Iranian backed Hezbollah kills 7 in airport bombing in Bulgaria

[TheGreatGatsby]

(Reuters) - A suicide bomber carried out an attack that killed seven people in a bus transporting Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, the country's interior minister said on Thursday, and Israel said Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants were to blame.

Bulgaria says suicide bomber blew up airport bus | Reuters

 

[waltky]

What goes around, comes around...

Report: Chaos opens door to attack on Hezbollah
6 Sept.`12 - Lebanese-based terror group may be targeted while Syria in turmoil

There are increasing indications the United States and allies seeking the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are working with Sunni allies in Lebanon to take advantage of the chaos and attack the Lebanese-based and Iranian-backed Hezbollah, which supports the Shiite Alawite Assad, regional sources have told Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. Israel, the sources say, would have an opportunity to launch an attack into Lebanon to eliminate the fighting capability of Hezbollah, which the U.S., Israel and Canada regard as a terrorist group.

Among the “Sunni allies” would be al-Qaida, which already has threatened to attack the Lebanese Hezbollah for its support of Syria’s Assad. Al-Qaida and its Sunni Salafist allies back the Syrian opposition forces seeking Assad’s ouster. Sources have told WND/G2Bulletin that Hezbollah military forces already are engaged with Sunni forces fighting against Shiites, including Alawites, in and around Tripoli. They add that some of the Sunni units include al-Qaida. The al-Qaida affiliate, Abdallah Azzam Brigades, which is active in Syria and Lebanon, already has threatened to attack Hezbollah, which would ignite more sectarian violence and conflict in Lebanon, where a protracted sectarian civil war occurred from 1975 to 1990.

In addition, sources say the Sunni effort is backed financially by Saudi Arabia, which also has placed Saudi intelligence operatives in the northern part of Lebanon. Al-Qaida’s presence in Syria and Lebanon is increasing as the terrorist group takes advantage of the fractious opposition leadership amid the chaos in Syria and the increasing prospect that the civil war in Syria could spill over into Lebanon. Al-Qaida’s influence developed even as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently met to discuss the situation in Syria. The leaders reportedly called for the U.S. to get its Sunni March 14 allies in Lebanon to force a vote in the Lebanese parliament calling for the deployment of international troops along Lebanon’s northern border with Syria, according to regional sources.

In suggesting this approach, they reportedly dusted off an old plan that was developed following the July 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah. That 33-day confrontation revealed Hezbollah had more military capabilities than assessed. It was only recently revealed that the Israeli intent during the 33-day war was to destroy the resistance group. The plan is said to be called the “Jeffrey Feltman Project,” which was proposed in 2007 at the request of Israel. In effect, the plan envisages a “liberated geographic zone” to pressure Syria and others with a base for military operations in the region, according to Franklin Lamb, a Beirut-based international lawyer and regional analyst. “With the Syrian chaos and crisis, the sought opportunity may have arrived with Pentagon analysts and American allies agreeing with Clinton and Erdogan that the time for a regional Kleiat airbase [close to Tripoli] is now,” Lamb said.

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[mememe]

What goes around, comes around...

Report: Chaos opens door to attack on Hezbollah

Again "Hezbollah in Bulgaria"?

Waltky, it was already established as soon as it happened that neither "Hezbollah", nor Lebanon/Iran/Syria/any other West-targeted country had nothing to do with that terrorist act. Why are you repeating cobblers?!

 

[waltky]

Bad day for Hezbollah...

Syria: Hezbollah losses ring alarms
Oct. 4,`12 (UPI) -- The killing of at least three Hezbollah fighters in Syria's civil war adds weight to persistent allegations the Iranian-backed movement has deployed military forces to prop up one of its most important allies, beleaguered President Bashar Assad in Damascus.

That could aggravate smoldering sectarian tensions in jittery Lebanon amid growing fears the conflict in Syria, which has long dominated its tiny neighbor, will ignite a new multi-front war two decades after the end of a civil war that lasted for 15 1/2 years. Hezbollah confirmed reports Tuesday it three of its members were killed in northern Syria, which borders the movement's Bekaa Valley heartland in Lebanon, while they were performing "jihadi duties." It didn't elaborate on that cryptic explanation and the circumstances surrounding the killings several days ago remain unclear.

But the men were either killed in a roadside bomb ambush by the rebel Free Syrian Army near the embattled town of al-Qusayr, 10 miles from the Lebanese border, Sunday or died in a rocket attack on the building where they were quartered. One of the men was identified as Ali Hussein Nassif, a veteran Hezbollah commander who helped establish the Shiite movement when it was created by Iran's Revolutionary Guards during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Nassif, whose nom de guerre was Abu Abbas, was buried Monday with full military honors in his hometown of Budai near the ancient Roman city of Baalbek, a Hezbollah stronghold in the northern Bekaa region. His funeral was attended by top-echelon Hezbollah leaders, underlining his status in the powerful movement.

