Islamic-fascist Iran, Its Hezbollah thugs strike again - India, Georgia

[2012]

... bombs target embassies in India, Georgia | Reuters

JERUSALEM | Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:57am EST

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Bombers targeted staff at Israel's embassies in India and Georgia on Monday, wounding four people, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of involvement.

Israel says bombs target embassies in India, Georgia | Reuters

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Of course Iran/Hezbollah Islamic thugs DID attack before:
Lebanon (1983 Marine-barracks, kidnappings torture 1982-1992)
Italy/Greece (1985 WTA hijacking)
Argentina (1992, 1994)
Panama (1994)
S. Arabia (1996, Khobar Towers)
Somalia. [cooperating w/ al-Shabaab].
Afghanistan [IEDs, training terrorists]
Iraq [IEDs, training terrorists]
France (Paris shopping centers, 1985/6)
USA (hijacking Embassy in Tehran, aiding 9/11 hijackers)
Syria (2011-2012, aiding apartheid-Baath regime, in massacring Syrian civilians).

 

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Granny keepin' her 12ga. Mossburg close at hand...

'Hundreds' of 'Soldiers of Hezbollah' Inside the U.S., Says Homeland Security Chairman
March 23, 2012 – At a Wednesday hearing, House Homeland Security Chairman Pete King (R.-N.Y.) said that "at a minimum" there are hundreds of "soldiers of Hezbollah" inside the United States.

"Now, how many Iranian and Hezbollah terrorists are here already?" said King. "The highly-disciplined soldiers of Hezbollah are trained to lie low for years, or for decades. Those who have gone up against this enemy for our government estimate the number to be at a minimum--at a minimum--in the hundreds." At the same hearing, the former chief of operations for the Drug Enforcement Administration testified that Mexican drug cartels are in "very close contact" with Hezbollah, Hamas and al Qaeda. He then pointed to what he called the possibility of a "nightmare scenario" in which Hezbollah and the Iranian al Quds force "focus on our Southwest border and use that as perhaps a springboard in attacking our country."

“When most people think of, you know, [the] drugs-terror nexus, they immediately think of Latin America,” Michael Braun, who retired from the DEA in 2008, told the committee on Wednesday. “But let me be perfectly clear," he said. "As Europe’s demand for cocaine continues to grow and as the Mexican and Colombian cartels, including the FARC, have sent their operatives into West Africa and North Africa to establish the transshipment infrastructure needed to move tons of those drugs, these bad guys are now routinely coming in very close contact with the likes of Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Qaeda who are vying for the same money, the same turf, and the same dollars.”

Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Qaeda and FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) all have been officially designated by the U.S. government as foreign terrorist organizations. “If anyone thinks for a moment that Hezbollah and the [Iranian] Quds Force, the masters at leveraging and exploiting existing illicit infrastructures globally, are not going to focus on our Southwest border and use that as perhaps a springboard in attacking our country, then they just don’t understand how the real underworld works.” Homeland Security Chairman Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) told the hearing, "we know" that Hezbollah "is in America," and that the Iranian-sponsored group "has been trained to lie low for years."

"Since 9/11, America's counter-terror officials have focused on finding al Qaeda operatives inside America, as weill as homegrown radicalized Islamist extremists ready to perpetrate violence against our people," King said. "Now, as Iran moves closer to nuclear wepaons, and there is increasing concern over war between Iran and Israel, we must also focus on Iran's secret operatives and their No. 1 terrorist proxy force, Hezbollah, which we know is in America," King said. "That's right. We know Hezbollah operatives are here," King emphasized. "The question is whether these Hezbollah operatives have the capacity to carry out attacks on the homeland, and how quickly they can become fully operational." "More than 20 federal investigation since 9/11 identified by the majority's investigative staff offer a chilling view of Iranian and Hezbollah's operations inside the United States," said King.

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Granny got her 12ga. Mossburg out, ready to take on any Hezbollah dat come `round here...

US must remain alert to Hezbollah threats abroad and at home
3/27/12 By Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) There has been a lot of talk of war with Iran, as its extremist regime comes ever closer to building a nuclear weapon.

There has been a lot of talk of war with Iran, as its extremist regime comes ever closer to building a nuclear weapon. As we face the possibility of being drawn into another military conflict overseas, Americans also face potential danger here at home from Tehran and its top proxy terror force, Hezbollah. And so we must brace ourselves for the worst, and do more than simply pray it never comes. Members of Hezbollah — the Lebanese Shiite terror group responsible for murdering more Americans than any other terrorists before 9/11 — live among us here in the U.S. homeland. At least 21 Hezbollah-linked cases prosecuted by the Justice Department since al Qaeda’s attacks a decade ago make that evident.

Hezbollah hates Israel and the Jewish state’s top ally, America. So we must be on guard for attacks as tensions rise over Iran’s aggressive pursuit of a nuclear weapon. As chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, I convened a hearing last week to examine potential threats to our homeland from Iran and Hezbollah, given the very real possibility that a strike on Iran could result in retaliation against the United States. The committee received testimony from former senior Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Treasury Department officials, as well as from the New York Police Department’s director of intelligence analysis.

Most disturbingly, we learned from our own preliminary investigation before the hearing — and then from the witnesses — that there are hundreds of Hezbollah operatives already inside this country. We also studied Hezbollah’s ties with drug cartels that routinely penetrate our borders with an acute awareness of our security vulnerabilities. We learned that there are even more Hezbollah-related cases than the 21 publicly identified by the government since 9/11. Several of the public cases involved multiple defendants, including many with Hezbollah military training and combat experience in Lebanon.

