FBI eyes Hizbollah in US as tensions with Iran rise

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FBI eyes Hizbollah in US as tensions with Iran rise

By Caroline Drees, Security Correspondent Tue Jul 18, 5:07 PM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - 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.

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1. dupe, wild though, isn't it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2397631&mesg_id=2397631

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2. how would Hizbollah agents (whatever) even get into the US?

Seems like anyone remotely related/associated with this group would have long since been picked up in the sweep of "darked" skinned folk right after 9/11 01.

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3. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2397631