Word: hizbollah
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...need to be very clear-eyed about what's at stake here when we stir up the Lebanese opposition. The Syrians believe that retaining control over Lebanon is a vital interest of theirs. They can stir up considerable trouble in Lebanon using Hizbollah. That can lead either to chaos and sectarian war in Lebanon, or a flare-up on the border between southern Lebanon and Israel, or both. The Syrians have ways to say to us, 'You want us out of here, then you live with the consequences.' We may find ourselves in a situation which has the potential...
...paragon of interagency cooperation is the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, which was created in 1986 as a way to get FBI and CIA agents working side by side. In the past three years, the CTC has broken up three planned attacks by the Hizbollah terror group outside the Middle East, all of them targeting locations where Americans could have been killed. The CTC is everything the rest of the intelligence community is not: coordinated, dynamic and designed for the post-cold war threat. As a result, its staff has doubled to 1,000 since Sept. 11, and the Administration...
...from the Sept. 11 attacks, it is the danger that governments run by extremists poses to the international community. A Palestinian government would surely be run by the body currently known as the Palestinian Authority—a group that not only continues to harbor terrorists of Hamas and Hizbollah, but runs a terrorist organization of its own called Fatah. America should do nothing in the way of seeing that a Palestinian state is formed until it is certain that the Palestinian terrorist organizations are handed over and brought to justice, and that extremist interests do not prevail...
...Worse, perhaps, the air strikes had to have pleased Hamas and Hizbollah...
...that's exactly what they want. When they send a suicide bomber, it has a dual purpose. To kill Israelis, and also to draw the harshest possible response because it helps them politically. That was the way Hizbollah fought their war in Lebanon. Now, the radical groups have provoked Sharon into a serious escalation that's causing him political and diplomatic problems. Until now, Sharon's strategy had simply been an intensified version of the things Barak had done. But the air strikes mark a serious departure...