Posted on 06/19/2008 5:32:49 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
No surprise. Nasrallah’s been screaming about revenge on Israel since the day after Hezbollah super-jihadi Imad Mughniyeh was assassinated in February. They’ve hit Jewish targets in the west before too, of course, most famously in 1994 with the bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people and earned Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani — the heir apparent to Khamenei as supreme leader of Iran — an arrest warrant from the Argentinian government in 2006.
The U.S. isn’t expected to be on the target list. Supposedly, Iran’s afraid Bush might hit back.
Intelligence officials tell ABC News the group has activated suspected “sleeper cells” in Canada and key operatives have been tracked moving outside the group’s Lebanon base to Canada, Europe and Africa…
Suspected Hezbollah operatives have conducted recent surveillance on the Israeli embassy in Ottawa, Canada and on several synagogues in Toronto, according to the officials.
Latin American is also considered a possible target by officials following Hezbollah’s planning…
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Baer writes occasionally for Time and makes no secret of his disdain for the Iraq war so bear that in mind if/when the carping about neocon disinformation begins. (He’s also been known to flirt with Trutherism.) Now, question: Why leak this? According to ABC, there’s evidence of four cells — one is even named — backed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, supposedly corroborated by the CIA, NSA, and British and Canadian intel. A Hezbo weapons expert has, allegedly, even been tracked from Lebanon to Toronto. With the publication of this article the jig is up, but it doesn’t sound like a surreptitious leak: ABC cites a “senior counterterrorism official” as a source and three U.S. law enforcement agencies confirm that they’d been briefed on some of the details. Maybe they’re worried that they’ve lost track of the plotters and are putting this out in desperation, to try to spook them into aborting an attack?
And a second question: Why Canada? That’s actually easy to answer — because Hezbollah’s already there and has been there for years, openly raising funds to send back home to Lebanon for, ahem, “social services” until as recently as 2002. It’s a target of opportunity. But do note the aside about Latin America. If they want to attack Jews somewhere without having to worry about government interference, there’s an obvious choice. So obvious, in fact, that I wonder if Chavez could survive given how complicit he’d appear.
Hezbullah been around a lot longer than Al Qaeda. Before 9/11, they were the terrorist group that killed the most Americans. Mugniyah was the most dangerous man on the planet before his demise.
Brian Ross was just on WJR-Detroit, he said this was very serious. Stressed that they are afraid to hit the US for fear of retaliation.
Ross also took pains to say a few times that (of course) these two terrorist groups don't like each other, lol, shades of MSM protection of Saddam and Sons.
Guys,
I just spent the better part of this week in Gatlinburg, TN.
For those who don’t know, Gatlinburg is the once hillbilly haven resort town where you can get married by an Elvis impersonator at a drive through wedding chapel, see live bears, and has as many Christian music theatres as Branson MO. (that’s NOT why I go there, it is a beautiful place with 650 miles of trout streams).
It has always been an American pie, Christian and family oriented town on the outskirts of the MOST VISITED (you can check this out, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park) national park in the nation.
What I saw this week alarmed me. I am serious.
Every single business on the strip in Gatlinburg, and many of the motels/hotels, and other businesses are now OWNED by Arabs.
Most of the businesses there, from a Taco Bell to a McDonalds, and all in between are staffed with Russians, and they can barely speak English and take an order. The businesses there have some sort of program where there are thousands of Ukranians, other Russians, coming there to stay and work.
And this town that once had the claim of being the most family friendly has Russian (I am not kidding, everyone was talking about it) prostitutes in most of the hotels.
This has happened in a few short years. I was really shocked. How many of our heavy traffic tourist areas are like this? The GSMNP hosts millions of visitors annually.
What a great target for a terrorist attack.
I won’t be going back, I’ll now go fish Dale Hollow Lake with the rednecks (LOL) and I’ll take Grammy and Mr. G with me, and we will certainly be armed!!!
Motels, hookers, and fast food joints owned by muslims or the Russian mob like cash business because they can skim off money for their terrorism and other adventures.
Or wash drug, gambling, hooker money thru the books.
Thanks for the words of encouragement george (LOL). I live about an hour from Gatlinburg.
However, I do have good news (no I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express while in Gatlinburg, too many Russian working girls), the govt. is building a huge Homeland Security training facility VERY close to where I live (and I live WAY out in the sticks). This facility is for training for HS, swat teams, police, etc. I read about it a few months ago.
We also have several nuke plants along the Tennessee River, which is not in my immediate vicinity but fairly close. I don’t worry about them, because I am sure they are highly guarded. But I do wonder about what is happening in Gatlinburg.
Thanks, Girl, that’s very sad. It’s a shame the county sheriff and state police don’t get in there and do something about it.
I was going to make a joke about the Gatlin boys but it’s not a time for jokes. Do you know if that’s where the Gatlin Bros. are from or if the town was named after their kin?
I am so glad you pinged kanawa, I meant to, but was in a hurry and forgot.
I knew he was in Canada but I figure he can take care of himself, since he “Kilt a bar” with a knife. I wouldn’t want to be a terrorist trying to take him on.
For those of you not familiar with kanawa and his bear killing adventure, do a FR search on him, I’m sure you’ll be glad you did. I actually called the knife company and told them about him when he did that. They said they had heard through the grapevine about him, but were looking for verification. I emailed them the FR thread.
I bet we have some freepers on here now that make danged good bear killing knives (grin).
There is a link to Kanawa thread on my home page.
Thanks fanfan.
If the arabs and others try anything threatening they may find Tenneseans more heavily armed then most other states, except perhaps Texas.
Your welcome Girl Angler.
Next time I’ll add the word “the” to the sentence, in order to make sense, and really impress you.
;-)
It’s happening everywhere.
They operate like an ant colony, starting small, and growing outwards, to..........
(Thoughts removed my moderator.)
:-)
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