Authors: Matthew Levitt
34.
“Nasrallah: We Wouldn’t Have Snatched Soldiers If We Thought It Would Spark War,”
Haaretz
(Tel Aviv), August 27, 2006.
35.
Jack Khoury, “Report: Nasrallah Says Attacking Israel May Have Been a Mistake,”
Haaretz
(Tel Aviv), February 3, 2007.
36.
John Kifner, “Hezbollah Leads Work to Rebuild, Gaining Stature,”
New York Times
, August 16, 2006.
37.
Donald Kerr, “Emerging Threats, Challenges, and Opportunities in the Middle East,” keynote address, Washington Institute for Near East Policy (Washington, DC), Soref Symposium, May 29, 2008.
38.
Justin Walker and Leila Golestani, “Threat Analysis: Hamas and Hezbollah Sleeper Cells in the United States,” Urban Warfare Analysis Center, US Army Research Laboratory, March 18, 2009.
39.
US Congress, Senate, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Statement of Matthew G. Olsen,
Homeland Threats and Agency Responses
.
40.
Anthony Shadid and Alia Ibrahim, “Bombing Kills Top Figure in Hezbollah,”
Washington Post
, February 14, 2008.
41.
US Congress, Senate, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Statement of Matthew G. Olsen,
Homeland Threats and Agency Responses
.
42.
“Stuxnet: Targeting Iran’s Nuclear Program,” IISS
Strategic Comments
, International Institute for Strategic Studies, February 2012.
43.
Yossi Melman, “U.S. Website: Mossad Killed Iranian Nuclear Physicist,”
Haaretz
(Tel Aviv), February 4, 2007.
44.
Muhammad Sahimi, “Report: Iranian Ex-Deputy Defense Minister, Missing 4 Years, in Israeli Jail,”
PBS Frontline
, December 12, 2010.
45.
“Profile: Shahram Amiri,”
BBC
, July 14, 2010.
46.
Alan Cowell, “Blast Kills Physics Professor in Tehran,”
New York Times
, January 12, 2012.
47.
Author interview with Israeli intelligence officials, September 13, 2012.
48.
Ibid.
49.
Ibid.
50.
Author interview with Israeli intelligence officials, September 13, 2012; Rotella, “Before Deadly Bulgaria Bombing.”
51.
Author interview with Israeli intelligence officials, September 13, 2012.
52.
Alexandra Sandels, “Kuwait: Media Banned from Reporting on Alleged Iran Spy Ring,”
Los Angeles Times
, May 6, 2010.
53.
Author interview with Israeli intelligence officials, September 13, 2012.
54.
Attila Somfalvi, “Warning: Mediterranean Basin Dangerous,”
Ynetnews
(Tel Aviv), April 10, 2011.
55.
Author interview with Israeli intelligence officials, September 13, 2012.
56.
Yaakov Lappin, “Hezbollah Terror Attack on Israelis Abroad ‘Is Imminent,’”
Jerusalem Post
, April 21, 2011.
57.
Abdullah Povian, “Nasrallah: All Who Referred to the ‘Scud’ Did So without Providing Evidence, but We Are Able to Meet Defense Commitments,”
Al-Rai al-Aam
(Kuwait), April 30, 2010; see also “Nasrallah to Rai Aam: No Evidence Was Presented about Scuds,” Mideast Wire, April 30, 2010.
58.
David Ignatius, “Intelligence Links Iran to Saudi Diplomat’s Murder,”
Washington Post
, October 13, 2011.
59.
Sebnem Arsu, “Bomb Wounds 8 in Heart of Istanbul,”
New York Times
, May 26, 2011.
60.
“Seven Injured in Etiler Explosion in Istanbul, Officials Say,”
Dunya Times
(Istanbul), May 26, 2011.
61.
“Bike Bomb Wounds 7 in Istanbul, Kurd Group Suspected,” Reuters, May 26, 2011.
62.
Oren Kessler, “Istanbul Bombing Was Hezbollah Strike on Israeli Envoy,”
Jerusalem Post
, July 18, 2011.
63.
US Department of State, Bureau of Counterterrorism,
Country Reports on Terrorism 2011
, July 2012, pp. 235–36.
64.
US Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs, “Two Men Charged in Alleged Plot to Assassinate Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States,” press release, October 11, 2001.
65.
Ibid.
66.
US Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs, “Man Pleads Guilty in New York to Conspiring with Iranian Military Officials to Assassinate Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States,” October 17, 2012.
67.
Ignatius, “Intelligence Links Iran.”
68.
US Department of the Treasury, “Treasury Sanctions Five Individuals Tied to Iranian Plot to Assassinate the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States,” October 11, 2011.
69.
