According to a report in today's Die Welt, the Iranian-backed Lebanese Islamic terror group Hizbollah is planning to open a branch in Berlin. The German Federal Security Agency (BfV) confirms that Hizbollah followers are in the market for office space. Although the Hizbollah is on numerous lists of known terrorist organizations, it has not yet been officially banned in Germany.
Christian Democrat legislator Norbert Pflueger [a true anti-idiotarian, look for him here] is demanding that the organization be banned from the country. "It's absurd," he says, "that airplane passengers get their nailclippers taken away, while the Hizbollah gets to open an office unchallenged"
There aren't yet any indications that the Hizbollah (which means "Party of God") is directly engaged in terrorism in Germany. Their main objective there seems to be for propaganda (like praising the Sept. 11 attacks) and to raise money for the struggle against Israel. Hizbollah General Secretary Hassan Nasrallah has said that the most important form of "resistance against Zionism" is suicide bombings.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at June 26, 2002 10:26 PMi am writing to u today with regard to the article u posted about hizbollah being a terrorist group.first of all i lived in lebanon for 8 years i know just how much the lebanese people have suffered due to the isreali occupation of there land, hizbollah under the leader ship of hassan nassrallah has not once targeted civilians but if you check the israeli record and ill even give u a specific date 13 april 1996 in the city of qana where over a hundred civilians mainly woman and children were kiled in a UN sanctioned room under the malice cover of darkness with the blinding force of a bomb guided on pure hatred of israeli zoinism to arab and specifically muslim communities ,yet with cruel and missinformed indesency the word "terrorist"is placed as name logo to anyone seen unfit of US approval.if you for any chance would like check the validity of my words you are more than welcome to visit lebanon and i would be glad to give you a tour of what the israeli occupation has done to that beautiful and enchanting country
Posted by: danielle on April 21, 2005 05:14 PM