Egypt's State Prosecutor Accuses Hizbullah of Planning Attacks inside Egypt

Egypt's State Prosecutor Accuses Hizbullah of Planning Attacks inside Egypt
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
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DailyStar.com brings us this report this afternoon and it starts off like this… Egypt's state prosecutor accused Hizbullah of planning to carry out attacks inside Egypt on Wednesday, as Israel warned its citizens that they faced an "immediate and concrete" threat in the country. "The state prosecutor has received a statement from state security which shows that leaders from the Lebanese Hizbullah have called on its cadres to recruit members to its movement ... with the aim of carrying out acts of aggression inside the country," a statement from the prosecutor obtained by the AFP news agency said… Egyptian security forces are questioning a group of 49 men accused of smuggling weapons into the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border on behalf of Hizbullah and Hamas. It is not clear when they were arrested, but a judicial source in Cairo confirmed that the prosecutor's allegations are linked to their detention…
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Egypt accuses Hizbullah of plotting attacks in country
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VOANews.com reports it this way… Egypt's state prosecutor says authorities have arrested 49 people suspected of planning attacks in Egypt on behalf of the Lebanese Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah… A statement from the prosecutor's office Wednesday said state security police have been questioning the men and believe that several of them were collecting intelligence for Hezbollah and recruiting Egyptians to join the group. It accused them of planning attacks on Egyptian targets… When the arrests were first reported Tuesday, Egyptian authorities said they had detained more than 40 people in connection with alleged plans to smuggle supplies to Hamas militants and other Palestinians in the Gaza Strip… A lawyer for the detainees, Montasser el-Zayat, says the people arrested include Egyptians, Lebanese and Palestinians…
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Egypt Accuses Hezbollah of Plotting Attacks

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Hizbullah Slams Deployment of US Warships off Lebanon Coast

Friday, February 29, 2008
DailyStar.com brings us this news article today and it starts off like this... A US deployment of warships off the coast of Lebanon further sharpened tensions in the crisis-plagued country on Friday, as Hizbullah condemned the move and the Lebanese government said it did not ask for the ships to be sent. Hizbullah on Friday denounced Washington's dispatch of the USS Cole and two other vessels to waters off Lebanon as military interference... Hizbullah's condemnation came as pro-government newspapers in Beirut said the deployment was a clear signal to Syria, which is accused by the ruling coalition of blocking a presidential vote...
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* FT.com has this report...
Hizbollah Accuses US Of Intimidation Over Vessels Deployed In Eastern Mediterranean

* naharnet.com reports...
Saniora: No Foreign Warships in Lebanon's Territorial Waters

USS COLE photo from Navy.mil website

Many Say Hizbullah Will Deal 'Major Blow' To Israel

Friday, February 15, 2008
DailyStar.com brings us this story today and it goes in part like this ...The aftershocks of Mughniyeh's killing could even increase the chances for civil strife here, said Ahmad Moussalli, a professor of political science and Islamic studies at the American University of Beirut... "We are close to a major conflict," he said. "We are at a point of some kind of war. It's very dangerous. You will see Hizbullah hardening its [domestic] position, rather than softening."... Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's words at Mughniyeh's funeral on Thursday about an "open war" between Hizbullah and Israel were not a mere fulmination fueled by the moment, Moussalli added... "It is a declaration of war, kind of," he said...
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Hizbollah’s Commander Threatens Israel With 'Open War'

Hizbollah Commander Sayyed Nasrallah
Threatens Israel With
'Open War'
Thursday, February 14, 2008

.Hizbollah commander Sayyed Nasrallah has said the group is ready for "open war" with Israel if the Jewish state wants it after a leading member of the terror group was killed... Nasrallah was speaking by video link at the funeral of Imad Mughniyeh in Lebanon...
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>>> International Herald Tribune has this report... Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki came to Lebanon on Thursday to attend the funeral ceremony for the slain top Hezbollah commander and offered condolences to the militant's family... Mottaki, accompanied by Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh, shook hands with and later stood in line of the grieving nearest of kin and associates of Imad Mughniyeh, killed in a car bomb in Syria late Tuesday...
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Iran's foreign minister at funeral in Lebanon of slain Hezbollah commander Mughniyeh

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Hezbollah Supreme Military Commander Killed In Syria

Hezbollah Supreme Military Commander
Imad Fayez Mughniyeh
Killed In Syria Car Bombing
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

