The Jerusalem Post reports: “A global Shi’ite terrorism network made
up of Iranian Quds Force operatives and Hezbollah continues to target
Israelis overseas, the National Security Council’s counterterrorism
bureau warned on Wednesday, ahead of the Passover vacation season.
Twenty-seven countries have been designated by the bureau as being under a travel alert of varying severity.
The Sinai Peninsula is designated as a place with a very high, concrete threat level, and the bureau is urging Israelis to stay away from the area due to a plethora of intelligence leads pointing to kidnapping plots and terrorist threats.
Turkey, Kenya, Nigeria and Azerbaijan have been classified under the ‘ongoing potential threat’ category, which is the third most severe warning type.
Dozens of terrorist attacks around the world have been thwarted this year, a bureau source said on Wednesday, adding that Iran and Hezbollah have clearly divided up attacks between them. In this way, Iranian agents target Israeli embassies and official state symbols – as they did in New Delhi in 2012 – while Hezbollah attempts to murder less protected Israeli civilian tourists – as occurred in Burgas, Bulgaria, last year, when a Hezbollah terrorist cell bombed a tour bus, killing five Israelis and a Bulgarian bus driver.
The source stressed that the travel alerts are based on information made available from Israel’s intelligence services, adding that some terrorist attacks have been abandoned by the plotters after alerts have been issued exposing the threat.
‘Shi’ite terrorism is a threat to Israeli citizens and Diaspora Jews. The threat is being sponsored by Iran and Hezbollah. Over the past two years, there has been an increased effort to carry out attacks,’ the source said. ‘We are identifying a systematic campaign operating with the greatest vigor... They are fully coordinated. It is one axis.’…”
Read more
Twenty-seven countries have been designated by the bureau as being under a travel alert of varying severity.
The Sinai Peninsula is designated as a place with a very high, concrete threat level, and the bureau is urging Israelis to stay away from the area due to a plethora of intelligence leads pointing to kidnapping plots and terrorist threats.
Turkey, Kenya, Nigeria and Azerbaijan have been classified under the ‘ongoing potential threat’ category, which is the third most severe warning type.
Dozens of terrorist attacks around the world have been thwarted this year, a bureau source said on Wednesday, adding that Iran and Hezbollah have clearly divided up attacks between them. In this way, Iranian agents target Israeli embassies and official state symbols – as they did in New Delhi in 2012 – while Hezbollah attempts to murder less protected Israeli civilian tourists – as occurred in Burgas, Bulgaria, last year, when a Hezbollah terrorist cell bombed a tour bus, killing five Israelis and a Bulgarian bus driver.
The source stressed that the travel alerts are based on information made available from Israel’s intelligence services, adding that some terrorist attacks have been abandoned by the plotters after alerts have been issued exposing the threat.
‘Shi’ite terrorism is a threat to Israeli citizens and Diaspora Jews. The threat is being sponsored by Iran and Hezbollah. Over the past two years, there has been an increased effort to carry out attacks,’ the source said. ‘We are identifying a systematic campaign operating with the greatest vigor... They are fully coordinated. It is one axis.’…”
Read more
No comments:
Post a Comment