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“Message for Hezbollah: Think Twice”
January 24, 2008 - 9:57am
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Intelligence from Strategic Forecasting indicates they’re already operational.
Stratfor has received information from multiple sources that Shiite militant organization Hezbollah is making preparations for kidnappings targeting Western citizens. Hezbollah and its patrons, Iran and Syria, would have little to gain from such a move at this point (though they are likely deriving benefits from spreading this threat). That said, the organization has the assets in place to pull off such an operation, and the threat of taking Westerners hostage in Lebanon should be taken seriously.
But Hezbollah has a good reason to think twice about going through with that.
“We know where a good portion of Hezbollah’s infrastructure is”, says Robert Richer, who retired from the CIA in 2005 as head of the Clandestine Services’ worldwide collection and operational activities. He’s now CEO of Total Intel, and says a repeat of that behavior would result in US retaliation, “and the retaliation would be pretty total.””
YALIBNAN.com ("Sources: Stratfor, Ya Libnan"): "IRANIAN INTELLIGENCE OFFICIAL VISITS LEBANON" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Beirut - A senior Iranian intelligence officer arrived in Lebanon the week of Dec. 9, and Imad Mughniyah, Hezbollah official in charge of foreign operations accompanied the officer to his meetings there, Stratfor sources said Dec. 16") (December 17, 2007, 6:32 pm) (Read More...)