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the FBI to put Mughniyah,
Ali Atwa, and Hasan Izz-
al-Din on its list of “most
wanted terrorists.”
In the early 1990s, after
all other Lebanese militias
had disarmed, Hezbollah
continued to fight with
Israeli troops stationed in
southern Lebanon. At times,
Hezbollah forces fired
Katyusha rockets across
the border. Heavy Israeli
attacks bombed Shiite vil-
lages. In 1996, Israel began
a 17-day air raid effort to
wipe out Hezbollah bases,
fighters, and weaponry.
In 1992, Israeli heli-
copters fired on a convoy in
southern Lebanon, killing
Hezbollah leader Abbas
Musawi. A month later,
a bomb exploded in the
Israeli embassy in Buenos
Aires, Argentina, killing
nearly 30 people. In 1999,
the Argentine government
issued an international war-
rant for former Hezbollah
security chief Mughniyah’s
arrest.
After the September 11,
2001, terrorist attacks on the
World Trade Center in New
York City and the Pentagon
near Washington, D.C.,
President George W. Bush
had the U.S. assets of
Hezbollah frozen. As the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
intensified in 2002, Hez-
bollah once again attacked
U.S. Marines and members of the multinational peacekeeping force assess damage after across the disputed “blue
the terrorist truck bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, on April 18, 1983.
line,” hitting Israeli villages
Source: Defense Visual Information Center.
near the Shebaa Farms. U.S.
intelligence believes that
by Israel. During the ordeal, a U.S. Navy diver was Hezbollah and Al Qaeda have more than a nodding
shot and dumped onto the tarmac of the Beirut acquaintance with each other. At the time of this
airport. Their involvement with this hijacking led writing, it was widely reported in the media that both