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U.S., Canada warn Hezbollah set to hit Jewish targets, report says
By Haaretz Service
Tags: terrorism, Jewish, Hezbollah 

Intelligence agencies in Canada and the United States are warning of mounting signs that the Lebanon-based guerilla group Hezbollah is planning to attack Jewish targets in retaliation for the assassination of top Hezbollah man Imad Mughniyah some six months ago, ABC News reported Thursday.

Hezbollah has blamed Israel for the February 12 assassination in Damascus, but Israel has denied any involvement.

The intelligence sources told the American news network that Hezbollah was operating sleeper cells in Canada, and that senior Hezbollah operatives have left Lebanon for Canada as well as Europe and Africa.
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According to the sources, ABC reported, there is currently no specific warning of an imminent attack, but they added that Hezbollah operatives have recently carried out surveillance of the Israeli embassy in the Canadian capital, as well as several synagogues in Toronto.

The sources added that Latin America was also a possible target for a Hezbollah strike.

Four suspected sleeper cells have been identified in Canada, ABC reported, and some 20 suspected Hezbollah operatives are currently under surveillance. The members of the cells have received orders to send their family members back to Lebanon.

The network also reported that a Hezbollah weapons expert was spotted at a firing range south of Toronto. According to the intelligence sources, the operatives' moves are being coordinated with Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

"They want to kill as many people as they can, they want it to be a big splash," said former CIA intelligence officer Bob Baer, who told ABC he had met with Hezbollah leaders in Beirut last month.

"Hezbollah would not carry out an attack in the west, or wherever this attack is going to occur, without approval from Tehran," Baer added.

Baer told ABC that his Hezbollah contacts told him an attack against the U.S. was unlikely because Iran and Hezbollah did not want to give the current administration, headed by U.S. President George W. Bush, an excuse to attack.

