Hezbollah builds a Western base

Source: NBC

From inside South America’s Tri-border area, Iran-linked militia targets U.S.

CIUDAD DEL ESTE, Paraguay - The Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia has taken root in South America, fostering a well-financed force of Islamist radicals boiling with hatred for the United States and ready to die to prove it, according to militia members, U.S. officials and police agencies across the continent.

From its Western base in a remote region divided by the borders of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina known as the Tri-border, or the Triple Frontier, Hezbollah has mined the frustrations of many Muslims among about 25,000 Arab residents whose families immigrated mainly from Lebanon in two waves, after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and after the 1985 Lebanese civil war.

An investigation by Telemundo and NBC News has uncovered details of an extensive smuggling network run by Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim group founded in Lebanon in 1982 that the United States has labeled an international terrorist organization. The operation funnels large sums of money to militia leaders in the Middle East and finances training camps, propaganda operations and bomb attacks in South America, according to U.S. and South American officials.
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U.S. officials fear that poorly patrolled borders and rampant corruption in the Tri-border region could make it easy for Hezbollah terrorists to infiltrate the southern U.S. border. From the largely lawless region, it is easy for potential terrorists, without detection, to book passage to the United States through Brazil and then Mexico simply by posing as tourists.

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Somehow nothing has come of it since then, but it always makes for a good scare story.

shiite communitees all over the world, including this one. Blowing that up into 'terra on our doorsteps' is perfidious idiocy.

George "Laura, look what followed me home."
Laura "So long as it isn't Condi, the tramp, it's okay with me."
George "It looks like terists. The people are going to hate me."
Laura "Don't worry dubya, they already hate you."
George "I'm going out to the guest house to think this out. Mebby get a drink or six."
Laura "Condi better not be out there again-- I'll be all over her, like white on rice."