Iran in high season. Get your gun, Dick....

[Flabbergasted]

Hezbollah is a growing danger to U.S., intelligence chief says

(eerily familiar)


WASHINGTON – Al-Qaeda poses the gravest terrorist threat to the United
States and an emboldened Hezbollah is a growing danger, the U.S. intelligence chief said Thursday.


In his annual review of global threats, National Intelligence Director John Negroponte highlighted an increasingly worrisome assessment of Hezbollah – backed by Iran and Syria – since its 34-day war with Israel last year.



“As a result of last summer's hostilities, Hezbollah's self-confidence and hostility toward the United States as a supporter of Israel could cause the group to increase its contingency planning against United States interests,” Negroponte told the Senate Intelligence Committee.



He depicted a more multifaceted terrorist threat than in years past. Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. spy agencies have stressed the threat from al-Qaeda and associated Sunni extremist groups, rather than from Hezbollah and other Shiite Muslim groups.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/terror/20070111-1402-nationalthreats.html