Word: hizballah
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...oatmeal sweater, blue jeans and easy smile, Malek Hussein might seem more at home sipping a latte in Seattle than sugary tea in Beirut's Shi'ite Muslim stronghold. But the 38-year-old self-taught Webmaster is holed up in a secret office where the Lebanese Islamic group Hizballah operates an Internet site that blasts propaganda against Israel. With a four-person staff, Hussein is fending off a hacker assault launched by Israelis. "They're going after us!" proclaims Hussein, who loads software designed to deflect the bulk messages that become e-mail bombs when they reach Hizballah...
After a four-month lull, Hizballah and Israel are back at war. In two provocative operations last month, Hizballah commandos captured three Israeli soldiers and a businessman who the group claims is a Mossad agent, putting Hizballah back in the spotlight as heroes of the Arab world. The group is also openly extending its campaign beyond Lebanon, using its financial and operational resources to whip up Palestinian fury...
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak hoped he had seen the last of Hizballah when he ended a 22-year military occupation of southern Lebanon in May. Many Lebanese, including some Hizballah moderates, expected the group to downsize its guerrilla activities and become a conventional political party. But Hizballah's political ambitions were toasted by a dismal showing in parliamentary elections in September. So, with the blessing of Iran, which has supported Hizballah for years, the group has returned to its path of violent resistance...
...latest clashes between Israelis and Palestinians have offered a good pretext. In a TIME interview at his fortified office in Beirut's southern suburbs, Hizballah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah made it clear that the group's political aims in Lebanon have become secondary to the regional jihad to free Jerusalem from Israeli occupation. "There is no doubt that our most important role is in the region," he explained. "We have experience, and we are ready to help. All means must be used to help the Palestinians." U.S. officials contend that Hizballah is training radical Palestinian factions for terrorist operations...
...group spotted a threat from an undetermined source against U.S. citizens in Turkey, the Arabian Peninsula and the gulf, and the State Department issued a warning to Americans to avoid those regions. "It could be a threat from a variety of groups," says the CSG member. "Al-Qaeda, Hizballah, the Jerusalem Warriors--all sorts of scum...