Hezbollah’s global Jihad network

Beyond the news headlines that have been dominated by US politics and the unceasing reporting on the Wuhan virus pandemic, a few news reports have circulated that illustrate the global reach of one of the world’s most dangerous and notorious Jihadist terrorist organizations: Hezbollah.

On 21 September, news broke from Bulgaria that two Hezbollah jihadists have been convicted in absentia in the 2012 bombing of a tourist bus transporting Israelis in the coastal city of Burgas, Bulgaria.

Five Israelis, including a pregnant woman, along with the Bulgarian bus driver, were killed in that attack, which has been largely forgotten by most of the world.

At the time, the attack was the first by Hezbollah outside of the Middle East in several years and the worst attack against Israelis since 2004.

But the attack also is instructive for those who are concerned about the global jihadist threat.

A Jihadist organization from Lebanon (Hezbollah), employing its terrorists from France, Australia and Canada, attacked Israelis in Bulgaria. There simply can be no doubt that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization of global reach and all nations should join the European Union, which, under US and Israeli pressure, finally officially designated Hezbollah a terrorist organization last year.

But this isn’t the only recent news that illustrates Hezbollah’s global terror network:

• A report out of Ireland indicates that former members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provo IRA) seeking to resuscitate that terrorist organization in the form of the New IRA did so by seeking funding and weaponry from their old friends with Hezbollah. In fact, the New IRA terrorists attended a ceremony at the Iranian embassy in Dublin in honor of Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards general killed in a US drone strike in Iraq.
• The online journal The Dispatch, has published an investigative report on Hezbollah’s collaboration with the Latin American drug cartels. Hezbollah uses the cocaine trade to help finance its jihadist terrorism, something that became apparent to US law enforcement back in 2007. Hezbollah’s latest activity in the drug trade involves chemically concealing cocaine in charcoal.