Hezbollah poised to strike Manhattan soon : expert

[tocqueville]

While al-Qaida operatives and their homegrown imitators remain the greatest concern, Hezbollah should not be ignored, police officials said. They emphasized the point by showing footage of a Hezbollah rally in Lebanon where a massive crowd chanted, "Death to America."

Historically, the Lebanon-based Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran and is called a terrorist group by the United States, has been most active in the Middle East, but "we're worried that may be changing," Falkenrath said.

The city has pockets of Hezbollah loyalists who could be incited to violence, the NYPD intelligence analysts said.

They said they suspect that Iranian spies working on the group's behalf had already done reconnaissance on landmarks, large synagogues and other potential targets in Manhattan and elsewhere.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20060908/ap_on_re_us/nyc_security_1

[acmavm]

1. Geez, how damn convenient.

edit: convenient for more than one reason.

Time to ramp up the terra and time to demonize Israel's adversary. Kill two birds with one stone.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. They're pulling out all the stops before the election, aren't they?

:eyes:

[wicket]

14. Who are the morons still buying this bullshit??!!

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[Cooley Hurd]

15. .

[wicket]

20. I've always wondered

I've always wondered if that moran guy knows how famous he is on the internets :rofl:

[Cooley Hurd]

21. Me too...

Hell, if I saw him in a bar, I'd might even buy him a beer! :D

[babylonsister]

3. So much for the highly vaunted DHS. What exactly are they

good for again? :eyes:

[tnlefty]

16. Harrassing Greg Palast for a film that he made is about all that I can

come up with right now.

[annabanana]

4. BOO!

(didja jump?)

Seriously, I am sure that there is appropriate police and investigative work going on. If we let old hands do their job we will be ok.

[soothsayer]

5. LOL! Who's going to attack NY next? Anyone but North Korea

i guess

[MikeNearMcChord]

6. Has Hezbollah conducted any operations outside Lebanon?

Tell the police "intelligence" units of the NYPD, to go to Hollywood and get the rewrite department, I doubt the script would pass muster even on the Fox Networks. Iranian Spies in Manhattan, well since there is no doubt that there are US intelligence operations in Iran, isn't this a case of all's fair in war?

[tocqueville]

10. none proven

the closest should be the Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires, but nothing conclusive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Embassy_attack_in_Buenos_Aires

[tocqueville]

7. The city (NY) has pockets of Hezbollah loyalists...

just wait for the Katjushas to rain on Broadway and Central Park...

unfuckingbelievable

and I bet there are people buying this...

[treestar]

8. A bunch of people chanting "Death to America" please

That's just hot air.

That's enough to get them quivering? :scared:

No wonder they hate us. We may not parade around shouting "death to the Muslims." It's just that we follow it up with real action.

:scared:

[CoffeeCat]

9. Fear! Fear!! Please remember...

...to also be VERY, VERY terrorized by and fearful of:

Wild poodles!

Poisonous snakes!

Africanized, killer bees on acid!

Giant gyrating tornadoes!!

Angry White Males!!

Poisonous drinking water!!

Aliens with acid for blood!!!

Spontaneous Combustion!!

Asteroids!!!

Everything!!!!

[Hugin]

12. You forgot, "Stingrays".

They are very dangerous.

[godai]

11. You must be afraid! You must be afraid!!

And when there is no attack, * takes credit for preventing it!

[The Stranger]

13. Falkenrath is fear-mongering and hate-mongering for his own agenda.

No coincidence that he is on the record (all over the record) in favor of the illegal NSA wiretapping of U.S. citizens.

http://www.volokh.com/posts/1147539048.shtml

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/12/AR2006051201656.html

He has lied about the law prohibiting the government's surveillance of civilian phone records:

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/13/falkenrath-wrong/

And he is a Right Wing attack dog:

In an interview, Richard Falkenrath, a former weapons proliferation expert at Harvard University and a Bush aide until just two weeks ago, dismissed Kerry as having an "undistinguished" record on combating bio-terrorism while the Bush administration "has pursued a bio-defense agenda that is broader than anything I conceived of in my wildest dreams as an academic."

"This is just crazy," he said. "Here's the senator who has done nothing on this area." Falkenrath noted that Kerry missed last month's Senate vote approving so-called "bioshield" legislation, which Bush sought to speed research and production of vaccines to counter biological weapons.

www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20040603/1042449.asp

[CJCRANE]

17. Not very likely -

there are no strong Bushco links to Hezbollah as there were to the Saudis/Mujahideen (who are the default Bushco patsies).

[graywarrior]

18. All I know is Killer Bees are headed to NY

Here's proof.

[FearofFutility]

19. Oh no!

Plastic sheeting...check
Duct tape.....check
tuna........check
powdered milk check
bed to hide under....check
:scared:

[DireStrike]

22. "...potential targets in manhattan and elsewhere."

What?! The DHS says New York has no potential targets of national value.