Word: hezbollah
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Salim Majhoulf, a student at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs who asked Gemayel about his stance towards Hezbollah, said he received an understandably “political response” that eschewed direct labeling of the group as a terrorist organization...
...Relations improved after FBI director Louis Freeh made a number of trips to Saudi Arabia, and on June 21, 2001, the Justice Department obtained an indictment charging 13 Saudi members of Hezbollah and one unidentified Lebanese man with complicity in the bombing. (An important note as the Bush administration tries to make the case the Iran is currently harboring al-Qaeda members: The indictment charged that an Iranian military officer had directed two of the defendants to conduct surveillance on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast for likely places to attack Americans and that Iranian officials financed the Saudi Hezbollah...
...conflicting views on how and whether to intervene in Iraq. But if hard-liners in Iran have concluded that their best chance of surviving is to make life as uncomfortable as possible for the occupying forces next door, a more telling indicator would be the launching of a Hezbollah-style guerrilla insurgency among Iraqi Shiites. So far there are no signs of that, and the increasingly assertive Shiite political activity in Iraq has remained largely peaceful. The Iraqi Shiite community doesn't require Iranian influence to generate suspicion of U.S. motives or to insist on a role in government consistent...
...would withdraw most of its 5-10,000 combat personnel from the kingdom. Al-Qaeda may be taking advantage of that highly publicized announcement to start attacking targets inside Saudi Arabia, in order to create the impression that they are driving the Americans out, in the way that Hezbollah drove the Israelis out of Lebanon. They can't make that claim if they didn't fire a shot. But a series of attacks before the Americans carry out their planned withdrawal will be used in al-Qaeda propaganda to claim a victory. Also, the American withdrawal may have given...
...Syria's help in rolling up al-Qaeda types. A longstanding goal of U.S. foreign policy in the region is to persuade the dictator to sign a peace agreement with Israel (in the same way as U.S.-backed autocrats in Egypt and Jordan have done) and end support for Hezbollah and Palestinian radicals. Gingrich may also be disappointed to learn that just last year, Tony Blair welcomed the "terrorist supporting, secret police wielding dictator" to London for talks on the region, hoping to persuade him to join the anti-Saddam coalition (as his secret police wielding, terrorist supporting father...