DEBKAfile’s military sources [bring us this] report that Imad Fayez Mughniyeh, the Hizballah’s supreme commander and plotter of major anti-US and anti-Israel terror operations in the last 25 years reportedly died in a car bomb explosion in the Damascus district of Tanzim Kafr Susa Tuesday night, Feb. 12...
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Major coup in war on terror: Notorious Hizballah terrorist hostage-taker Imad Mughniyeh killed in Damascus

>>> JPOST.com has this report, (with News Video and other related links,) that starts off like this... Imad Mughniyeh, Hizbullah's chief of operations, was considered over the past 25 years one of the world's most-wanted terrorists, involved in endless attacks against Israel and the United States, including the abduction of two IDF reservists in 2006 and the bombing of US embassies in Africa...
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'Mughniyeh co-founded Hizbullah'

>>> IsraelNationalNews.com has this take on the story... The Hizbullah terrorist organization late Tuesday night lost a top commander in a powerful car bombing the group said was carried out by Israeli operatives in Damascus. Journalists were prevented by Syrian police from approaching the vehicle following the blast... Imad Mughniyeh, considered to be the mastermind behind most, if not all of Hizbullah’s terror attacks, was one of the group’s most senior commanders in Lebanon. He lived in hiding for years and was able to evade the public eye until Tuesday night’s attack...
Hizbullah Accuses Israel in ‘Most Wanted’ Commander Assassination

>>> ABCNews.com reports...
Although he managed an impeccably low profile, Imad Mughniyeh was an extremely important figure in the underground world of terrorism. His death is a significant achievement for the intelligence organization that caused it.
U.S.-Wanted Terror Suspect Killed in Syria

>>> Bloomberg.com has this update on the story this afternoon and it goes in part like this... Mughniyeh was indicted in the U.S. for the 1985 hijacking of a TWA Corp. airliner, during which an American Navy diver was killed. Israel has accused him of involvement in the 1990s bombings of the Israeli Embassy and a Jewish center in Argentina that killed more than 120 people... The U.S. also wanted Mughniyeh for the April 18, 1983, bombing of the American Embassy in Beirut, al-Arabiya television said. Seventeen U.S. officials, including Robert Ames, the Central Intelligence Agency's top Middle East analyst, and other CIA staffers were among the 63 people who died in that attack...
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Hezbollah Commander, Wanted by U.S., Killed in Syria

Old Photo from FBI Wanted Poster – Newer from Hezbollah Media Office

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Al Qaeda’s Inspiration Killed, Israel Blamed

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Hizbullah Terror Officer Says Cease-Fire Saved Them From Defeat, Admits Firing Missiles Inside Urban Centers

A Hizbullah man interviewed by Israel's Channel 10 TV said that the terror group was saved by the Olmert government's decision to call a cease-fire. “The cease-fire, (at the end of the Second Lebanon War,) acted as a life jacket for the organization,” the terrorist said. He explained that the group would have surrendered if the battles had continued for another 10 days...
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Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah: Hizbullah Rockets Can Hit Any Point In Israel, Including Tel Aviv

TheAge.com.au website brings us this story. It goes in part like this... Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said Hezbollah's rearmament "is a direct and grave violation of UN Security Council resolution 1701," which ended last year's war... "The international community must hold accountable those governments, namely Syria and Iran, who by supplying weapons to Hezbollah are deliberately trying to undermine the United Nations, the Lebanese government and peace and stability in the region," he said...
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Hezbollah says rockets can hit Tel Aviv

>>> AlBawaba.com has this take... Hizbullah fighters possess an arsenal of rockets that can reach "any point" in the state of Israel, including Tel Aviv, the movement's leader said Monday in an interview... "We could absolutely reach any corner and any point in occupied Palestine," Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah told pan-Arab Al-Jazeera satellite TV channel and Hizbullah's Al-Manar television...
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Nasrallah: Hizbullah rockets can hit Tel Aviv

Hizbullah Deputy Secretary-General Naim Kassem declares: We get our orders from Teheran

In an interview on April 15th with the Iranian Arabic language TV station ‘al Qawthar’, Hizbullah Deputy Secretary-General Naim Kassem, told the interviewer that suicide bombings, terrorist attacks and even artillery barrages against Israeli civilians all receive prior approval from the Ayatollah’s in Teheran.

Iran is the major destabilizing force in the Middle East today. From supplying arms, money, training and support for terrorist groups such as Hizbullah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, to the promotion of extremist Islamic revolutionary ideology, the clerical regime in Teheran is bent on sowing unrest throughout the region...

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Israel Ministry Of Foreign Affairs website