Posted on 01/13/2024 3:51:03 AM PST by MtnClimber
Lebanese terror group Hezbollah may attack American troops or diplomats abroad or even strike the United States at home, officials told Politico Wednesday.
"Hezbollah could draw on the capability they have … to put people [in] places to do something," one official said, referring to a possible attack on America, according to the outlet. "It is something to be worried about." That official, as well as three other anonymous ones the publication cited, said the Iran-backed group would likely hit American targets abroad first.
The terror group has more capabilities than others in the region, according to the officials, such as a more expansive international network. Many officials in President Joe Biden's administration do not believe that Iran wants a broader war, but they have been working to decrease tensions in the Middle East, according to Politico's report.
Still, recent events have contributed to fears that the conflict between Israel and Hamas could spread into surrounding countries in the Middle East. Along with its campaign in Gaza, the Jewish state has exchanged fire with Hezbollah since Hamas's Oct. 7 terror attacks.
On Tuesday, Hezbollah hit an Israeli base using drones, and the Israel Defense Forces killed three of the terror group's members in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah said recent attacks on the Jewish state are part of a response to its apparent killing of a Hamas deputy leader in Beirut last week.
FBI director Christopher Wray said in early December that the general threat from foreign terrorist organizations has elevated since Oct. 7, telling a Senate panel that he saw "blinking lights everywhere I turn."
Other Iran-backed groups have become more aggressive since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, with Yemen's Houthis attacking vessels in the Red Sea and militants in Iraq and Syria having tried to strike American troops in the countries at least 100 times.
The most recent direct threat Hezbollah posed toward the United States was revealed about seven years ago when the Department of Justice accused two men of working on behalf of the group. Authorities alleged that one had attempted in the early 2010s to locate the American and Israeli embassies in Panama and the other had been attempting to identify military and law enforcement targets in New York City....
The left wants a society living in fear so this fits nicely with their open border strategy.
Islamic jihad is already in the US.
It is my understanding that Iran has had assets for years.
Isn’t that the idea?
As you are being tortured, raped, beheaded and murdered, remember, diversity is our “strength”. LOL!
I’m really surprised that it has not happened already
Biden and Co. have done everything possible and everything necessary to invite, encourage and facilitate their attacks on us
FEAR
Oh noes!! Give up our freedom quick! Give me security.
If you don’t think a bunch of these terrorist a-holes have taken advantage of SloJo’s Open Border Policy, you are delusional.
They are here.
We don’t know where, but they are here.
We don’t know who, but they are here.
Is that you, Ilhan?
> Islamic jihad is already in the US.<
Kalorama?
EC
Iran's stated goal is to wipe the little Satan and the big Satan off the face of the earth??? If Iran causes an attack here in the US, Joe Biden and all of his administration, especially the DOJ and HHS secretaries, should be tried for treason and summarily punished accordingly.....
Well we have had record numbers of border crossings lately.
Hopefully they hit DC and any other liberal sanctuary shxthole and they operate out of the taxpayer funded shelters provided to them, communicate through government provided phones and get supplies using government provided $5k Visa cards.
Then we can charge the government with treason for allowing them in, housing them and funding them.
Ya sure, and according to Wray, this is on the heels of MAGA and white supremacists.
Too bad the FBI is going after Christians, Catholic, and soccer moms. They really are the KGB.
Yeah. One was in the WH for 8 years.
A few, and now there’s more... Plus thousands of chinese being let in.
to put people [in] places to do something,”
Harkens back to another error.
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