Title: world war 3 to strike america - terrorist attacks being planned in every city in america [FOX NEWS BREAKING] SOURCE FBI Source:
FOX NEWS URL Source:[None] Published:Jul 19, 2006 Author:FOX NEWS NOW Post Date:2006-07-19 09:48:55 by TLBSHOW Keywords:None Views:1797 Comments:2
BREAKING - TRYING TO FIND SLEEPER CELLS NOW - FBI SAYS DON'T PANTIC - WE DOUBT THEY WILL ATTACK
July 19, 2006 -- JERUSALEM - Hezbollah yesterday warned the United States: You're next on our hit list.
The threat against U.S. interests came as the FBI revealed it is searching for Hezbollah terrorist agents operating on American soil.
Iranian Hezbollah's spokesman, Mojtaba Bigdeli, boasted that the group has trained 2,000 volunteers who are ready to take aim at the United States.
"They have been trained and they can become fully armed. We are ready to dispatch them to every corner of the world to jeopardize Israel and America's interests," Bigdeli said.
"If America wants to ignite World War III . . . we welcome it," he added.
Amid the escalating threats and the week-old war in the Middle East, federal law-enforcement officials have stepped up their efforts to root out sleeper agents in the United States.
"Because of the heightened difficulties surrounding U.S.-Iranian relations, the FBI has increased its focus on Hezbollah," said FBI spokesman Paul Bresson in Washington. "Those investigations relate particularly to the potential presence of Hezbollah members on U.S. soil."
There is no sign of an imminent attack, he added.
Meanwhile in Israel, military officials said they need another two weeks to finish off Hezbollah, as the Iran-backed terrorists fired more than 100 rockets and missiles into northern Israel.
But they may have to wrap things up in only one week, according to a report in the British paper The Guardian.
The United States has given Israel a one-week window to inflict damage on the terror group before pushing for a cease-fire, the paper says, citing British, European and Israeli sources.
Syria has started to rearm the thinning Hezbollah arsenal - but Israel yesterday destroyed four trucks packed with missiles coming into Lebanon from its eastern neighbor yesterday, officials said.
The terror thugs desperately needed the new supplies because "40 to 60 percent of Hezbollah's operational capability is destroyed," sources said.
In other developments:
* Israeli warplanes killed 31 people, including 11 soldiers, at an army barracks east of Beirut yesterday. Another strike, early this morning, leveled 10 houses in the village of Srifa, killing at least 10.
* Some Israeli ground troops crossed into southern Lebanon early this morning to search for tunnels and weapons in what military officials called "restrictive attacks."
* Hezbollah's Katyusha rockets continued to rain down on Haifa and more than a dozen other northern Israeli towns. A 30-year-old father was killed as he led his daughter into a bomb shelter in Nahariya, and more than 20 other Israelis were injured elsewhere.
* President Bush said he suspects Syria is trying to re-establish its domination of Lebanon after being kicked out last year.
"It's in our interest for Syria to stay out of Lebanon and for [Lebanon's] government to survive," Bush said in Washington.
* Israel continued its campaign in Gaza, moving tanks into a refugee camp early this morning under cover of machine gun fire. Five Israeli soldiers were wounded, two seriously, and at least two Hamas gunmen were killed in the clash.
* Hundreds of Americans and Europeans continued to flee Lebanon. About 200 Americans gathered near the heavily guarded U.S. Embassy compound early this morning, waiting to be put on a ship. The State Department yesterday dropped a controversial plan to ask Americans to pay for some evacuations.
* Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert charged that Hezbollah began the latest crisis - by abducting two Israeli soldiers a week ago - in an effort to divert attention from Iran's nuclear-arms effort.
"Unfortunately, this Iranian trick succeeded," Olmert said.
Iran has supplied Hezbollah with much of its firepower, including long-range Zelzal missiles capable of hitting targets 120 miles away, officials said.
They said Iran transferred the Zelzals to Lebanon 18 months ago.
In the last two days, Israeli jets managed to blow up several Zelzals.
But Hezbollah still has a few Zelzals "and hundreds" of Syrian-made Sajar missiles with a range of 50 miles, a defense source said.
Israeli aircraft dropped leaflets over southern Lebanon mocking Hezbollah's leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, who hasn't been seen in five days.
"Where are you hiding?" the fliers asked.
Meanwhile, hundreds of anti-Israeli protesters denounced the campaigns in Lebanon and Gaza yesterday outside Israel's Midtown consulate.
"What Israel is doing goes against every standard of human decency," said Ben Davis, 27, of Brooklyn.