This should be concerning. Hezbollah was founded by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Lebanon in 1982 as a proxy force dedicated to the destruction of Israel. However, from its beginnings, Hezbollah also has drawn American blood. In 1983, Hezbollah destroyed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 17 Americans. Later that year, it bombed the U.S. Marine barracks there, killing 241 servicemen. In the 1980s, Hezbollah bombed, hijacked and kidnapped U.S. personnel throughout the Middle East and Europe. They murdered U.S. airmen, a sailor, a Marine officer and the Central Intelligence Agency’s Beirut station chief.

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Indian writers, painters and filmmakers being targeted by the mob...

Is India facing a 'cultural emergency'?
30 January 2013 - Is India facing what author Salman Rushdie calls a "cultural emergency" with writers, painters and filmmakers being targeted by the mob? (The Emergency in the 1970s was the darkest hour in Independent India's history when civil liberties were suspended.)

Consider the events that have made the front pages this week. Leading academic Ashis Nandy is threatened with arrest after he makes controversial remarks about corruption and disadvantaged groups at the popular Jaipur literary festival. Sir Salman himself is asked to stay away from a film promotion and a literary festival in Calcutta, supposedly one of India's more liberal cities, because authorities fear protests from fringe Muslim groups. Similar groups have demanded a ban on actor-director Kamal Haasan's new film Vishwaroopam, prompting the star to complain about "cultural terrorism". The outsize controversy over the remarks made by Prof Nandy, who was once voted one of the world's top 100 public intellectuals by Foreign Policy magazine, demonstrates how fringe groups can threaten free speech with impunity. At a panel discussion ironically called the Republic of Ideas, the scholar said "most of the corrupt" in India came from its most disadvantaged groups, but he also said that corruption among the rich was less conspicuous.

All hell broke loose: there was a tsunami of media-generated outrage, a police complaint was lodged against Prof Nandy, and prominent Dalit leader Mayawati said he should be sent to prison. Very few people seemed to be listening to Prof Nandy's patient clarifications. Dalit scholar Kancha Ilaiah said Prof Nandy had made "a bad statement with good intentions". But the harassment of the good professor is likely to continue. Sir Salman, who's no stranger to controversy in India, was asked to stay away from promoting Midnight's Children, the film based on his novel, and a book fair in Calcutta on Wednesday following fears of fringe Muslim groups protesting against his presence. "Rushdie banished from Calcutta," said a shocked Telegraph newspaper.

And in Chennai (Madras) in southern India, Kamal Haasan, according to reports, has agreed to personally cut parts of his big budget film Vishwaroopam because some Muslims groups don't like the way the community has been portrayed in the film. This after the film has been cleared by official censors, and the high court has thrown out moves to ban the film from being screened. A tired Kamal Haasan said he was fed up with the controversy and contemplating leaving the country. There's a grim precedent: one of India's greatest painters, MF Husain, was literally hounded into exile for drawing a Hindu goddess naked.

Last year cartoonist Sudhir Tailang told me that a "new intolerance" was gripping India. He was dismayed by the arrest of anti-corruption cartoonist Aseem Trivedi after a lawyer complained that his cartoons mocked the country and its constitution. The new intolerance, many believe, is also being fuelled by a section of India's sensation-seeking media, which "dumbs down" nuanced debates. Others argue that politicians should share a large part of the blame. "When politicians abdicate the responsibility of standing up for the average citizen in the face of such action, when they become cheerleaders for intimidation in fact, the republic is in trouble indeed," says The Indian Express newspaper. The question is, why are most Indian politicians and the government silent about such attacks on free speech?

BBC News - Is India facing a 'cultural emergency'?

 

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The jihadists are coming, the jihadists are coming!...

US urges Europe to take action against Hezbollah
Feb. 5,`13 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration called Tuesday for Europe to take "proactive action" to disrupt the Hezbollah organization following an investigation that tied the group to the deadly bombing of a bus filled with Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year.

In strongly worded statements, Secretary of State John Kerry and White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said the Europeans, along with other countries that have balked at imposing sanctions on Hezbollah, must act to prevent additional attacks. "We strongly urge other governments around the world - and particularly our partners in Europe - to take immediate action to crack down on Hezbollah," Kerry said in his first substantive statement as secretary of state. "We need to send an unequivocal message to this terrorist group that it can no longer engage in despicable actions with impunity." Kerry also discussed the matter with European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in a phone call, the State Department said.

In his statement, Brennan, who is President Barack Obama's nominee to run the Central Intelligence Agency, said the Bulgarian investigation "exposes Hezbollah for what it is: a terrorist group that is willing to recklessly attack innocent men, women, and children, and that poses a real and growing threat not only to Europe, but to the rest of the world." "We commend Bulgarian authorities for their determination and commitment to ensuring that Hezbollah is held to account for this act of terror on European soil," he said.

Earlier Tuesday in Sofia, investigators implicated Hezbollah in last July's bombing, which killed five Israelis and their Bulgarian driver. The findings are expected to put pressure on the European Union to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, as the United States and Israel have done. Some European countries are opposed to making such a designation because Hezbollah also operates as a legal political party in Lebanon.

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I can not understand why The European Union has declined to include Hezbollah on its EU terror list... Hezbollah has already been designated by the United States as a terrorist organization.

Hezbollah is Iran's primary terrorist proxy and is embarking on a new campaign of violence targeting not only Israel, but the US and other Western targets as well.

It's about time for Europe to wake up!

 

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I can not understand why The European Union has declined to include Hezbollah on its EU terror list... Hezbollah has already been designated by the United States as a terrorist organization.

Hezbollah is Iran's primary terrorist proxy and is embarking on a new campaign of violence targeting not only Israel, but the US and other Western targets as well.

It's about time for Europe to wake up!

Its about time you pulled your heads out of your own backsides and realised that USA is the biggest and most aggressive TERRORIST STATE.