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Steven Emerson,
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July 1, 2015
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Iranian-backed
Hizballah and Hamas Bolster Worldwide Terrorist Presence
by IPT News • Jul 1, 2015 at 3:21
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While the West extends nuclear negotiations with Iran, the Islamic
Republic continues to enhance its international terrorism infrastructure
through its proxies. Hizballah has 950 active operatives in the Western
European state while Hamas maintains 300 operatives, according to a German
intelligence report summarized by the Jerusalem Post.
The number of Islamists in Germany rose from 43,190 in 2013 to 43,890 in
2014, the report said.
Radical Islamists are "the greatest danger to Germany...Germany is
on the spectrum of goals for Islamic terrorists," said Hans-Georg
Maassen, president of German's domestic intelligence agency – the Federal
Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV).
The report's chapter on "Islamism and Islamic terrorism"
reveals that "Hamas was successful" in organizing people beyond
its main support base to participate in anti-Israel protests. There were
"more Hamas- supporting events than peace demonstrations, and there
was clearly public anti-Semitism" during last summer's war in Gaza.
A reminder about Hizballah's reach came this week in a Cyprus criminal
court, where an operative was sentenced to six years in jail following a guilty plea to all eight charges levied against him in
connection with a plot to attack Israeli and Jewish targets. Authorities
seized nine tons of ammonium nitrate from Hussein Bassam Abdallah, a
Lebanese-Canadian. Prosecutors revealed that Abdallah was recruited into
Hizballah's military wing roughly five years ago and visited Cyprus
approximately 10 times since 2012. This incident marks the second time a
Cypriot court sentenced a Hizballah operative to prison for planning
attacks against Israeli targets in the last three years.
These developments demonstrate that Iranian backed terrorist
organizations continue to bolster their presence internationally and plot
attacks throughout the world. Over the last few years, Hizballah has planned attacks against Israeli and Western targets in
Thailand, India, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Nepal, and Nigeria among
others. In 2012, the terrorist group was responsible for a deadly suicide bus bombing which killed five Israeli
tourists and the bus driver in Bulgaria.
Hamas, a terrorist group with long-standing Iranian support, is also
enhancing its international terrorist infrastructure. For example, recent
reports show that Hamas is actively recruiting Palestinians studying in
Malaysia, who are then sent to train in Turkey, to conduct terrorist
attacks against Israelis upon returning to the West Bank.
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