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Hizbollah at Home


March 28th, 2009 · Islam, Lebanon, Religion, World Affairs

This is an unnerv­ing report:

Hezbol­lah is using the same south­ern nar­cotics routes that Mex­i­can drug king­pins do to smug­gle drugs and peo­ple into the United States, reap­ing money to finance its oper­a­tions and threat­en­ing U.S. national secu­rity, cur­rent and for­mer U.S. law enforce­ment, defense and coun­tert­er­ror­ism offi­cials say.

If this story — which relies, of course, on anony­mous sources — had been reported dur­ing the Bush admin­is­tra­tion, I would prob­a­bly have dis­missed it as yet another piece of fear-mongering pro­pa­ganda. But the fact that this comes from offi­cials in the Obama admin­is­tra­tion makes me uneasy and more likely to believe it.