Chilling interview on Fresh Air with authors of Lightning Out of Lebanon: Hezbollah Terrorists on American Soil.
Main point: even though these Hezbollah cells seem benign (cigarette smuggling, credit card fraud: all non-violent stuff to raise money to send weapons to Lebanon), they can basically serve as advance teams for future terrorists acts in the US. If Iran should decide to attack inside the US, these cells have done the recon to allow them to ramp up very quickly, by sending in professionals to do the deed.
Interesteing discussion of how the FBI is going after Hezbollah, too.
The authors say Hezbollah is better trained and more disciplined than al-Qaeda and there are cells all over the country. Great.
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