Breaking Hezbollah's Golden Rule
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Breaking Hezbollah's Golden Rule
Lebanese Hezbollah goes to great lengths to publicize its overt, social, and political activities and to conceal its covert terrorist, militant, and criminal pursuits. In the words of one operative, Hezbollah's "Golden Rule" is this: The Less You Know, the Better.In this podcast, terrorism scholar M...
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Hezbollah buys grassroots support in Lebanon where and when it can, but the group turns to intimidation and even murder when a vocal opponent can’t be...
Operations and Illicit Finance in the Gulf
Two Hezbollah financiers based in Qatar secretly raised tens of millions of dollars for Hezbollah through banks and cash couriers. The operatives leve...
Sleeper Cells and Surveillance in the U.S.
In 2017, two Hezbollah operatives were arrested on the same day for conducting independent surveillance operations on U.S. targets across the country....
Hezbollah’s Digital Footprint
40 years ago this week, Hezbollah blew up the barracks of U.S. Marine and French military peacekeepers in Beirut, killing about 300 people. The group...
Blood Diamonds, Picassos, and Illicit Financing in Africa
Diamonds are an excellent way to smuggle and launder money - they’re very liquid, can’t be sniffed out by dogs, don’t set off metal detectors, and are...
"A Jumble of Overlapping Plots" in Baku
In 2008, Azerbaijani authorities thwarted a Hezbollah plot to target an Israeli Independence Day celebration and kidnap the Israeli ambassador in Baku...
Terror in Bangkok, Then and Now
An innocent looking hit-and-run accident in downtown Bangkok in 1994 uncovered a sophisticated Hezbollah network in Thailand, an attempt to target the...
Risky Business in South America
Earlier this month, the U.S. Treasury Department designated Hezbollah operative Amer Mohamed Akil Rada for coordinating the activities of various comm...
Breaking Hezbollah's Golden Rule - Season 2 Trailer 2
Preview Season 2 of Breaking Hezbollah's Golden Rule, a podcast series devoted to shining a bright light on the global terrorist and criminal activiti...
Breaking Hezbollah's Golden Rule - Season 2 Trailer 1
Preview Season 2 of Breaking Hezbollah's Golden Rule, a podcast series devoted to shining a bright light on the global terrorist and criminal activiti...
Undermining Stability in Lebanon
Hezbollah’s deep penetration of the Lebanese financial system threatens the legitimacy and stability of the state it claims to protect. After all, whe...
Hezbollah “Black Ops” in the Western Hemisphere
On June 1, 2017, U.S. authorities arrested two Hezbollah sleeper agents. The operatives had created targeting packages with ready-to go-plans for poss...
Operation Cedar: Hezbollah Narco-Money Laundering
European authorities weren’t looking for Hezbollah when they investigated a massive money laundering network operating across at least seven EU countr...
Hezbollah Attack Plots in Cyprus and Bulgaria
In July 2012, police arrested a well-trained Hezbollah operative named Hossam Yaacoub in Cyprus. Less than two weeks later, a Hezbollah suicide bomb k...
Hezbollah Support Networks in America
In Charlotte, North Carolina, a gang of Hezbollah criminals smuggled cigarettes across state lines to raise funds. But on Thursday nights, they gather...
Crime and Terror in South America
South America’s Tri-Border Area has been described as “the United Nations of crime.” Along the porous borders of Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil, coun...
Hezbollah Goes Global
In December 1983, six blasts shook Kuwait’s capital city. Two prominent Hezbollah operatives oversaw the attack. Soon, bombs were going off in Paris,...
Origin Story—"Wild, Wild West Beirut"
On his first day with the State Department, Special Agent Fred Burton found a suicide bomber’s ear in a file on his desk. The bomber had targeted the...
Breaking Hezbollah's Golden Rule - Trailer
Preview Breaking Hezbollah's Golden Rule, a podcast series devoted to shining a bright light on the global terrorist and criminal activities that the...