HM Treasury Department,
General Notice: Renewal of Final Designations, Terrorist Asset-Freezing etc. Act 2010
, October 10, 2012.
70.
Jonathan Evans, Director General of the Security Service, Address at the Lord Mayor’s Annual Defence and Security Lecture, London, June 25, 2012.
71.
Statement of James R. Clapper,
Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community
, January 2012.
72.
Ellen Nakashima and Joby Warrick, “Stuxnet Was Work of U.S. and Israeli Experts, Officials Say,”
Washington Post
, June 1, 2012.
73.
Ken Dilanian, “Mysterious Blasts, Slayings Suggest Covert Efforts in Iran,”
Los Angeles Times
, December 4, 2011.
74.
Joby Warrick, “U.S. Officials among the Targets of Iran-Linked Assassination Plots,”
Washington Post
, May 27, 2012.
75.
Warrick, “U.S. Officials among the Targets”; “Members of Group Accused of Terrorist Acts against Israeli Citizens Sentenced,”
News.Az
(Azerbaijan), September 26, 2012.
76.
Judith Miller, “Bagels and Plots: Notes on the NYPD’s High Holy Days Threat Briefing,”
City Journal
(New York), September 7, 2012.
77.
Author interview with Israeli official, Tel Aviv, September 13, 2012.
78.
Dudi Cohen, “Bangkok Threat: Terrorist’s Swedish Connection,”
Ynetnews
(Tel Aviv), January 15, 2012; “Second Terror Suspect Sought, Court Issues Warrant for Atris’s Housemate,”
Bangkok Post
, January 20, 2012.
79.
Barak Ravid, “Thailand Hunting Hezbollah Operatives Planning Terror Attacks against Jews, Israelis,”
Haaretz
(Tel Aviv), January 15, 2012; Thomas Fuller, “In Twisting Terror Case, Thai Police Seize Chemicals,”
New York Times
, January 16, 2012.
80.
James Hookway, “Thai Police Seize Materials, Charge Terror-Plot Suspect,”
Wall Street Journal
, January 17, 2011; Rotella, “Before Deadly Bulgaria Bombing.”
81.
Fuller, “In Twisting Terror Case.”
82.
Attila Somfalvi, “CTB Issues Thailand Travel Advisory,”
Ynetnews
(Tel Aviv), January 13, 2012; Embassy of the United States, Bangkok, Thailand, “Emergency Message to U.S. Citizens: Possible Terrorist Threat,” press release, January 13, 2012; Hook-way, “Thai Police Seize Materials”; Fuller, “In Twisting Terror Case.”
83.
Isabel Kershner and Michael Schwirtz, “Israel Blames Iran for Attacks in India and Georgia,”
New York Times
, February 13, 2012.
84.
Rick Gladstone, “Iran Tightens Its Security for Scientists after Killing,”
New York Times
, January 17, 2012.
85.
“Bangkok Blast Suspects ‘Targeting Israeli Diplomats,’”
BBC
, February 16, 2012.
86.
Joel Greenberg, “Israel Says Thai Bombs Similar to Those in India, Georgia,”
Washington Post
, February 15, 2012.
87.
Jason Burke, “Iran Was behind Bomb Plot against Israeli Diplomats, Investigators Find,”
Guardian
(London), June 18, 2012.
88.
Kulish and Rudoren, “Plots Are Tied to Shadow War.”
89.
Warrick, “U.S. Officials among the Targets”; US Congress, Senate, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Statement of Matthew G. Olsen,
Homeland Threat Landscape and U.S. Response
.
90.
Rotella, “Before Deadly Bulgaria Bombing.”
91.
Thomas Fuller, “Explosions in Bangkok Injure Suspected Iranian National,”
New York Times
, February 14, 2012; Piyaporn Wongruang, “Suspects Partied in Pattaya,”
Bangkok Post
, February 17, 2012.
92.
Sebastian Rotella, “Azerbaijan Seen as New Front in Mideast Conflict,”
Los Angeles Times
, May 30, 2009.
93.
“Iran: IRGC Rise Increases the Influence of Radicals,” Oxford Analytica, November 5, 2009.
94.
Miller, “Bagels and Plots.”
95.
Statement of Dennis C. Blair,
Annual Threat Assessment of the Intelligence Community
.
96.
Author interview with Israeli intelligence officials, September 13, 2012.
97.
“Israel Warns of ‘Attacks’ in Turkey,”
Hurriyet Daily News
(Turkey), March 8, 2012.
98.
Author interview with Israeli intelligence officials, September 13, 2012.
99.
Itamar Eichner, “South Africa Attack against Israelis Thwarted,”
Ynetnews
(Tel Aviv), July 20, 2012.
100.
Gitesh Shelke, “Iranian Spy was PhD Student at UOP,”
Pune Mirror
, April 26, 2012.
