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Nov 2023
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Sleeper Cells and Surveillance in the U....

WASHINGTON INSTITUTE
About this episode

In 2017, two Hezbollah operatives were arrested on the same day for conducting independent surveillance operations on U.S. targets across the country. A third was arrested in July 2019 for taking pictures of a number of high-profile U.S. landmarks and communicating this information back to Beirut through his Hezbollah handlers. These three cases received a lot of media attention. A fourth didn’t, despite one operative’s efforts to stockpile bomb-making materials…in Houston, Texas.


Guests:


  • Russell Rosenthal, former FBI special agent and former FBI Legal Attaché and senior representative to Israel
  • Seamus Hughes, senior research faculty member, National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center (NCITE) at the University of Nebraska


Breaking Hezbollah’s Golden Rule is hosted by Dr. Matthew Levitt from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

 

It is produced by Anouk Millet from Earshot Strategies, and written by Dr. Levitt, Lauren von Thaden, Camille Jablonski, and Delaney Soliday, research assistants at The Washington Institute.

 

Explore my map and timeline of Hezbollah’s Worldwide activities.

 

For a full transcript of the episode, a list of sources, recommended reading, and information on our guests, visit our website.




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