Badges - Re: Hezbollah in Mexico
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- Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 15:27:12 -0500
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Subject: Badges - Hezbollah in Mexico
A terrorist organization whose home base is in the Middle East has
established another home base across the border in Mexico.
"They are recognized by many experts as the 'A' team of Muslim terrorist
organizations," a former U.S. intelligence agent told 10News.
The former agent, referring to Shi'a Muslim terrorist group Hezbollah,
added, "They certainly have had successes in big-ticket bombings."
"We are looking at 15 or 20 years that Hezbollah has been setting up shop in
Mexico," the agent told 10News.
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, U.S. policy has focused on
al-Qaida and its offshoots.
"They are more shooters than thinkers ... it's a lot of muscles, courage,
desire but not a lot of training," the agent said, referring to al-Qaida.
Hezbollah, he said, is far more advanced.
"Their operators are far more skilled ... they are the equals of Russians,
Chinese or Cubans," he said. "I consider Hezbollah much more dangerous in
that sense because of strategic thinking; they think more long-term."
Hezbolah has operated in South America for decades and then Central America,
along with their sometime rival, sometime ally Hamas.
Now, the group is blending into Shi'a Muslim communities in Mexico,
including Tijuana. Other pockets along the U.S.-Mexico border region remain
largely unidentified as U.S. intelligence agencies are focused on the drug
trade.
"They have had clandestine training in how to live in foreign hostile
territories," the agent said.
The agent, who has spent years deep undercover in Mexico, said Hezbollah is
partnering with drug organizations, but which ones is not clear at this
time.
He told 10News the group receives cartel cash and protection in exchange for
Hezbollah expertise.
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