U.S. Monitoring Hizbullah Activities after Series of Bombings and Plots
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has said the U.S. is closely monitoring the activities of Hizbullah after a failed bomb plot in Bangkok and attacks on Israeli embassy staff in India and Georgia.
Napolitano told lawmakers Wednesday that the Homeland Security Department has contacted Jewish organizations around the country and is working with the FBI and other law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
She said there is no specific or credible threat against any organization or target in the United States but warned that the threat from Hizbullah remains a “critical situation worth watching.”
The warning came after Iran was accused of launching the series of attacks against Israeli interests this week in Thailand, Georgia and India. Hizbullah is closely allied with Iran.
An Israeli diplomat in New Delhi suffered on Monday grave shrapnel wounds when a motorbike assailant attached a bomb to her car. Another embassy car in Tbilisi was found before it blew up.
In Thailand, police chief Phrewphan Damapong said that Israeli diplomats were the intended target of the botched plot by Iranian suspects, which came to light following an apparently unintended explosion at a house in Bangkok on Tuesday.
The Defense Department estimates that Hizbullah receives between $100 million and $200 million a year in funding from Iran.
almost 13 years
@imad. the american government, has orchestrated all the problems you see in the middle-east today. all of the problems. that's...not stupid work. respect your enemy.
almost 13 years
imad...don't be chicken, it's not in lebanese tradition.
just look where usa economy was in 2000, before they started will ultra criminal policy in middle east and where is now.
almost 13 years
Oh no, they're being monitored. you know what that means. They're sure to find something now.
These Americans seem to think that we are as stupid as the rest of them. No one and I mean NO ONE are bigger experts in Terrorism but the Americans and Israelis. Americans have 11 terrorist training centers around the US, one being in Virginia. They teach and transport Terrorism to the Arab world to serve their interests. When Americans use their drones to kill people and Israelis execute scientists, it is all in the name of freedom. When Arabs defend themselves we are called Terrorists. It would be like calling the Men that fought for US independence against Britain all terrorists. This word is as dangerous to Arabs as a nuclear weapon. When we start looking at Arabs as cheap an indispensable than its easy to kill us off