Posted on 12/08/2002 10:57:06 PM PST by quidnunc
Bali is closer than we think.
The Washington Times reported last week that anti-terror agencies are concerned about the presence of Hezbollah in Canada. America's northern neighbor, they believe, is a "stronghold" for the Islamic terrorist group that is responsible for more than 300 American deaths, including the 1983 attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut.
Unbelievably, Hezbollah is not banned in Canada. The Liberal government of Prime Minister Jean Chretien refuses to proscribe this murderous organization because it does social work among Lebanon's poor and has representatives in that country's legislative assembly.
As a result of this disgraceful piece of Liberal generosity, Hezbollah has been able to use Canadian territory for ten years to recruit, launder money, raise funds, forge documents and purchase military-related equipment for use in attacks on Israel. It has also built up a network of agents across the country. Mohammed Hussein Al-Husseini, a Hezbollah member, told Canadian security officials: "Hezbollah has members in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto — all of Canada." Altogether, Hezbollah has worked hard turning Canada into a Lebanon North.
Moreover, one of these Canada-based agents, Fauzi Ayub, was arrested by Israeli authorities after being sent to the West Bank to engineer attacks against their country. Two others, wanted for terrorist acts committed elsewhere, were hiding out in Canada. One has since been charged in connection with the 1993 Saudi Arabia bombing that killed 19 Americans.
But it gets worse — if that is possible.
A US Senate committee hearing recently revealed that one of the world's most wanted terrorists, Imad Mugniyah, is in charge of Hezbollah's Vancouver cell. Mugniyah has planned terrorist attacks worldwide the past two decades and currently has a $25 million dollar reward on his head for the 1985 hijacking of an airliner that left one American dead. He is also suspected of having a hand in the Marine barracks attack as well as in the 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy in Argentina.
Another indication of how highly Hezbollah's leaders value their Canadian operation is that money raised from a Hezbollah cigarette-smuggling ring in North Carolina was sent to Canada. Moreover, an important Hezbollah agent, Mohammad Dbouk, was sent from Lebanon to run the Vancouver cell. According to the Senate committee, Dbouk was so highly regarded by Hezbollah that his application to become a "martyr" was rejected five times.
Remind me to send my congratulations.
But the fact that Canadians had a potential sucide bomber running around loose inside their country before he fled back to Lebanon doesn't bother anyone in Ottawa. But what can one expect from a Prime Minister who denied after 9/11 that there were any terrorist organizations operating in Canada despite his own secret service having warned him to the contrary? As well, Hezbollah's ten-year growth in Canada has coincided almost exactly with Chretien's tenure in office.
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Sounds like some enterprising American could make a short trip across the border and bring back a carryon worth $25 mil.
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