June 19, 2008

Terror Alerts for Canada, UAE (UPDATED)

ABC is calling it an exclusive, so I guess we'll give them credit and a link. Hizbollah, it is said, has activated sleeper cells to attack Jewish civilian targets in the West, most likely Canada.

This is ominous in its timing: On Tuesday the U.S. and U.K. both issued non-specific terror threat warnings about the possibility of attacks against American and British interests in the UAE. The threats were considered serious and credible and warned for Americans in the Middle East to be especially wary on July 4th.

Ah, summer time and the jihad is easy!

Blotter:

Intelligence agencies in the United States and Canada are warning of mounting signs that Hezbollah, backed by Iran, is poised to mount a terror attack against "Jewish targets" somewhere outside the Middle East.

Intelligence officials tell ABC News the group has activated suspected "sleeper cells" in Canada and key operatives have been tracked moving outside the group's Lebanon base to Canada, Europe and Africa.

There is also some concern that Hezbollah could strike in Latin America. AllahP and I are on the same wavelength here: Venezuela.

Regardless of whether or not reports that Chavez has sent his cronies to be trained by Hezbollah are true (which I am skeptical of) there is a definite Hezbollah presence in South America, and that can't be a good thing.

Since GM is both Persian and Canadian, I'm hoping he'll have something to say in the comments. We know the center of Hezbollah sympathy in the U.S. is in Dearborn, Michigan where there is a sizable Shia-Lebanese community. Does Canada have it's own version of South Beiruitisstan?

Hat tip: Newbie. In fact, I was hoping this post would have been written by our newest addition to the Jawa family, but he got a last minute call and punted it to me. Since I'm not sure what nickname he's going to use, we'll just call him Newbie for now.

UPDATE: Darcy has this background on Hezbollah activities in Canada.

Yesterday Treasury's OFAC moved against Hezbollah activities in what South American country? Bingo.

Thanks to GM.

By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at 03:59 PM | |