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      1.   How about Brazil ? 23:27  |  zarebin 19/06/08
      2.   if this is true then israel has to send a signal to hizballah 23:33  |  harzion 19/06/08
      3.   ENOUGH BS!!!! Hezbollah isnt stupid enough to attack outside of.. 23:36  |  MOE 19/06/08
      4.   Didn`t The West applauded the Quatar Mediation for the Recent 23:37  |  Joseph.E 19/06/08
      5.   COME ON, I DARE YA 23:47  |  jay dog 19/06/08
      6.   nonsense. hezbollah much smarter than that... 23:50  |  bashar 19/06/08
      7.   Violence is the only language Israelis seem to.. 23:52  |  Dutch Dirk 19/06/08
      8.   To mo 23:58  |  Michael 19/06/08
      9.   it may happen right after the swap 23:59  |  Gabriel 19/06/08
      10.   This will never happen. This is nothing but Fearmongering.... 00:01  |  POP 20/06/08
      11.   Haaretz Quote " Hezbollah would 00:10  |  Joseph.E 20/06/08
      12.   Dutch Dirk 00:12  |  Jabotinsky 20/06/08
      13.   No more shwarma for me!! 00:18  |  Richard S 20/06/08
      14.   Dutch Dirt 00:22  |  Connie 20/06/08
      15.   MOE talk about Arab denial !! ARGENTINA !! 00:27  |  PETER SM 20/06/08
      16.   BASHAR If Arabs are THAT smart.Why all the other 00:29  |  PETER SM 20/06/08
      17.   Dutch Kirk Clueless 00:31  |  Europe 20/06/08
      18.   Hezbollah will blame Israel 00:35  |  Ron 20/06/08
      19.   Hezb Pearl Harbor-like strike would justify nuclear retaliation 00:40  |  Dr. L. Brnd 20/06/08
      20.   Rumors - well founded and from reliable sources 00:42  |  Mark Lincoln 20/06/08
      21.   Terrorism will make Arabs and Muslims unwelcome in North America 00:46  |  Sam 20/06/08
      22.   Dutch Dirk 00:48  |  Danite 20/06/08
      23.   Iran is getting ready for US strike 00:49  |  Lemmings Hotline 20/06/08
      24.   Canadian are more worried about severed feet showing up thesedays 01:01  |  POP 20/06/08
      25.   Maybe Talkback forum is being to send messages... lol 01:02  |  POP 20/06/08
      26.   Dutch Dirk 01:02  |  Ramius 20/06/08
      27.   dutch dirk, the progressive 01:03  |  al-kafir al-yahudi 20/06/08
      28.   I think that its time for Samir Kuntar to go back to his cell 01:03  |  Jacob Blues 20/06/08
      29.   ? 01:11  |  Jane 20/06/08
      30.   Evil, evil Hezbollah 01:19  |  Drumstick 20/06/08
      31.   No. 7 Dutch Dirk 01:21  |  Raymond 20/06/08
      32.   #7 you are on the list 01:22  |  Daniel 20/06/08
      33.   #7 Dutch Dirk 01:24  |  Reuben 20/06/08
      34.   Love the way Hezbollah is linked to iran 01:28  |  Chris Linthwaite 20/06/08
      35.   Is the writer of this nonsense hallucinating? 01:34  |  Historian 20/06/08
      36.   Israeli / Jewish propaganda 01:47  |  American in NY 20/06/08
      37.   The smell of bullshit..... 01:56  |  Sean 20/06/08
      38.   attention hesbullah,america is responsible for the death of this 01:59  |  terrornator 20/06/08
      39.   Blame israel for the Retaliation, Mossad kills Jews 02:03  |  Hezb Allah 20/06/08
      40.   More Hezbollah heroism 02:03  |  Gilles 20/06/08
      41.   Yankee doodle dandy 02:04  |  Sean 20/06/08
      42.   No5 dead dog 02:05  |  Sean 20/06/08
      43.   dutch dirk,are you saying,lets open up the flood gates? 02:07  |  terrornator 20/06/08
      44.   More Jewish blood on European hands 02:49  |  steve dill 20/06/08
      45.   I thought Jews were not Zionists? 02:53  |  steve dill 20/06/08
      46.   #12 Have you forgotten 02:56  |  Golani 20/06/08
      47.   JUST what are our security forces thinking??? 03:04  |  Akiva P 20/06/08
      48.   American in NY - Hezbollah is Iran and Iran is US Enemy 03:16  |  GZLives 20/06/08
      49.   Hezbollah will not attack Canada 03:18  |  Murray the Mongoose 20/06/08
      50.   Violence 03:22  |  Susan 20/06/08
      51.   Hezbolla needs to be educated 03:23  |  Nechama 20/06/08
      52.   4 03:25  |  zionist forever 20/06/08
      53.   american in ny, and those of his cowardly ilk. 03:26  |  yonatan 20/06/08
      54.   AMERICAN In NY"Intelligence agencies in Canada and the US" 03:28  |  PETER SM 20/06/08
      55.   #1 Zarebin -- I´m in Brazil 03:33  |  Old Joe 20/06/08
      56.   jewish targets 03:44  |  Shmuelshachor 20/06/08
      57.   #11 Historian - May Israel Lose Every War Like it Did in Lebanon 03:49  |  WYSIWYG 20/06/08
      58.   False propoganda 03:57  |  Sami 20/06/08
      59.   Moe is slow #3 04:00  |  Free Gilad Shalit 20/06/08
      60.   Presidential election is around the corner and it is time for the 04:00  |  tim 20/06/08
      61.   #12 Divining Hezbollah`s true intent 04:01  |  DesMnsDave 20/06/08
      62.   So why not just wake up these "sleeper cells?" 04:06  |  Maureen Ann 20/06/08
      63.   ""Canada warn Hesbollah set strike Jews targets" 04:24  |  Akram Zekaria 20/06/08
      64.   ARABS/MOSLEMS killing US citizens of All faiths established fact 04:28  |  PETER SM 20/06/08
      65.   # "American", Hezbollah is our friend 04:30  |  Bob 20/06/08
      66.   CHRISTANS WILL ALSO DIE 04:31  |  TOBIA 20/06/08
      67.   American in NY- "usefyl idiot," jihadist enabler 04:33  |  Stephen in New York 20/06/08
      68.   HIDING Nasrallah in his own words on US with or without Jews 04:39  |  PETER SM 20/06/08
      69.   Here`s what the Canadian Media is Reporting - More Details 04:40  |  POP 20/06/08
      70.   To # 3 and # 6 04:53  |  Iron Fist