Posted on 05/22/2006 10:40:39 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy
Hizbullah may be planning to activate sleeper cells in New York and other big cities to stage an attack as the nuclear showdown with Iran heats up, according to a New York Post report Monday.
The FBI and Justice Department have launched urgent new probes in New York and other cities targeting members of the Lebanese terror group.
Law-enforcement and intelligence officials told The New York Post that about a dozen supporters of Hizbullah have been identified in recent weeks as operating in the New York area.
Sources said FBI counter terrorism agents were monitoring the activities of these New York-based operatives as part of a nationwide effort to prevent a possible terror strike if the confrontation with Iran over its nuclear program spins out of control.
Additional law-enforcement attention is being centered on the Iranian Mission to the United Nations, where there have already been three episodes in the last four years in which diplomats and security guards have been expelled for casing and photographing New York City subways and other potential targets.
The nationwide effort to neutralize Hizbullah sleepers in the United States, being spearheaded by the FBI and Justice Department's counter terrorism divisions, was triggered in January in response to alarming reports that Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, met with leaders of Hizbullah and other terror groups during a visit to Syria.
US officials, according to the New York Post stressed there is no intelligence information pointing to an imminent attack by Hizbullah, but officials said they have detected increased activity by Hizbullah operatives - including more heated rhetoric by its leaders and in Internet chat rooms as the US-Iran diplomatic showdown heats up.
A US counter terrorism official called the latest effort a "major undertaking," with separate probes also under way in Los Angeles, Boston and Detroit.
I hope the feds are doing a thorough job - but isn't it time to tell the UN that it has to take its business somewhere else - the Gobi desert maybe.
Anyone remember that undercover story with the film of the jihadists in the mosque here in American from about 1992 or so? Too bad we failed to act.
How about we just table a resolution that holds the UN accountable for any terrorist attack on the USA by an islamic deviant?
If they want to so oppose our actions dealing with a very real threat ( evidenced by 9 11 alone) then by all means offer up the alternative action that is something besides WAIT. Barring that then all memebr nations that oppose our war on terror to be held accountable for happenings that come forth when they stop our actions.
They've gotta dig up Jimmy Hoffa first.
Ouch!
Here is a good link BTW (published 28 Apr 2006):
time to repurpose the hells angels
Are you thinking of the Al-Farouq mosque, home base of the infamous Yemeni sheik? According to Jihad Watch it was still distributing wahabi probaganda as recently as last year.
Just wait til the UN building is attacked by terrorists. I bet they'll change their tune then.
Then again, they'll probably just accuse the CIA & "the joos" of doing it just to throw blame on the poor innocent Moose-slimes.
No kidding. That's a "leak" if I ever saw one. What's wrong with the JP?
I meant what's wrong with the NYP.
I thought they would change their tune a bit when the UN office in Iraq was attacked. But instead they took good men dying to mean they must flee, and that is exactly what they did.
I have lost any confidence I once had in that institution and their own actions is what brought me to my current position towards them.
IMHO they have one final chance to become relevant. That lies with their choice of action regarding Iran. I am not feeling all warm and fuzzy about what they will do.
I would be surprised if that happens. The UN is home to many terrorist-supporting nations.
Remember in the Pink Panther movie where Dreyfus wants to burn down the UN building with a giant death beam? He wasn't really insane, but very pragmatic.
:^)
They hate the West. Why are they here ?
Fourh Avenue near downtown Brooklyn..
Jimmy Hoffa is very much alive.He disappeared, put on a dress and fright wig, and calls himself "Donna Shalala"..
Soon Hizbollah (or however you spell it) will be able to vote in New York. Then they won't have to blow up anything. :)
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