"... On numerous occasions the complaint highlights individuals as either being "members", "operatives", or "supporters" of Hezbollah, but fails to provide evidence of these alleged connections, or clarify what defines the characteristics of these terms.
"It is being deliberately vague with these terms because they don’t have anything to connect it to Hezbollah," said Dratel. "When it talks of 'associations with Hezbollah', what does this mean? Some construction worker who helped in the reconstruction efforts following the 2006 war?"
On one occasion the complaint does go into detail of how one individual, Oussama Salhab, was a Hezbollah "operative". "During a border inspection of a fingerprint-encrypted laptop Salhab carried with him, [Customs and Border Protection] officers found, among other things, images of Hizballah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah; audio of the Hizballah anthem; images of Hizballah militants stomping on an Israeli flag…" it stated.
According to Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, political analyst and author of Hezbu’llah: Politics and Religion, the material found in Salhab’s possession only goes to prove he is not a member or operative of the movement.
"This is the best way of knowing they are not Hezbollah members," she told Al Jazeera. Members would not compromise themselves "by actually carrying this stuff around".
"These items are those of a groupie. A ‘member’ or ‘operative’ of the movement would definitely not be carrying anything on his persons that would associate him to Hezbollah," she concluded...."
"'America is something that can be easily moved. Moved to the right direction.They won’t get in our way'" Benjamin Netanyahu
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
The 'case' against Hezbollah
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Isn't Salhab a sunni name from Tripoli??????
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