| Iran Out to Remake Mideast With Arab Enforcer: Hezbollah | does not view Hezbollah as a "terrorist organization" but as a "legitimate socio-political force" |
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| Hamzeh, Ahmad Nizar 2004 , In the Path of Hizbullah, p:15• " Germany does not maintain its own list of terrorist organizations, having chosen to adopt the common EU list | Benjamin Weinthal 14 August 2013 |
In response, the FSA allegedly attacked two Hezbollah positions on 21 February; one in Syria and one in Lebanon.
20| House of Representatives which, among other things, referred to Hezbollah as a terrorist organization | Various sources list the official formation of the group as early as 1982 whereas Diaz and Newman maintain that Hezbollah remained an amalgamation of various violent Shi'a extremists until as late as 1985 |
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| Hezbollah denies involvement in some of these attacks, though it has been accused of being involved or linked to some or all of these attacks:• For these reasons, they justify their actions as acts of defensive jihad | In the summer of 1982, Hezbollah's Special Security Apparatus was created by Hussein al-Khalil, now a "top political adviser to Nasrallah"; while Hezbollah's counterintelligence was initially managed by Iran's , : 238 the organization continued to grow during the 1990s |
" During the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon, French Prime Minister condemned attacks by Hezbollah fighters on Israeli forces in south Lebanon, saying they were "terrorism" and not acts of resistance.
5| policy makers as a capable and deadly adversary with potential global reach | Regardless of when the name came into official use, a number of Shi'a groups were slowly assimilated into the organization, such as , and the [ ] |
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| Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God | The army also pledged to resolve the dispute and has reversed the decisions of the government by letting Hezbollah preserve its telecoms network and re-instating the airport's security chief |
However, , Lebanon's former minister of information, has said that Hezbollah has been an important ally of the government in the war against terrorist groups, and described the "American attempt to link Hezbollah to al-Qaeda" to be "astonishing".
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