Hezbullah not a threat to US?
This was part of US Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair's annual threat assessment. We judge that, unlike al-Qa’ida, Hizballah, which has not directly attacked US interests overseas over the past 13 years, is not now actively plotting to strike the Homeland. However, we cannot rule out that the group would attack if it perceives that the US is threatening its core interests.I wasn't the only one whose eyebrows were raised at that one. Democracy Arsenal notes:
By taking pains to emphasize that Hizballah is not a direct threat to the United States, Blair makes a dramatic tonal shift. This raises big some questions. What caused the intelligence community to so radically alter its perspective? Does Blair's assessment suggest further revisiting of U.S. policy toward a group that has steadily evolved from a militia to a major political actor in Lebanon? What might that look like? We shall see.My take: The Obama administration is preparing the groundwork to deal with Hezbullah as part of the Lebanese government.
Leaving Israel out for a minute, here are some reasons why Blair is dead wrong. Hezbullah has a base of operations in Venezuela - what is that for if not to be part of attacks on the United States? Hezbullah has been smuggling sleeper cells into the United States with illegal immigrants from Mexico. Those cells can be activated at any time.
Ooops - silly me. Those things only happened during the Bush administration. In the Age of Obama, Hezbullah loves America and America has nothing to fear from it.
What could go wrong?
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:54 PM
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Hezbullah has a base of operations in Venezuela - what is that for if not to be part of attacks on the United States?
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They get a better employee healthcare plan there.
I read somewhere that the Hizbonazis have 12 major terror cells in the US (supposedly one for each of the Imams - after all they're Shiites).
Remember that photo of the islamonazi leader of Iran speaking under the banner "A World without Zionism"? The ball with the US flag lies already broken on the ground as the ball with the Israeli flag is in the process of dropping. Anyone want to consider what might happen in the US on Feb. 11? With such clueless "security" chiefs like Blair and Napolitano, and with "one of them" in the WH, what could go wrong?
This is just more of the same miserable performance by US intelligence. It also ignores Hezbollah/Iran's operations against US forces in Iraq.
Imad Mugniyeh was, by many in the intelligence community, the operational planner for 911. There were a number of contacts between him and 911 related folk.
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