«
»




Jul

26

Is Hezbollah Ready For World-Wide Attacks?

Posted By: 'Okie' | 12:32 pm — 7/26/2006 | Comments Off See comments below:

Over at Counter Terrorism Blog Daveed Gartenstein-Ross paints a picture that seems to verify that Hezbollah sleeper cells have been put on notice around the globe to be ready to activate and then proceed with carrying out their attack agendas.

On Sunday, I discussed a Jerusalem Post report claiming that Hizballah sleeper cells outside Lebanon had been put on standby. While I noted the plausibility of this claim, I cautioned that it seemed the Jerusalem Post had no source to which it could be attributed.

The evidence begins to build today, as Adnkronos International reports: “‘Sleeper’ cells belonging to militant Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah are present in Western Europe, Latin America and in southeast Asia and been ordered to be ready to carry out terrorist attacks should Israel prolong its military offensive against Lebanon, according to unnamed German intelligence sources.” While “unnamed German intelligence sources” isn’t ideal confirmation, Germany is known to have decent intelligence assets in the Middle East.

He then goes on to make the case that Europe or Southeast Asia are the most likely targets. His analysis of why the US would not make the first cut are interesting, and his insight that Iran might be willing to hold back and not authorize the attacks just yet, as an option to inhibit an assault on their nuke facilities makes a lot of sense.

However, little comfort for Italy, Spain, France, Germany or Britain! (db)

Technorati Tags: , , ,

Sphere It
This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 26th, 2006 at 12:32 pm and is filed under Focus On Politics, Iran Threat. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.  |  Print This Post Print This Post  |  Email This Post Email This Post

Recently Posted:


Comments are closed.