Officials were led to a commercial building outside Bangkok by a Lebanese man whom authorities accuse of being part of a group planning violence.

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This article, written by Joyce Karam, appeared on The Majalla on December 19, 2011 How is the escalating conflict in Syria affecting Hezbollah’s position and standing inside Lebanon and in the region?

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Hezbollah’s Winter

BAGHDAD — The U.S. military on Friday handed over its last and most controversial prisoner to the Iraqi government ahead of the departure of the remaining few thousand U.S. troops, officials said. The prisoner, Ali Musa Daqduq, a senior member of the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah movement, is suspected in the killings of five U.S. soldiers in 2007. He was transferred to Iraqi custody after the Obama administration “sought and received assurances that he will be tried for his crimes,” according to Tommy Vietor, spokesman for the National Security Council in Washington. Read full article > >

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BAGHDAD — The U.S. military on Friday handed over its last and most controversial prisoner to the Iraqi government ahead of the departure of the remaining few thousand U.S. troops, officials said. The prisoner, Ali Musa Daqduq, a senior member of the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah movement, is suspected in the killings of five U.S. soldiers in 2007. He was transferred to Iraqi custody after the Obama administration “sought and received assurances that he will be tried for his crimes,” according to Tommy Vietor, spokesman for the National Security Council in Washington. Read full article > >

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Prosecutors filed a civil suit to punish American and Lebanese businesses the government says were behind a Hezbollah-controlled network that laundered cocaine proceeds.

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U.S. Sues American and Lebanese Businesses It Says Help Hezbollah Money Laundering

Escalating its confrontation with the CIA, the militant organization Hezbollah released what it said were the names of agency officers working in Lebanon in a television broadcast that aired there last week. The exposure creates new security risks for CIA officers in a country where American espionage operations had already been damaged by Hezbollah’s capture of a group of agency-paid informants . Read full article > >

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Hezbollah claims to release names of CIA officers in Lebanon

WASHINGTON — Hezbollah has partially unraveled the CIA’s spy network in Lebanon, severely damaging the intelligence agency’s ability to gather vital information on the terrorist organization at a tense time in the region, former and current U.S. officials said. Officials said several foreign spies working for the CIA had been captured by Hezbollah in recent months. The blow to the CIA’s operations in Lebanon came after top agency managers were alerted last year to be especially careful handling informants in the Middle East country. Read full article > >

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The State Department is mandated by Congress to provide an annual report assessing global terrorism trends and events of the previous year. Country Reports on Terrorism 2010 was released last Thursday….. and was received with a collective yawn. The report is woefully out-of-date due to its January 1 to December 31 time constraint (the Arab Spring is barely mentioned, as it was just getting started in December, and Osama bin Laden’s death isn’t within the report’s purview either). There are plenty of repeats from previous years: Iran is still the “most active” state sponsor of terror, Hezbollah is still a source of instability for Lebanon and the region, and al-Qaeda is still “the preeminent terrorist threat to the United States.”

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Which al-Qaeda Should we be Worried About?

The 47-page indictment alleges four members of the Shiite militia Hezbollah were involved in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri

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Tribunal Publishes Indictment in Hariri Murder

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands — Prosecutors analyzed a vast network of telephone records to link four Hezbollah members to the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, but there is no clear smoking gun in the case, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday. The special court investigating Hariri’s murder unsealed the 47-page indictment against four members of the Iranian-backed Shiite militia Hezbollah for alleged involvement in the deadly truck bombing that killed Hariri. Read full article > >

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Tribunal publishes indictment against Hezbollah members accused of Hariri assassination

The U.S. is looking for ways to draw the Taliban and Hezbollah into a dialogue.

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Obama weighs talking to the Taliban, Hezbollah

In Tunisia, Egypt and Lebanon, the administration is grappling with volatile forces that have already realigned the region’s political landscape.

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A Region’s Unrest Scrambles U.S. Foreign Policy

As Iraqis watched televised street demonstrations from Lebanon, some wondered how far they were from destabilizing conditions of their own.

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In Regional Tumult, Iraq Sees Warning

A victory for the Shiite movement has realigned Lebanon’s combustible politics and set off angry protests.

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Anti-Hezbollah Protests Continue in Lebanon

There are fresh protests in Tripoli and other Lebanese cities on a “day of rage” declared against Hezbollah’s attempts to form a new government.

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