Posted on 07/18/2006 2:22:20 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
The FBI is trying to ferret out possible Hizbollah agents in the United States amid concerns that rising U.S.-Iranian tensions could trigger attacks on American soil, FBI officials said.
Relations between Washington and Tehran, which soured after the 1979 Islamic revolution, have deteriorated further recently over Iran's nuclear program and its support for Hizbollah, the militant Islamic group whose capture of two Israeli soldiers last week prompted Israel to launch retaliatory strikes in Lebanon.
American law enforcement officials are concerned the Lebanon-based Hizbollah, which has so far focused on fund-raising and other support activities inside the United States, could turn to violence in solidarity with Iran.
"If the situation escalates, will Hizbollah take the gloves off, so to speak, and attack here in the United States, which they've been reluctant to do until now?" said William Kowalski, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI in Detroit.
Detroit is home to one of the largest Muslim communities in the United States.
"Because of the heightened difficulties surrounding U.S.-Iranian relations, the FBI has increased its focus on Hizbollah," said FBI spokesman Paul Bresson in Washington.
"Those investigations relate particularly to the potential presence of Hizbollah members on U.S. soil."
There is no specific or credible intelligence pointing to an imminent U.S. attack by Hizbollah, which the United States considers a terrorist group, Bresson added.
(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.com ...
High Volume. Articles on Israel can also be found by clicking on the Topic or Keyword Israel.
also Keywords 2006israelwar or WOT [War on Terror]
----------------------------
Japanese were interned during WW2 under far less pretenses...
American law enforcement officials are concerned the Lebanon-based Hizbollah, which has so far focused on fund-raising and other support activities inside the United States, could turn to violence in solidarity with Iran.
Some of the funniest crap I have ever read! mmmmmm yoohoo, U.S. politicians and Homeland Insecurity.....why are they here?
Anyone openly belonging to Hizbollah, Hamas, Al Quaeda or the Taliban should have been run out of the USA years ago.
Just as M-13 should be run out.
Woww..they want to wait for an Israeli attack on Hizbollah before catching the crooks here!!
Not the Taliban! We have to send them to University! gag, choke, bleh
FBI, look in the mosque, that's a good place to start.
Look in Dearborn....they are EVERYWHERE!
"FBI, look in the mosque, that's a good place to start."
How about just building a fence around the mosques, during their satanic worship services?
It will take at least one major attack in the USA, perhaps something like that in Beslan Russia where just a handful of terrorists killed over 200 people in a high shool, before Americans wake up from their denial that terrorism effects them. And that might not do it. Sad to say.
Thanks to that buck toothed peanut farmer that the democrats gave us, a reliable ally in the middle east has turned into our most dangerous enemy. The echo's of those days accusations of the Shah's repressive rule make me laugh until I cry.
Start raiding Mosques..
What was 9/11/01?
The NY Times can probably abswer that question.
There are neigborhoods in Detroit now where church bells have been silenced; instead one can hear the five times a day call to Islamic prayer.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.