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Report: IDF officers abroad urged to return over Hezbollah threats
By Yoav Stern and Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondents
Tags: Hezbollah, Israel 

Israel has issued a warning to all Israel Defense Forces reserves officers outside the country, urging them to return to Israel at once for fear that they may be targeted by Hezbollah, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida reported Tuesday.

The Kuwaiti daily quoted Israeli sources as saying that the defense establishment was concerned that IDF officers abroad would be targeted by the Lebanese militia as an act of revenge for the assassination of Imad Mughniyeh, the guerilla group's operations commander, who was killed in a car bombing in Damascus in February. Hezbollah blames Israel for the assassination, despite persistent denials of any Israeli involvement.

The officers in question are formerly senior military officials who currently conduct business in different countries around the world, among them Arab countries and even Muslim countries with no official ties to Israel.
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Similarly, security sources said on Monday that Israel was preparing for various possibilities, including a hit on an Israeli embassy overseas, the murder of a senior Israeli incumbent or retired official overseas, an attempt to abduct Israeli businesspeople overseas by some sting operation and even an attack on the northern border.

Hezbollah sources have been threatening recently that the revenge for Mughniyeh's death will come as a terror attack in Israel. "The coming days will show that the resistance can reach into the heart of the Zionist entity, as it did during the July 2006 war," the Qatar-based Al-Arab newspaper cited Hezbollah sources in Sunday's paper.

The sources said the revenge act's impact would equal that of the assassination, which implies that the organization intends to target senior Israeli figures.

Senior Hezbollah figures have made similar statements in the past about avenging Mughniyeh's death.

Israeli officials confirmed that the organization was working in several ways against Israel and targeting Israeli sites and citizens around the world.

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      1.   Looks like knowhere in the world 11:49  |  Paul Wood 09/09/08
      2.   Until Hez gets a big hiding ,there will be no peace for Israel 12:20  |  Alan SA 09/09/08
      3.   #1 if your statement is not antisemitic , then 12:21  |  Jacob 09/09/08
      4.   Paul 12:30  |  Ramius 09/09/08
      5.   All Jews return `home` and dream You safe 12:38  |  shakem 09/09/08
      6.   TO NO . 13:04  |  DANNY. 09/09/08
      7.   Relax everyone 13:22  |  Natallie Durson 09/09/08
      8.   No.5 `shakem` 13:28  |  Mike 09/09/08
      9.   idiotic Hezbollah 13:32  |  Rozz 09/09/08
      10.   My my Natalie 13:41  |  Rozz 09/09/08
      11.   Paul Wood 13:45  |  Dave 09/09/08
      12.   No 5 13:47  |  Jackie 09/09/08
      13.   Durson 13:48  |  Zion 09/09/08
      14.   Relax, Durson has had her daily go at nonsense 14:00  |  Ramius 09/09/08
      15.   nasrallah is smiling 14:01  |  northern neighbor 09/09/08
      16.   WOOD.They do not mind mass killing Jews either 14:11  |  PETER SM 09/09/08
      17.   Alan #2 14:22  |  Esther 09/09/08
      18.   NIORTHER NEIGHBOUR how do you know? Nasrallah is in hiding!! 14:27  |  PETER SM 09/09/08
      19.   #15 Only Nasrallah And Idiots Smile 14:53  |  Bill Foonman 09/09/08
      20.   SHAKEM Vast majority of Israelis born in Israel 15:04  |  PETER SM 09/09/08
      21.   PETER SM is nasrallah hiding?! 15:06  |  northern neighbor 09/09/08
      22.   If they do try something 15:18  |  Buick from Boca 09/09/08
      23.   Hizballah`s revenge---this is it 15:36  |  Ben 09/09/08
      24.   #7 Natallie Durson 15:41  |  Sky 09/09/08
      25.   Deterrence 15:59  |  Paul Coleman 09/09/08
      26.   This act may spark a war that hezb may regret 16:07  |  Abu Yusuf 09/09/08
      27.   northern neighbor, why do you smile? Syria is a target too 16:09  |  JP 09/09/08
      28.   Lebanon 16:35  |  Rozz 09/09/08
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      30.   #1--more garden variety silliness 16:43  |  Paul Freedman 09/09/08
      31.   #1, Paul Wood... 16:43  |  Silvienne 09/09/08
      32.   #5--get a Jewish atlas 16:44  |  Paul Freedman 09/09/08
      33.   PETER SM how much time did it take them 16:45  |  other northern neigh 09/09/08
      34.   #2, Alan from SA... 16:47  |  Silvienne 09/09/08
      35.   #16, Peter SM, "mass killing" of who? 16:51  |  Silvienne 09/09/08
      36.   #21, northern neighbor...to Peter SM.. 16:53  |  Silvienne 09/09/08
      37.   Prepare for war 17:37  |  Russell Mayfield 09/09/08
      38.   tit for tat 17:39  |  ravi 09/09/08
      39.   Syria killed him so they hit at Israel, where is the logic!!!! 17:55  |  Jo 09/09/08
      40.   Spasmodic reflex..... the doctor is in 18:00  |  allang 09/09/08
      41.   No.39 Ba`athist logic 19:06  |  Mike 09/09/08
      42.   #5 Shaken 19:21  |  Sank 09/09/08
      43.   #38 ravi 19:21  |  danny 09/09/08
      44.   Be afraid - of war-crimes warrants 19:43  |  Boycott 09/09/08
      45.   Esther what are you talking about -Are you making Freudian Slips 19:49  |  Alan SA 09/09/08
      46.   Allang 19:58  |  Warren J 09/09/08
      47.   Silvienne - Hez didnt do that wellThey were screaming for a cease 20:05  |  Alan SA 09/09/08
      48.   #15 Northern Neighbour 20:28  |  Murray of Montreal 09/09/08
      49.   Yea, but Israel didn`t kill Mughniyeh 21:24  |  Joe Sittizen 09/09/08
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      51.   israel is up to something 22:48  |  ClearCut 09/09/08
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      53.   NORTHERN Neighbour 1. What`s "non hiding" Nasrallahs adress?? 23:51  |  PETER SM 09/09/08
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      58.   BOYCOTT How many have been issued in the last 60 years? 08:09  |  PETER SM 10/09/08
      59.   repeated threats from Hezb. means Hezb.are up to something 08:16  |  PETER SM 10/09/08
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