignore the threat that this group poses to the Continent and to the world.
The attack in Burgas was despicable. The Israeli tourists had just arrived at the city’s airport and were boarding a bus for the Black Sea coast. A young man wearing a disguise tracked the tourists’ movements, placed a bag with an explosive device in the cargo compartment of the bus and then walked away. The device exploded, killing six people, as well as the bomber.
... has been a deeper reliance on criminal enterprises — especially the South American coc aine trade. The books of a Lebanese bank that was sold after American officials exposed its money-laundering operation offer evidence of an intricate global apparatus that appeared to let Hezbollah move huge sums of money into the legitimate financial system, despite sanctions aimed at cutting off its economic lifeblood.
Last February, the Obama administration accused one of Lebanon’s famously secretive banks of laundering money for an international coc aine ring with ties to the Shiite militant group Hezbollah. Now, in the wake of the bank’s exposure and arranged sale, its ledgers have been opened to reveal deeper secrets: a glimpse at the clandestine methods that Hezbollah — a terrorist organization in American eyes that has evolved into Lebanon’s pre-eminent military and political power — uses to finance its operations. The books offer evidence of an intricate global money-laundering apparatus that, with the bank as its hub, appeared to let Hezbollah move huge sums of money into the legitimate financial system, despite sanctions aimed at cutting off its economic lifeblood.
In November 2009, Israeli athorities intercepted a ship (TIME) carrying more than three thousand Iranian-made rockets and mortars which they believed were bound for Hezbollah. In April 2010, Israeli and U.S. officials also claimed that Syria transfered SCUD missiles (WSJ) to Hezbollah. On July 14, 2010, Naim Qassem, Hezbollah's second-in-command, said the group possesses an extensive list of Israeli targets (AFP) should a new conflict with Israel begin. ...
In a 2009 Washington Institute for Near East Policy report (PDF), adjunct scholar Magnus Norell writes that Hezbollah was "strong enough to drag the country [Lebanon] into war against the will of the sovereign government." The UN has issued two Security Council resolutions, 1559 and 1701, calling for the disarmament of all Lebanese militias, including Hezbollah, but it has so far refused to relinquish its weapons.