{"id":7640,"date":"2012-03-21T15:28:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T22:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7640"},"modified":"2012-03-21T15:28:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T22:28:52","slug":"congressman-peter-king-n-y-thousands-of-hezbollah-inside-the-united-states-needs-time-out-to-adjust-meds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7640","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Peter King N.Y.: “thousands of Hezbollah inside the United States” – needs time out to adjust meds."},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter King warns: Hezbollah agents in U.S.<\/strong>
\nBy MJ LEE – 21 March, 2012 – Politico <\/p>\n

Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) warned Wednesday that there are hundreds \u2014 maybe even thousands \u2014 of Hezbollah agents inside the United States capable of launching a terror attack if U.S.-Iran tensions continue to escalate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe American intelligence community \u2026 believes we are very much at risk for an attack by Iranian operatives, which would be Hezbollah, that is a terrorist-trained force in this country. It really is the \u2018A\u2019 team of international terrorism \u2014 far more sophisticated than Al Qaeda,\u201d the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee said on CNN\u2019s \u201cStarting Point.\u201d<\/p>\n

King, whose committee is holding a hearing Wednesday to \u201ceducate\u201d Americans and members of Congress about the threat of Iran, explained that Hezbollah has had agents and operatives inside the U.S. for many years for the purpose of fundraising and recruiting.<\/p>\n

And while the conventional wisdom until recently has been that they were not necessarily stationed in the U.S. to carry out terrorist attacks, the Republican congressman warned Wednesday that especially given the recent tension between Israel and Iran, as well as questions surrounding Iran\u2019s nuclear aspirations, a scenario in which Hezbollah agents mobilize an attack remains a real possibility
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Peter King warns: Hezbollah agents in U.S. By MJ LEE – 21 March, 2012 – Politico Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) warned Wednesday that there are hundreds \u2014 maybe even thousands \u2014 of Hezbollah agents inside the United States capable of launching a terror attack if U.S.-Iran tensions continue to escalate. \u201cThe American intelligence community \u2026 more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2735],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7641,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640\/revisions\/7641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}