The FSA commander, Col. Riyad al-Asaad claimed his forces tracked Assif and two bodyguards for a fortnight and killed him as he drove to a meeting with Syrian security chiefs. Asaad claimed rebel forces have killed more than 300 people linked to Hezbollah or Iran's Revolutionary Guards around al-Qusayr in recent weeks. There's no way of independently verifying that, which may well have been intended to beef up allegations that Hezbollah and the Iranians, Assad's key allies, have deployed combat units on the ground to reinforce the regime's forces. But if it is true, it would strongly suggest that the Syrian conflict is being fought on a widening scale.

More importantly, it indicates the conflict is morphing into the regional sectarian war between Islam's mainstream Sunni sect, to which most of the rebels belong, and the breakaway Shiite sect that embraces the Iranians and Assad's minority Alawites, that so many have feared. Since the uprising against Assad erupted March 15, 2011, Hezbollah has steadfastly denied it had deployed operatives in Syria. The high-profile funerals of Nassif and his companions marked an unexpected shift in Hezbollah's position after many weeks of quietly burying fighters apparently killed in Syria without the honors accorded men who fell fighting Israel.

Read more: Syria: Hezbollah losses ring alarms - UPI.com

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Israel nabs suspected Hezbollah spy
Oct. 4,`12 (UPI) -- The Israel Security Agency says they've arrested an alleged Hezbollah spy accused of compiling information on bases and the movements of President Shimon Peres.

The Shin Bet said Milad Khatib, 26, of the Galilee town of Majd el-Kurum was arrested in early September. He was charged Thursday in Haifa's District Court on counts of espionage, aiding the enemy, contacting a foreign agent and conspiring with the enemy at a time of war.

According to the Shin Bet, Khatib, a truck driver, was recruited by a Hezbollah agent in Denmark in 2007. During the meeting, the idea was raised to recruit Israeli Arabs and form a terrorist cell to carry out attacks in Israel. In the following years, Khatib was allegedly briefed by Hezbollah agents in meetings in Denmark and Turkey and was instructed to compile information on Israeli army bases, munitions storehouses and their locations, the movements and security detail of President Shimon Peres and the movements of Arab Knesset members. He allegedly received the sum of $500 from his handlers, the agency said.

A month before his arrest he allegedly documented the number of security agents who accompanied Peres during a visit to Majd el-Kurum, and wrote down the license plates of the vehicles in Peres' entourage. He was arrested before he transferred the information to Hezbollah, Israeli security officials said.

Read more: Israel nabs suspected Hezbollah spy - UPI.com

 

[irosie91]

anyone surprised?--------the terrorist pigs of Al Queida and Hezbollah BOTH recruit with the fervor of Jehovah Witnesses (sorry you JW's out there----I am CERTAINLY not implying that there is any OTHER similarity) Any ideology that actively recruits-----will find some willing------the hezbollah and al queida know-----their best targets are criminals and the disaffected and the psychotic-------but more so the disgusting dregs

 

[waltky]

Granny says dey been flingin' missiles at `em, so who else to suspect?...

Did Hezbollah send drone to Israel?
8 October 2012 - Israeli soldiers were sent to search for the wreckage of the drone after it was shot down

The mystery surrounding the unmanned drone that penetrated Israeli airspace on Saturday from the Mediterranean continues, although there is growing speculation that it could actually have been launched by the Lebanese Shia Islamist group, Hezbollah, with the support of Iran, the BBC's Jonathan Marcus reports. Without the radar track of the unmanned drone it is impossible to confirm exactly where it came from - and the Israeli military are not saying. But Sunday's mock air raids by Israeli jets on villages in southern Lebanon suggest that Israel believes the drone was launched by Hezbollah.

The Israeli press clearly believes that this was a Hezbollah operation - newspapers have published maps indicating that the drone was launched near the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon. The suggestion is that it first flew out to sea, then south, appearing over southern Israel from the direction of the Mediterranean. Hezbollah has flown Iranian-supplied drones in the past across Israel's northern border. But why might it have sent a drone to penetrate Israel's southern border?

Here there is only speculation. Inevitably, Israeli analysts see the hand of Iran - Hezbollah's close ally. One theory is that the drone was tasked with filming the Dimona nuclear plant in southern Israel. In this light the whole affair becomes part of the ongoing struggle between Israel and Iran over Tehran's nuclear programme. Israel is widely believed to be behind a campaign of sabotage and assassination aimed at slowing Iran's nuclear progress.

Filming Dimona could represent a significant propaganda coup for Tehran and the drone's penetration of Israeli air space would also represent a warning to Israel. This was apparently an unarmed drone but as the technology spreads and develops, there is no reason why Iran and Hezbollah might not deploy armed drones in the future.

BBC News - Did Hezbollah send drone to Israel?