101.
Associated Press, “Officials: Iranians Targeted Israeli, US Interests,” July 2, 2012.
102.
Daniel Howden, “Iranian Agents Arrested in Kenya Were ‘Looking for Foreign Targets,’”
Independent
(London), July 4, 2012; author interview with Israeli intelligence officials, September 13, 2012.
103.
Zoe Flood, “Kenyan Police Arrest Iranians Suspected of Terror Plot,”
Telegraph
(London), June 22, 2012.
104.
“Cyprus Thwarts Terror Attack against Israelis,”
Ynetnews
(Tel Aviv), October 18, 2012.
105.
Gili Cohen, “Israeli Counterterrorism Bureau Warns of Attacks on Israelis during High Holidays,”
Haaretz
(Tel Aviv), September 6, 2012.
106.
Eichner, “South Africa Attack”; author interview with Israeli intelligence officials, September 13, 2012; Mark Hosenball, “New York Police Link Nine 2012 Plots to Iran, Proxies,” Reuters, July 21, 2012.
107.
Author interview with Israeli intelligence officials, September 13, 2012.
108.
Ibid.
109.
Ibid.
110.
Yaakov Katz, Yaakov Lappin, and Ben Hartman, “Shin Bet Nabs Explosive-Smuggling Israeli-Arabs,”
Jerusalem Post
, August 9, 2012.
111.
Author interview with Israeli Intelligence officials, September 13, 2012.
112.
Yonah Jeremy Bob, “Shin Bet Nabs Alleged Hezbollah Spy Living in North,”
Jerusalem Post
, October 4, 2012.
113.
Noah Shachtman, “‘Hot War’ Erupting with Iran, Top Terror-Watchers Warn,”
Wired
, July 26, 2012.
114.
Hussein Dakroub, “Hezbollah Buries Slain Fighters, Vows to Keep Arms,”
Daily Star
(Beirut), October 5, 2012.
115.
Government of New Zealand, “Case to Designate Lebanese Hizbollah’s Military Wing.”
116.
Michael Young, “Syria Widens Hezbollah’s Contradictions,”
Al Arabiya News
(Dubai), October 4, 2012.
117.
“Hezbollah Chief Calls on Syrians to Stand by Assad Regime,”
Los Angeles Times
, May 26, 2011.
118.
Joby Warrick, “Iran Reportedly Aiding Syrian Crackdown,”
Washington Post
, May 27, 2011; Thomas El-Basha, “Nasrallah Blasts Obama, Urges Arabs Withdraw Peace Initiative,”
Daily Star
(Beirut), May 25, 2011.
119.
“Syrian Protestors Turn on Iran and Hezbollah,”
France 24
, June 3, 2011.
120.
Nate Wright and James Hidler, “Syrian Regime ‘Importing Snipers’ for Protests,”
Australian
, January 26, 2012.
121.
US Department of the Treasury, “Treasury Designates Hizballah Leadership,” press release, September 13, 2012.
122.
Babak Dehganpisheh, “Hezbollah Increases Support for Syrian Regime, U.S. and Lebanese Officials Say,”
Washington Post
, September 26, 2012.
123.
Elizabeth A. Kennedy, “Official: Hezbollah Fighters Killed in Syria,”
Daily Star
(Beirut), October 2, 2012.
124.
Edith M. Lederer, “US Says Hezbollah Is Part of Assad’s War Machine,” Associated Press, October 15, 2012.
125.
United Nations, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights,
Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syria Arab Republic Established pursuant to United Nations Human Rights Council Resolutions S-17/1, 19/22 and 21/26
, December 20, 2012.
126.
David Sanger and Eric Schmitt, “Pentagon Says 75,000 Troops Might Be Needed to Seize Syria Chemical Arms,”
New York Times
, November 15, 2012.
127.
Walid Phares, “Hezbollah’s Billion Petrodollars,” Human Events (Washington, DC), January 11, 2008.
128.
Stratfor, “Iran: A Need for Budget Cuts,” April 14, 2009.
129.
Yaakov Katz, “Iran Said to Have Cut Hizbullah Aid by 40%,”
Jerusalem Post
, December 16, 2010.
130.
US Energy Information Administration, “U.S. FOB Costs of OPEC Countries Crude Oil,” October 1, 2012.
131.
Katz, “Iran Said to Have Cut Hizbullah Aid.”
132.
Author interview with former Israeli intelligence official, March 7, 2011.
133.
Nicholas Blanford, “Hizbullah Chief Offers Carrot, Stick,”
Christian Science Monitor
, July 31, 2003.
134.
Statement of Dennis C. Blair,
Annual Threat Assessment of the Intelligence Community
.