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It also participated for the first time in the lebanese government of july 2005. Now the party has lost its brand as the spearhead of islamic resistance against israel, with hezbollah forced in the most awkward way to rationalize its new mission of fighting fellow muslims on behalf of an unpopular syrian tyrant. Matthew levitts book touches a key point of the growing debate on hezbollah. A new book has alleged that current venezuelan president nicolas maduro directly negotiated with hezbollah secretary general hassan nasrallah about drug trafficking, weapons and a hezbollah. Southwest report a rise in gang members with persian tattoos, including some with hezbollah imagery. Assessing the fallout from a hezbollah commanders death this week, hassan allaqis, a senior commander of hezbollah, was assassinated in beirut, lebanon. Oct 01, 20 this is an excellent overview and historical record of hezbollah, all of its various subgroups, how it functions, how it raises funding, with what other groups or countries it collaborates, how it operates to bring about terrorist operations, and especially, irans incredible history, current interactions, funding, collaborations, and deep involvement with hezbollah s various arms and its. The book concludes with a look at hezbollah s integral, ongoing role in irans shadow war with israel and the west, including plots targeting civilians around the world. Reviews levitt creatively deploys his deep knowledge coupled with the scrupulous collection, analysis, and exploitation of information and intelligence in support of his arguments against hezbollah. Matthew levitt is director of the washington institute for near east policys stein program on counterterrorism and intelligence. Hezbollah was founded in the early 1980s as part of an iranian effort to aggregate a variety of militant lebanese shia groups into a unified organization. The global footprint of lebanons party of god is the first thorough examination of hezbollah s covert activities beyond lebanons borders, including its financial and logistical support networks and its criminal and terrorist operations worldwide. Hezbollah effectively combines its overt social and political activities with covert criminal and terrorist operations on a global scale. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including recently declassified government documents, court records, and personal interviews with intelligence officials, matthew levitt examines hezbollah s beginnings, its first violent forays in lebanon, and then its terrorist activities and criminal enterprises abroad in europe, the middle east, south.
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Frederic hof, senior fellow at the atlantic council, provides commentary. The book leaves little doubt as to the increasing importance, danger, and international reach of hezbollah. Hezbollah has the armed strength of a mediumsized army. Sophisticated lessons in spycraft, explosives and arms detailed in a cyprus court case that is forcing the european union to consider. Oct 02, 20 matthew levitt talks about the power of hezbollah in lebanon and the organizations activities beyond lebanons borders. From 2005 to early 2007, he served as deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and analysis at the u. In search of nuance in the debate over hezbollah s criminal enterprise and the u.
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