http://www.geostrategy-direct.com/geostrategy-direct/secure/2010/07_14/2.asp
Hizbullah signing up Israeli Arab officers as spies, drug-smugglers
TEL AVIV - Israel’s military has acknowledged that Hizbullah was recruiting
officers through enticements of drugs and cash.
The military said Hizbullah has recruited soldiers and officers to spy on
Israel as well as to help in drug smuggling from Lebanon. In the latest
development, the military reported the arrest of a warrant officer and
several civilians charged with maintaining links to the Iranian-sponsored
Shi’ite militia.
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Salafi-Jihadis and the North Caucasus: Is There a New Phase of the War in the Making?
Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 8 Issue: 27
July 8, 2010 04:47 PM
Category: Terrorism Monitor, Global Terrorism Analysis, Terrorism, North Caucasus
By: Murad Batal al-Shishani
Jordanian jihadi ideologue Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi
Several Jordanian newspapers and websites published details in early June about 24-year-old Jordanian Anas Khalil Khadir, stating that he was killed in Chechnya after joining the jihad there. Khadir’s family members, who live in Zarqa (a city located east of Jordan’s capital city of Amman), told journalists that Khadir was very attached to the Chechen cause, leading him to abandon his medical engineering studies at Zarqa’s Hashemite University and depart for Chechnya a week before his final exams (Khaberni [Amman], June 7; al-Sabeel [Amman], June 3; Bab al-Arab, June 7).
A few days after the news of Khadir was reported, newspapers announced the death of another Jordanian in Chechnya, Yasser Ammara. Described as “a prominent Jordanian-born warlord,” Ammara was one of nine militants killed during a battle in the mountainous forests of the Vedeno region during the government’s “Operation Vengeance” (Interfax, June 11). The author’s sources confirmed that unlike Khadir, Ammara had been in Chechnya since early 2000.
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