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Thursday, August 07, 2008

Report: Germany is a hotbed of Hezbollah activity, according to The Jerusalem Post.

Alexander Ritzmann, a Hizbullah expert and senior fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy, told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday that mosques and Iranian cultural centers in such cities as Hamburg, Berlin and Münster were hotbeds of Hizbullah activity.

The terrorist organization has not been outlawed in Germany, and its approximately 900 supporters are permitted to raise funds and call for the destruction of Israel. The number of Hizbullah members in Germany has grown from 800 in 2006 to 900 in 2007, according to German intelligence reports.

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution - Germany's domestic intelligence agency - identified Hizbullah as a threat to the country's democracy in its annual report for 2007.

Yet there was "a political decision of the German government to not act against Hizbullah," Ritzmann said.

He said he favored a ban of Hizbullah and stressed that it was "totally unacceptable that a democratic state" had failed to outlaw a "super-professional and dangerous group" that sought to launch terror attacks against Israeli, American and Jewish institutions.


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# posted by Confidential Reporter @ 4:40 PM

Iran Developing Biological Weapons

Foreign Confidential....

Although Iran is a party to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention, intelligence experts are convinced that the Islamist nation has covert programs to develop and stockpile both biological and chemical weapons and the bombs, ballistic missiles, and artillery shells to deliver them.

With foreign assistance, analysts say, including scientists and engineers from Russia, North Korea, and Syria, Iran has developed weapons of mass destruction--ahead of acquiring atomic weapons--including chemical nerve agents, anthrax, cholera, smallpox, typhus, and plague.

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