Friday, July 28, 2006

You are a target!

It would be the most exquisite of outcomes if Hizbollah is not destroyed by Israel in Lebanon, but although greatly diminished, it decides that since Israel is too hard a nut to crack and is capable of destroying it in another round, instead it will not concentrate on Israel but will turn its attentions to ....Europe. Of the three, Israel, the US and Europe, Europe is by far the softest and easiest target for terrorists. Also, Europe is acting to ensure that there is an "immediate" ceasefire that will enable Hizbollah to survive in Lebanon and be re-supplied by Syria and Iran. Hizbollah is known to have representatives, many of them undercover, all over the world, especially in Europe. Can Hizbollah be effective in international terrorism? Of course it can and it has shown it can. Here are some prior actions of Hizbollah operating as an arm of Iranian anti-Western policy.
In 1983, Hizbollah blew up the compound of the US marines in Beirut, who were there ostensibly as a peace keeping force. They used a truck bomb that simply drove under the building housing the marines and exploded and 241 marines were killed. To show their peaceful intent the marines and their guards had no bullets in their guns (this is hard to believe, but is true!). This is an example of the stupidity and naevite of the west in facing the Islamist threat.
In the same year, 1983, not sufficiently chastened by the experience of the bombing of the marine barracks, and ignoring specific warnings from Israeli sources, the US Embassy in Beirut was also blown up by Hizbollah, killing most of the State Dept. experts on the middle east who were having a regional meeting there, ironically many of whom were known to be anti-Israel. President Reagan at the time threatened dire consequences to the people that carried out this attack, but no actions were ever taken.
In 1992, Hizbollah operatives acting under Iranian orders blew up the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, then again in 1994 they blew up the offices of the Jewish Community of Argentina in Buenos Aires killing hundreds of people. Although these terrible incidents were extensively investigated no actual arrests were ever made.
This kind of impunity has allowed Hizbollah to grow in power and size. They will be in your neighborhood soon.

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