Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Sunni Group Claims Responsibility for the Assassination of the Top Hezbollah Commander

(INN) A Lebanese Sunni Muslim organization assumed responsibility for the assassination of senior Hezbollah leader Hassan Hawlo al-Lakiss in Beirut. The "Free People of Sunnah Brigade" made the claim in its online Twitter account. Hezbollah is the Shiite Muslim terrorist organization that have several elected officials in the Lebanese parliament. The group is also responsible for numerous deadly terrorist actions against both Lebanese and Israeli civilians in addition to engaging in the Second Lebanon War against Israel. Some speculated that Israelis were behind Wednesday's assassination.
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During the late 1990s, Lakkis was in charge of a group of operatives who shopped for equipment in Vancouver and shipped it to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Following a joint investigation by CSIS, the RCMP and FBI, several suspected Hezbollah members were arrested in the U.S. and Canada.