The Jerusalem Post reports today on the activation of Hezbollah sleeper cells outside Lebanon:

Hizbullah “sleeper” terror cells set up outside Lebanon with Iranian assistance have been put on standby The Jerusalem Post learned on Sunday, and are likely planning attacks against Jewish and Israeli targets throughout the world.

The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) confirmed to the Post Sunday night that it had instructed embassies, consulates and Jewish institutions it was responsible for abroad to raise their level of awareness in light of the conflict in the North.

I repeat: It’s our problem, too.

At the Counterterrorism Blog, Walid Phares reports on Hezbollah’s Iranian war in Lebanon and the indefatigable Steve Emerson spotlights “Al-Mabarrat – A Hezbollah Charitable Front in Dearborn, MI?”

Via LGF, look what Hezbollah is inserting into its Katyusha terror rockets.

Who runs Lebanon? All Things Beautiful ponders, with a rich link round-up.

Don’t miss video footage of our troops helping with the evacuations in Lebanon at Blackfive. Our troops are targets of Hezbollah, too.

I’m giving Diana West the last warning words tonight:

Osama Siblani, the publisher of Dearborn’s Arab American News, considers members of Hezbollah — along with Hamas and other jihadist groups — freedom fighters. And, as Mr. Siblani tells it to the Detroit News, he’s not alone: “If morally supporting Hizbollah or associating with [Hezbollah spiritual leader Muhammad Hussein] Fadlallah is a crime, ‘there is not going to be enough buses to haul the people out and take them to jail.’”

Mr. Siblani was speaking before the Israeli offensive began. But not before the 1983 Hezbollah bombings in Beirut, Lebanon, which killed 241 U.S. servicemen, 63 U.S. Embassy personnel and 58 French paratroopers. And not before the 1984 Hezbollah torture-murder of CIA station chief William Buckley in Lebanon. And not before the 1985 Hezbollah hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and the torture-murder of Navy diver Robert Stethem. And not before the 1988 Hezbollah torture-murder of Lt. Col. William Higgins. And not before the Hezbollah bombings of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires in 1992, killing 29; the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires in 1994, killing 96; or the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996, killing 19 U.S. servicemen.

American sympathy for Hezbollah profanes the American dead. In our wide-open society, however, such allegiance isn’t considered beyond the pale. But it should be. And it could be. I have long argued that the “war on terror” is an amorphous term — sacrificing clarity for fuzzy political correctness. What if we, as a nation, belatedly declared war on specific jihadist groups — al Qaeda and Hezbollah and other organizations dedicated to our destruction? This would have the tonic effect of clarifying not only our enemies’ identity, but our own.

We can’t fight if we don’t know who we’re fighting. We can’t win if we don’t know who we are.

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